2009 · Annual selections
Books of the Year 2009
Hi,
That time of the year has come round again when, after much consideration, I have reviewed what I have read in 2009 and compiled my list of favourites. In order -
Fiction Top Ten -
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Author, Author by David Lodge
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Intimate Cartographies by L. A. Alexander
Antichrista by Amelie Nothomb
Non-Fiction Top Five -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr [I have not finished this just yet, but am enjoying thoroughly]
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow