Books I Read in 2009

I don't just watch movies. I read books too. Asterisk means it was on the MLA's top 100 English-language novels of the 20th century; bold means it was among the ten best I read.

Lilith Saintcrow, Dead Man Rising, 2006
Walter Mosely, Black Betty, 1994
*William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929
James Duplacey, Hockey’s Book of Firsts, 2007
Eric Ambler, Background to Danger, 1937
James Ellroy, Killer on the Road, 1986
Caleb Carr, The Alienist, 1994
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In, 2004
Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, 1996
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Quarry, 1961
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little, 2003
William Kennedy, The Flaming Corsage, 1996
Lilith Saintcrow, The Devil’s Right Hand, 2007
Bill Willingham et al., Fables 1: Legends in Exile, 2002
Eric Powell, The Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker, 2007
*Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1921
Spain Rodriguez & William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley, 1946/2003
Maggie O’Farrell, My Lover’s Lover, 2002
Bill Willingham et al., Fables 2: Animal Farm, 2003
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, 2005
Susan Brownmiller, Femininity, 1984
Bill Willingham et al., Fables 3: Storybook Love, 2004
Lilith Saintcrow, Saint City Sinners, 2007
*Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men, 1946
Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow, 1969
S.P. Somtow, Riverrun, 1991
S.P. Somtow, Armorica, 1992
S.P. Somtow, Yestern, 1996
Bill Willingham et al., Fables 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers, 2004
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman, 1969
Andrew Pyper, The Wildfire Season, 2005
Christopher Hibbert, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, 1974
Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Painter of Battles, 2006 (2008 trans.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars, 2000
Robert Polito, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, 1995
Richard L. Harris, Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara’s Last Mission, 1970
*Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Dennis Lehane, Coronado, 2006
Lilith Saintcrow, To Hell and Back, 2008
Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, 1966
*John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, 1939
Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Craig Nova, Trombone, 1992
John Horne Burns, The Gallery, 1947
*Henry Green, Loving, 1945
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458 BC
James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, 2006
Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds., Bending the Landscape: Horror, 2001
*Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, 1981
Peter Handke, Short Letter, Long Farewell, 1972
Dorothy Hughes, The Expendable Man, 1963
Mihail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, 1840 (1958 trans.)
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides, 1993
Ariana Franklin, The Mistress of the Art of Death, 2007
Nella Larsen, An Intimation of Things Distant, 1930/1992
Lilli Carre, The Lagoon, 2008
Lilli Carre, Nine Ways to Disappear, 2009
Lilli Carre, The Fir Tree, 2009
Lilli Carre, Tales of Woodsman Pete, 2006
Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
Colin Cotterill, The Coroner’s Lunch, 2004
Walter Mosley, A Little Yellow Dog, 1996
*Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End, 1924-1928