Thursday, January 1, 2009

Books Read in 2009

00 means it's a reread - in all fairness, I've decided not to count the books I've already read

JANUARY

1. Sabriel - Garth Nix
2. Round About a Pound a Week - Maud Pember Reeves
3. The Children Who Lived in a Barn - Eleanor Graham
4. Greenery Street - Denis Mackail
5. Mort - Terry Pratchett
6. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
7. The Fortnight in September - RC Sherriff
8. Beauty - Robin McKinley
9. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
10. Peeps - Scott Westerfeld
11. These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
12. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
13. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
14. La Prisonnière - Marcel Proust
15. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

FEBRUARY

00. La Gloire de mon Père - Marcel Pagnol
16. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
17. Affinity - Sarah Waters
18. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
19. Alanna: The First Adventure - Tamora Pierce
20. Invitation to the Waltz - Rosamond Lehmann
21. White Boots - Noel Streatfeild
22. Consuming Passions - Judith Flanders
23. The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
24. The Observations - Jane Harris
25. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

MARCH

26. A Rambling Fancy: In The Footsteps of Jane Austen - Caroline Sanderson
27. Me and Orson Welles - Robert Kaplow
28. The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West
29. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
30. Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
31. Selected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
32. The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
33. Washington Square - Henry James
34. Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

APRIL

35. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
36. The Blue Girl - Charles de Lint
37. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
38. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
39. The Bostonians - Henry James

MAY
40. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
41. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
42. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
43. The Tricksters - Margaret Mahy

JUNE
44. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
45. Harry, a History - Melissa Anelli
46. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
47. Graceling - Kristin Cashore
48. Circus Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
49. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
50. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
51. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
52. March - Geraldine Brooks
53. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
54. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
55. Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare

JULY
56. Debs at War - Anne de Courcy
00. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
57. Anything Goes - John Barrowman
00. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
00. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
00. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
00. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
00. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
00. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
58. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern - Joshua Zeitz
59. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
60. The Spell - Alan Hollinghurst
61. Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War - Virginia Nicholson
62. His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
63. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

AUGUST

64. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
65. Quatre Soeurs : Bettina - Malika Ferdjoukh
66. Quatre Soeurs : Geneviève - Malika Ferdjoukh
67. La Maison des petits bonheurs - Colette Vivier
68. The Easter Parade - Richard Yates

SEPTEMBER

None

OCTOBER

69. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
70. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
71. The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
72. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

NOVEMBER

73. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties - Lucy Moore
74. Count Karlstein - Philip Pullman
75. Rapunzel's Revenge - Shannon Hale
76. The Tin Princess - Philip Pullman

DECEMBER

77. Much Obliged, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
78. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P.G. Wodehouse
79. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
80. Author, Author - David Lodge