2009 on books

2009 was a good year for me, at least literature wise! With well over one hour per day in the London underground with not much else to do, I found books to be the main motivation for riding the tube every day. That, and the fact that I need to get to work and make a living, of course.

At some stage I realised I was going through lots more books than I used to in the past few years, so I decided to start keeping track of what I was reading. If for no other reason, at least to have a permanent record here that I can always go back to (blessed be the permalinks)

So here is the list, more or less in chronological order.

• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
• Siddharta, by Hermann Hesse
• Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
• The Rainmaker, by John Grisham
• Gang Leader For a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh
• The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals, by Alex Kuznetsov (don’t ask)
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (by far the best read of the year for me. Amazing book)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
• Laowai, by Sônia Bridi
• Single & Single, by John le Carré
• The Shining, by Stephen King
• A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
• Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
• The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
• Terrorist, by John Updike
• Leite Derramado, by Chico Buarque
• The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
• number9dream, by David Mitchell
• Nocturnes, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Meanwhile, I’m already working my way through my 2010 list with The Year of the Flood, another Margaret Atwood (can’t help it, I love the woman)