Sunday, January 3, 2010

2009 Reading

In reverse chronological order:

Stoner -- John Williams
The Monster In A Box -- Ruth Rendell
The Dawn Patrol -- Don Winslow
Then We Came To The End -- Joshua Ferris
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius -- Ray Monk
Nonsense Novels -- Stephen Leacock
Phoenix Noir -- Patrick Millikin (ed.)
Await Your Reply -- Dan Chaon
And Here's The Kicker: Conversations With 25 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft (Extended Edition) -- Mike Sacks
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
The Pillowman -- Martin McDonagh
The Crime Writer -- Gregg Hurwitz
Hard Rain Falling -- Don Carpenter
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer -- Richard Holmes
The American Painter, Emma Dial -- Samantha Peale
Things The Grandchildren Should Know -- Mark Oliver Everett
The Anthologist -- Nicholson Baker
Disgrace -- J.M. Coetzee
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman -- Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle
Exit Music -- Ian Rankin
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America -- Steven Johnson
Episodes: My life As I See It -- Blaze Ginsberg
Underground Classics: The transformation of Comics into Comix -- James Danky and Denis Kitchen
The Hook -- Donald E. Westlake
Child 44 -- Tom Rob Smith
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires -- Bruce Weber
Equivocation -- Bill Cain
Right Ho, Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Brutal Telling -- Louise Penny
Inherent Vice -- Thomas Pynchon
The Ghost Soldiers -- James Tate
Erased -- Jim Krusoe
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi -- Geoff Dyer
The Ax -- Donald E. Westlake
The Old Man And Me -- Elaine Dundy
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage -- Stephen Budiansky
My Father's Tears -- John Updike
The City and The City -- China Mieville
My Man Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
Tropic of Cancer -- Henry Miller
The Price of Blood -- Declan Hughes
Dark Places -- Gillian Flynn
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Vol. 1 1929-40
Selected Stories -- Robert Walser
The Act of Love -- Howard Jacobson
New Selected Poems -- Mark Strand
The Tremor of Forgery -- Patricia Highsmith
Nobody Move -- Denis Johnson
Somebody Owes Me Money -- Donald Westlake
Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Journal of Jules Renard -- Jules Renard (ed., tr. Louise Bogan & Elizabeth Roget)
The Genius -- Jesse Kellerman
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher -- Kate Summerscale
Chess Story -- Stefan Zweig
A Likely Story -- Donald Westlake
Lush Life -- Richard Price
Purloining Tiny -- John Franklin Bardin
Seasons Of Migration To The North -- Taye Salih
The Dart League King -- Keith Lee Morris
Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign -- Phillipe-Paul de Segur
Beat The Reaper -- Josh Bazell
Miracles of Life -- J.G. Ballard
The Pilgrim Hawk -- Glenway Wescott
Revenge of The Spellmans -- Lisa Lutz
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read -- Pierre Bayard
The Yankee Years -- Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Rock and Roll -- Tom Stoppard
The Silver Swan -- Benjamin Black
The Yellow Admiral -- Patrick O'Brian
The Cold Dish -- Craig Johnson
The Ghost In Love -- Jonathan Carroll
Pinocchio -- Carlo Collodi
2666 -- Roberto Bolano
Jar City -- Arnaldur Indridason
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes -- K.C. Constantine

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