Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Karen's 2009 Reading List

Now firmly active in LibraryThing, I started keeping very careful track of my reading, even posting little reviews of the books I was reading.

Here's what I read in 2009:

Night of the Gun by David Carr
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best American Short Stories (2008) ed. Salman Rushdie
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Childrens Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
2061: The Third Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders by Larry Millett
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Nineteenth Wife by David Ebershoff
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Ibsen: Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Gudwulf Manuscript by Robert. B. Parker
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Justine: or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives by David Snowdon
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
God Is My Broker by Christopher Buckley
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Narcissism Epidemic by Twenge and Campbell
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Not So Big Remodeling by Sarah Susanka
Blind Sight by Terri Persons
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Barbarians by Terry Jones
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R.A. Scotti
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
Origins: Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean by Doria and Lenowitz
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doktorow
Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The National Parks: America's Best Ideas: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Ten Books That Screwed Up the World: And Five Others That Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Good Dog. Stay by Anna Quindlen
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen
Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegone Romance by Garrison Keillor
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction by Bernard Meehan
The Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borge

Books read in 2009: 95

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