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Read 2009
98 Reasons for Being - Clare Dudman
Struwwelhitler - Dr Schrecklickheit
Der Struwwelpeter auf Englisch - Translated by Mark Twain
Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
Berlin Tales - Edited by Helen Constantine
The Wall Jumper - Peter Schneider
Emil and The Detectives - Erich Kastner
A Village Romeo and Juliet - Gottfried Keller
The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
All My Friends are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman
Ice Cold - Andrea Maria Schenkel
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite - Beatrice Colin
The Jew's Beech - Annette von Droste-Hulshof
Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann
Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
The Murder Farm - Andrea Maria Schenkel
The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt - Eduardo Mendoza
The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
Home - Marilynne Robinson
No Word From Gurb - Eduardo Mendoza
Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Mystic Pig - Richard Katrovas
Me and Kaminski - Daniel Kehlmann
Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden
Dear Everybody - Michael Kimball
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
March Violets - Phillip Kerr
Shakespeare on Toast - Ben Crystal
The Letters - Fiona Robyn
The Earth Hums In B Flat - Mari Strachan
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
Fleck - Alasdair Gray
The Blue Fox - Sjon
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Summer In February - Jonathan Smith
The Outlander - Gil Adamson
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Brian Moore
Child's Play - Carmen Posadas
The Hidden - Tobias Hill
The Road Home - Rose Tremain
Beyond Sleep - W F Hermans
The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith
A Night Out With Robert Burns
Grace - Alex Pheby
Royal Highness - Thomas Mann
What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
The Crossroads - Niccolo Ammaniti
Don't Get Fooled Again - Richard Wilson
Land of Marvels - Barry Unsworth
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100 Shots of Short
22.-28 <b A Selection of Scottish Short Stories 21. Reality, Reality - Jackie Kay 20. The Ministry of Whiskey - Val McDermid 19. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald 18. Wants - Grace Paley 17. Lapin and Lapinova - Virginia Woolf 16. The Quarrel - Joyce Carol Oates 15. This Blessed House - Jumpra Lahiri 14. Here We Are - Dorothy Parker 13. The Skeleton In The Closet - Louisa May Alcott
12. Violets and Strawberries in The Snow - Sheena Mackay
11. The Grasshopper - Anton Chekhov
10. Incident on Lake Geneva - Stefan Zweig
9. The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
8. Catholics - Brian Moore
7. The History of the Master - Henry James
6. The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
5. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig
3. Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
2. The Other Two - Edith Wharton
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2009 – A Year In Books
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
March Violets - Phillip Kerr
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Challenges 2009
10 books March - December 2009 1. The Blue Fox - Sjon (Iceland) 2. The Blind Side of the Heart - (Germany) 3. Molly Fox's Birthday - (Ireland) 4. Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan) 5. Child's Play - Carmen Posadas (Uruguay) 6. No Word from Gurb - Eduardo Mendoza (Spain) 7. Home - Marilynne Robinson (USA) 8. The Outlander - Gil Adamson (Canada)
1. Late Nights on Air
2. Helpless
3. The Emperor of Ice-Cream
4. The Outlander
5. Catholics
6. The Sweetness at The Bottom of The Pie
1. The Big Over Easy
2. Shakespeare On Toast
3. The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Latin American Challenge
1. Child's Play
Out of time but I've started so I'll finish ....
2. The Informers
3. The Silence of The Rain
4. Chronicle of A Death Foretold
1. Royal Highness
2. Me And Kaminski
3. Three Bags Full
4. The Blind Side of the Heart
5. The Murder Farm
6. Ice Cold
1. The Blue Fox
2. The Jew's Beech
3. A Village Romeo and Juliet
4. No Word From Gurb
5. The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
6. The Wall Jumper
The Art History Challenge
1. The Vaughan Bequest
2. Summer In February
3. Me and Kaminski
4-6 TBD
The Colour Challenge
9 Books Jan-Dec 2009
1. The Blue Fox
2. The Red House Mystery
3. The White Castle
4. Black Gold of the Sun
5. The Silver Swan
6. The Camel and The Golden Hump
7. Yellowknife
8. March Violets
9. Olive Kitteridge
10. The Olive Labyrinth
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I don’t have to look any further.
Thanks for the review. I have my own blog.
I am from the US.