2009 Reading List

1. "A Pale View of the Hills" by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. "The Casualty" by Heinrich Boll
3. "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott
4. "Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley
5. "Therese Raquin" by Emile Zola
6. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski
7. "Drop City" by T.C. Boyle
8. "Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury & Its Aftermath" by Michael Paul Mason
9. "The Bad Girl" by Mario Vargas Llosa
10. "A Death in Belmont" by Sebastian Junger
11. "The Flame Trees of Thika" by Elspeth Huxley
12. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci
13. "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomas di Lampedusa
14. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
15. "O, Pioneer" by Willa Cather
16. "Tribal Scars" by Ousmane Sembene
17. "Eight Cousins" by Louuisa May Alcott
18. "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
20. "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham
21. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
22. "Dreams of My Father" by Barack Obama
23. "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard
24. "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
25. "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
26. "A Universal History of Infamy" by Jorge Luis Borges
27. "Jim the Boy" by Tony Earley
28. "Netachka Nezvanova" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
29. "The Garden Party & Other Stories" by Katharine Mansfield
30. "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne
31. "Outcasts United" by Warren St. John
32. "A Sentimental Education" by Gustave Flaubert
33. "Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff
34. "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh
35. "Frenchman's Creek" by Daphne du Maurier
36. "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson
37. "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy
38. "The Associate" by John Grisham
39. "Wild Nights" by Joyce Carol Oates
40. "Lighthousekeeping" by Jeannette Winterson
41. "Rose in Bloom" by Louisa May Alcott
42. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
43. 'The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins
44. "All Over Creation" by Ruth Oseki
45. "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott
46. "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" by Tom Wolfe
47. "The Boat" by Nam Le
    
48. "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
49. "Everyman" by Philip Roth
50. "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke
51. "The Bodies Left Behind" by Jeffrey Deaver
52. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman
53. "Adam Bede" by George Eliot
54. "Shantytown Kid" by Azouz Begag
55. "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks
56. "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Alberto Urrea
57. "Handle With Care" by Jodi Picoult
58. "First Family" by David Baldacci
59. "The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway
60. "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens
61. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhjail Bulgakov
62. "If" by Rudyard Kipling
63. "Beowulf" by Seamus Heaney
64. "So Brave, So Young, and Handsome" by Leif Enger
65. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb
66. "The Septembers of Shiraz" by Dalia Sofer
67. "The Insulted & Humiliated" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
68. "The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter & Sweet" by Jamie Ford
69. "The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster
70. "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee
71. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson
72. "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle
73. "Mercy" by Jodi Picoult
74. "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
75. "A Slight Trick of the Mind" by Mitch Cullin
76. "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson
77. "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" by Haruki Murakami
78. "South of Broad" by Pat conroy
79. "Homer & Langley" by E.L. Doctorow
80. "The House of Doctor Dee" by Peter Ackroyd
81. "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson
82. "The Taker" by Ruben Fonseca
83. "Eve's Ransom" by George Gissing
84. "Peony In Love" by Lisa See
85. "Fugitive Pieces" by Anne Michaels'"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ismael Beah
86. "To Siberia" by Per Petterson
87. "Catrion" by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. "The Means of Escape" by Penelope Fitzgerald
89. "So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell
90. "The Little Giant of Aberdeen County" by Tiffany ?
91. "The Day the Falls Stood Still" by Cathy Marie Buchanan
92. "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman
93. "Secrets" by Nuruddin Farah
94. "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
95. "Maisie Dobbs" by Jacqueline Winspear
96. "Saving Faith" by David Baldacci
97. "The Last Summer of Reason" by Farah Djaout
98. "Paco's Story" by Larry Heinemann
99. "The Shadow Catcher" by Marianne Wiggins
100. "Summer" by Edith Wharton
101. "That Old Cape Magic" by Richard Russo
102. "Birds of a Feather" by Jacqueline Winspear
103. "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones
104. "The Lost Honor of Katharine Blum" by Heinrich Boll