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The following table gives a link to each web page that contains a commentary on a book that I have read this year.
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 02/11 | The Sentimentalists | Johanna Skibsrud | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 06/11 | Room | Emma Donaghue | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 18/11 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 2010 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jan 20/11 | The Illuminated Rumi | Coleman Barks/Michael Green | 1997 | poetry: Persian |
| Jan 29/11 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 1915 | fiction: novel - Russia |
| Feb 03/11 | Cool Water | Dianne Warren | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Mar 05/11 | The Conference of the Birds | Farid ud-Din Attar | 1984 | poetry: Persian |
| Mar 25/11 | Decoded | Jay-Z | 2010 | non-fiction: autobiography |
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 10/10 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Jan 17/10 | The Golden Mean | Annabel Lyon | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 18/10 | The Map that Changed the World | Simon Winchester | 2002 | non-fiction: geology |
| Jan 26/10 | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Mohammed Hanif | 2008 | fiction: novel - Pakistan |
| Feb 01/10 | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | 1999 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Feb 08/10 | Imagining Head-Smashed-In | Jack W. Brink | 2008 | non-fiction: history |
| Feb 18/10 | The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel | 2006 | non-fiction: literature |
| Feb 27/10 | Total Recall | Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell | 2009 | non-fiction: technology |
| Mar 09/10 | Les Miserables | Victory Hugo | 1862 | fiction: novel - France |
| Mar 11/10 | All the Strange Hours | Loren Eiseley | 1975 | non-fiction: autobiography |
| Mar 19/10 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | 1961 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Mar 21/10 | Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works | Petrarch | 1985 | fiction: poetry - Italy |
| Apr 08/10 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Apr 09/10 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | 2007 | fiction: novel - England |
| Apr 18/10 | Too Much Happiness | Alice Munro | 2009 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Apr 21/10 | beatrice & virgil | Yann Martel | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 02/10 | Motorcycles & Sweetgrass | Drew Hayden Taylor | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 27/10 | 2666 | Roberto Bolano | 2008 | fiction: novel - Chile |
| Jun 02/10 | Of Rocks, Mountains and Jasper | Chris Yorath & Ben Gadd | 1995 | non-fiction: geology |
| Jun 03/10 | Mountaineering Essays | John Muir | 1997 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 15/10 | Stones From the River | Ursula Hegi | 1994 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jun 17/10 | Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies | Mary T. S. Schaffer | 1911 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 23/10 | The Notebook | Jose Saramago | 2010 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 27/10 | Wanting | Richard Flanagan | 2008 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Jul 03/10 | Blindness | Jose Saramago | 1995 | fiction: novel - Portugal |
| Jul 11/10 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jul 17/10 | The Science of Leonardo | Fritjof Capra | 2007 | non-fiction: science |
| Aug 01/10 | Kanata | Don Gillmor | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Aug 05/10 | The Math Book | Clifford A. Pickover | 2009 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Aug 13/10 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Aug 21/10 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Stieg Larsson | 2009 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Aug 27/10 | Tinkers | Paul Harding | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Oct 2/10 | The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow | 2010 | non-fiction: science |
| Oct 9/10 | The Children's Book | A. S. Byatt | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Oct 13/10 | In Search of the Multiverse | John Gribbin | 2009 | non-fiction: science |
| Oct 24/10 | Look at the Birdie | Kurt Vonnegut | 2009 | fiction: short stories - USA |
| Oct 24/10 | On Writing | Stephen King | 2000 | non-fiction: literature |
| Oct 31/10 | Under the Dome | Stephen King | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Nov 15/10 | The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk | 2009 | fiction: novel - Turkey |
| Nov 24/10 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | 2010 | fiction: novel - Ireland |
| Nov 27/10 | Player One | Douglas Coupland | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Dec 07/10 | Stone's Fall | Iain Pears | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Dec 23/10 | Conversations with Myself | Nelson Mandela | 2010 | non-fiction: history |
| Dec 25/10 | My Father's Notebook | Kader Abdolah | 2000 | fiction: novel - Iran |
| Dec 30/10 | Rumi's World | Annemarie Schimmel | 1992 | non-fiction: history |
Here is a list of the books I read in 2009:
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 1/09 | Poincare's Prize | George G. Szpiro | 2008 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Jan 1/09 | The Poincare Conjecture | Donal O'Shea | 2007 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Feb 26/09 | The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories | Jane Urquhart (Ed.) | 2007 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Apr 16/09 | The Story of the Stone, vol. 1 | Cao Xueqin | 1973 | fiction: novel - China |
| Apr 29/09 | The Soul of the World | Christopher Dewdney | 2008 | non-fiction: science |
| May 5/09 | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| May 10/09 | Good to a Fault | Marina Endicott | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jun 10/09 | The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails | A. P. Coleman | 2006 | non-fiction: travel |
| Jun 13/09 | The Tenth Circle | Jodi Picoult | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jun 13/09 | Armageddon in Retrospect | Kurt Vonnegut | 2008 | fiction: short stories - USA |
| Jun 15/09 | The Unknown Terrorist | Richard Flanagan | 2006 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Jun 25/09 | Life: A User's Manual | Georges Perec | 1978 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jun 27/09 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 2007 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jul 02/09 | Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze | Wayne Grady (Ed.) | 2007 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Jul 04/09 | So Many Ways to Begin | Jon McGregor | 2006 | fiction: novel - England |
| Jul 15/09 | Lost Illusions | Honore du Balzac | 1843 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jul 19/09 | Atmospheric Disturbances | Rivka Galchen | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jul 24/09 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson | 2008 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Jul 27/09 | The Retreat | David Bergen | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jul 28/09 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Shiguro | 2005 | fiction: novel - England |
| Aug 03/09 | The Immense Journey | Loren Eiseley | 1959 | non-fiction: science |
| Aug 11/09 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marisha Pessl | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Aug 14/09 | The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | 2009 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Sep 17/09 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | fiction: novel - Germany |
| Sep 27/09 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Oct 10/09 | The Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Oct 14/09 | Deaf Sentence | David Lodge | 2008 | fiction: novel - England |
| Oct 17/09 | Breath | Tim Winton | 2008 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Oct 27/09 | The Favourite Game | Leonard Cohen | 1963 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Oct 30/09 | And Another Thing ... | Eoin Colfer | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Nov 08/09 | Beautiful Losers | Leonard Cohen | 1966 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Nov 09/09 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | fiction: novel - India |
| Nov 13/09 | Generation A | Douglas Coupland | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Nov 14/09 | In Bed with the Word | Daniel Coleman | 2009 | non-fiction: Literature |
| Dec 5/09 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | fiction: novel - Ireland |
| Dec 12/09 | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | 2003 | non-fiction: biography |
| Dec 17/09 | Gretzky's Tears | Stephen Brunt | 2009 | non-fiction: sports |
| Dec 21/09 | Canada's First Railway | Nick & Helma Mika | 1985 | non-fiction: history |
| Dec 26/09 | The Bishop's Man | Linden MacIntyre | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |