Thursday 31 December 2009

Books Read in 2009

41 Books Read in 2009

January

1. The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)

2. Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver

3. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)

February

4. Cloud of Sparrows (Takashi Matsuoka)

March

5. Spock Must Die (James Blish)

6. Miss Garnet's Angel (Salley Vickers)

7. The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)

8. The Bell (Iris Murdoch)

April

9. The Sixth Lamentation (William Brodick)

10. The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)

11. An Unofficial Rose (Iris Murdoch)

12. The Testamant of Gideon Mack (James Roberston)

13. The Italian Girl (Iris Murdoch)

May

14. Mr Goloightly's Holiday (Salley Vickers)

15. The Noce and the Good (Iris Murdoch)

16. On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)

17. Frankie and STankie (Barbara Trapido)

June

18. Iris: A Portrait of Iris Murdoch (John Bayley)

19. Elementals -Short Stories (A.S. Byatt)

July

20. In a Good Light (Clare Chambers)

21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean -Dominique Baulby)

22. Twentieth Century Short Stories (D.R Barnes and R.F. Egford - Eds)

August

23. Footprints in the Sand (Sarah Challis)

24. Notes From an Exhibition (Patrick Gale)

25. The End of Mr. Y (Scarlett Thomas)

26. Dance, Dance, Dance. (Haruki Murakami)

27. Random Acts of Heroic Love (Danny Scheinmann)

September

28. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

29. Hey Hostradamus! (Douglas Coupland)

30. Lady Oracle (Margaret Attwood)

October

31. The House of Spirits (Isabelle Allende)

32. Polaris and Other Stories (Fay Wheldon)

33. Love of Fat Men - Short Stories (Helen Dunmore)

November

34. The Other Hand (Chris Cleave)

35. The Planet Dweller (Jane Palmer)

36. The Lollipop Shoes (Joanne Harris)

37. The Shack (W.M. Young)

December

38. The Golden Child (Penelope Fitzgerald)

39. Coalescent (Stephen Baxter)

40. The Pilgrimage (Paulo Coelho)

41. Siberia (Ann Halam)