2009 in BOOKS

This is my list of books read in 2009. I’m actually quite proud of it. I’ve always been a big reader but over the past couple of years I hadn’t read much at all. Through the first half of this year, too. I didn’t start reading with a vengeance until June (The Angel’s Game onwards). That’s also when the reviews start, because that’s when I started my tumblr. I hope you guys enjoy this list and the reviews:

1. Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
2. Oronooko by Alpha Behn
3. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
4. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
5. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
6. Annie Leibovitz: At Work by Annie Leibovitz
7. Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns
8. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
9. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
10. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
11. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
12. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
13. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
15. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
16. Animal Farm by George Orwell
17. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
18. Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
19. Remainder by Tom McCarthy
20. The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
21. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
22. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
23. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
24. Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
25. Brooklyn Was Mine edited by Chris Knutsen & Valerie Steiker
26. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
27. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
29. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
30. The Dream of the Rood & Other Old English Poems by Unknown
31. The Miller’s Tale by Gefforey Chaucer
32. The Franklin’s Tale by Gefforey Chaucer
33. Songs and Sonnets by John Donne
34. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
35. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
36. tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
39. The Princess Bride by William Golding
40. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
41. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
42. Heroes by Robert Cormier
43. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
44. How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland

PS. The four books not reviewed — Dream of the Rood, Miller’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale and Songs and Sonnets — are university set texts, and as such I had to write enough essays on them without my reviewing them on here. Howl I read for enjoyment, but I want to read it another maybe three times before forming an opinion. I love it, though.