Books read in 2009

Books read from Jan 1st onwards

Books from the 1001 list in blue - 94
Books from The Big Read highlighted in yellow - 26
BR = Book ring, ray or spiral - 53
L = borrowed from local library - 4
1001 = 1001 library - 17

Total read so far = 152

November:
Blood Noir - Laurell K. Hamilton
The girl of his dreams - Donna Leon
Black dogs - Ian McEwan

October: 15
Thrice upon a time - James Hogan
The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway - 1001
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - 1001
George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
The story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
The Harlequin - Laurell K Hamilton
The Successor - Ismail Kadare - 1001
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre - BR
The drowned world - J. G. Ballard - BR
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Dead and gone - Charlaine Harris
Rites of passage - William Golding
The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai - BR
The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher - L

September: 8
The Midwich cuckoos - John Wyndham
Like water for chocolate - Laura Esquivel - BR
Sexing the cherry - Jeanette Winterson - BR
The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
The comfort of strangers - Ian McEwan - 1001
The Magus - John Fowles- BR
The pillars of the earth - Ken Follett
House of Orphans - Helen Dunmore - BR

August: 12
A dirty job - Christopher Moore
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
The Devil's right hand - Lilith Saintcrow
They shoot horses don't they? - Horace McCoy - BR
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster - BR
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Poppy done to death - Charlaine Harris
The catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger
Last scene alive - Charlaine Harris

July: 15
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan - 1001
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan - 1001
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson - BR
The Monk - Matthew Lewis - BR
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
A fool and his honey - Charlaine Harris
Dead over heels - Charlaine Harris
The Julius house - Charlaine Harris
Three bedrooms, one corpse - Charlaine Harris
A bone to pick - Charlaine Harris
Real murders - Charlaine Harris
From dead to worse - Charlaine Harris
Chocky - John Wyndham - 1001
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini - BR
Empire of the sun - J. G. Ballard - BR

June: 12
Fugitive pieces - Anne Michaels - BR
The Piano teacher - Elfriede Jelinek - BR
Hunted - P. C. & Kristin Cast
Untamed - P. C. & Kristin Cast
Chosen - P. C. & Kristin Cast
Betrayed - P. C. & Kristin Cast
Marked - P. C. & Kristin Cast
Framed in lace - Monica Ferris - BR
Crewel world - Monica Ferris - BR
An artist of the floating world - Kazuo Ishiguro- BR
Undead and Unworthy - Mary Janice Davidson
The nine tailors - Dorothy L Sayers

May: 10
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Lord of the flies - William Golding
Charlotte's web - E. B. White
Enduring love - Ian McEwan - BR
The museum of unconditional surrender - Dubravka Ugresic - BR
The 13 clocks - James Thurber - BR
Eyes of a child - Richard North Patterson
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Flaubert's parrot - Julian Barnes - BR

April: 21
The lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon - BR
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd - BR
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - BR
The Vampyre - John Polidori
Vathek - William Beckford - 1001
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole - 1001
One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey - 1001
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan - 1001
On beauty - Zadie Smith - 1001
Adjunct: an Undigest - Peter Manson
The Immoralist - Andre Gide - BR
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann - BR
Nothing to lose - Lee Child
Curse the dawn - Karen Chance
The Swarm - Frank Schatzing - BR
The body artist - Don DeLillo - BR
The cider house rules - John Irving - 1001

March: 18
We - Eugene Zamiatin - BR
Rabbit, Run - John Updike - BR
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami - BR
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk - 1001
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Saturday - Ian McEwan - BR
The lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd - BR
The lost honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll - BR
Strait is the gate - Andre Gide - BR
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - BR
Broken April - Ismail Kadare - BR
The postman always rings twice - James M. Cain - BR
The blind owl - Sadegh Hedayat - BR
Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - BR
The world according to Garp - John Irving
The dare game - Jacqueline Wilson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The thin man - Dashiell Hammett - 1001

February: 21
The wonderful O - James Thurber - 1001
East of the sun - Julia Gregson
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The golden bowl - Henry James - L
Half of a yellow sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - BR
Stray - Rachel Vincent
The secret speech - Tom Rob Smith
Herzog - Saul Bellow - BR
The Golden Ass - Apuleius - 1001
Crome yellow - Aldous Huxley
The yellow wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Long hot summoning - Tanya Huff
The second summoning - Tanya Huff
Summon the keeper - Tanya Huff
The story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor - BR
The talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith - BR
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal - BR
The sweet scent of blood - Suzanne McLeod
Beach Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones - BR
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood - BR

January: 17
Petals of blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The poison that fascinates - Jennifer Clement
Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood - BR
Passing - Nella Larsen - BR
Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
Under a blood red sky - Kate Furnivall
Grave surprise - Charlaine Harris
Blood meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The summer book - Tove Jansson - BR
War with the newts - Karel Capek - BR
Bad Faith - Gillian Philip - BR
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
In Cold blood - Truman Capote
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The red queen - Margaret Drabble - L
The thirty-nine steps - John Buchan
The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell - L