Books Read 2009

Submitted by thewordygecko on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 21:26
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  1. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
  2. Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
  3. The Lost Mother: a story of art and love by Anne Summers
  4. Goldengrove by Francine Prose
  5. Positive: finding life in the midst of cancer by Sally Collings
  6. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  7. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
  8. The China Garden by Kristina Olsson
  9. The Day I Killed My Father by Mario Sabino
  10. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
  11. An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay
  12. Song for Night by Chris Abani
  13. The Two Kinds of Decay: a memoir by Sarah Manguso
  14. Death Benefits: how losing a parent can change an adult's life by Jeanne Safer
  15. The Weight of Silence: a memoir by Catherine Therese
  16. Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
  17. Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
  18. Solo by Rana Dasgupta
  19. Quarterly Essay 32: American Revolution by Kate Jennings
  20. A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine by Patricia Pearson
  21. The Only True Genius in the Family by Jennie Nash
  22. The Dangerous Joy of Dr Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy
  23. The Diamond Anchor by Jennifer Mills
  24. The Bean Patch by Shirley Painter
  25. Trick or Treatment: the undeniable facts about alternative medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
  26. The Master by Colm Toibin
  27. Inside Out: an autobiography by Robert Adamson
  28. Seven Seasons in Aurukun by Paula Shaw
  29. American Journeys by Don Watson
  30. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the faith in troubled times by Studs Terkel
  31. The Situation and the story: the art of personal narrative by Vivian Gornick
  32. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
  33. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  34. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
  35. Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer by Richard Holmes
  36. Experience by Martin Amis
  37. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
  38. Affection by Krissy Kneen
  39. Learning How to Breathe by Linda Neil
  40. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
  41. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
  42. The Lost Child by Julie Myerson (twice)
  43. The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  44. Reading, Writing and Leaving Home by Lynne Freed
  45. The Courage to Create by Rollo May
  46. Voices in Time: A life in stories by Eduardo Galeano
  47. Writing the Story of Your Life by Carmel Bird
  48. My Driver by Maggie Gee
  49. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  50. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
  51. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
  52. Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor
  53. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  54. The Primal Wound: Understanding the adopted child by Nancy Verrier
  55. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  56. Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the politics of modernism by Jonathan Flatley
  57. Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P R Stephenson by Craig Munro
  58. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
  59. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, cognition, fiction by Brian Boyd
  60. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
  61. Ravens by George Dawes Green
  62. Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
  63. The Spare Room by Helen Garner
  64. Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
  65. The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony by Hal Porter
  66. In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
  67. The Fog Garden by Marion Halligan
  68. Dear Anais: My life in poems for you by Diana Rabb
  69. The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds by Merry Weisner-Hanks
  70. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying by Wayson Choy
  71. Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer by Nancy Mairs
  72. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
  73. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint
  74. Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon
  75. Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
  76. Reading by Moonlight: How books saved a life by Brenda Walker
  77. Reading like a writer by Francine Prose
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