2009 Reading

First full year of the blog. Will I keep to my plans?

• Don’t Look Now: Selected Stories by Daphne du Maurier
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
• Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
• The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts by Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others
• Voyage Along the Horizon by Javier Marías
• “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
• The Bounty Mutiny by William Bligh and Edward Christian
• The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla
• In Hazard by Richard Hughes
• Losing My Religion by William Lobdell
• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
• The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad
• Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum
• Oil! by Upton Sinclair
• The Lemur by Benjamin Black
• The Spider’s Palace and Other Stories by Richard Hughes
• A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
• The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
• “Patriotism” by Yukio Mishima
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The History of Now by Daniel Klein
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• The Secret Sins of Economics by Deirdre McCloskey
• Wintry Peacock by D.H. Lawrence
• Amos Barton by George Eliot
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville
• Daughters of the Vicar by D.H. Lawrence
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
• The Invisible Hook by Peter T. Leeson
• Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
• The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
• Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn
• The Whole Story and other stories by Ali Smith
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
• Weight by Jeanette Winterson (re-read)
• The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber
• Tongue by Kyung-Ran Jo
• Little Fingers by Filip Florian
• Hotel World by Ali Smith
• Revenge by Jim Harrison
• The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn
• Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
• Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Keepsake by Kirsty Gunn
• Rain by Kirsty Gunn
• This Place You Return to Is Home by Kirsty Gunn
• Pamela by Samuel Richardson
• Forbidden Fruit: From the letters of Abelard and Heloïse by Pierre Abelard and Heloïse
• Heroides by Ovid
• Letters from Fishermen, Farmers, Parasites and Courtesans by Alciphron
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Shamela by Henry Fielding
• The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse
• Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
• Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
• Six German Romantic Tales by Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig Tieck, and E.T.A. Hoffmann
• The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
• From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
• The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• The Golden Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• The Provost by John Galt
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• The Ayrshire Legatees by John Galt
• No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon
• All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
• The Best Creative Nonfiction, vol. 3 by Lee Gutkind (ed.)
• Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
• Evelina by Frances Burney
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
• Murder by the Book by Rex Stout
• Lady Susan by Jane Austen
• Granta 108, Chicago Special Issue
• Embers by Sándor Márai
• The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
• The Man Who Gave Up His Name by Jim Harrison
• The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick by Nick Selby (ed.)
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Typee by Herman Melville
• Pacific Agony by Bruce Benderson
• Omoo by Herman Melville
• Mardi by Herman Melville
• Redburn by Herman Melville