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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, Author Theme Reads, Barbara Pym Fan Club, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Bloomsbury Group and their friends, Book Nudgers, Canadian Bookworms, Club Read 2009, Folio Society devotees — show all groups , New York Review Books, New Zealand Thingamabrarians, Project 1929, Pynchon Pandæmonium, The Prizes, The Red Room

Favorite authorsJane Austen, J. M. Coetzee, Richard Dawkins, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Susan Sontag, Rose Tremain, William Trevor, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

About meThe picture - taken on a trip to the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

My 2009 reading list is discussed HERE on my 75 book challenge thread

Here is my month to month 2009 reading so far:

November:
136. A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
135. My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell
134. The Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
133. A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel
132. The Twins by Tessa de Loos

October:

131. Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
130. A Bed in Heaven by Tessa de Loo
129. The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands
128. John Hedgecoe's New Introductory Photography Course by John Hedgecoe
127. Portraits in Fiction by A.S. Byatt
126. The Giant O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
125. Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
124. On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
123. An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

September:

122. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
121. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
120. Stitches by David Small
119. Life Class by Pat Barker
118. The Glister by John Burnside
117. The Sixties by Jenny Diski
116. Fiasco by Thomas Ricks
115. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
114. Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy
113. Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski

AUGUST:

112. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
111. Swimming with my Father by Tim Jeal
110. The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
109. The Beacon by Susan Hill
108. Stet by Diana Athill
107. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
106. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
105. The Fall by Simon Mawer

JULY:

104. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
103. My Left Foot by Christy Brown
102. Journey to Nowhere by Eva Figes
101. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599: by James Shapiro
100. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
99. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
98. Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs
97. The Goshawk by T.H. White
96. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
95. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
94. In The Dark by Deborah Moggach
93. No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West
92. The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
91. Dracula by Bram Stoker
90. Old Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac

JUNE:

89. Incendiary by Chris Cleave
88. 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert
87. 'Household Guide to Dying' by Adelaide
86. 'The Lost City of Z' by David Grann
85. 'We Were the Mulvaneys' by Joyce Carol Oates
84. "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre

MAY:

83. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
82. A Lucky Child - A Memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy by Thomas Buergenthal
81. Dictation by Cynthia Ozick
80. The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
79. The Visit of the Royal Physician by Per Olov Enquist
78. A Universal History of Infamy /Historia universal de la infamia
by Jorge Luis Borges
77. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
76. The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
75. The Believers by Zoe Heller
74. The Radetzky March by Jospeh Roth
73 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F.Scott Fitzgerald
72. The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard
71. A Mountain Year by Chris Czajkowski

APRIL:

69. Women by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag
68. The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes
67. The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
66. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
65. Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz
64. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
63. Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
62. Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
61. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
60. Flush - A Biography by Virginia Woolf
59. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
58. The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
57. The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
56. Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun

MARCH

55. Intuition by Allegra Goodman
54. 1434 by Gavin Menzies
53. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
52.Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
51. Why I Write by George Orwell
50. Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
49. The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
48. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
47. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
46. A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
45. Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
44. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
43. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
42. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
41. The Great Crash by John Galbraith
40. The Blue Fox by Sjon
39. The Spare Room by Helen Garner
38. This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

February

37. Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
36. Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Aboet
35. A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
34. Tokyo Fiancee by Amelie Nothomb
33. The Magician's Book by Linda Miller
32. The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
31. Blindness by Jose Saramago
30. Balshan and I by Thomas Mann
29. Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill
28. Stories and Legends by Stefan Zweig
27. A Sun For The Dying by Jean-Claude Izzo
26. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
25. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
24. Poor People by Fyodor Dostovesky
23. Lewis Carroll in Numberland by Robin Moore
22. Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine by Olive Moore
21. Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

January

20. The Arrival by Shaun Tan
19. Sorry by Gail Jones
18. The People on Privilege Hill by Kate Gardam
17. Kate's Klassics by Kate Camp
16. The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
15. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
14. The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig
13. A Romance on Three Legs by Katie Hafner
12. Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal
11. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduard Agualusa
10. The Grass Arena by john Healy
09. Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
08. Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma
07. The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
06. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
05. Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
04. The Boarding House by William Trevor
03. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
02. The Double by Dosteyovsky
01. The Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

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