2009 Reading List
Every year my goal is to read at least fifty-two books, the majority of them novels and new to me (with a few favourites thrown in for good measure).
* – indicates books I highly recommend (whether for great stories, great writing, or both).
** – indicates books read for research.
- Steven Emerson, Secret Warriors **
- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
- Jess Walter, Citizen Vince *
- Stephen Wright, Meditations in Green *
- Lawrence Durrell, Justine *
- Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar *
- Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive *
- Lawrence Durrell, Clea *
- Ernest L Martin, The Temples That Jerusalem Forgot **
- James Grady, Six Days of the Condor
- Felix Gilman, Thunderer
- Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach *
- John Burdett, Bangkok Tattoo
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War *
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace *
- Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy *
- Catherynne M Valente, Palimpsest
- Donald Bain, The CIA’s Control of Candy Jones **
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Assignment: or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers *
- Joel Stone, The Jerusalem File *
- Ian McEwan, Atonement *
- Richard Russo, Nobody’s Fool *
- Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood *
- James M Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice *
- Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul *
- Domenico Starnone, First Execution *
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-Four *
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life *
- Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed *
- Hannah Berry, Britten and Brülightly *
- Iain M Banks, Against a Dark Background
- China Miéville, The City & The City *
- Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
- Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands *
- Edward Whittemore, Sinai Tapestry *
- Edward Whittemore, Jerusalem Poker *
- Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows *
- Edward Whittemore, Jericho Mosaic *
- Lamar Herrin, House of the Deaf *
- Lawrence Thornton, Under the Gypsy Moon *
- Peter Ford, Around the Edge **
- Howard Chaykin, American Flagg! Volume 1 Hardcover Collection *
- Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice *
- Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians **
- Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, and Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 12: The Dark Ages
- Richard Condon, Winter Kills
- Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End *
- Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme
- Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer
- Michael Moorcock, The English Assassin
- Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
- Justina Robson, Mappa Mundi
- John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy *
- John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy *
- John Le Carré, Smiley’s People *
- Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition *
- Franz Kafka, The Trial *
- Robert Stone, Damascus Gate *
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita *
- David Quammen, The Soul of Viktor Tronko *
- Holy Bible *
- Oriana Fallaci, Inshallah *
- Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside *
- Charles McCarry, Shelley’s Heart *
- Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone *
- Richard Stark, The Hunter *
- Joel Townsley Rogers, The Red Right Hand
- Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song *
- Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
- Richard Stark, The Man with the Getaway Face *
- Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
- Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel
- Samuel R. Delany, Nova *
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
- Richard Stark, The Outfit *