2009 Reading Log

  1. 1st to Die - Patterson 2/15
  2. 2nd Chance - Patterson
  3. 3rd Degree - Patterson 7/19
  4. 4th of July - Patterson 10/31
  5. The 5th Horseman - Patterson 11/17
  6. ABC Murders - Christie 5/20
  7. The Age of Innocence 11/15
  8. Beautiful Mind - Nasar 2/15
  9. Beloved - Morrison 5/1
  10. Beowulf (translator: Gumere)
  11. Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent Predators - Depue & Schindehette 2/19
  12. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol.1 - Burton, translator
  13. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol.2 - Burton, translator 8/25
  14. Brother Odd - Koontz 5/16
  15. Candide - Voltaire 6/30
  16. The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal - Braun 5/25
  17. The Cat Who Moved a Mountain - Braun 8/9
  18. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief - Braun 3/28
  19. The Cat Who Wasn't There - Braun 5/31
  20. Change We Can Believe In - Obama Campaign 4/18
  21. A Child's Garden of Verses - Stevenson 6/28
  22. Common Sense - Paine 6/22
  23. Daisy Miller - James 7/27
  24. Death in Holy Orders - James 4/7
  25. Desolation Island - O'Brian 7/14
  26. Don Quixote - Cervantes
  27. Dracula - Stoker 11/1
  28. The Dragon Hunters - Genesse 9/10
  29. Emma - Austen 6/1
  30. Ender in Exile - Card
  31. Ethan Frome - Wharton 6/16
  32. Forever Odd - Koontz
  33. The Fortune of War - O'Brian 9/1
  34. The Golden Cord - Genesse 4/17
  35. Gilead - Robinson
  36. H.M.S. Surprise - O'Brian 6/25
  37. Heart of Darkness – Conrad 7/6
  38. Howl's Moving Castle - Jones 6/26
  39. The Hungry Ocean - Greenlaw 4/23
  40. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - Grisham
  41. Into The Mirror: The Life Of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen - Schiller
  42. James and the Giant Peach - Dahl 8/20
  43. John Adams - McCullough 10/8
  44. The Joy Luck Club - Tan
  45. The Known World - Jones 6/20
  46. The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories - Kipling 8/12
  47. Master and Commander - O'Brian
  48. Mauritius Command - O'Brian 7/4
  49. Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
  50. Murder at Ford's Theater - Truman
  51. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Bierce 8/6
  52. Odd Hours - Koontz 6/17
  53. Odd Thomas - Koontz
  54. One More for the Road - Bradbury
  55. Post Captain - O'Brian 6/16
  56. The Private Patient - James
  57. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge 6/21
  58. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Coerr 6/21
  59. Sea of Wind - Ono 7/2
  60. The Silver Spoon (Forsyte Saga) - Galsworthy 7/27
  61. Silas Marner - Eliot 10/20
  62. Sister Carrie - Dreiser 1/22
  63. Spoon River Anthology - Masters 7/28
  64. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Stevenson 8/28
  65. The Surgeon's Mate - O'Brian 9/28
  66. Swan Song (Forsyte Saga) - Galsworthy 8/02
  67. Three Celtic Tales - Caldecott 6/25
  68. The Turn of the Screw - James 3/30
  69. U.S. History Cookbook - D'Amico 2/20
  70. Utopia - More
  71. Vanity Fair - Thackery 8/26
  72. Vast Spread of the Sea - Ono 7/23
  73. The War of the Worlds - Wells 6/28
  74. The White Monkey (Forsyte Saga) - Galsworthy 7/21
  75. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe -v.1 -8/30 , v.2 - 10/9, v.3 -11/03 , v.4 - , v.5 -
  76. Witness In Death - Robb
  77. Wuthering Heights - Bronte 6/08
Author Comments: 

A full list of my books is available at http://www.shelfari.com/dashnputer/ In most cases, I have the date of completion, but it is missing on some.

Which is your favorite this year so far?

Sadly, I've tried Don Quixote trillion times without success...

The only way I was able to get through Don Quixote was to listen to an audio e-book. My public library has a couple of services for e-audio books, so I didn't have to buy it. I'd never have made it through reading the book. Same for Emma by Jane Austen.

My favorite so far this year is The Golden Cord by Paul Genesse. I'm considering reading it again. Its part of a series and book 2 just came out. I rarely purchase books, but I purchased these. Highly recommended if you enjoy fantasy and young adult fiction.

Hum... I don't think Paul Genesse is available in french yet, but if the series will be popular, they probably will.

The books are published by Tor Books, in case that is something you can check on. It is published initally in hardback, if that means anything, too.