Books Read in 2009

Total: 89

1. Wasteland – Francesca Lia Block
2. The Gum Thief – Douglas Coupland
3. Essays in Love – Alain de Botton
4. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys – Francesca Lia Block
5. Missing Angel Juan – Francesca Lia Block
6. Baby Be-Bop – Francesca Lia Block
7. The Rose and the Beast – Francesca Lia Block
8. Life After God – Douglas Coupland
9. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America – Elizabeth Wurtzel
10. Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
11. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
12. Birthday Letters – Ted Hughes
13. Write – Sarah Quigley
14. Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of the Birthday Letters – Erica Wagner
15. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
16. Naomi – Junichiro Tanizaki
17. Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
18. The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
19. Naked – David Sedaris
20. The Wave – Morton Rhue/Todd Strasser
21. No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
22. Emma – Jane Austen
23. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
24. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
25. Breakfast at Tiffanys – Truman Capote
26. Utz – Bruce Chatwin
27. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
28. The Easter Parade – Richard Yates
29. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
30. The Square Root of Wonderful – Carson McCullers
31. The Ballad of the Sad Café – Carson McCullers
32. Summer Crossing – Truman Capote
33. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
34. Dopeland: Taking the High Road Through Australia’s Marijuana Culture – John Birmingham
35. Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 – Marcel Proust
36. The Coming Insurrection – The Invisible Committee
37. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks – William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
38. Naïve, Super – Erlend Loe
39. Quiet Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian – Scott Douglas
40. The Joke’s Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson – Ralph Steadman
41. Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture – Taylor Clark
42. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers – Virginia Spencer Carr
43. My Ántonia – Willa Cather
44. White Noise – Don DeLillo
45. Politics – Adam Thirlwell
46. Save Me the Waltz – Zelda Fitzgerald
47. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science – Mary Roach
48. Paint It Black – Janet Fitch
49. The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
50. Stepping Out: A Novel – Catherine Rey
51. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
52. Saturday – Ian McEwan
53. Pygmy – Chuck Palahniuk
54. Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories – Chuck Palahniuk
55. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
56. Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon
57. Generation A – Douglas Coupland
58. Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List – Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
59. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 – Hunter S. Thompson
60. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
61. The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
62. The Sandman Volume 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman
63. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
64. The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman
65. Reflections in a Golden Eye – Carson McCullers
66. The Sandman Volume 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman
67. The Sandman Volume 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman
68. The Sandman Volume 6: Fables & Reflections – Neil Gaiman
69. Other Voices, Other Rooms – Truman Capote
70. The Sandman Volume 7: Brief Lives – Neil Gaiman
71. Monkey Grip – Helen Garner
72. Snuff – Chuck Palahniuk
73. Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
74. God’s Little Acre – Erskine Caldwell
75. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain – Maryanne Wolf
76. The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
78. Taming the Black Dog: A Guide to Overcoming Depression – Bev Aisbett
79. Virgin: The Untouched History – Hanne Blank
80. 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
81. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street – Helene Hanff
82. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
83. The White Album – Joan Didion
84. Shopgirl – Steve Martin
85. Gossip Girl – Cecily von Ziegesar
86. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
87. The Women in Black – Madeleine St John
88. The Nanny Diaries – Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
89. Zeitoun – Dave Eggers