Books read in 2009

Submitted by cabby2003 on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 03:09
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  1. A Man Without A Country~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  2. The Manchurian Candidate~ Richard Condon
  3. Three Novels~ Samuel Beckett (includes Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable)
  4. A Room With A View~ E.M. Forster
  5. In The Woods~ Tana French
  6. The Devil and Miss Prym~ Paulo Coelho
  7. Crime and Punishment~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
  8. War of the Worlds~ H.G. Wells
  9. Blindness~ Jose Saramago
  10. The Trial~ Franz Kafka
  11. Glamorama~ Bret Easton Ellis
  12. Their Eyes Were Watching God~ Zora Neale Hurston
  13. Kafka on the Shore~ Haruki Murakami
  14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist~ Mohsin Hamid
  15. Light Before Day~ Christopher Rice
  16. The Cave~ Jose Saramago
  17. Jakob the Liar~ Jurek Becker
  18. Everything is Illuminated~ Jonathan Safran Foer
  19. The Reader~ Bernard Schlink
  20. Fatal Light~ Richard Currey
  21. Animal Farm~ George Orwell
  22. Armageddon in Retrospect~ Kurt Vonnegut jr.
  23. The Unit~ Ninni Holmqvist
  24. The Art of War (with critical analysis)~ Sun Tzu
  25. The Master and Margarita~ Mikhail Buglakov
  26. Drop City~ T.C. Boyle
  27. The Crucible~ Arthur Miller
  28. Smilla's Sense of Snow~ Peter Hoeg
  29. The Red Badge of Courage~ Stephen Crane
  30. All Quiet on the Western Front~ Erich Maria Remarque
  31. Cat's Eye~ Margaret Atwood
  32. The Black Dahlia~ James Ellroy
  33. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone~ J.K. Rowling
  34. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets~ J.K. Rowling
  35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban~ J.K. Rowling
  36. Coraline~ Neil Gaiman
  37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire~ J.K. Rowling
  38. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix~ J.K. Rowling
  39. The Glass Castle~ Jeanette Walls
  40. The Girl Who Played With Fire~ Stieg Larsson
  41. The Pastures of Heaven~ John Steinbeck
  42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn~ Betty Smith
  43. The Handmaid's Tale~ Margaret Atwood
  44. Breaking Dawn~ Stephanie Meyer
  45. The Book of Lost Things~ John Connolly
  46. Freakonomics~ Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  47. The Kite Runner~ Kahled Hosseini
  48. The Fall~ Albert Camus
  49. Just After Sunset~ Stephen King
  50. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao~ Junot Diaz
  51. Crisis~ Robin Cook
  52. Alias Grace~ Margaret Atwood
  53. Death With Interruptions~ Jose Saramago
  54. Dracula~ Bram Stoker
  55. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince~ J.K. Rowling
  56. The Amber Room~ Steve Berry
  57. The Stranger~ Albert Camus
  58. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows~ J.K. Rowling
  59. The Book Thief~ Markus Zusak
Nance08/08/2009

What do you think about Coraline? Is it fun? I have borrowed the book and I will read it very soon. I'm a huge fan of Alice and I'm a little bit scare that Coraline is a rip-off more than an inspiration.

cabby200308/08/2009

I read Coraline after sitting down and watching it with my kids. Since it's a novella it doesn't take long to read at all. It was a fun read on the darker side and much of what appears in Tim Burton's film is not in the book. I tried to not think of Alice as I read it though. It's hard to compare Alice to anything.

By the way, we are all excited to see Alice next year:)

Nance08/11/2009

Me too. I look the Alice trailer and it looks great (I love the rabbit at the end)! I've just finished CORAline and I like it. Not as much as Alice of course, but it was fun.

Nance08/08/2009

Is that your first time you read Harry Potter?

cabby200308/08/2009

This is my first time with Harry Potter. I decided that it was time to sit and read the books. In a few days I had the first three books down and then needed to take a break. My daughters and I rented the first three movies and made banana splits and sat and watched them. I am currently reading the 4th one and will continue until I am done with the series.

I have to say that they are actually pretty good.

Nance08/08/2009

I've read A Room With a View last month. I don't know if this is because I read it in french, but I tought this is "old", but I prefer the movies for that case.

cabby200308/08/2009

A Room With a View is actually the Forster book that I didn't like. The first book of his I read was A Passage to India and I liked that book so much that most of his other books I have read just can't compare.