Books Read in 2009
Submitted by PhantomSeptember on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 19:26
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- Coraline - Neil Gaiman 5/5
- White Fang - Jack London 5/5 (reread)
- Beowulf 5/5 (reread)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald 4/5 It was good, just not stunning.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 5/5 (reread)
- Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones 4/5 The ending was very abrupt.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 5/5
- Gothic Tales Tales by Elizabeth Glaskell including: "Disappearances," "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Squire's Story," "The Poor Clare," "The Dooms of the Griffiths," "Louis the Witch," "The Crooked Branch," "Curious if True" and "The Grey Woman." - 5/5
- True Irish Ghost Stories - St. John D. Seymour & Harry L. Neligan 4/5
- Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 5/5 (reread)
- Iron Angel - Alan Campbell 4/5
- Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson 3/5 Very annoying protagonist
- The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Grendel - John Gardner 4/5
- Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami 4/5
- The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Kim - Rudyard Kipling 5/5
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman 5/5
- Stardust - Neil Gaiman 3.5/5
- Folk Stories of the Hmong - Dia Cha 5/5
- The Deed of Paksenarrion Trilogy - Elizabeth Moon 5/5
- The Shack - W.M. Young 5/5
- The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel 5/5
- White Oleander - Janet Fitch 3/5 eh.
- Uncle Silas - J.S. LeFanu 4/5
- Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher 4/5
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk 5/5
- Academ's Fury - Jim Butcher 4/5
- Cursor's Fury - Jim Butcher 4/5
- Captain's Fury - Jim Butcher 4/5
- Dark Wars - Hideyuki Kikuchi 4/5
- Princep's Fury - Jim Butcher 4/5
- Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Mort - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Eric - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Sourcery - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Pyramids - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Soul Music - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke 4/5
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 5/5 (reread)
- The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie 4/5
- The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker 4/5
- Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice 3.5/5 A bit of a chore to get through at times
- The Princess and the Dragon - Roberto Pazzi 3/5 More like a hallucination than a story and not much plot
- Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman 4/5
- The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 5/5 (reread)
- Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett 5/5
- Mort - Terry Pratchett 5/5 (reread)
- Krabat (Deutsch) - Ottfried Preussler 5/5
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman 3/5 My least favourite of his works unfortunately
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 5/5 (reread)
- Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett 4/5 Not quite as good as some of his other books
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 5/5 (reread)
- Vampire Hunter D: Twin-Shadowed Knight - Hideyuki Kikuchi 4/5 could have been better
- Dracula - Bram Stoker 5/5 (reread)
- The Wolf-Leader - Alexandre Dumas 5/5
- Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane 3/5 The ending ruined the whole thing, negating everything that happened in the rest of the story
The books are split into groups of ten so it's easier to read. I discovered the author Terry Pratchett this year so it's a little crowded with his works.