These are the books I read in 2009, with the most recent on top. Links go to my reviews.
* Lev Tolstoy – Kinderjaren Jeugdjaren Jongelingschap (Childhood Boyhood Youth)
* Owen Sheers – Resistance
* Orhan Pamuk – Other Colours: Writings on Life, Art, Books and Cities
* Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
* Anita Amirrezvani – Dochter van Isfahan (The Blood of Flowers)
* Jelle Brandt Corstius – Kleine landjes: Berichten uit de Kaukasus
* Alice Munro – Selected Stories
* Chaim Potok – The Promise
* Chaim Potok – The Chosen
* Lynda la Plante – Trial and Retribution III
* Robert Fisk – Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
* Libby Cone – War on the Margins
* A.A. Milne – The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh
* Maria Mosterd – Echte mannen eten geen kaas
* Lynda La Plante – Bella Mafia
* Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth
* G.K. Chesterton – Father Brown: Selected Stories
* Fethiye Çetin – My Grandmother: A Memoir
* Nadine Gordimer (ed) – Telling Tales
* Georgette Heyer – Charity Girl
* Michael Cunningham – The Hours
* Elizabeth George – I, Richard
* Bernlef – De pianoman
* Ruth Rendell – Means of Evil
* Naguib Mahfouz – Sugar Street
* Guy de Maupassant – Selected Stories
* Jonathan Franzen – De Correcties (The Corrections)
* Joris Luyendijk – Een tipje van de sluier: Islam voor beginners
* David Guterson – Ceders in de sneeuw (Snow Falling on Cedars)
* Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
* Lee Child – Bad Luck and Trouble
* Naguib Mahfouz – Palace of Desire
* James Redfield – The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
* Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
* David Marcus (ed) – The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2004-5
* Thomas de Waal – Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
* Naguib Mahfouz – Palace Walk
A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction - Virginia Woolf
In Europa - Geert Mak
Prince Rupert's Teardrop - Lisa Glass
Dear Myrthe,
Did I let you know that the NOVEL, ‘Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard’ by one Deborah Rey (remember her?) is on the Web, all of it:
http://www.immasgirl.blogspot.com/
My poetry, prose, stories about Portugal and more, can be found at:
http://www.deborahrey.wordpress.com/
Hope you are well.
Hug,
Deborah
You did send me an email, Deborah, and shame on me! I never replied. Blush! I have bookmarked the site and I will read your novel. That’s a promise. But thank you for reminding me (and all of us).