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Lisa's 75 Books Challenge 2009

75 Books Challenge for 2009

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1anzlitlovers
Edited: Dec 28, 2009, 7:15pm

I don't plan my reading much. I'll be reading the books for my bookgroup http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/anzll-schedule-2009/, dipping into the other challenges I belong to http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/challenges/ and selecting other books from my TBR at whim.

My reviews of these books can be found on my blog http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/ - use the drop-down categories box to find an author or a title by initial.

January:
1. I am Melba by Ann Blainey
2. the Devil's Advocate by Morris West
3. The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
4. The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro
5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
6. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

February:
7. Resistance, Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert
8. Shroud by John Banville
9. The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey
10. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
11. Trespass by Valerie Martin
12. The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
13. All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
14. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
15. Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan

March:
16. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
17. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
18. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
19. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
20. An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose
21. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
22. Song for Night by Chris Abani

April
23. Flavours of Melbourne by Charmaine O'Brien
24. Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
25. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
26. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
27. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
28. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
29. Five Days in London by John Lukacs
30. The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
31. Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas
32. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
33. Breath by Tim Winton
34. Ice by Louis Nowra
35. The Pages by Murray Bail

May
36. Wanting by Richard Flanagan
37. The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
38. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
39. Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
40. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
41. The Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
42. Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
43. A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
44. The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
45. The Optimist by Andrew Miller
46. Voss by Patrick White
47. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer, MaryAnn
48. On Our Selection by Steele Rudd

June
49. Margaret Olley, Far from a Still Life by Stewart, Meg
50. Creme de la Phlegm, Unforgettable Australian Reviews by Angela Bennie
51. Belonging by Isabel Huggan
52. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
53. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
54. Stella Miles Franklin, A Biography by Jill Roe
55. Beloved by Toni Morrison

July
56. A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L'Engle
57. A Far Country by Daniel Mason
58. Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
59. Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
60. Fahrenheit 451 by James Bradley
61. One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
62. Amy's Children by Olga Masters
63. On Experience by David Malouf
64. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
65. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

August
66. Spadework by Timothy Findlay
67. The Rainy Season by Myfanwy Jones
68. Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
69. Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
70. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
71. In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
72. Document Z by Andrew Croome

September
73. Dancer by Colum NcCann
74. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
75. Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood

That's my 75 books, meeting the challange...let's see how many more I read before the end of the year.

76. An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
77. My Crowded Solitude by Jack mcLaren
78. The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
79. Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
80. Swimming by by Enza Gandolofo
81. The Blind Eye by Georgia Blain
82. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
83. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
84. Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy

October
85. Inland by Gerald Murnane
86. Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
87. Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
88. Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
89. Making It Up by Penelope Lively
90. Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
91. I Do Not Come to You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

November
92. The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
93. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
94. Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
95. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
96. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
97. A Very Rude Awakening by Peter Grose

December
98. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
99. Time Without Clocks by Joan Lindsay
100. After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
101. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
102. The Apple by Penelope Holt
103. Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
104. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
105. Tales of the Austral Tropics by Ernest Favenc
106. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
107. The Acolyte by Thea Astley

29.12.09 I'll probably also finish Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood by the end of the year. I won't finish Ulysses which I've been reading since June, a chapter a month (more or less) but I'm in no rush - I'm enjoying it too much!

I've also read some children's novels and listen to audio-books on my way to work but I'm not counting those for this challenge. IMO reading a book is a different experience to hearing it.

2drneutron
Jan 25, 2009, 9:42pm

Nice list! What did you think of The Devil's Advocate? I've had my eye on it, but it gets mixed reviews, so it never seems to bubble up on the ol' TBR pile.

3TadAD
Jan 26, 2009, 4:58am

I enjoyed The Devil's Advocate; it may have been my favorite of his books.

4anzlitlovers
Feb 7, 2009, 5:08pm

I was surprised actually. It was a book group nomination and I had doubts about it, but I enjoyed it. See my review http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/the-devils-advocate-by-morris-west-...

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