Thursday, January 1, 2009

Books I Have Read In 2009

Legend:
O - from own collection (either already had, sent from OZ VBB or RABCK)
L - library
B - bookring or bookray
C - can't remember

1. Chasing Harry Winston - Laura Weisenburger (L)
2. The Host - Stephenie Meyer (L)
3. Who Do You Want To Be Today? Be Inspired To Dress Differently - Trinny Woodall & Susannah Constantine (L)
4. Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell (L)
5. Jennifer Government - Max Barry (B)
6. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood (O)
7. Saturday - Ian McEwan (L)
8. The Blessings Of A Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World - Mary Russell (B)
9. Billy's Tree - Nicholas Kyriacos (B)
10. Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion - Mark Cotta Vaz (O)
11. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (L)
12. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett (L)
13. Twelve Sharp - Janet Evanovich (L)
14. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (L)
15. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer (L)
16. I Hate Myself And Want To Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard - Tom Reynolds (O)
17. Dear Fatty - Dawn French (L)
18. Your Heart Belongs To Me - Dean Koontz (L)
19. Vroom By The Sea - Peter Moore (O)
20. Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities - John Silvester & Andrew Rule (O)
21. Mystic Medusa's Astroscape 2009: Sensationally cool and accurate stars for the year ahead - Mystic Medusa (O)
22. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (O) - finally got through it!!!
23. Charm School: The modern girl's complete handbook of etiquette - Kathy Buchanan (O)
24. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (O)
25. Love Smart: Find the one you want, fix the one you got - Dr Phil McGraw (O)
26. Dewey: The small town library cat who touched the world - Vicki Myron (B)
27. Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife - Mary Roach (B)
28. Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett (B)
29. Bitten and Smitten - Michelle Rowen (O)
30. Never The Bride - Paul Magrs (O)
APRIL
31. Fanged and Fabulous - Michelle Rowen (O)
32. Blood Is The New Black - Valerie Stivers (O)
33. Sexing The Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (B)
34. Good In Bed - Jennifer Weiner (B)
35. The Women - T.C. Boyle (B)
MAY
36. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (O)
37. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher (L)
38. Hollywood Undercover: Revealing The Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown - Ian Halperin (L)
39. Secret Smile - Nicci French (O)
40. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre (O)
JUNE
41. What A Ride: From Phil Anderson to Cadel Evans, An Aussie Pursuit Of The Tour De France - Rupert Guiness (O)
42. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (O)
43. The Slap - Nicholas Tsiolkas (O)
44. Roasted Passion - Robert Norton (O)
45. Library Of The Dead - Glenn Cooper (O)
46. City Of Bones - Cassandra Clare (O)
47. Strange Places: A Memoir Of Mental Illness - Will Elliott (O)
48. A Lion Called Christian - Anthony Bourke and John Rendall (L)
49. Wanting - Richard Flanagan (L)
50. The Pleasures and Sorrows Of Work - Alain De Botton (L)
51. Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (B)
52. Ransom - David Malouf (L)
53. The Unknown Terrorist - Richard Flanagan (L)
54. Salmon Fishing in Yemen - Paul Torday (L)
55. The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa (O)
56. The List: A Love Story in 781 Chapters - Aneva Stout (B)
57. The Collector - John Fowles (O)
58. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (L)
59. Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee (L)
60. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (L)
JULY
61. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time - Mark Haddon (L)
62. Unless - Carol Shields (L)
63. The Light Of Day - Graham Swift (L)
64. Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer (L)
65. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (O)
66. Diary Of A Bad Year - J.M.Coetzee (L)
67. The True Story Of Butterfish - Nick Earls (L)
68. Trinny & Susannah: The Survival Guide, A Woman's Secret Weapon For Getting Through The Year - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine (L)
69. Dead And Gone - Charlaine Harris (L)
AUGUST
70. Disgrace - J.M.Coetzee (L)
71. Still Alice - Lisa Genova (L)
72. Always Looking Up - Michael J. Fox (L)
73. Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini (L)
74. Aesop's Fables - Aesopus (online)
75. Orlando - Virginia Woolf (O)
76. The Broken Shore - Peter Temple (O)
77. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (O)
78. The Pilo Family Circus - Will Elliott (O)
SEPTEMBER
79. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey (O)
80. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve (O)
81. How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain De Botton (B)
82. Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child (L)
83. Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Aspergers - John Elder Robison (L)
OCTOBER
84. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (O)
85. Living Dead In Dallas - Charlaine Harris (O)
86. Slow Fat Triathlete - Jayne Williams (O)
87. Siren - Tara Moss (O)
88. Alice In La La Land - Sophie Lee (L)
89. Dating Disasters - Anna Warwick (L)
NOVEMBER
90. Things To Do Now That You're Single Again - Eva Gizowska (L)
91. Undead and Unpopular - Mary Janice Davidson (L)
92. Plum Lucky - Janet Evanovich (L)
93. Plum Lovin' - Janet Evanovich (L)
94. Operations That Made History - Harold Ellis (L)
95. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton (L)
96. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (L)
97. The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps - Michel Faber (L)
98. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer (O)
99. Towelhead - Alicia Erian (B)
100. Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel (O)
101. So Much To Tell You - John Marsden (O)
102. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (L)
103. The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith (L)
104. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (L)
105. Lover Awakened - J.R.Ward (O)
DECEMBER
106. Black Boxes - Caroline Smailes (B)
107. Generation X - Douglas Coupland (O)
108. I Burn For You - Susan Sizemore (O)
109. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (O)
110. Marked (House Of Night book 1) - P.C.and Kristin Cast (O)
111. Possession: A Romance - A.S. Byatt (O)
112. Passing - Nella Larsen (B)
113. Six Feet Over: Adventures In The Afterlife - Mary Roach (O)
114. The Twilight Saga - New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion - Mark Cotta Vaz (O)
115. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby (L)
116. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larssen (L)
117. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (L)
118. Betrayed (House Of Night book 2) - P.C.and Kristin Cast (O)
119. Chosen (House Of Night book 3) - P.C.and Kristin Cast (O)
120. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (L)