Books Read in 2009

Thursday December 31, 2009 in |

Happy New Year!

Fiction

  1. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz 3/5
  2. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 1/5
  3. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 2/5
  4. 2666 by Roberto Bolano 3/5
  5. 1974 by David Peace 3/5
  6. Mr Toppit by Charles Eldon 1/5
  7. 1977 by David Peace 4/5
  8. 1980 by David Peace 4/5
  9. 1983 by David Peace 4/5
  10. The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday 2/5
  11. The Damned United by David Peace 2/5
  12. The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith 1/5
  13. Tokyo: Year Zero by David Peace 4/5
  14. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 2/5
  15. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith 4/5
  16. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 4/5
  17. The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene 3/5
  18. Popco by Scarlett Thomas 2/5
  19. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 5/5
  20. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro 2/5
  21. Colony by Hugo Wilcken 2/5
  22. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant 2/5
  23. The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams 2/5
  24. One Day by David Nicholls 5/5
  25. Occupied City by David Peace 2/5
  26. Breath by Tim Winton 4/5
  27. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser 3/5
  28. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 4/5
  29. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay 1/5
  30. Me Cheeta by James Lever 2/5
  31. Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas 3/5
  32. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby 1/5
  33. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 4/5
  34. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 3/5
  35. Stardust by Neil Gaiman 4/5
  36. The Devil you Know by Mike Carey 3/5
  37. Vicious Circle by Mike Carey 4/5
  38. Duma Key by Stephen King 4/5

Non Fiction

  1. Gig by Simon Armitage 4/5
  2. The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 4/5
  3. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins 4/5

That’s nearly a book a week – impressed with your selection and the pace, especially with such long books in there. My favourite of these has to be The Little Stranger – agreed it’s terrifically well-paced and ticks all the right boxes for creepy terror. Wish I’d kept it for Christmas now, would’ve been better than the Beeb effort of Turn of the Screw.

BookRambler    Friday January 1, 2010   

The pace slackened towards the end of the year – too many abandoned novels. Yes the BBC Turn of the Screw was dreadful. I think the 1961 film The Innocents is on again soon – that’s worth checking out.

Stephen    Saturday January 2, 2010   

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