2009 books

• East of the Mountains, David Guterson, 1999
• The Divine Husband, Francisco Goldman, 2004
• Heidi, Johanna Spyri, 1872
• The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith, 1766
• Hilda and Pearl, Alice Mattison, 2001
• Crow Lake, Mary Lawson, 2003
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek, David Malouf, 1996
• Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie, 2009

• The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896
• The Sandcastle, Iris Murdoch, 1957
• Le Colonel Chabert, Honoré de Balzac, 1832
• Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847-48
• The Search, Maureen Myant, 2009
• Lorsque J’étais une Oeuvre d’art, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 2002
• Into the Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea, 2009
• Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, April to Nov 1859
• The Passion, Jeanette Winterson, 1987

• The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman, 2000
• My Year of Meat, Ruth L. Ozeki, 1998
• Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe, 1722
• Goldberg: Variations, Gabriel Josipovici, 2002
• Waterland, Graham Swift, 1983
• Young Adam, Alexander Trocchi, 1954
• Emma, Jane Austen, 1815
• Summer, Edith Wharton, 1917
• Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911
• The accidental, Ali Smith, 2005

• Electricity, Ray Robinson, 2006
• Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai, 2000
• Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, 1980
• The Shooting Party, Anton Chekhov, 1885
• At Fault, Kate Chopin, 1890
• L’élégance du hérisson, Muriel Barbery, 2006
• Le Rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel, 2007
• Si le soleil ne revenait pas, CF Ramuz, 1937
• On Interpretation, Aristotle, 350 BCE
• Silas Marner, George Eliot, 1861

• A Village Romeo and Juliet, Gottfried Keller, 1856
• Lovely Green Eyes, Arnost Lustig, 2000
• A Theft, Saul Bellow, 1989
• La Maison des Lumières, Didier Van Cauwelaert, 2009
• Adam Bede, George Eliot, 1859 and here
• The Rights of Desire, André Brink, 2000
• Let the Northen Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida, 2007
• The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard, 1980
• Où on va, papa? Jean-Louis Fournier, 2008
• Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac, 1833

• Dieu et nous seuls pouvons, Michel Folco, 1991
• Any Human Heart, William Boyd, 2002
• Set This House on Fire, William Styron, 1960
• Instruments des Ténèbres, Nancy Huston, 1996
• Amour, Colère et Folie, Marie-Vieux Chauvet, 2005
• Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
• Memoir of Jane Austen – by her nephew, James Edward Austen Leigh, 1871
• The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem, 1996 
• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865
• Blow Your House Down, Pat Barker, 1984

• Featherstone, Kirsty Gunn, 2002
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
• Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus, c. 480-10 BC
• Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1380-87
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, 1998
• Onitsha, J.M.G. Le Clezio, 1991
• The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1948
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, 1811
• The Sea, John Banville, 2005