These are books I acquired (or plan to acquire) in 2009 (2010)

Finished. To Be Reviewed:

  1. Hitler’s Personal Security: Protecting the Fuhrer (1921 – 1945), by Peter Hoffmann
  2. Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri

New, Unread and On My Shelf:

  1. Lake Wobegon Days, by Garrison Keillor
  2. No Logo, by Naomi Klein (Currently Reading)
  3. When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
  4. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
  5. Before I Wake, by Robert J. Wiersema
  6. Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay
  7. Two Caravans, by Marina Lewycka
  8. My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk (Currently Reading)
  9. Brute Force, by Andy McNab
  10. The Survivors Club, by Lisa Gardner
  11. A Quiet Belief in Angels, by RJ Ellory
  12. The Blair Years, by Alastair Campbell
  13. The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan
  14. After the Reich, by Giles MacDonogh
  15. McMafia, by Misha Glenny
  16. Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency, by Nigel Hamilton
  17. In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography, by John D. Gartner
  18. Comrades: Communism: A World History, by Robert Service (Currently Reading)
  19. After Eleanor: Reflections on Life, Death and Love, by Alison Haynes
  20. The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa
  21. The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa
  22. Elizabeth the Queen, by Alison Weir
  23. Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder
  24. Strike Back, by Chris Ryan
  25. Things I’ve Been Silent About, by Azar Nafisi
  26. The Secret Executioners, by Danny Baz
  27. The Baader Meinhof Complex, by Stefan Aust
  28. Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F Kennedy, by Vincent Bugliosi
  29. Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler, by Phillip von Boeselager
  30. My Left Foot, by Christy Brown
  31. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
  32. The Price of Love, by Nikola T. James
  33. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
  34. Sweet Mandarin, by Helen Tse
  35. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski (Currently Reading)
  36. Who Needs An Islamic State, by Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Currently Reading)
  37. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
  38. Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
  39. Cathedral, by Raymond Carver
  40. Elephant, by Raymond Carver
  41. What We Talk About, by Raymond Carver
  42. Identity, by GM Ford
  43. Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
  44. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
  45. Medea, by Euripedes
  46. The Messenger of Death, by Pierre Magnan
  47. Keeper and Kid, by Edward Hardy
  48. Chowringhee, by Sankar
  49. How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman
  50. Disgrace, by JM Coetzee
  51. The Gathering, by Anne Enright
  52. Possession, by A.S. Byatt
  53. The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
  54. Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
  55. Sunset Oasis, by Bahaa Taher
  56. The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle, Esther Vilar
  57. Indian Takeaway: A Very British Story, by Hardeep Singh Kohli
  58. Democracy Kills, by Humphrey Hawksley
  59. The File: A Personal History, by Timothy Garton Ash
  60. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, by William Bernstein
  61. The Sixty Minute Father, by Rob Parsons
  62. Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph, by Keith McFarland
  63. Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson
  64. In The President’s Secret Service, by Ronald Kessler
  65. The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, by John Geiger
  66. The Longer Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
  67. The Black Death, 1345 – 1350, by John Hatcher
  68. One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs
  69. The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway

I’m Looking Out For:

  1. Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer
  2. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
  3. Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
  4. A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon
 
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