Books I Read This Year (2009)
Explore my 2009 reading journey with this curated list of books I read this year—discover top picks, hidden gems, and must-read titles from 2009.
Book
Elmer Gantry
by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized …
Item Not Found
ID: 0505505290
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 1419121952
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0691017662
(Type: book)
Book
Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed
by Anthony Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a …
Item Not Found
ID: 0554354128
(Type: book)
Book
The Plague
by Albert Camus
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even …
Item Not Found
ID: 1594482225
(Type: book)
Book
Valis
by Philip K. Dick
Horselover Fat begins receiving what he considers to be divine revelations that imply extraterrestrial forces are interfering in the affairs of the Earth.
Item Not Found
ID: 014303653X
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 1580800165
(Type: book)
Book
Island
by Aldous Huxley
A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serentity promoted by science on the island of Pala.
Item Not Found
ID: 1570623791
(Type: book)
Book
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien …
Item Not Found
ID: 0691017948
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0140075801
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0253181410
(Type: book)
Book
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." —Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very …
Book
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, "At Swim-Two-Birds" is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who …
Book
Towing Jehovah
by James Morrow
A satirical novel on the death of God. For inexplicable reasons he dies and falls into the sea, and the Vatican hires a supertanker to …
Item Not Found
ID: 1590170903
(Type: book)
Book
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, …
Item Not Found
ID: 0486451100
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 1409965406
(Type: book)
Book
Blameless in Abaddon
by James Morrow
A wildly innovative odyssey, "Blameless in Abaddon" has been named a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. "Not to be missed," said "Booklist" …
Item Not Found
ID: 0205424031
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 015601081X
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: B000I3ND2Q
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 1604594799
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: B000K1WLAG
(Type: book)
Book
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The …
Item Not Found
ID: 1931468028
(Type: book)
Book
Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
“Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as …
Item Not Found
ID: 0451171128
(Type: book)
Book
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with …