Books read in 2009

Submitted by Slinkyboy on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 06:01
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  1. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
  2. Vengeance is Mine - Mickey Spillane
  3. This Gun For Hire - Graham Greene
  4. Black Wings Has My Angel - Elliot Chaze
  5. Way Station - Clifford D. Simak - Hugo Award winner 1964
  6. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester - Hugo Award winner 1953
  7. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  8. The Drowning Pool - Ross MacDonald
  9. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
  10. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
  11. The Zebra-Striped Hearse - Ross MacDonald
  12. The Doomsters - Ross MacDonald
  13. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
  14. The Chill - Ross MacDonald
  15. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  16. Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
  17. Jennifer Government - Max Barry
  18. Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming
  19. The Far Side of the Dollar - Ross MacDonald - Gold Dagger Award Winner 1965
  20. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - Hugo and Nebula Award Winner 1976
  21. The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke - Hugo and Nebula Award Winner 1980
  22. Flush - Carl Hiaasen
  23. Black Money - Ross MacDonald
  24. Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
  25. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
  26. Cradle of Saturn - James P. Hogan
  27. The Sky Inside - Clare B. Dunkle
  28. Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre - Hugo and Nebula Award Winner 1979
  29. The Anguished Dawn - James P. Hogan
  30. Nova - Samuel R. Delany
  31. Barbary - Vonda N. McIntyre
  32. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx - National Book Award 1993 and Pulitzer Prize 1994
  33. The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
  34. The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold - Hugo Award Winner 1991
  35. The Galton Case - Ross MacDonald
  36. Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
  37. The Instant Enemy - Ross MacDonald
  38. Deadlock - Sara Paretsky
  39. Neuromancer - William Gibson - Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award Winner 1985
  40. The Last Camel Died at Noon - Elizabeth Peters
  41. To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer - Hugo Award Winner 1972
  42. Orchid Beach - Stuart Woods
  43. The Atlantic Abomination - John Brunner
  44. Dirt - Stuart Woods
  45. Hominids - Robert J. Sawyer - Hugo Award Winner 2003
  46. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
  47. Men of the Deep Waters - William Hope Hodgson
  48. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
  49. Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs
  50. Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
  51. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
  52. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
  53. Billy Budd, Sailor - Herman Melville
  54. Silas Marner - George Eliot
  55. My Gun is Quick - Mickey Spillane
  56. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
  57. Replay - Ken Grimwood - World Fantasy Award Winner 1988
  58. One Lonely Night - Mickey Spillane
  59. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  60. The Quantum Connection - Travis S. Taylor
  61. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  62. The Dig - Alan Dean Foster
  63. The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov - Hugo and Nebula Award Winner 1973
  64. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  65. The Lunatic Cafe - Laurell K. Hamilton
  66. Bloody Bones - Laurell K. Hamilton
  67. The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton
  68. The Umbrella Conspiracy - S. D. Perry
  69. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  70. Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
  71. One Foot in the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
  72. The Sea - John Banville - Booker Prize Winner 2005
  73. At Grave's End - Jeaniene Frost
  74. The Third Man - Graham Greene
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Listed in the order I finished them, as I'm usually reading 2 or 3 books at a time.

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Books read in 2008
sidrah05/17/2009

Have had proulx's shipping news lying around for years! need to get on to it.

Slinkyboy05/18/2009

Ha! Glad to know I'm not the only one who keeps books around for years before reading them.

Definitely give The Shipping News a chance. It's... different. They style took me a little while to get use to, but somewhere along the way I went from not being sure I really wanted to read it, to thinking of these characters as friends and family. It sneaks up on you.

Nance06/12/2009

You're definitely not the only one. I have a huge piles everywhere in my house. Some will propably turn into dust, like My Life by Bill Clinton that I buy for (me?) my mother and Blade Runner... The Stranger... The Illiad... The Trial... Tons of books! Some I try to read without success (yet!).

For The Shipping News I've only see the movie yet, the book interesting me since I like her collection of short stories Close Range. And, Casino Royale comparing to the movie is it good? old?

Slinkyboy06/15/2009

I enjoyed Casino Royale, although it does seem pretty dated after seeing how the story was updated for the film. I like the ending in the book better though, but that's all I'm going to say about it. I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

Is The Shipping News movie any good? I'm a little interested in it now that I've read the book, but most of the people I know who saw it didn't like it much?

Nance06/15/2009

The Shipping News, well... I don't know. The actors are good, some funny lines, great scenes, beautiful landscapes, but in general it's lack of something. I saw the movie on television very late in the night and I almost sleep on it.

Edit: I miss the reply button, sorry to start another thread, this is because of the changes of the site, I'm not really accustomed.