What did you read in 2009?

Not a great reading year for me (and not a great year in general), but I managed somehow to get these in:

1. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
2. Heidegger's Being and Time by Gorner
3. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
4. How to Read Heidegger by Wrathall
5. Easy Spanish Reader by Tardy
6. Heidegger by Inwood
7. Human Experience by Russon
8. Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut
9. PR! A Social History of Spin by Ewen
10. Psychology for Dummies by Cash
11. Influence by Cialdini
12. How to Read the Qur'an by Siddiqui
13. Teach Yourself Spanish Grammar by Kattan-Ibarra
14. Friedrich Nietzsche by Cate
15. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Prothero
16. Beginning T-SQL by Turley
17. The Search for Meaning: A Short History by Ford
18. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
19. Schopenhauer by Janaway
20. 'What the Heck are you up to, Mr. President?' by Mattson
21. Alex & Me by Pepperberg

not much reading of novels this year
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell 5/5
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordon 4/5
The Religion by Tim Willocks 5/5 now rated as one of the best books I have ever read!!
Fractured by Karen Slaughter 1/5
The Grave Tattoo 3/5

Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2) - Suzanne Collins
Under the Dome - Stephen King
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) - Suzanne Collins
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Pudd'nhead Wilson (Enriched Classics) - Mark Twain
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics) - Ernest Hemingway
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
The Shining - Stephen King
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Old Man's War (Book 1) - John Scalzi
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) - Jim Butcher
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Infected - Scott Sigler
Contagious - Scott Sigler
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) - George R.R. Martin
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) - Jim Butcher
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, Book 1) - James Patterson
The Call of the Wild (Townsend Library) - Jack London
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy
On Writing - Stephen King

^^ What did you think of Game of Thrones?

dude said:

^^ What did you think of Game of Thrones?

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Easily one of the best books I have ever read in my life.

Not a great year for me, too. Let's hope we have a better year

Too many to list . And yes, I hope this year turns out to be an improvement over the last.

2009

Janvier

1-Richard Yates-Revolutionary road
2-Le cleziot-Desert
3-Richard stark-The damsel
4-Honoré de Balzac-Cousine Bette ++
5-Marguerite Yourcenar-Alexis
6-Le coup de grace
7-Paul Auster-the man in the dark
8-Brian moore-Dark robe
9_Guy Gavriel Kay-Tigana
10-Nancy Mitford-The Sun King
11-Chester Himes-Real cool killer
12-Jeanette Winterson - Weight -Myth of Atlas and Heracles
13-Henry james-the siege of London

Fevrier

14 Andrei Makine-The crime of Olga Arbelina
15 Gabriel garcias Marquez-Of love and other demons
16 Knut Hamsun-In country of Tales
17 Robert van Gulik - The Phantom of the Temple
18 Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler Tale of an American dreamer
19 Jacques spitz-the eye of purgatory
20 Mohamed Nedali-Morceaux de choix
21 Geaorge sand-the devil's pool --
22 Evelyn Waugh-Brideshead Revisited read by Jeremy Irons
23 Rainer Maria Rilke-Journal of Malte laurids Brigge (i think?)
24 Patrick Rambaud-The exile
25 Richard Stark - The Green Eagle Score
26 Honore de balzac-The country doctor
27 Yasunari Kawabata-Les servantes de l'auberge
28 Graham Green-Stambul train ++
29 Driss Craibi-The world beside
30 Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider
31 Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate

March

32 Mika Watari-Nuori Johannes
33 Edward P Jones - The Known World --
34 Jonathan Coe-Closed circle ----
35 Julien Green-le voyageur sur terre +
36 Richard Stark-the black ice score
37 Cees Nooteboom-Lost paradise
38 Penelop Fitzgerald-The Blue flower
39 Charif Majdalani-The history of the big house
40 Tim Severin-corsair +
41 Ngugi-The river Between -
42 Emile Zola-The dream
43 Arto Paasilinna-The year of the hare
44 E L Doctorow-The march
45 Andrei Makine-A temps du fleuve amour

April

46 Amin Maalouf-the century before beatrice
47 Franz Kafka-The trial
48 Le Cleziot-Ourania
49 Kevin Brockmeier - Brief History of the Dead +
50 Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave
51 Milan Kundera-The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Mars by Jean pierre Bibring(lecture audio)
52 Richard Stark -Slayground
53 Torgny Lindgren-The way of the snake
54 J.M. Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K
55 Marguerite Yourcenar-Souvenirs pieux I Both biographies about
56 Sandor Marai-Les confessions d'un bourgeois
57 bernard Cornwell-Agincourt +
58 JG Ballard -The Drowned world ++
59 Colm Toibin-The master
60 Yann Martel - The Facts Behind Helsinki Roccamatios

Mai

61-Joane Didion-The year of magical thinking
62-Norman Mailer--The castel in the forest
63-Andrei makine-Confessiion of a fallen standard bearer
64-Ricahrd Stark-the sour lemon
65 Menis Koumandareas-La verrerie
66-Alberto Moravia-Two-a phallic novel
67 Eric emmanuel Schmitt-Ulysse from Bagdad
68-Nina Berberova-the accompanist +
69-Jean Echenoz-Je m'en vais(i'm gone)
70-Richard Stark-deadly edge
71-David Mitchel-Cloud atlas
72-Marguerite Yourcenar-A coin in nine hand
73-Evgueni Zamiatine-The flood

June

74-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-One day in the life of Ivan..
75-Andrei Makine-The life of an Unknown man
76-Boualem Sansal-Le village de l'Allemand
77-Conn Iggulden-Genghis
78-Frank cullotta
79-Thomas Bernhard -The Looser and
80-Barjavel-le voyageur imprudent-at rest
81-Dan Simmons-Children of the night-
82-Amin Maalouf-Samarkanf
82-Manil Suri-The death of Vishnu--
83-Thomas Pynchon-Cry of the lot 49
84-Malika Oufkir-Stolen Lives
85-Donald Westlake-Somebody owes me money
86-Miklos Banffy-They were found wanting
87-Yasmina Khadra-the sirens of Baghdad
88-Patricia Highsmith-The blunderer
89-Per Petterson-Out stealing Horses+

Jully

90-Milan Kundera-The joke
91-Richard Stark-Comeback bravo!
92-Gilbert Adair-The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ,gave up,like bloody Cluedo
93-Umberto Eco-The name of the rose
94-Seth Graham smith/jane Austen-Pride and prejudice and zombies
95-Donald E Westlake-Get real
96-Alessandro Baricco-Chateau de la colère
97-Larry Brown-Father and son
98-Jim Crace-Being dead
99-Robert McCammon-Night boat
100-Irene Nemirovsky-David Golder
101-Simon Mawer-Gospel of Judas
102-Jean Teule-Verlaine

August

103 Knut Hamsun-Hunger
104 Driss Chraibi-Inspector Ali
105 Giorgio Bassani-Behind the door

Septembre

106 Alexandro Baricco-Novecento
107 Stendhal-The red and the black
108 Donald E Westlake-Money for nothing
109 Alan Weisman-The World Without Us
110 Joseph O'neil-Netherland
111 China Mieville-City&city
112 Will Knot - The devil flower+
113 Guy de Maupassant-Boule de suif
114 Marilynne Robinson-Home+
115 Jane Bolwes-Two serious Ladies
116 Donald Westlake-The Dame
117 lawrence Durrell-Justine
118 Antonio Tabucchi-Dream of dreams


Octobre

119 Lawrence Durrell-Balthazar
120 Alice Munro-The view from castel rock
121 Yannis Xanthoulis-A Turk in the garden-abandonned
122 Jim harrison-A good day to die
123 Per Petterson-To Siberia+
124 Turgenev-House of the gentry
125 Gerald Durrell-My familly and other animals.
126 Bruce Chatwin-In Patagonia
127 Jim Ronson-The men who stare at goat+
128 Giullermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan-The strain
129 Wole Soyinka-The interpreters. gave up
130 Sjomall/Wahloo-the man who went up in smoke

Novembre

131 Peter Cameron-Someday this pain will be useful to you
132 Paul Theroux-The Great railway Bazard
133 John Wyndham-The trouble with the Lichen
134 Donald Westlake-bank shot
135 Boris Vian -Un automne a Pekin abandonned
136 Romain Gary-La vie devant soi(Momo)
137 Yu Hua-Brothers-Adam Haberberg
139 Rowan Somerville-The end of sleep
140 Stendhal- chronique Italienne(trop de faveur tue)
141 Elmore Leonard- City primeval
142 Flann O'brien-The third policeman
143 James Frey-a million little pieces
144 Kate Grenville-The lieutenant
145 Robert graves-Goodbye to all that.


Decembre

146 Pierre Michom- The origine of the world
147 Scott Lynch-The gentlemen Bastard-Lies of Locke Lamora
148 Amin Maalouf-Identités Meurtières+
149 Pierre Michon-L'empereur d'occident
150 Dino buzatti-Le desert des tartares
151 Richard Stark-FlashFire
152 Philipe Roth-Americain Pastoral
153 Simenon -The strangers in the house
154 Romain Gary-Les promesse de l'aube
155 Roberto Saviano-Gomorrah +
156 Thomas Savage- The power of the dog
157 Arto Paasilinna-La douce empoisonneuse


Plan,.....get a life.

1. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, by Agatha Christie.
2. Nights in Rodanthe, by Nicholas Sparks.
3. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton.
4. The Known World, by Edward P. Jones.
5. Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith.
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
7. 1st to Die, by James Patterson.
8. The Seventh Seal, by José Rodrigues dos Santos.
9. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.
10. Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.
11. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel.
12. The name of the rose, by Umberto Eco.
13. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer.
14. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer.

saliotthomas said:

Plan,.....get a life.

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Teach us for those who need it! :innocent:

Ivo Andric - Gospodjica (engl. transl. Woman from Sarajevo)
Michael Pupin - From immigrant to inventor
Carl Sagan - The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
David Albahari - Dijaspora i druge stvari
J. Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
Haruki Murakami - What I talk about when I talk about running
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
David Albahari - Brat
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens Of Titan
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

01. Just After Sunset - Stephen King
02. Dragon Blood – Patricia Briggs
03. Death Note: Another Note, The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases – Ishin Nishio
04. Templar Knight, Forbidden Bride – Lynna Banning
05. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
06. The Devil Wears Tartan – Karen Ranney
07. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
08. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
09. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo – J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock – Carolyn Keene
11. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
12. The Dragon King’s Palace – Laura Joh Rowland
13. The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Michael Scott
14. Rurouni Kenshin: Voyage to the Moon World – Koaru Shizuka
15. The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks
16. Civil War Poetry and Prose – Walt Whitman
17. The Jewel of Seven Stars – Bram Stoker
18. The Kouga Ninja Scrolls – Futaro Yamada
19. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan – Sophie Kinsella
20. Ranger’s Apprentice #1: The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan
21. Shopaholic Ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella
22. Angel of Music: Tales of the Phantom of the Opera – Carrie Hernandez
23. Sebastian – Anne Bishop
24. Shopaholic & Sister – Sophie Kinsella
25. The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient – Sheridan Prasso
26. Andre the Giant: A Legendary Life – Michael Krugman
27. Shopaholic & Baby – Sophie Kinsella
28. Fledgling – Octavia E. Butler
29. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
30. Bone Crossed – Patricia Briggs
31. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
32. The Children of Húrin – J.R.R. Tolkien
33. White Fang – Jack London
34. Star Trek New Frontier: House of Cards – Peter David (re-read)
35. Star Trek New Frontier: Into the Void – Peter David (re-read)
36. Star Trek New Frontier: The Two-Front War – Peter David (re-read)
37. Star Trek New Frontier: End Game – Peter David (re-read)
38. Star Trek New Frontier: Martyr – Peter David
39. Star Trek New Frontier: Fire on High – Peter David
40. Star Trek New Frontier: The Quiet Place – Peter David
41. Star Trek New Frontier: Dark Allies – Peter David
42. Warriors: Bluestar’s Prophecy – Erin Hunter
43. Star Trek New Frontier: Requiem – Peter David
44. Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess – Carolyn Meyer
45. Everything’s Eventual – Stephen King
46. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
47. Children of the Flames – Lucette Lagnado & Sheila Dekel
48. Star Trek New Frontier: Renaissance – Peter David
49. The Swan Kingdom – Zoe Marriott
50. A Seduction at Christmas – Cathy Maxwell
51. Lady of the Forest – Jennifer Roberson
52. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
53. Rampant – Diana Peterfreund
54. Devoted – Alice Borchardt
55. Spirit Fox – Mickey Zucker Reichert & Jennifer Wingert
56. Ranger’s Apprentice #2: The Burning Bridge – John Flanagan
57. Ranger’s Apprentice #3: The Icebound Land – John Flanagan
58. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms – Gail Tsukiyama
59. Hunting Ground – Patricia Briggs
60. Shadow’s Edge – Brent Weeks
61. Homeland – R.A. Salvatore
62. Exile – R.A. Salvatore
63. Pyramids – Terry Pratchett
64. Sojourn – R.A. Salvatore
65. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle (reread)
66. At the King’s Command – Susan Wiggs
67. Ranger’s Apprentice #4: The Battle for Skandia – John Flanagan
68. Beyond the Shadows – Brent Weeks
69. The Wild Road – Gabriel King
70. Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
71. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough
72. Phantom Army of the Civil War & Other Southern Ghost Stories – Frank Spaeth
73. Ramses the Damned – Anne Rice
74. The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Michael Scott
75. Sirena – Donna Jo Napoli (reread)

Nice list Fantasy Moon (and nice new Avatar also). Which 2009 book did you enjoy the most?