2009 Reading List

My yearly goal is to read at least fifty-two books . . . some old, some new . . . some for the first time, some for the nth time . . . some good, some not so much.

  1. Steven Emerson, Secret Warriors
  2. Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
  3. Jess Walter, Citizen Vince
  4. Stephen Wright, Meditations in Green
  5. Lawrence Durrell, Justine
  6. Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar
  7. Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive
  8. Lawrence Durrell, Clea
  9. Ernest L Martin, The Temples That Jerusalem Forgot
  10. James Grady, Six Days of the Condor
  11. Felix Gilman, Thunderer
  12. Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach
  13. John Burdett, Bangkok Tattoo
  14. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
  15. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  16. Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy
  17. Catherynne M Valente, Palimpsest
  18. Donald Bain, The CIA’s Control of Candy Jones
  19. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Assignment: or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
  20. Joel Stone, The Jerusalem File
  21. Ian McEwan, Atonement
  22. Richard Russo, Nobody’s Fool
  23. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
  24. James M Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
  25. Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul
  26. Domenico Starnone, First Execution
  27. George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-Four
  28. Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life
  29. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  30. Hannah Berry, Britten and Brülightly
  31. Iain M Banks, Against a Dark Background
  32. China Miéville, The City & The City
  33. Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
  34. Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
  35. Edward Whittemore, Sinai Tapestry
  36. Edward Whittemore, Jerusalem Poker
  37. Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows
  38. Edward Whittemore, Jericho Mosaic
  39. Lamar Herrin, House of the Deaf
  40. Lawrence Thornton, Under the Gypsy Moon
  41. Peter Ford, Around the Edge
  42. Howard Chaykin, American Flagg! Volume 1 Hardcover Collection
  43. Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
  44. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians
  45. Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, and Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 12: The Dark Ages
  46. Richard Condon, Winter Kills
  47. Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End
  48. Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme
  49. Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer
  50. Michael Moorcock, The English Assassin
  51. Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
  52. Justina Robson, Mappa Mundi
  53. John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  54. John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
  55. John Le Carré, Smiley’s People
  56. Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
  57. Franz Kafka, The Trial
  58. Robert Stone, Damascus Gate
  59. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  60. David Quammen, The Soul of Viktor Tronko
  61. Holy Bible
  62. Oriana Fallaci, Inshallah
  63. Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside
  64. Charles McCarry, Shelley’s Heart
  65. Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
  66. Richard Stark, The Hunter
  67. Joel Townsley Rogers, The Red Right Hand
  68. Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
  69. Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
  70. Richard Stark, The Man with the Getaway Face
  71. Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
  72. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
  73. Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel
  74. Samuel R. Delany, Nova
  75. William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
  76. Richard Stark, The Outfit