2009
Third year in a row.
This year, at a suggestion from ivyhamwitch, I'm going to try and read some more foreign (most probably translated) books. These will be denoted with a * until I find a more interesting symbol for them. Non-fiction is denoted with NF.
Format: date started - date finished - author - title
01.01.09 - 01.01.09 - Gemma Malley - The Resistance
01.01.09 - 01.01.09 - James Corden & Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey: From Barry to Billericay
08.01.09 - 10.01.09 - Susan Perabo - Explaining Death to the Dog
11.01.09 - 11.01.09 - Sally Nicholls - Ways to Live Forever
11.01.09 - 17.01.09 - Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to A Widower
16.01.09 - 25.01.09 - Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson - Tart Noir
17.01.09 - 18.01.09 - Graham Joyce - The Tooth Fairy
18.01.09 - 23.01.09 - Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friend's Girl
23.01.09 - 24.01.09 - Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen*
25.01.09 - 14.02.09 - G.W. Dahlquist - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
28.01.09 - 06.02.09 - 'Inspector Gadget' - Perverting the Course of Justice NF
29.01.09 - 31.01.09 - Debra Dean - Confessions of A Falling Woman
03.02.09 - 01.04.09 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
14.02.09 - 15.02.09 - Dean Koontz - Your Heart Belongs to Me
15.02.09 - 17.02.09 - David Foenkinos - The Erotic Potential of My Wife*
18.02.09 - 22.02.09 - John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
22.02.09 - 23.02.09 - Sarah Langan - Virus
23.02.09 - 28.02.09 - Lee Henshaw - Queer Fish In God's Waiting Room
28.02.09 - 02.02.09 - Julian Clary - Murder Most Fab
02.02.09 - 05.03.09 - Kay Stockham - Man With A Past
05.03.09 - 08.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Hunter
08.03.09 - 10.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Chase
10.03.09 - 11.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Kill
12.03.09 - 13.03.09 - William Wall - Minding Children
13.03.09 - 15.03.09 - A.C. Baantjer - DeKok and the Dead Lovers*
15.03.09 - 19.03.09 - Ken Bruen - Rilke on Black
19.03.09 - 28.03.09 - Emer McCourt - Elvis, Jesus and Me
28.03.09 - 28.03.09 - Betty G. Birney - The World According to Humphrey
28.03.09 - 13.04.09 - Laura Hird - Hope and Other Urban Tales
29.03.09 - 06.04.09 - Lincoln Child - Utopia
06.04.09 - 27.04.09 - J.R.R. Tolkien - Roverandom
10.04.09 - 12.04.09 - Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström - The Vault*
13.04.09 - 23.04.09 - David & Leigh Eddings - Regina's Song
23.04.09 - 26.04.09 - William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
26.04.09 - 30.04.09 - Kit Frazier - Scoop
30.04.09 - 02.05.09 - Richard Bachman - Blaze
02.05.09 - 04.05.09 - Adrian Gold - Memories to Die For
04.05.09 - 17.05.09 - Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
17.05.09 - 21.05.09 - John Barrowman - Anything Goes NF
21.05.09 - 22.05.09 - Carys Davies - Some New Ambush
22.05.09 - 23.05.09 - Miss S - Confessions of A Working Girl NF
24.05.09 - 03.07.09 - Tony Richards - Going Back
24.05.09 - 26.05.09 - Carol Smith - Fatal Attraction
27.05.09 - 28.05.09 - John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
29.05.09 - 01.06.09 - Katherine John - Midnight Murders
02.06.09 - 07.06.09 - Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
08.06.09 - 12.06.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Real World*
09.06.09 - 19.06.09 - Barbara Baker (ed.) - The Way We Write NF
12.06.09 - 21.06.09 - Thea Wolff - The Honey Trap
21.06.09 - 28.06.09 - Stephen King - From A Buick 8
28.06.09 - 02.07.09 - A.C. Baantjer - DeKok and Murder By Installment*
03.07.09 - 05.07.09 - Eleanor Updale - Montmorency
05.07.09 - 10.07.09 - Christopher Ransom - The Birthing House
08.07.09 - 15.07.09 - Ailsa Cox - Writing Short Stories NF
10.07.09 - 10.07.09 - Hitomi Kanehara - Snakes & Earrings*
11.07.09 - 16.09.09 - Will Self - Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe
17.07.09 - 23.07.09 - Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
23.07.09 - 26.07.09 - Colin Bateman - Mystery Man
27.07.09 - 27.07.09 - Ben Elton - Blind Faith
28.07.09 - 04.08.09 - Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle
04.08.09 - 10.08.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque*
10.08.09 - 12.08.09 - Stephen King - The Langoliers
12.08.09 - 17.08.09 - Caryl Phillips - Dancing In the Dark
17.08.09 - 20.08.09 - Damien Broderick - Transcension
21.08.09 - 23.08.09 - Stephen King - The Dark Half
24.08.09 - 04.09.09 - Ian Rankin - The Falls
05.09.09 - 06.09.09 - Anne Ramsay - Girl In Blue NF
06.09.09 - 19.12.10 - Stephen King - Just After Sunset
06.09.09 - 14.09.09 - Paul O'Grady - At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints NF
14.09.09 - 23.09.09 - Stephen King - The Tommyknockers
24.09.09 - 24.09.09 - Joanna Nadin - Wonderland
24.09.09 - 26.09.09 - Ryu Murakami - In the Miso Soup*
26.09.09 - 05.10.09 - Jeremy Clarkson - For Crying Out Loud! NF
27.09.09 - 02.10.09 - Lilith Saintcrow - Hunter's Prayer
04.10.09 - 11.10.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Out*
11.10.09 - 14.10.09 - Eleanor Updale - Monmorency on the Rocks
14.10.09 - 17.10.09 - Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals
17.10.09 - 21.10.09 - Christopher Brookmyre - A Tale Etched In Blood and Hard Black Pencil
21.10.09 - 23.10.09 - Eleanor Updale - Montmorency and the Assassins
23.10.09 - 27.10.09 - Stephen King - On Writing NF
29.10.09 - 01.11.09 - Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
01.11.09 - 02.11.09 - Jo & Alice Kingsley - Alice in the Looking Glass NF
03.11.09 - 03.11.09 - Neil Gaiman - Coraline
04.11.09 - 05.11.09 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
07.11.09 - 09.11.09 - Jon Blake - The Last Free Cat
10.11.09 - 14.11.09 - Minette Walters - Acid Row
11.11.09 - 20.11.09 - Philip Oltermann (ed.) - How to Write NF
14.11.09 - 17.11.09 - Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day NF
17.11.09 - 27.11.09 - Rick Mofina - Six Seconds
27.11.09 - 03.12.09 - Ben Elton - Meltdown
03.12.09 - 07.12.09 - Alice Jamieson - Today I'm Alice NF
07.12.09 - 08.12.09 - Stephen King - The Things They Left Behind
08.12.09 - 12.12.09 - Gregory Maguire - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
12.12.09 - 14.12.09 - Lili St. Crow - Strange Angels
15.12.09 - 16.12.09 - Yasutaka Tsutsui - Hell*
16.12.09 - 19.12.09 - Nicola Morgan - Deathwatch
20.12.09 - 24.12.09 - Hitomi Kanehara - Autofiction*
24.12.09 - 13.01.10 - Stephen King - Under the Dome
This year, at a suggestion from ivyhamwitch, I'm going to try and read some more foreign (most probably translated) books. These will be denoted with a * until I find a more interesting symbol for them. Non-fiction is denoted with NF.
Format: date started - date finished - author - title
01.01.09 - 01.01.09 - Gemma Malley - The Resistance
01.01.09 - 01.01.09 - James Corden & Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey: From Barry to Billericay
08.01.09 - 10.01.09 - Susan Perabo - Explaining Death to the Dog
11.01.09 - 11.01.09 - Sally Nicholls - Ways to Live Forever
11.01.09 - 17.01.09 - Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to A Widower
16.01.09 - 25.01.09 - Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson - Tart Noir
17.01.09 - 18.01.09 - Graham Joyce - The Tooth Fairy
18.01.09 - 23.01.09 - Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friend's Girl
23.01.09 - 24.01.09 - Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen*
25.01.09 - 14.02.09 - G.W. Dahlquist - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
28.01.09 - 06.02.09 - 'Inspector Gadget' - Perverting the Course of Justice NF
29.01.09 - 31.01.09 - Debra Dean - Confessions of A Falling Woman
03.02.09 - 01.04.09 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
14.02.09 - 15.02.09 - Dean Koontz - Your Heart Belongs to Me
15.02.09 - 17.02.09 - David Foenkinos - The Erotic Potential of My Wife*
18.02.09 - 22.02.09 - John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
22.02.09 - 23.02.09 - Sarah Langan - Virus
23.02.09 - 28.02.09 - Lee Henshaw - Queer Fish In God's Waiting Room
28.02.09 - 02.02.09 - Julian Clary - Murder Most Fab
02.02.09 - 05.03.09 - Kay Stockham - Man With A Past
05.03.09 - 08.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Hunter
08.03.09 - 10.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Chase
10.03.09 - 11.03.09 - L.J. Smith - The Forbidden Game: The Kill
12.03.09 - 13.03.09 - William Wall - Minding Children
13.03.09 - 15.03.09 - A.C. Baantjer - DeKok and the Dead Lovers*
15.03.09 - 19.03.09 - Ken Bruen - Rilke on Black
19.03.09 - 28.03.09 - Emer McCourt - Elvis, Jesus and Me
28.03.09 - 28.03.09 - Betty G. Birney - The World According to Humphrey
28.03.09 - 13.04.09 - Laura Hird - Hope and Other Urban Tales
29.03.09 - 06.04.09 - Lincoln Child - Utopia
06.04.09 - 27.04.09 - J.R.R. Tolkien - Roverandom
10.04.09 - 12.04.09 - Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström - The Vault*
13.04.09 - 23.04.09 - David & Leigh Eddings - Regina's Song
23.04.09 - 26.04.09 - William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
26.04.09 - 30.04.09 - Kit Frazier - Scoop
30.04.09 - 02.05.09 - Richard Bachman - Blaze
02.05.09 - 04.05.09 - Adrian Gold - Memories to Die For
04.05.09 - 17.05.09 - Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
17.05.09 - 21.05.09 - John Barrowman - Anything Goes NF
21.05.09 - 22.05.09 - Carys Davies - Some New Ambush
22.05.09 - 23.05.09 - Miss S - Confessions of A Working Girl NF
24.05.09 - 03.07.09 - Tony Richards - Going Back
24.05.09 - 26.05.09 - Carol Smith - Fatal Attraction
27.05.09 - 28.05.09 - John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
29.05.09 - 01.06.09 - Katherine John - Midnight Murders
02.06.09 - 07.06.09 - Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
08.06.09 - 12.06.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Real World*
09.06.09 - 19.06.09 - Barbara Baker (ed.) - The Way We Write NF
12.06.09 - 21.06.09 - Thea Wolff - The Honey Trap
21.06.09 - 28.06.09 - Stephen King - From A Buick 8
28.06.09 - 02.07.09 - A.C. Baantjer - DeKok and Murder By Installment*
03.07.09 - 05.07.09 - Eleanor Updale - Montmorency
05.07.09 - 10.07.09 - Christopher Ransom - The Birthing House
08.07.09 - 15.07.09 - Ailsa Cox - Writing Short Stories NF
10.07.09 - 10.07.09 - Hitomi Kanehara - Snakes & Earrings*
11.07.09 - 16.09.09 - Will Self - Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe
17.07.09 - 23.07.09 - Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
23.07.09 - 26.07.09 - Colin Bateman - Mystery Man
27.07.09 - 27.07.09 - Ben Elton - Blind Faith
28.07.09 - 04.08.09 - Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle
04.08.09 - 10.08.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque*
10.08.09 - 12.08.09 - Stephen King - The Langoliers
12.08.09 - 17.08.09 - Caryl Phillips - Dancing In the Dark
17.08.09 - 20.08.09 - Damien Broderick - Transcension
21.08.09 - 23.08.09 - Stephen King - The Dark Half
24.08.09 - 04.09.09 - Ian Rankin - The Falls
05.09.09 - 06.09.09 - Anne Ramsay - Girl In Blue NF
06.09.09 - 19.12.10 - Stephen King - Just After Sunset
06.09.09 - 14.09.09 - Paul O'Grady - At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints NF
14.09.09 - 23.09.09 - Stephen King - The Tommyknockers
24.09.09 - 24.09.09 - Joanna Nadin - Wonderland
24.09.09 - 26.09.09 - Ryu Murakami - In the Miso Soup*
26.09.09 - 05.10.09 - Jeremy Clarkson - For Crying Out Loud! NF
27.09.09 - 02.10.09 - Lilith Saintcrow - Hunter's Prayer
04.10.09 - 11.10.09 - Natsuo Kirino - Out*
11.10.09 - 14.10.09 - Eleanor Updale - Monmorency on the Rocks
14.10.09 - 17.10.09 - Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals
17.10.09 - 21.10.09 - Christopher Brookmyre - A Tale Etched In Blood and Hard Black Pencil
21.10.09 - 23.10.09 - Eleanor Updale - Montmorency and the Assassins
23.10.09 - 27.10.09 - Stephen King - On Writing NF
29.10.09 - 01.11.09 - Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
01.11.09 - 02.11.09 - Jo & Alice Kingsley - Alice in the Looking Glass NF
03.11.09 - 03.11.09 - Neil Gaiman - Coraline
04.11.09 - 05.11.09 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
07.11.09 - 09.11.09 - Jon Blake - The Last Free Cat
10.11.09 - 14.11.09 - Minette Walters - Acid Row
11.11.09 - 20.11.09 - Philip Oltermann (ed.) - How to Write NF
14.11.09 - 17.11.09 - Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day NF
17.11.09 - 27.11.09 - Rick Mofina - Six Seconds
27.11.09 - 03.12.09 - Ben Elton - Meltdown
03.12.09 - 07.12.09 - Alice Jamieson - Today I'm Alice NF
07.12.09 - 08.12.09 - Stephen King - The Things They Left Behind
08.12.09 - 12.12.09 - Gregory Maguire - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
12.12.09 - 14.12.09 - Lili St. Crow - Strange Angels
15.12.09 - 16.12.09 - Yasutaka Tsutsui - Hell*
16.12.09 - 19.12.09 - Nicola Morgan - Deathwatch
20.12.09 - 24.12.09 - Hitomi Kanehara - Autofiction*
24.12.09 - 13.01.10 - Stephen King - Under the Dome