2012 Books of the Year

1. Why We Get Fat... and What To Do About It - by Gary Taubes
2. State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 - Dominic Sandbrook
3. Explorers of the Nile - Tim Jeal
4. The Origins of Our Species - Chris Stringer
5. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett
6. Code Talker - Chester Nez
7. The Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks
8. Sweet Track to Glastonbury; Somerset Levels In Prehistory - Bryony Coles
 9. On the Gleaming Way: Navajos, Eastern Pueblos, Zunis, Hopis, Apaches and Their Land - John Collier
10. Various books on digital photography / the Sony A200 DSLR :)

My albums of the year 2012

It was not a vintage year for music by any means – very few of these albums are destined to become classics. Still, they are all worth a listen. Links are to streams of the full albums.
1. Soundgarden – King Animal
2. Muse – The 2nd Law
3. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
4. King Tuff – King Tuff
5. Jack White – Blunderbuss
6. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
7. The Cult – Choice of Weapon
8. We Are The Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
9. Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
10. Public Image Limited – This is PiL
11. Beach House – Bloom
12. Joe Jackson – The Duke
13. Mark Knopfler – Privateering CD1 CD2
14. The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
15. Diiv – Oshin
16. The Cribs – In the Belly of Brazen Bull
17. Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices
18. Menomena – Moms
19. Antibalas – Antibalas
20. Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
21. Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc. - Re-Machined (a Tribute to Machine Head, the Deep Purple album)
22. Motorpsycho – The Death Defying Unicorn
23. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
24. Slash – Apocalyptic Love
25. Orbital – Wonky
26. Graham Coxon – A+E
27. The Wedding Present – Valentina
28. Patti Smith – Banga
29. Dexys – One Day I’m Going to Soar - only one track I'm afraid
30. Nine Black Alps – Sirens