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.
- 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