2009 Reading list

02 01 2010

Here’s what I read in 2009, in the order I read them:

Brick Lane: Monica Ali
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter: Peter Handke
Soweto Stories: Miriam Tzali
The Eighth Day: John Case
A Language in Common: Marion Molteno
The Lover: A. B. Yehoshua
Everything Is Illuminated: Jonathan Safran Foer
Ali Smith’s Supersonic 70s: Ali Smith
Die Memoiren des Rodriguez Fazantas: Helge Schneider
German Amok: Feridun Zaimoglu
Imaginings of Sand: Andre Brink
Leinwand: Feridun Zaimoglu
Bitter Fruit: Achmat Dangor
Die Betrogene: Thomas Mann
The Crow Road: Iain Banks
The White Tiger: Aravind Adiga
Kali: Eine Vorwintergeschichte: Peter Handke
The Icarus Girl: Helen Oyeyemi
Der Hund aus Terracotta: Andrea Camilleri
Ansichten eines Clowns: Heinrich Böll
Lust: Elfriede Jelinek
Transmission: Hari Kunzru
Zwölf Gramm Glück: Feridun Zaimoglu
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Will Ferguson
Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
Lunar Park: Bret Easton Ellis
The Burial Brothers: Simon Mayle
Ruby in Practice: Jeremy McAnally
An der Arche um Acht: Ulrich Hub
Ubik: Philip Kindred Dick
A Loyal Character Dancer: Qiu Xiaolong
Bartleby The Scrivener: Herman Melville
2 B R 0 2 B: Kurt Vonnegut
Handbuch des Kriegers des Lichts: Paulo Coelho
The Well-Grounded Rubyist: David A. Black
The Accidental: Ali Smith
Rice Boy: Evan Dahm
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Nancy L. Clark
Squeak by Example: Andrew P. Black
Rabbit, Run: John Updike
Heartland: Joey Goebel
Guards! Guards!: Terry Pratchett
Die Girls von Riad: Rajaa Alsanea
Angela’s Ashes: Frank McCourt
Verblendung: Stieg Larsson
Der Tote im Sumida: Sujata Massey
Crime: Irvine Welsh
Interesting Times: Terry Pratchett
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
Programming Clojure: Stuart Halloway
Armageddon: Leon Uris
Small Gods: Terry Pratchett
The Dice Man: Luke Rhinehart
Verdammnis: Stieg Larsson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Jeanette Winterson
Vergebung: Stieg Larsson
JavaScript: The Good Parts: Douglas Crockford
Going Postal: Terry Pratchett

Started in 2009 but not finished:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Brückenkurs Mathematik: Guido Walz

This list is not taking into account stuff that didn’t have ISBNs like some eBooks or scientific papers.



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02 01 2010
#1 PotHix (Reply)

Æ!!

I your fan! hahaha
I want to read so many books like you! :-P

I’m better than the last year, but i’ve read only 5 books this year ( ok…One of this books was Lord of the Rings with 1200 pages, but is just one :-P ).

Congrats! :-D

Cheers,

PotHix

03 03 2010
#2 MICHAEL ROLOFF (Reply)

since you like handke, a whole bunch of links. the handkeprose sites have individual pages devoted to his various book, totally up to date there at least, for don juan,
kali, the cuckoos of velica hoca.


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