Books Read in '09

January (8 books, 1742 pp.)

1. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (2006, 368 pp.)
2. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (2009, 341 pp.)
3. The Houskeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2009, 180 pp.)
4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (1924, 1969 for English translation, 80 pp.)
5. Thousand Cranes by Yasanuri Kawabata (1952, 147 pp.)
6. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb (1999, 2001 for the English translation, 132 pp)
7. X-Kai- Vol. 2 by Asami Tohjoh (2000, English translation 2006; 200 pp.)
8. Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels (1996, 294 pp.)

February (9 books, 1842 pp.)

1. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (2006, 352 pp.)
2. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto ( 1988, 1993 for the English translation; 105 pp.)
3. The Reader by Bernard Schlink (1995, 1997 for the English translation; 224 pages)
4. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (2001, 227 pp.)
5. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (1980-81, 90 pp.)
6. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (2002, 191 pp.)
7. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961, 204 pp.)
8. A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz (various copyrights, 111 pp.)
9. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors (2004, 344 pp.)

March (10 books, 1924 pp.)

1. The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith (2004, 198 pp.)
2. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (2008, 174 pp.)
3. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton (2008, 288 pp.)
4. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (1983, 133 pp.)
5. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2001, 152 pp.)
6. Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (2004, 244 pp.)
7. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho (2006, 205 pp.)
8. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1995, 122 pp.)
9. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966, 90 pp.)
10. Q & A by Vikas Swarup (2005, 318 pp.)

April (11 books, 2513 pp.)

1. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (1970, 144 pp.)
2. Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (2002, 297 pp.)
3. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (1940, 128 pp.)
4. Finn by Jon Clinch (2007, 304 pp.)
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961, 355 pp.)
6. Petropolis by Anya Ulinich (2007, 324pp.)
7. Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (2004, 147 pp)
8. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith (2004, 233pp.)
9. All the Living by C.E. Morgan (2009, 208 pp.)
10. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo (2009, 270 pp.)
11. The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez (2005 for Eng. trans., 103 pp.)

First Half: 56 books, 12631 pp; average of 226 pages per book (kind of sad, really!)

July (12 books, 3464 pp.)

1. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (2004, 194 pp.)
2. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (2009, 336 pp.)
3. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1969, 180 pp.)
4. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1986, 224 pp.)
5. Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006, 352 pp.)
6. A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen (2000, 50 pp.)
7. Property by Valerie Martin (2002, 192 pp.)
8. Unless by Carol Shields (2002, 224 pp.)
9. The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (2006, 368 pp.)
10. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009, 464 pp.)
11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998, 576 pp.)
12. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003, 304 pp.)

August (8 books, 2491 pp.)

1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931, 368 pp)
2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920, 304 pp)
3. The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne (2009, 225 pp)
4. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (1922, 102 pp)
5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891, 472 pp)
6. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996, 460 pp)
7. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987, 208 pp)
8. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976, 352 pp)

September (14 books, 5605 pp)

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962, 304 pp)
2. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (2009, 262 pp)
3. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009, 466 pp)
4. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2001, 292 pp)
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (2006, 608 pp)
6. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (2007, 629 pp)
7. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (2008, 754 pp)
8. Still Life by Louise Penny (2005, 312 pp)
9. A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold ) by Louise Penny (2007, 314 pp)
10. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (2008, 311 pp)
11. A Rule Against Murder (aka The Murder Stone ) by Louise Penny (2009, 322 pp)
12. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (2009, 373 pp)
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007, 367 pp)
14. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (2002, 291 pp)

October (11 books, 3900 pp.)

1. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (2003, 272 pp.)
2. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (2004, 291 pp.)
3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (2007, 384 pp.)
4. The Inhabited World by David Long (2006, 288 pp.)
5. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh (2004, 352 pp.)
6. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2008, 384 pp.)
7. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (2006, 400 pp.)
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008, 274pp.)
9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009, 391 pp.)
10. Vampire Knight Vol 1 by Matsuri Hino (2007, 208 pp.)
11. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005, 656 pp.)

November

1. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith (2009)
2. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland (2004)
3. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (2008)
4. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (2009, 268 pp.)
5. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof (1906-1907)
6. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

December

1. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
2. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
3. The Good Women of China by Xinran (2002)
4. The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (1989)
5. Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset (1922)