Books Read 2009

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

Short Stories Read in 2009

1. House of Flowers by Truman Capote (4/5)
2. A Diamon Guitar by Truman Capote (4/5)
3. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (5/5)
4. Feathers by Raymond Carver (3/5)
5. Cathedral by Raymond Carver (3/5)
6. A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver (4/5)
7. Vitamins by Raymond Carver (3/5)
8. Innocence by Harold Brodkey (2/5)
9. The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro (4/5)
10. The Hitchhiking Game by Milan Kundera (4.5/5)