WHAT I'VE READ IN 2009

JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale*
a bit of Don Quixote (my New Year's resolution is to read it throughout the year, and finish it)
Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone - Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain and Andrew Thomson

Believe Me - Nina Killham
Coal Black Horse - Robert Olmstead
Couples - John Updike

The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
The Post Office Girl - Stefan Sweig*

APRIL
MAY
JUNE

One Big Damn Puzzler - John Harding
Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold
A Mercy - Toni Morrison

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stig Larssen
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
Hearts and Minds - Amanda Craig

Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden
March Geraldine Brooks  

JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER

Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger
Listening Below the Noise Anne Leclaire
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls  

The Children's Book A.S. Byatt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
 
Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Small Wars Sadie Jones
One Day David Nicholls
The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano
A Book of Silence Sara Maitland

 

 

Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout*
Dirt Music Tim Winton
A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore
Deaf Sentence David Lodge

 

OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel  

 

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Sue Townsend
The Hare and the Tortoise Elizabeth Jenkins
Animals in Translation Temple Grandin
Any Human Heart William Boyd*
The 10pm Question Kate de Goldi
 

When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson
Legend of a Suicide David Vann
Brooklyn Colm Toibin*
The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell
The Elephant Keeper Christopher Nicholson
 

What I read in:
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
* means really excellent and recommended