The books I read in 2009

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

(from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

I didn't look at a comic or listen to an audio book but I did read 43 books in 2009, almost the exact number as the year before (42). My tastes are eclectic, as you can see. An * means I've re-read the book.

JANUARY

World Without End by Ken Follett
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
Master George by Beryl Bainbridge

FEBRUARY

Morality Play by Barry Unworth
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
Resistance by Agnès Humbert

MARCH

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake*
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake*
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake*

APRIL

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

MAY

Einstein’s Monsters by Martin Amis*
Master of Morgana by Allan Campbell McLean*
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Mum and Mr Armitage by Beryl Bainbridge
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley*

JUNE

Experience by Martin Amis*
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis*
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis*

JULY

Leviathan by Paul Auster
May Week Was In June by Clive James*
Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
The Damned United by David Peace

AUGUST

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
No Other Life by Brian Moore
When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson

SEPTEMBER

A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
Archangel by Robert Harris
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

OCTOBER

Sandstealers by Ben Brown
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Guernica by Dave Boling

NOVEMBER

All The Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
The Dope Priest by Nicholas Blincoe

DECEMBER

Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman
Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall by Spike Milligan*
The Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein*