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Jan 5, 2009 8:59:50 PM Archived Entry: "Books bought, 2009"

Last year I bought 66 books - a real drop over previous years. I was in New York and picked up a few right at the start of the year - um - but I haven't bought any quite yet.

February
1. Frommer's Sicily*
March
2. The Scent of the Night* - Andrea Camilleri
3. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - R. L. Stevenson
April
4. Fragrances and Flavors of Sicilian Cuisine - Grafiche Milan Cards, ed
5. Eating in Sicily) - Bonechi (ed)
6. Sicilia in Bocca* - Antonio Cardella
7. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work* - Alain De Botton
8. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
9. The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
May
10. The Terracotta Dog* - Andrea Camillieri
11. The Double - Jose Saramago
12. Moon guide to Scotland
13. The Scottish Islands: Skye and the Western Isles - James and Deborah Penrith
14. Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England - Lonely Planet
June
15. The Witches - Roald Dahl
16. Dead Famous - Ben Elton
17. The Sunday Philosophy Club* - Alexander McCall Smith
18. Chart Throb* - Ben Elton
19. Past Mortem - Ben Elton
20. The Shape of Water* - Andrea Camilleri
21. The Collector Collector - Tibor Fischer
22. The City and the City - China Mieville
23. Saturn's Children* - Charles Stross
24. PopCo* - Scarlett Thomas
July
25. Tears of the Giraffe* - Alexander McCall Smith
26. Casanova's History of my Life - John Julius Norwich
27. Eroticism & Art - Alyce Mahon
28. 20th Century Erotica (Volume II) - Gilles Neret (Taschen)
August
29. Eric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
30. London Stories - London Walks
31. Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
32. Black Man - Richard Morgan*
33. Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now!
September
34. Surviving the Top-ten Challenges of Software Testing: A People Oriented Approach
October
35. The Dante Club - Nathaniel Pearl
November
36. Time Out's "Madrid"
37. Tears of Eros (exhibition catalog)
38. 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom - Alan Moore
39. Time Out's "Istanbul"
December
40. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
41. Frommer's Istanbul Day by Day
42. Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel - Mark Gattis

* = read it

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