BookGirl's 2009 Reading

This is my work-around to Blogger's unfortunate inability to create separate "pages" (something Wordpress, for example, can do), so don't concern yourself with the date above. So I'm creating this list as a separate post and will link to it from an item on the sidebar of my blog's home page. I'll keep it up to date.

My 2009 Reading

• The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears
  
• The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
  
• The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp
  
• Painted Paper - Alisa Golden
  
• The World to Come - Dara Horn
  
• Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders - Lawrence Wechsler
  
• 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel - Jane Smiley
  
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
  
• People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
  
• A Flaw in the Blood - Stephanie Barron
  
• The Private Patient - P.D. James
  
• Fat Chance - Simon Gray
  
• Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman
  
• Tender is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The Dress Lodger - Shari Holman
  
• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
  
• The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
  
• Fearless Creating - Eric Maisel
  
• Softspoken - Lucius Shepard
  
• The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday - Alexander McCall Smith
  
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
  
• Jim the Boy - Tony Earley
  
• The Book Thief - Markus Zuzak
• Ask the Dust - John Fante
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

My 2008 Reading

• The Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver
  
• The Great Man - Kate Christensen
  
• The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
  
• Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
  
• When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
  
• Astrid & Veronika - Linda Olsson
  
• Print, Pattern & Colour - Ruth Issett
  
• Art & Fear - Bayles and Orland
  
• Three Junes - Julia Glass
  
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
  
• Away - Amy Bloom
  
• The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
  
• Author, Author - David Lodge
  
• Valentines - Ted Kooser
  
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  
• About Alice - Calvin Trillin
• The Accidental Masterpiece - Michael Kimmelman
  
• The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald
  
• The Writing Diet - Julia Cameron
  
• We Are Now Beginning our Descent - James Meek
  
• Shakespeare: The Word as a Stage - Bill Bryson
  
• The Girl of His Dreams - Donna Leon
  
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  
• The Chessmen of Doom - John Bellairs
• Maps & Legends - Michael Chabon
  
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  
• A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
  
• Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
  
• The Archivist - Martha Cooley
  
• Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  
• Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
• Altered Books Workshop - Bev Brazelton
  
• Twilight - William Gay
  
• What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
• The Film Club - David Gilmour
  
• The Society of S: A Novel - Susan Hubbard
  
• The Haunting of Lamb House - Joan Aiken
  
• The Mature Master - Sheldon Novick
  
• The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
  
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  
• Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
  
• 'Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
  
• Daisy Miller - Henry James
  
• The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
  
• One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
  
• The Aspern Papers - Henry James
  
• The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
• Tourist Season - Enid Shomer
  
• What Maisie Knew - Henry James
  
• The Garden of Iden - Kage Baker
  
• The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
  
• Washington Square - Henry James
  
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
  
• The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
  
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt
  
• Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
  
• Trespass - Valerie Martin
  
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
  
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
  

My 2007 Reading

• Photographing Arts, Crafts and Collectibles - Steve Meltzer
  
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  
• The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
  
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Ann Bronte
  
• The Brontes at Haworth - Ann Dinsdale
  
• The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell
  
• Howard's End - E.M. Forster
  
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  
• The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
• The Tattoo Artist - Jill Ciment
  
• Dead Clever - Scarlett Thomas
  
• The Ballad of Frankie Silver - Sharon McCrumb
• Lions and Liquorice - Kate Fenton
  
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
• Angelica - Arthur Phillips
  
• Homeland and Other Stories - Barbara Kingsolver
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott
• Digital Art Studio - Karin Schminke, et al.
• In Case We're Separated - Alice Mattison
• The Forest Lover - Susan Vreeland
• Truth and Beauty - Ann Patchett
• How to Read a Novel - John Sutherland
• The Orchid Shroud - Michelle Wan
• The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
• Same Sweet Girls - Cassandra King
• The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
• The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler
• Cry Me a River - T.R. Pearson
• Have Mercy on Us All - Fred Vargas
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - Z.Z. Packer
• Polio: An American Story - David Oshinsky
• Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
• Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
• The Death of Ivan Illych - Leo Tolstoy
• London: A History - A.N. Wilson
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Princess - Dai Sijie
• Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert - Roger Ebert
• Blue Arabesque - Patricia Hampl
• The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
• My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
• The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Mystery Guest - Gregoire Bouillier
• All is Vanity - Christina Schwarz
• Prague - Arthur Phillips
• Creative Collage Techniques - Nita Leland/ Virginia Williams
• Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
• Collage Techniques - Gerald Brommer
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Blechdel
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
• Lady Into Fox - David Garnett
• The Keep - Jennifer Egan