2009: A Partial Reading List

Here are the books I read during the past year and those I should have wrapped up before 2010.

Done

• Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir by Arthur Lyons
• The Film Noir Reader: Volume 2 edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini
  
• Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unkown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
• The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps edited by Otto Penzler
• Fright by Cornell Woolrich
• The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelanzy
• The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake
• House Dick by E. Howard Hunt
• Casino Moon by Peter Blauner
• Fake I.D. by Jason Starr
• The Criminal by Jim Thompson
• The Getaway by Jim Thompson
  
• Roughneck by Jim Thompson
• The Nothing Man by Jim Thompson
  
• Passport to Peril by Robert B. Parker
• Stop This Man by Peter Rabe
• Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood
• Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent
• Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins
• The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
• The Blue Hammer by Ross MacDonald
• The Way Some People Die by Ross MacDonald
• The Ivory Grin by Ross MacDonald
• The Doomsters by Ross MacDonald
• The Barbarous Coast by Ross MacDonald
• The Instant Enemy by Ross Mac Donald
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  
• The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  
• The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
  
• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
• Drood by Dan Simmons
• The Professional by W.C. Heinz
• Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
  

In progress or about to be:

• Europe by Norman Davies
• 2066 by Roberto Bolano
  
• The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
• Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
• The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Corpse Wore Pasties by Jonny Porkpie
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

That's not everything, but it's probably pretty close- there are probably a few from late 2008 on here and there are certainly some from this year that I've forgotten. Not a bad year overall.