No |
Title |
Author |
Publication Year |
Rating |
1 |
Kafka on the Shore |
Haruki Murakami |
2002 |
3 |
2 |
Intimacy |
Hanif Kureishi |
1998 |
3 |
3 |
Escape |
Carolyn Jessop |
2007 |
4.5 |
4 |
The Tale of One Bad Rat |
Bryan Talbot |
1995 |
4 |
5 |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennett |
2007 |
4 |
6 |
The Book of Lost Things |
John Connolly |
2006 |
4 |
7 |
The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes & Nocturnes |
Neil Gaiman |
1988-1989 |
3.5 |
8 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
J.K. Rowling |
2005 |
5 |
9 |
Sugarbabe |
Holly Hill |
2007 |
4 |
10 |
The Complete Maus |
Art Spiegelman |
1986, 1991 |
5 |
11 |
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall |
Bill Willingham |
2006 |
4.5 |
12 |
The Graveyard Book |
Neil Gaiman |
2008 |
4 |
13 |
Snow Country |
Yasunari Kawabata |
1957 |
3 |
14 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
1982 |
4.5 |
15 |
Burnout |
Rebecca Donner |
2008 |
3.5 |
16 |
Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile |
Bill Willingham |
2002 |
4 |
17 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
2007 |
4 |
18 |
Clockwork Girl |
Sean O’Reilly, Kevin Hanna |
2008 |
3.5 |
19 |
The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
J.K. Rowling |
2008 |
4.5 |
20 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
J.K. Rowling |
2007 |
4.5 |
21 |
Ethel & Ernest |
Raymond Briggs |
1999 |
4 |
22 |
Outliers |
Malcolm Gladwell |
2008 |
4.5 |
23 |
Tales from Outer Suburbia |
Shaun Tan |
2008 |
5 |
24 |
Bone Vol 3: Eyes of the Storm |
Jeff Smith |
1997 |
4.5 |
25 |
Bone Vol 4: The Dragonslayer |
Jeff Smith |
1997 |
4 |
26 |
Bone Vol 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border |
Jeff Smith |
1998 |
5 |
27 |
Purple Hibiscus |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
2003 |
4.5 |
28 |
The Arrival |
Shaun Tan |
2006 |
5 |
29 |
Disgrace |
J. M. Coetzee |
1999 |
4.5 |
30 |
The Sandman Vol 2: The Doll’s House |
Neil Gaiman |
1989-1990 |
3.5 |
31 |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
1979 |
4.5 |
32 |
Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm |
Bill Willingham |
2003 |
4 |
33 |
Squeamish about Sushi |
Betty Reynolds |
2000 |
4.5 |
34 |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
2002 |
5 |
35 |
Burnt Shadows |
Kamila Shamsie |
2009 |
3 |
36 |
Snakes and Earrings |
Hitomi Kanehara |
2005 |
3 |
37 |
Kabuki: The Metamorphosis |
David Mack |
2001 |
4 |
38 |
Silk |
Alessandro Baricco |
1997 |
4 |
39 |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
Truman Capote |
1958 |
4 |
40 |
Strangers |
Taichi Yamada |
1987, 2004 |
2.5 |
41 |
A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
1843 |
3.5 |
42 |
Wicked |
Gregory Maguire |
1995 |
4 |
43 |
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
1897 |
3 |
44 |
American Born Chinese |
Gene Luen Yang |
2006 |
4 |
45 |
Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
1963 |
4 |
46 |
The Great Escape from City Zoo |
Tohby Riddle |
2007 |
4 |
47 |
Clueless in Tokyo |
Betty Reynolds |
1997 |
4.5 |
48 |
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler |
Italo Calvino |
1979, 1981 |
3.5 |
49 |
The Woman in White |
Wilkie Collins |
1859-1860 |
4.5 |
50 |
Bone Vol 6: Old Man’s Cave |
Jeff Smith |
1999 |
4 |
51 |
Bone Vol 7: Ghost Circles |
Jeff Smith |
2001 |
4 |
52 |
I Am a Cat (Volume One) |
Sōseki Natsume |
1905, 2002 |
4 |
53 |
Corduroy Mansions |
Alexander McCall Smith |
2008 |
4.5 |
54 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
2008 |
4 |
55 |
Bayou (Vol 1) |
Jeremy Love |
2009 |
4.5 |
56 |
Firmin |
Sam Savage |
2006 |
4 |
57 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
2005 |
4.5 |
3 replies on “Books Read 2009”
[…] I read 57 books and 10 short stories in 2009 (I just started to keep track of short stories a couple of months ago). A great accomplishment for me, as I read 39 books in 2008 and 20 books in 2007. I’m not sure if there would be a significant increase next year, because this feels to be my limit. I have spent most of my spare time reading and blogging. Anyway, quality over quantity I say! […]
[…] As you can probably see, I have lukewarm feelings toward most of the stories. But I’m quite happy that I’m left optimistic. I would definitely go on to find more good short stories and I would read more of Carver’s stories in the future, including his famous What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (which I just borrowed from library in My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides). Be assured that I would talk about short stories again in the near future. I start to keep track of short stories I read in my Books Read in 2009. […]
[…] (I actually read the three stories in 2009, so you’ll find them on Books and Shorts Read in 2009) […]