Books Read in 2009

Books Read 2009

• Five Skies, Ron Carlson (audiobook)
• I Thought My Father Was God, edited by Paul Auster (audiobook)
• The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (audiobook)
• Underworld, Don DeLillo
• A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (audiobook)
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Schaffer (audiobook)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
• Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (audiobook)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
• Broken Open, Elizabeth Lesser (audiobook)
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• Ce que le jour doit à la nuit, Yasmina Khadra
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Compulsion, Johnathan Kellerman
• Olive Kitteridge, Elisabeth Strout
• Get a Life, Nadine Gordimer
• Time Will Darken It, WIlliam Maxwell
• L'ile des sourciers, Anthony Horowitz
• Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
• The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F Scott Fitzgerald
• It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
• Motivational Interviewing in Health Care, Stephen Rollnick
• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, John Le Carré
• The Logic of Life, Tim Hartford
• The Year of the Hare, Arto Paasilinna
• The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine, Melissa Bank
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
• Chess Story, Stefan Zwieg
• The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• Dancer : A Novel, Colum McCann
• The Road Home, Rose Tremain
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld
• Back When We Were Grown Ups, Anne Tyler
• I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
• Eight Stories, Dylan Thomas
• The Invisible Man, HG Wells
• Practical Photography, John Freeman
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
• You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon
• The Other Hand, Chris Cleave
• Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
• Good Calorie, Bad Calorie, Gary Taubes
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John Le Carré
• White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
• Confessions of a Fallen Angel, Ronan O'Brien
• A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• If This is a Man, Primo Levi
• The Truce, Primo Levi
• The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Sorrows of an American, Siri Hadsfeldt
• The Gathering, Annie Enright
• Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

2010 Reading Goals 

• Read more classics
• Read in French about 20% of the time 
• Read non-fiction about 20% of the time
• Do the A-Z author challenge
• Read more by Munro, Roth, Updike