50 Books in 2009

first time // re-read // second read of the year

ratings:
OMG!! AMAZING!!
Pretty damn great.
Good, OK, had something to make me smile.
Not good, but not that bad.
Bad, bad, bad.
Atrocious, dreadful, so terrible I wanted to die.

1. Darkmans by Nicola Barker [I'm counting this although I started it last year.]


2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


4. Generation Kill by Evan Wright


5. Thud! by Terry Pratchett


6. Jingo by Terry Pratchett


7. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett


8. Making Money by Terry Pratchett


9. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick


10. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel


11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes


12. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale


13. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks


14. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks


15. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey


16. Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci


17. Mortal Mischief by Frank Tallis


18. Never the Bride by Paul Magrs


19. Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin


20. Kydd by Julian Stockwin


21. White Corridor by Christopher Fowler


22. Seventy-Seven Clocks by Christopher Fowler


23. Courtesans and Fishcakes: Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson


24. The Odyssey by Homer


25. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke


26. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith


27. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland


28. The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester


29. The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler


30. To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding


31. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris


32. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris


33. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris


34. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris


35. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters


36. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson


37. Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom


38. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde


39. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde


40. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde


41. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde


42. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde


43. Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss


44. A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss


45. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas


46. The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie


47. The Body in The Library by Agatha Christie


48. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie


49. A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie


50. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie


51. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie


52. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist


53. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir


54. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


55. Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos


56. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe