I can’t work out if I won or failed in 2009. I’ll go for winning. Here’s how it turned out:

A list for 2009:

In bold, are the ones I have started reading but then stopped for whatever reason. (I tend to read many books at the same time, as you can see…)
The struck out are those I have finished.

A list of books I plan to read in 2009:

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  2. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  3. Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
  4. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  5. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
  6. The Plague - Albert Camus
  7. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
  8. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  10. The Collector - John Fowles
  11. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  12. Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin
  13. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  14. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  15. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  18. Ascent - Jed Mercurio
  19. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  20. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  21. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  22. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  23. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  25. Old School - Tobias Wolff
  26. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

Random other books (not on the list) which I read:

  1. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  2. Slumberland - Paul Beatty
  3. Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy
  4. Fup - Jim Dodge
  5. Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
  6. Pastoralia - George Saunders
  7. The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
  8. Why Are You Doing This? - Jason
  9. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
  10. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
  11. After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
  12. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  13. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

So, for 2010, my list is as follows. Some stuff from last years list and some new stuff:

  1. Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal - J.R. Ackerley
  2. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
  3. Six Memos for the Next Millenium - Italo Calvino
  4. The Plague - Albert Camus
  5. Tokyo Cancelled - Rana Dasgupta
  6. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  8. The Collector - John Fowles
  9. Black Mass - John Gray
  10. Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project
  11. Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinski
  12. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  14. Carson McCullers - The Member of the Wedding
  15. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  16. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
  17. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  18. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  19. Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
  20. Couples - John Updike

Maybe this year I’ll stick to my list and actually finish it!