Books and Films of 2009
The annual attempt to keep track of at least part of my life…
Books:
1. Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
2. The New Kings of Non-Fiction – Ira Glass
3. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
4. Watchman – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Alan Moore
6. A Constitution of Many Minds – Cass Sunstein
7. America: Empire of Liberty – David Reynolds
8. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail – Hunter S. Thompson
9. America: Empire of Liberty – David Reynolds
10. The Men Who Stare At Goats – Jon Ronson
11. Starbook – Ben Okri
12. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Bryan Lee O’Malley
13. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
14. Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde
15. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Bryan Lee O’Malley
16. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8: The Time of Your Life – Joss Whedon & Jeph Loeb
17. Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness – Bryan Lee O’Malley
18. Matter – Iain M. Banks
19. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
20. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together – Bryan Lee O’Malley
21. Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe – Bryan Lee O’Malley
22. The Wine Dark Sea – Patrick O’Brian
23. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
24. Ghost – Robert Harris
25. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
26. The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
27. Turbulence – Giles Foden
28. Much Obliged, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
29. Men and Cartoons – Jonathan Lethem
30. Better than Sex – Hunter S. Thompson
31. This is Water – David Foster Wallace
32. The City and the City – China Mieville
33. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader – Neil Gaiman
34. A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil – Christopher Brookmyre
35. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
36. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
37. Lustrum – Robert Harris
38. And Another Thing – Eoin Colfer
39. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace
40. The Boys on the Bus – Timothy Crouse
41. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, volume 5: Predators and Prey – Joss Whedon et al.
42. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
43. The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway
44. Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that changed a Nation
45. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
Films
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Milk
4. Watchmen
5. The Young Victoria
6. Frost/Nixon
7. State of Play
8. In the Loop
9. Let the Right One In
10. Wolverine
11. Star Trek
12. Coraline
13. Public Enemies
14. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
15. The Proposal
16. The Time-Traveller’s Wife
17. Inglourious Basterds
18. Funny People
19. District 9
20. Up
21. Taking Woodstock
22. Away We Go
23. The Informant
24. Twilight: New Moon
25. Fantastic Mr Fox
26. Where the Wild Things Are
