September 11, 2009
autobibliography

Probably there were more, but this is all I can remember right now of What I’ve Read This Year:

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The High Window, Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My lovely, Raymond Chandler
The Lady In The Lake, Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin
The Light of Day, Eric Ambler
A Coffin For Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
A Meaningful Life, L. J. Davis
Our Man In Havana, Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
The Interrogation, J. M. G. Le Clezio
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marias
Fever and Spear, Javier Marias
Dance and Dream, Javier Marias
Demian, Herman Hesse
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
How I Became a Famous Novelist, Steve Hely
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Blood River, Tim Butcher
The Forever War, Dexter Filkins
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My Dog Tulip, J. R. Ackerley
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Telegrams of the Soul, Peter Altenberg

I created this list as a preface to a new endeavor, namely, “A LIST OF EVERY BOOK I READ, going no further back than the beginning of this year, but being documentation of every single book I finish reading in the future.

Fun!