Saturday 2 January 2010

2009: a year between the covers

52 weeks, 57 books

Young Hearts Crying: Richard Yates.
Michael Tolliver Lives: Armisted Maupin
My Father's Island: Johanna Angermeyer
Skinned Alive: Edmund White
The General in his Labyrinth: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Chameleon's Shadow: Minnette Walters
The Soccer War: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Richard Keynes
Engleby: Sebastian Faulks
Ghosts of Spain: Giles Tremlett
Case Histories: Kate Atkinson
Imperium: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer
Street Without a Name: Kapka Kassabova
Shah of Shahs: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Bridge: Geert Mak
The White Tiger: Aravind Adiga
The Northern Clemency: Philip Hensher
Istanbul: Orhan Pamuk
Kim: Rudyard Kipling
India - A Million Mutinies Now: V S Naipaul
Travels with Herodotus: Ryszard Kapuscinski
When You Are Engulfed in Flames: David Sedaris
The Age of the Warrier: Robert Fisk
The Believers: Zoe Heller
Flower Hunters: Mary Gibbin and John Gibbin
The River of Lost Footsteps - A Personal History of Burma: Thant Myint-U
Naked: David Sedaris
The Woods: Harlan Coben
Shadow of the Silk Road: Colin Thubron
The Beach House: Jane Green
The Coma: Alex Garland
Sea of Poppies: Amitav Ghosh
Austerlitz: W G Sebald
The Princess Bride: William Goldman
In Defence of Food: Michael Pollan
The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai
In Patagonia: Bruce Chatwin
Portobello: Ruth Rendell
The Cloudspotters' Guide: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Zoology: Ben Dolnick
The Other Hand: Chris Cleave
The Secret Life of Words - How English Became English: Henry Hitchings
One Good Turn: Kate Atkinson
A Sky Full of Starlings: Stephen Moss
Tree Surgery for Beginners: Patrick Gale
Friendly Fire: Patrick Gale
Book of the Dead: Patricia Cornwell
The Lost Heart of Asia: Colin Thubron
Possible Side Effects: Augusten Burroughs
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs - The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. : Jeremy Mercer
Star of the Sea: Joseph O'Connor
The Hills of Adonis: Colin Thubron
Until I Find You: John Irving
The Song of the Dodo: David Quammen
Bury Me Standing: Isabel Fonseca
Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell