Books Read 2009

  1. Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male.
  2. Nathanael West. Miss Lonelyhearts.
  3. Susan Sontag. Reborn: Early Diaries 1947–1964.
  4. Mark Cocker. A Tiger in the Sand: Selected Writings on Nature.
  5. Alberto Manguel. The City of Words.
  6. James Lasdun. The Horned Man.
  7. Haruki Murakami. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
  8. Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts.
  9. Roberto Bolaño. The Savage Detectives.
  10. Rob Riemen. Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal.
  11. Halldór Laxness. The Islander.
  12. Rainer Maria Rilke. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
  13. Francine Prose. Reading Like a Writer.
  14. Vladimir Nabokov. Speak, Memory.
  15. James Wood. How Fiction Works.
  16. Gabriel Zaid. So Many Books.
  17. Vladimir Nabokov. Strong Opinions.
  18. H. L. Jackson. Marginalia.
  19. Peter Adolphsen. Machine.
  20. William H. Gass. A Temple of Texts.
  21. Plato. Apology.
  22. J. G. Ballard. Miracles of Life.
  23. James Salter. Light Years.
  24. Geoff Dyer. Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.
  25. Samuel Beckett. Murphy.
  26. Jonathan Culler. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.
  27. Robert Twigger. Lost Oasis.
  28. Sara Maitland. A Book of Silence.
  29. Denis Donoghue. On Eloquence.
  30. Dante. The Divine Comedy 1: Inferno.
  31. Michael Booth. Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking.
  32. Michael Dirda. Book by Book.
  33. André Gorz. Letter to D: A Love Story.
  34. Thomas Mann. The Magic Mountain.
  35. *Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea.
  36. William H. Gass. Finding a Form.
  37. Aleksandar Hemon. Love and Obstacles.
  38. David Rieff. Swimming in a Sea of Death.
  39. Vladimir Nabokov. Pale Fire.
  40. Christopher Butler. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction.
  41. Carlos Fuentes. Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone.
  42. J. G. Ballard. The Kindness of Women.
  43. Julien Gracq. Reading Writing.
  44. Geoff Dyer. The Colour of Memory.
  45. Geoff Dyer. But Beautiful.
  46. W. G. Sebald. Austerlitz.
  47. Geoff Dyer. Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence.
  48. Merlin Coverley. Psychogeography.
  49. Geoff Dyer. Anglo-English Attitudes.
  50. John Berger. Here Is Where We Meet.
  51. John Mullan. How Novels Work.
  52. Lucy Wadham. The Secret Life of France.
  53. Theodore Dalrymple. Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses.
  54. Samuel Beckett. Watt.
  55. Ezra Pound. ABC of Reading.
  56. Damon Young. Distraction: A Philosopher’s Guide to Being Free.
  57. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
  58. John Berger. Photocopies.
  59. Anne Carson. The Glass Essay.
  60. Ben Goldacre. Bad Science.
  61. Simon Critchley. The Book of Dead Philosophers.
  62. Rick Gekoski. Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir.
  63. Susan Sontag. Where the Stress Falls.
  64. Harold Bloom. The Art of Reading Poetry.
  65. R. V. Hallberg. Lyric Powers.
  66. Geoffrey O’Brien. The Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading.
  67. Susan Hill. Howards End Is on the Landing.
  68. Jane Austen. Emma.
  69. Nicholas A. Basbanes. Among the Gently Mad.
  70. Thomas Mann. Death in Venice.
  71. Cyril Connolly. Enemies of Promise. [Parts 1 and 2]
  72. Helen Garner. The Spare Room.
  73. Gabriel Josipovici. After & Making Mistakes.
  74. Ian C. Ellis. Book Finds.
  75. Maggie Nelson. Bluets.
  76. Literary Conversations series with Julian Barnes.

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