Books read in 2009; links lead to wikipedia or amazon.

Phantom, Susan Kay
Aradia, Gospel of the Witches, Charles Godfrey Leland
Homeric Hymns, anonymous
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling
Inferno, Dante
Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Book 1 & II, Rudyard Kipling
For All the Tea in China, Sarah Rose
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Japanese Fairy Tales, Yei Theodora Ozaki
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West, Lesley Downer
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
The Hobbit, J.R. Tolkein
The History of Modern China, 1850-2009, Jonathan Fenby
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
A Question of Torture, Alfred W. McCoy
The American, Henry James
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
China: Its History and Culture, W. Scott Morton
Watching the English, Kate Fox
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control, Dominic Streatfeild
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Oscar Wilde
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
A Short History of Cambodia, John Tully
Warden Series, Rachel Caine
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Voices from S-21, David Chandler
Regeneration, Pat Barker
Faust, Goethe
Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry
Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics, Laura Miller
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
The Metamorphoses, Ovid
Rules, Britannia, Toni Summers Hargis
China's New Confucianism, Daniel Bell
Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
Beauty and Sadness, Yasunari Kawabata
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, Deirdre Le Faye
The Art of Happiness, HH Dalai Lama
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Anthology of Japanese Literature, UNESCO Collection
Tintin in Tibet, Hergé

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