READING 2009

Attached is a list of the books I've read so far this year. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com
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January
1 John Grisham 5 The Appeal AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 1
2 Sir Walter Scott 5 *Castle Dangerous   (on CD) (on Kindle)  BRITISH 19th 1 NOVEL 2
3 Albert Payson Terhune 2 (on CD) (on Kindle) *Bruce  AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 3
4 G.K. Chesterton 4 (on CD) (on Kindle) ***Heretics BRITISH 20th 1 ESSAYS 1
5 Olive Schreiner 1  (on CD)     ***The Story of an African Farm SOUTH AFRICAN 19th 1 NOVEL 4
6 Albert Payson Terhune 3 (on CD) (on Kindle) *His Dog  AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 5
7 G.K. Chesterton 5 (on CD) (on Kindle)  ***Orthodoxy BRITISH 20th 2 ESSAYS 2
8 G.K. Chesterton 6 (on CD) (on Kindle) The Wisdom of Father Brown BRITISH 20th 3 NOVEL 6
9 Albert Payson Terhune 4 (on CD) (on Kindle) *Further Adventures of Lad AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 7
10 Ray Bradbury  One More For the Road AMERICAN 20th 4 SHORT STORIES 1

February
11 Charles Dickens  (on CD) (on Kindle) Dombey and Son BRITISH 19th 2 NOVEL 8
12 Emile Gaboriau 1 (on CD)  (on Kindle)  L'Argent des Autres (in French) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 9
13 Henry James  7 (on CD) (on Kindle) ***Daisy Miller AMERICAN 19th 1 NOVEL 10
14 Henry James 8 (on CD) (on Kindle) *What Maisy Knew AMERICAN 19th 2 NOVEL 11
15 Florence Holbrook 1 (on CD) (on Kindle) Northland Heroes AMERICAN 19th 3 SAGA 1
16 Henry James  (on CD) (on Kindle)  The Turn of the Screw [second time] AMERICAN 19th 4 NOVEL 12
17 Robert Louis Stevenson 19 (on CD) (on Kindle) **An Inland Voyage BRITISH 19th 3 TRAVEL 1
18 Gaston Leroux 1 (on CD)  (on Kindle)  La Chambre Jaune  (in French) FRENCH 19th 2 NOVEL 13

March
19 William James 5  (on CD)  (on Kindle) The Meaning of Truth AMERICAN 19th 5 PHILOSOPHY 1
20 Henry James 9 (on CD) (on Kindle) Washington Square AMERICAN 19th 6 NOVEL 14
21 Gaston Leroux  2 (on CD)  (on Kindle) The Phantom of the Opera FRENCH 19th 3 NOVEL 15
22 Jane Austen 5 (on CD) (on Kindle) Lady Susan BRITISH 19th 4 NOVEL 16
23 Mark Rich 1 *Across the Sky AMERICAN 21st 2 SCIFI 1
24 Jane Austen 6 (on CD) (on Kindle) **Persuasion BRITISH 19th 5 NOVEL 17
25 Alexander McCall Smith 12 **The Miracle at Speedy Motors BOTSWANA 21st 1 MYSTERY 1
26 Jane Austen 7 (on CD) (on Kindle) **Northanger Abbey BRITISH 19th 6 NOVEL 18

April
27 Matthew Pearl 3 **The Last Dickens AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 19
28 Charles Dickens 16 (on CD) (on Kindle)   The Mystery of Edwin Drood ENGLISH 19th 7 NOVEL 20
28 Mark Twain 20 (on CD) (on Kindle) A Tramp Abroad AMERICAN 19th 7 TRAVEL 2
29 John Gribbin  4 In Search of the Double Helix  AMERICAN 20th 5 SCIENCE 1

May
30 Richard Burton 3 Arabian Nights volume 3  ARABIAN Medieval 1 SHORT STORIES 2
31 Richard Burton  4 Arabian Nights volume 4  ARABIAN Medieval 2 SHORT STORIES 3
32 Alexander McCall Smith 13 *** Tea Time for the Traditiionally Built BOTSWANA 21st 2  MYSTERY 2
33 E.T.A. Hoffman 2 ***The Best Tales of Hoffman GERMAN 19th 1 SHORT STORIES 4
34 Eleanor Porter 1 ***Pollyanna AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 21
35 Rex Sexton 4 ***The Time Hotel AMERICAN 21st 4 SHORT STORIES 5/POETRY 1
36 Eleanor Porter 2 Pollyanna Grows Up AMERICAN 20th 7 NOVEL 22
37 Anonymous  Forbidden Fruit BRITISH 19th 8 NOVEL 23

June
38 George Gissing 1 (on CD) (on Kindle) ****New Grub Street ENGLISH 19th 8 NOVEL 24
39 Richard Selzer 10 ***The Exact Location of the Soul AMERICAN 21st 2 ESSAYS 3
40 Alain de Botton ****The Pleasues and Sorrows of Work ENGLISH 21st 1 ESSAYS 4
41 Michael Ende 2 **Momo GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 25
42 Thomas de Quincey 1 Confessions of an Opium Eater ENGLISH 19th 9 ESSAYS 5
43 William James 6 ****Talks to Teachers on Psychology AMERICAN 19th 8 PHILOSOPHY 2
44 Goethe 6 Elective Affinities GERMAN 19th 2 NOVEL 26
45 Emily Dickinson 1 Poems, Series 1 AMERICAN 19th 9 POETRY 2
46 Emily Dickinson 2 Poems, Series 2 AMERICAN 19th 10 POETRY 3
47 Emily Dickinson 3 Poems, Series 3 AMERICAN 19th 11 POETRY 4
48 Jane Smiley 4**Moo AMERICAN 20th 8 NOVEL 27
49 Honore de Balzac 6 Cousin Pons FRENCH 19th 4 NOVEL 28

July
50 Neal Stephenson 9 *****Anatham AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 29
51 Mary Ann Shaffer 1 and Annie Barrows 1 *****The Guernsey Liteary and Potato Peel Pie Society ENGLISH 21st 2 NOVEL 30
52 Robert Louis Stevenson 20 (on CD) (on Kindle)  ***Across the Plains ENGLISH 19th 10 ESSAYS 6
53 Friedrich Nietzsche 5 Beyond Good and Evil GERMAN 19th 3 PHILOSOPHY 3
54 Sallust 1 The Conspiracy of Cataline ROMAN BC 1 HISTORY 1
55 Henry Fielding 2 **** Tom Jones ENGLISH 18th 1 NOVEL 29
56 William James 7 **Memories and Studies AMERICAN 19th 12 PHILOSOPHY 4
57 Henri Bergson 3 Dreams FRENCH 19th 5 PHILOSOPHY 5
58 Walter Raleigh 1 Robert Louis Stevenson ENGLISH 19th 11 BIOGRAPHY 1
59 Robert Louis Stevenson 21 ****Memories and Portraits ENGLISH 19th 12 ESSAYS 7
60 Sallust 2 The Jugurthine War ROMAN BC 2 HISTORY 2
61 Honore de Balzac 7 Droll Stories Volume 1 FRENCH 19th 6 SHORT STORIES 5
62 Robert Louis Stevenson 22 Tales and Fantasies ENGLISH 19th 13 SHORT STORIES 6

August
63 Thomas Pynchon 7 **Inherent Vice AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 30
64 Edward Gibbon  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire volume 5 BRITISH 18th HISTORY 1

September
65 Aristotle  Posterior Analytics ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
66 Marie Phillips 1 Gods Behaving Badly AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 31
67 Sir Walter Scott 6 *Rob Roy BRITISH 19th 14 NOVEL 32
68 Charles Lamb 1  Elia BRITISH 19th 15 ESSAYS 8

October
69 Richard Powers 10 *****Generosity: an Enhancement  AMERICAN 21st  7 NOVEL 33
70 Dennis Lehane 1 ****Shutter Island AMERICAN 21st 8  NOVEL 34
71 Orson Scott Card  12 *A War of Gifts AMERICAN 21st 9 SCIFI 2
72 Steve Erickson  9 ***Zeroville AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 35
73 Kazuo Ishiguro 7 **Nocturnes BRITISH 21st 3  SHORT STORIES 1
74 Muriel Barbery 1 Gourmet Rhapsody FRENCH 21st 1 NOVEL 36
75 Philip Roth 8   Indignation AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 37
76 Janet Skeslien Charles 1 ***Moonlight in Odessa AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 38
77 Muriel Barbery 2 *****The Elegance of the Hedgehog  FRENCH 21st 2 NOVEL 39 review
78 Nicholson Baker  8 *The Anthologist AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 40

November
79 Walter Moers 1 ***The 13-1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear GERMAN 21st 1 NOVEL 41
80 Gay Walley 1 Strings Attached AMERICAN 20th 9 NOVEL 42
81 Dennis Lehane 2 The Given Day AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 43
82 Paul Auster 7 ***Man in the Dark AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 44
83 John Irving 13 ***Last Night in Twisted River AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL 45
84 Walter Moers 2 The City of Dreaming Books GERMAN 21st 2 NOVEL 46
85 Dan Brown  4 The Lost Symbol AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 47
86 Julian Barnes 10 Nothing to Be Frightened Of BRITISH 21st 4 ESSAYS 7

December
87 Marina Lewycka 1 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian BRITISH 21st 5 NOVEL 48
88 Ann Patchett 2 Run AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 49
89 Thomas Pynchon 8 Against the Day AMERICAN 21st 18 NOVEL 50
90 P.D. James 5 Talking About Detective Fiction BRITISH 21st 6 MYSTERY 3
91 Elizabeth Benedict 1 Almost AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 51
92 Jane Gardam 1 ***Old Filth BRITISH 21st 7 NOVEL 52
93 Audrey Niffenegger 2 Her Fearful Symmetry BRITISH 21st 8 NOVEL 53
94 anonymous  Njal's Saga NORSE 10th SAGA 1
95 Roberto Bolano 1 2666: The Part About the Critics CHILE 21st 1 NOVEL 54
96 Roberto Bolano 2 2666: The Part About Amalfitano CHILE 21st 2 NOVEL 55
97 Roberto Bolano 3 2666:The Part About Fate CHILE 21st 3 NOVEL 56


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