Books read/re-read in 2009 (in alphabetical order of author)
My rating system
Must read!
OK/Good
Never again
Er
= Recently read Novels/novellas
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, 1958
She - Anonymous, 1975
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, 1811
Crash - JG Ballard, 1973
Running Wild - JG Ballard, 1988
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles, 1943
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles, 1949

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card, 1985
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, translated from the Russian by David McDuff
The Trial - Franz Kafka, 1925
A Life Transparent - Todd Keisling, 2007
Fly Away Peter - David Malouf, 1982
After Dark - Haruki Murakami,2004, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami, 2002, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth, 1993
All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West, 1927
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink, 1995, translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Diary of a Mad, Old Man - Junichirō Tanizaki, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett
The Key - Junichirō Tanizaki, 1956, translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, 1973
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, 1891
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf, 1927
Graphic novels/comicsShort story collections
Herotica 2 - edited by Susie Bright and Joani Blank, 1991
Herotica 3 - edited by Susie Bright, 1994
The Best American Erotica, 1993 - edited by Susie Bright
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories - Raymond Carver, 1988
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol 7 - edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 2008
The Mammoth Book of International Erotica - edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 1996
Stories 1904 - 1924 - Franz Kafka, translated from the German by JA Underwood
Perineum: Nether Parts of the Empire - Ambarish Satwik, 2007
Children's fiction
Stories from Ladakh - Kusum Kapur, 1994
Poetry anthologies
The Forward book of poetry 1995Poetry collections
Women in Dutch Painting - Eunice de Souza, 1988
Kala Ghoda Poems - Arun Kolatkar, 2004

The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems - Michael Ondaatje, 1989
The Eyes - Don Paterson, 1999
The Lunar Visitations - Sudeep Sen, 1990
PlaysNon-fiction
Madness and Civilisation - Michel Foucault, 1961, translated from the French by Richard Howard
How Poetry Works - Phil Roberts, 2000
MiscelleneousMovies watched/watched again in 2009Full list here***
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