Books Read

2009: I would like to see how many books I can tackle in a year.

November

1. The Lazarus Project by Alexandar Hemon (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Thoughts)
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
5. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Thoughts)
6. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Thoughts) (Excerpts)

October

1. The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
2. Clown Girl by Monica Drake (Thoughts)
3. The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
4. Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke (Thoughts)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
7. Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (Thoughts)
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Thoughts)

September

1. The Prestige by Christopher Priest (Thoughts)
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
3. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Johnathan L. Howard (Thoughts)
4. The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot (Thoughts)

August

1. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
2. Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Thoughts)
3. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
4. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Thoughts) (Excerpts)
7. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Thoughts)

July

1. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Thoughts)
2. Perfume: The Story of  Murderer by Patrick Suskind (Thoughts)
3. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Thoughts)
4. This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis (Thoughts)
5. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
6. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr (Thoughts)
7. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Thoughts)
8. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling (Thoughts)

June

1. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Thoughts)
2. Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan (Thoughts) (Story)
3. Personal Effects: Dark Arts by J.C. Hutchins & Jordan Weisman (Thoughts)
4. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Thoughts)

May

1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Thoughts)
2. The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality by N. Armstrong & L. Tennenhouse
3. D.H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality by James Cowan
4. Apropos to Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

April

1. You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem (Thoughts)
2. Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis (Thoughts)
3. Sex at the Margins by Laura Maria Agustin

March

1. Blindness by Jose Saramago (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
3. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Thoughts)
4. The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (Thoughts)
5. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Thoughts) (Excerpt)

February

1. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
2. The Scented Fox by Laynie Browne (Thoughts)
3. The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch (Thoughts)
4. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Thoughts)
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Thoughts) (Excerpt)

January

1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Thoughts)
2. The Collected Poems: Volume 1 by William Carlos Williams (Thoughts)
3. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Thoughts)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
5. Platform by Michel Houellebecq (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
6. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
7. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
8. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (Thoughts)
9. Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa (Thoughts) (Excerpt)
10. Persuasion by Jane Austen (Thoughts)