Books '09
I enjoyed keeping a list of all the books I read in 2008 so I thought I'd do it for this year too :) I don't think I'll set myself a target, however, this year - I found myself getting bizzarely worried towards the end of '08 that I wouldn't make the 50 as if it REALLY REALLY mattered. Hee.
For posterity: last year's list.
* indicates a re-read
If I manage to write a good reads review I will link to it.
1: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2: America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
3: Old Times of the Mississippi by Mark Twain
4: Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
5: Daisy Miller by Henry Miller
6: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
7: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
8: A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
9: * The Hours by Michael Cunningham
10: Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
11: Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
12: My Antonia by Willa Cather
13: How Celia Changed Her Mind and Other Stories by Rose Terry Cooke
14: Maggie: Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
15: The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
16: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
17: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
18: * Regeneration by Pat Barker
19: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
20. * The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
21. * The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
22. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
23. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
24. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
25. * Atonement by Ian McEwan
26. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
27. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan | review
28. * We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver | review
29. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters | review
30. Affinity by Sarah Waters
31. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
32. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
33. World Without End by Ken Follet
34. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern | review
35. Secrets by Freya North | review
36. Home Truths by Freya North | review
37. Double Vision by Pat Barker
38. Life Class by Pat Barker | review
39. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
40. Tha Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler | review
41. The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks
42. Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks
43. Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks
44. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters | review
45. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | review
46. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | review
47. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
49. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
50. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
51. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
52. * Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
53. * Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
54. Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson
For posterity: last year's list.
* indicates a re-read
If I manage to write a good reads review I will link to it.
1: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2: America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
3: Old Times of the Mississippi by Mark Twain
4: Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
5: Daisy Miller by Henry Miller
6: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
7: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
8: A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
9: * The Hours by Michael Cunningham
10: Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
11: Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
12: My Antonia by Willa Cather
13: How Celia Changed Her Mind and Other Stories by Rose Terry Cooke
14: Maggie: Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
15: The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
16: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
17: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
18: * Regeneration by Pat Barker
19: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
20. * The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
21. * The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
22. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
23. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
24. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
25. * Atonement by Ian McEwan
26. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
27. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan | review
28. * We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver | review
29. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters | review
30. Affinity by Sarah Waters
31. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
32. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
33. World Without End by Ken Follet
34. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern | review
35. Secrets by Freya North | review
36. Home Truths by Freya North | review
37. Double Vision by Pat Barker
38. Life Class by Pat Barker | review
39. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
40. Tha Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler | review
41. The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks
42. Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks
43. Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks
44. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters | review
45. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | review
46. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | review
47. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
49. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
50. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
51. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
52. * Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
53. * Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
54. Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson