Here you go (and I will add this as a blog post as well). Looking back at this list sends shivers down my spine. What a year it was! But as wonderful as my year of reading was, it was also a period of intense mourning. My sister has been dead for almost fourteen years now and I will never be reconciled to death. I carry her with me always, and I hope through my book, she has become known to you as well, and that you will remember her too.
Complete List of Books Read From October 28, 2008 –October 28, 2009
20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
A Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty
A Dead Man in Barcelona by Michael Pearce
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Great Day for a Ballgame by Fielding Dawson
A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
A Smile of Fortune by Joseph Conrad
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
A Sun for the Dying by Jean Claude Izzo
A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher
A Toast to Tomorrow by Manning Coles
A Toast to Tomorrow by Manning Coles
A Toast to Tomorrow by Manning Coles
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Act of the Damned by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor
Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren
Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep
All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
All Souls by Christine Schutt
All That I Have by Castle Freeman Jr.
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Amphibian by Carla Gunn
Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard
Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Are You Somebody? By Nula O’Faolain
Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon by Nancy Atherton
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Better by John O’Brien
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
Blank by Noah Tall
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
Boston Noir edited by Dennis Lehane
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
By Chance by Martin Corrick
Bye, Bye Soccer by Edilberto Coutinho
Call Me Ahab by Anne Finger
Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Charles Dickens by Melissa Limaszewski and Melissa Gregory
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Christmas in Plains by Jimmy Carter
Climate of Fear by Wole Soyinka
Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Cooking and Screaming by Adrienne Kane
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke
Dangerous Games by Margaret MacMillan
Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
Dead Giveaway by Simon Brett
Dead Horse by Walter Satterthwait
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Death Rites by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett
Death etc. by Harold Pinter
Death of a Witch by M.C. Beaton
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Delhi Noir edited by Hirsh Sawhney
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Dogs, Dreams, and Men by Joan Kaufman
Double-Click for Trouble by Chris Woodworth
Dreamers by Knut Hamsun
Drink to Yesterday by Manning Coles
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love by Lauren Tarshis
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Escape Under The Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
Esther’s Inheritance by Sandor Marai
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues by Blaize Clement
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills
Facing the Bridge by Yoko Tawada
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Family Business by Laurie Colwin
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Fiendish Deeds by P.J. Bracegirdle
Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella
Forty Stories by Donald Barthleme
Frida’s Bed by Slavenka Drakulic
Gerald Keegan’s Famine Diary by James Mangan
GirlBoyGirl by Savannah Koop
Godlike by Richard Hell
Gold by Dan Rhodes
Good Behavior by Molly Keane
Grief by Andrew Holleran
Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Happens All the Time by Isabel Gillies
Her Deadly Mischief by Beverle Graves Myers
Housekeeping versus the Dirt by Nick Hornby
How I Became A Nun by Cesar Aira
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
I Love Dollars by Zhu Wen
I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina
In Time of Peace by Thomas Boyd
Indignation by Philip Roth
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott
In the Pond by Ha Jin
In the Woods by Tana French
Iron Balloons, edited by Colin Channer
Iron Balloons edited by Colin Channer
Jacob’s Hands by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood
Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof
John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Krapp’s Last Cassette by Anne Argula
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
Love and Death by Forrest Church
Madame De Stael, The First Modern Woman by Francine Du Plessix Gray
Make No Bones by Aaron Elkins
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Meat Eaters and Plant Eaters by Jessica Treat
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones
Murder by Installment by A.C. Baantjer
Murder in the Calais Coach by Agatha Christie
Murder is My Racquet by Otto Penzler
My House in Umbria by William Trevor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Nothing to Be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
Oh Joe by Michael Z. Lewin
Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
One Dog Happy by Molly McNett
One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
Onitsha by J.M.G. LeCLezio
On the Line by Serena Williams and Daniel Paisner
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
Out of Captivity by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Tom Howes, Gary Brozek
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Payback by Margaret Atwood
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Petey and Pussy by John Kerschbaum
Pilate’s Wife by H.D.
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto and Marco Videtta
Polaris by Fay Weldon
Pressure is a Privilege by Billie Jean King
Pulpy and Midge by Jessica Westhead
Rage by Sergio Bizzio
Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester
Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
Revelation by C.J. Sanson
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry
Rimbaud by Edmund White
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Rome Noir edited by Chiara Stangalino and Maxim Jakubowski
Ronald Reagan by Andrew Helfer, illustrated by Steve Bucellato and Joe Staton
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Ruins by Achy Obejas
Russian Journal by Andrea Lee
Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Self’s Murder by Berhard Schlink
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
Six Kinds of Sky by Luis Alberto Urrea
Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Something Nasty In The Woodshed by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Somewhere Towards the End by Dianna Athill
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me by Selcuk Altun
Son of Holmes by John Lescroart
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spooner by Pete Dexter
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stealing Children by Peg Kehret
Stitches by David Small
Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden
The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The Abbot’s Ghost by Louisa May Alcott
The African Queen by C.S. Forester
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
The Believers by Zoe Heller
The Best Place to Be by Lesley Dormen
The Body Artist by Don Delillo
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Calling by Mary Gray Hughes
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana
The Curse of Eve by Liliana Blum
The Darts of Cupid by Edith Templeton
The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers by Peter Lovesy
The Devil’s Tickets by Gary M. Pomerantz
The Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
The Door to Bitterness by Martin Limon
The Duppy by Anthony C. Winkler
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Emigrants by WG Sebald
The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth
The English Major by Jim Harrison
The Fairacre Festival by Miss Read
The Faithful Lover by Massimo Bontempelli
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Famous Flower of Serving Men by Deborah Grabien
The Ferguson Affair by Ross Macdonald
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The First Person by Ali Smith
The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Good Life According to Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Granny by Brendan O’Carroll
The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Gutter and the Grave by Ed McBain
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Hollow-Eyed Angel by Janwillem van de Wetering
The House Beautiful by Alison Burnett
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchener
The Howling Miller by Arto Paasalinna
The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette by R.T. Raichev
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
The Kind and the Cowboy by David Fromkin
The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters
The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Prophecies by C.J. Sansom, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden
The Love Song of Monkey by Michael S.A. Graziano
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
The Love of the Last Hollywood Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
The Man of My Life by Manual Vazquez Montalban
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
The Mercy Papers by Robin Romm
The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu
The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainier Maria Rilke
The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire
The Orchid Shroud by Michelle Wan
The Palestinian Lover by Selim Nassib
The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
The Perfectionists by Gail Godwin
The Picts and The Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle
The Plated City by Bliss Perry
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
The Private Patient by P.D. James
The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield
The Public Prosecutor by Jef Geeraerts
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
The Salt-Box House by Jane de Forest Shelton
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The Servants’ Quarters by Lynn Freed
The Session by Aaron Petrovich
The Seven Deadly Sins, by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connelly, W.H. Auden, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapucinski
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano
The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon
The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser
The Sun Field by Heywood Braun
The Sun Field by Heywood Braun
The Swap by Antony Moore
The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn
The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
The Unknown Masterpiece, and Gambara, by Honore Balzac
The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder by John Bellairs (with John Strickland)
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon
The Vicar of Sorrows by A.N. Wilson
The Weekend by Peter Cameron
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Whore’s Child by Richard Russo
The Wright Three by Blue Balliet
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
The Yellow Leaves by Frederick Buechner
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Siberia by Per Petterson
Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate
Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
Victorian Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb
Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer
Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer
Wake by Lisa McMann
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Watership Down by Richard Adams
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
What I’d Say to the Martians by Jack Handey
When You are Engulfed by Flames by David Sedaris
Where 3 Roads Meet by John barth
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Where the Money Went by Kevin Canty
Wilful Misbehavior by Donna Leon
Will War Ever End? by Paul K. Chappell
Will Work for Drugs by Lydia Lunch
Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert
Wizard’s Hall by Jane Yolen
