2009 Reviews

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91 – Gott ist Rund – Die Kultur des Fußballs by Dirk Schümer
90 – The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
89 – Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
88 – Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
87 – Also Sprach Bellavista by Luciano De Crescenzo
86 – The World from Italy by George Negus
85 – David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
84 – The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
83 – Der Weg Zurück by Erich Maria Remarque
82 – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
81 – The President’s Last Love by Andrey Kurkov
80 – A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
79 – The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
78 – The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
77 – A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
76 – Stasiland by Anna Funder
75 – Gruppenbild mit Dame by Heinrich Böll
74 – Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
73 – A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
72 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
71 – The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
70 – The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
69 – Katz und Maus by Günter Grass
68 – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
67 – Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
66 – Dubliners by James Joyce
65 – The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
64 – The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
63 – Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
62 – The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
61 – Scenes from Clerical Life by George Eliot
60 – Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami
59 – Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
58 – Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
57 – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevesky
56 – Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
55 – Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
54 – Our Fathers by Andrew O’Hagan
53 – Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
52 – Das Versprechen by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
51 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
50 – The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
49 – The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
48 – Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
47 – The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
46 – Der Prozeß by Franz Kafka
45 – Notes from Underground & The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43 – Headgames by Nick Earls
42 – The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox
41 – Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles by Euripedes
40 – Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
39 – Les Récrés du Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé
38 – Atonement by Ian McEwan
37 – Getting Rich First – Life in a Changing China by Duncan Hewitt
36 – What Maisie Knew by Henry James
35 – Breath by Tim Winton
34 – Middlemarch by George Eliot
33 – Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
32 – The Universe by Richard Osborne
31 – Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
30 – Der Verdacht by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
29 – Der Richter und sein Henker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
28 – Wish You were Here by Mike Gayle
27 – My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons
26 – The Family Way by Tony Parsons
25 – Ulysses by James Joyce
24 – A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
23 – Billard um Halbzehn by Heinrich Böll
22 – Blind Faith by Ben Elton
21 – The Riders by Tim Winton
20 – Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
19 – Songs from the Other Side of the Wall by Dan Holloway
18 – Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
17 – Candide by Voltaire
16 – Slam by Nick Hornby
15 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
14 – Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
12a – Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjiang
12 – How to Study Business Law by Glenda Crosling and Helen Murphy
11 – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
10 – The Theban Plays by Sophocles
9 – How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
8 – Bleak House by Charles Dickens
7 – Persuasion by Jane Austen
6 – Ansichten eines Clowns by Heinrich Böll
5 – Silas Marner by George Eliot
4 – To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
3 – Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1 – Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence