Friday, January 1, 2010

My 2009 Reading List


What a reading year it was! Among the great stuff I discovered (or re-discovered): the sprawling Urazawa's graphic novel 20th Century Boys (after viewing the first part of the movie trilogy at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival). Logicomix, another unexpected graphic novel gem. Then a Jim Thompson orgy, the most recent Fred Vargas novels, 2/3rds of the Larsson trilogy, and quite a few remarkable Italian novels ("La solitudine dei numeri primi above all"). More to read in 2010, the more I read, the more they seem to pile up, and now I have the Kindle virtual pile to contend with. Happy New Year!


The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott
The Shadow in the North: A Sally Lockhart Mystery, Philip Pullman
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics, Julian Barbour
Twilight , Stephenie Meyer
Winterkill, C. J. Box
Savage Run, C. J. Box

Open Season, C. J. Box
Ni fleurs, ni couronnes: Sanchez Abuli, Jordi Bernet
The Way Some People Die, Ross Macdonald

The Criminal, Jim Thompson
Budding Prospects: A Pastoral, T.C. Boyle
Savage Night, Jim Thompson
Cristiani di Allah, Massimo Carlotto
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, Otto Penzler, Tony Hillerman, eds.

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