Steven Tattersall’s Discredited Reflections.

2009 saw a jump in the number of books read, from 25 to 43.

1. “The Way Some People Die”, Ross MacDonald (reread) (2nd Jan)
2. “The Blue Hammer”, Ross MacDonald (reread) (5th Jan)
3. “Selected Tales”, Edgar Allan Poe (19th Jan)
4. “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, Lewis Carroll (24th Jan)
5. “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Jules Verne (29th Jan)
6. “Roseanna”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (5th Feb)
7. “The Man Who Went Up In Smoke”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (14th Feb)
8. “Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity”, David Allen (16th Feb)
9. “The Doomsters”, Ross MacDonald (26th Feb)
10. “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Oscar Wilde (1st March)
11. “The Man on the Balcony”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
12. “The Laughing Policeman”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
13. “The Fire Engine that Disappeared”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
14. “Murder at the Savoy”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
15. “The Abominable Man”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
16. “The Locked Room”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
17. “Cop Killer”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (reread)
18. “The Terrorists”, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
19. “The Heckler”, Ed McBain
20. “No Beast So Fierce”, Edward Bunker
21. “The Siege of Krishnapur”, J. G. Farrell
22. “The State of Africa”, Martin Meredith
23. “Lady, Lady, I Did It!”, Ed McBain
24. “I Married A Communist”, Philip Roth
25. “Ten Second Staircase”, Christopher Fowler
26. “The Secret War with Iran”, Ronen Bergman
27. “Cop Hater”, Ed McBain
28. “The Thin Man”, Dashiel Hammett
29. “Bad Blood: the Secret Life of the Tour de France”, Jeremy Whittle
30. “Rough Ride”, Paul Kimmage
31. “On Murder”, de Quincey
32. “The Art of the Idea”, John Hunt
33. “The Soul of a New Machine”, Tracy Kidder
34. “The Modern Con Man: How To Get Something For Nothing”, Todd Robbins
35. “A Most-Wanted Man”, John Le Carre
36. “White Corridor”, Christopher Fowler
37. “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley
38. “The Drowning Pool”, Ross MacDonald (reread)
39. “Black Money”, Ross MacDonald (reread)
40. “Horse’s Arse”, Charley Own
41. “Der Fall Galton” (German translation), Ross MacDonald
42. “The Big Blowdown”, George P. Pelecanos
43. “Computer Vision: Principles and Practice”