Readings to be cheerful, part 1

Something I try to do is keep a list of the stuff I read every year; it's kinda sad of me, I know, but at least it gives me something to look back on. Sometimes I look at lists from previous years with a midly quizzical expression and think to myself "I read that? Really? When?", so it's a useful aide memoire at least.
The other purpose it serves is to remind me that I don't read enough books, and that's precisely what this year's list has done:

Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
Michael Crichton - The lost World
China Mieville - Kraken
Mark Kermode - It's only a movie
Yamamoto Tsunetomo - The Hagakure
Xenophon - The Persian expedition
Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow
Harry Houdini - Deception
Nancy Mitford - Wigs on the green
George McDonald Fraser - Flashman and the tiger
Jrr Tolkien - The Hobbit
Josephine Tey - The daughter of time
Josephine Tey - Miss Pym disposes
Martin Gardner - Fid Adam and Eve have navels?
Scott lynch - The lies of Locke Lamora
John Romer - The history of Egypt from the first farmers to the first pyramid
EA WAllce Budge & John Romer - The Egyptian book of the dead
Boris Akunin - The he-lover of death
Boris Akunin - The death of Achilles
Guillermo del Toro - The strain
Nick Hurst - Sugong, the life of a shaolin master
Michel Faber - The crimson petal and the white
Terry Pratchett - Snuff
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
Pg Wodehouse - My man Jeeves
Giles Milton - White gold
Susan Wittig Albert - The tale of Briar Bank
Susan Wittig Albert - The tale of Apple Beck Orchard
Jack Vance- Lyonesse
Michael Moorcock - The stealer of souls
Stephen Smith - Underground London
Jack vance - The Gray Prince
Steven Johnson - Emergence
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Neil Macgregor - A history of the world in 100 objects
Gaie Sebold - Babylon steel
CJ Sansom - Sovereign
Amelie Nothomb - The book of proper names.
Greg Bear - Strength of stones.
Arthur C Clarke - The city and the stars
Alberto Soliotti - A guide to the valley of the kings.
Jaromir Malek - Discovering tutenkhamun
Penelope Lively - Jacaranda, Oleader
David Gemmell - Wolf in Shadow

Anyway, there's a few things to take away from that list; first, that Cormac McCarthy is unreadable and I wouldn't wish him on anybody so Lord knows why he's got such a great repoutation, second, that I retain a love of slush fantasy and sci-fi, third, and I've been reading a lot about Egypt recently (for reasons that I hope to become clear later this year), and fourth that I'm just not reading enough.

When I put together a list back in 2001, it had over 100 books on it. This year I didn't even manage one a week. Yeah, some of them were quite long, but that's no excuse. The joy of slaughtering pixellated ne'er-do-wells by the score on my computer has more than halved the amount of reading I do, and that's just not good enough.

So there's my new year resolution: read more. And, to help me in that, I'm asking for recommendations of things to read. What would you suggest, oh readers?