2009 Book List

Books that I read in 2009:

1. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2. Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
3. John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
4. Rabbit Remembered by John Updike*
5. Fool by Christopher Moore
6. Take This Bread by Sara Miles
7. The English Major by Jim Harrison
8. Indignation by Philip Roth
9. A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
10. Lush Life by Richard Price
11. Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
12. Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
13. The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great by Ray Bennett, M.D.
14. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
15. Suites by Federico Garcia Lorca
16. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
17. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
18. Searches & Seizures: Three Novellas by Stanley Elkin
19. Sixty Poems by Charles Simic
20. Good Hearts by Reynolds Price
21. Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend by John Klima
    

* you might say this is 3.5 because it is from John Updike's Licks of Love collection; wanted to reread portions

About half fiction and half non-fiction this year. Two poetry collections. Some irreverent stuff; some reverent. Some more than 800 pages; some very, very short.

I showed you mine; now show me yours.