Reading List
Books I’ve read this year (2009):
January
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley
Memoirs of a Master Forger – William Heaney
The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
Shakspeare – Bill Bryson
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
February
Let The Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
March
Evernight – Claudia Gray
Proust and the Squid – Maryanne Wolf
Stargazer – Claudia Gray
April
Love Hina (Volumes 1 – 4) – Ken Akamatsu
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle – Manda Scott
The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
American Journeys – Don Watson
May
Orb Speculative Fiction: Issue #6 – Sarah Endacott (ed)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday
Bloodhound – Tamora Pierce
City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare
City of Glass – Cassandra Clare
The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8: Time of Your Life – Joss Whedon and Karl Moline
June
Midnighters: Touching Darkness – Scott Westerfeld
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Midnighters: Blue Noon – Scott Westerfeld
Foundling – D. M. Cornish
Lamplighter – D. M. Cornish
Blaze of Glory – Michael Pryor
Heart of Gold – Michael Pryor
Word of Honour – Michael Pryor
July
The Rise of the Iron Moon – Stephen Hunt
The Dragon Keeper – Robin Hobb
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore and David Lloyd
August
Vulture’s Gate – Kirsty Murray
Tallow – Karen Brooks
How To Ditch Your Fairy – Justine Larbalestier
Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway (re-read)
Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
The Parliament of Blood – Justin Richards
Bedlam: London and its Mad – Catharine Arnold
The Secret Ministry of Frost – Nick Lake
Strange Angels – Lili St. Crow
Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
September
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution – Robert Lacey
Odd and the Frost Giants – Neil Gaiman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
October
Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead
Frostbite – Richelle Mead
A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld
Shadow Kissed – Richelle Mead
Blood Promise – Richelle Mead
On the Edge: My Story – Richard Hammond
Rosemary and Rue – Seanan McGuire
The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian – Marina Lewycka
November
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
Gothic Sports (Volumes 1 – 3) - Anike Hage
Fruits Basket (Volumes 1 – 4) – Natsuki Takaya
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Unseen Academicals – Terry Pratchett
The Youngest Templar – Michael P. Spradlin
Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
Ink Exchange – Melissa Marr
Suite Scarlett – Maureen Johnson
