April 13, 2009

Books Read in 2009



January
~oOo~
2. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
3. Stunt by Claudia Dey
4. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
5. Notes from My Travels by Angelina Jolie
7. Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
8. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

February
~oOo~
9. Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane
10. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
11. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
12. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
13. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
14. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
15. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
16. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

March
~oOo~
17. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
18. The Trembling of a Leaf by W. Somerset Maugham
19. To Siberia by Per Petterson
20. Away by Jane Urquhart
21. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
22. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
23. Ex-Cottagers in Love by J. M. Kearns

April
~oOo~
24. Peony in Love by Lisa See
25. De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
26. Dragonflies by Grant Buday
27. American Primitive by Mary Oliver
28. Paper Towns by John Green
29. The Scented Fox by Laynie Browne
30. Revolution on Canvas, Volume 1, edited by Richard Balling
31. Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
32. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
34. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
35. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
36. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
37. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

May
~oOo~
38. Follow Me by Joanna Scott
39. Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts
40. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
41. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
42. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
43. Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
44. Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
45. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
46. Strangers by Anita Brookner

June
~oOo~
47. The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
48. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
50. Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
51. Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
52. Larry's Party by Carol Shields
53. The Disappearance of Irene dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
54. A Wish after Midnight by Zetta Elliott

July
~oOo~
55. The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
56. Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
57. 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
58. A Widow for One Year by John Irving
59. The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
60. In the Wake of the Boatman by Jonathon Scott Fuqua

August
~oOo~
61. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
62. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
63. Amigoland by Oscar Casares
64. Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
65. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
66. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
67. Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
68. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
69. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson

September
~oOo~
70. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
71. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
72. Wait Until Twilight by Sang Pak
73. Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín
74. Mariana by Monica Dickens
75. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
76. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
77. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

October
~oOo~
79. Boy by Roald Dahl
80. The Translator by Daoud Hari
81. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
82. The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
83. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
84. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
85. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
86. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

November
~oOo~
88. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins