Some books wot I red in 2009, as I’ve been keeping a record of them in Shelfari and I’m not quite sure why. Read some things I should have read a long time ago (Lolita, Frankenstein), and some things I wish I hadn’t bothered with (Twilight).
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- The Mitford Girls – Mary S Lovell
- 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo
- The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
- Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Flat Earth News – Nick Davies
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
- Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky
- Girls Like Us – Sheila Weller
- The Stuff of Thought – Steven Pinker
- The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
- Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- The Tiger That Isn’t – Andrew Dilnot
- I’m not Scared – Nicolo Ammaniti
- A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz
- Adverbs – Daniel Handler
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
- Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era – Ken Emerson
- The Death of Grass – John Christopher
- Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
- Things the Grandchildren Should Know – Mark Everett
- The Human Stain – Philip Roth
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama
- Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
- The Easter Parade – Richard Yates
Anyone read any good books this year?
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