Roads to Safe Places

I have to try keeping closer tabs on my list. Most of the books I read during the first half of the year are on my Oyo - which died in November, which makes it harder to piece together what I've been reading. Though since the books I read and forget probably shouldn't count, anyway, this list works just as well. The bold titles are my top seven of this year's books. 

( Complete list and top 7 (bold) )

Half-assed statistics: 

	'09	'10	'11
Female authors	14	30	21
Male authors	36	36	29
Re-read books	18	09	11
New books	32	54	39

Half-way through 2009, I abandoned the project of keeping track because I was busy with other things. This is an attempt to reconstruct what I have been reading that year.

1. A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Ian Mortimer
2. Homosexualität und Crossdressing im Mittelalter, Stefan Micheler
3.  Making Money, Terry Pratchett
4. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
5. The Black Jewels Trilogy, by Anne Bishop
6. Schwuler Osten - Homosexuelle Männer in der DDR, by Kurt Starke
7. Harvard's Secret Court, by William Wight
8. Die Stumme Sünde - Homosexualität im Mittelalter, by Brigitte Spreizer
9. Sodom und Gomorrha - zur Alltagswirklichkeit der Verfolgung Homosexueller im Mittelalter, by Bernd-Ulrich Hergemüller
10. Guards! Guards! - The Play. Adapted by Stephen Briggs
11. Wyrd Sisters - The Play, adapted by Stephen Briggs
12. Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
13. The Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud
14. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool
15. Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold!, by Terry Brooks
16. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
17. The Golem's Eye,  by Jonathan Stroud
18. Ptolemy's Gate, by Jonathan Stroud
19. Nation, by Terry Pratchett
20. Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
21. Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
22. Graceling, by Kristin Cashore <- read this book. You won't regret it.
23. Fire, by Kristin Cashore
24. Victorian London, by Liza Picard. In large parts, that is.
25. Fighting Talk, by James Inglis.
26. Privilege: A Reader, Michael Kimmel.
27. John Donne: Selected Letters, by P.M. Oliver (ed.)
28. John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Novel, by John Stubbs.
29. Brown Angels, by Walter Dean Myers <- This is a real treasure.
30. Push, by Sapphire. Brutal at times, but definitely worth reading!
31. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
32. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
33. Blonde Roots, by Bernadine Evaresto.
34. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, by Gerard Moore (ed.)
35. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
36. The Nixie's Song, by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
37. A Giant Problem, by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
38. The Wyrm King, by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
39. The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
40. Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book, by Tamora Pierce
41. Circle of Magic: Tris's Book, by Tamora Pierce
42. Circle of Magic: Daja's Book, by Tamora Pierce
43. Circle of Magic: Briar's Book, by Tamora Pierce
44. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
45. Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, by David Roberts (ed.)
46. Renaissance Self-Fashioning, by Stephen Greenblatt
47. The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts, Ernest Sullivan (ed.)
48. When Jeff Comes Home, by Catherine Atkins
49. Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett.
50. Whipping Girl, by Julia Serano. <- You need to read this book.

There are more, but I can't seem to remember them right now. Most of them I did not buy but borrowed at various libraries, so it's hard to remember which book I read when.

Last year:

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by Frank Baum
• Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
• A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
• Palgrave's Golden Treasury
• The Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
• The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
• Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor.
• Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts, Heinz Joachim Müller, Eberhard Späth
• Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes.
• Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire
• Die Vermessung der Welt, Daniel Kehlmann
• Mirror Mirror, by Gregory Maguire
• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
• Love that dog, by Sharon Creech
• Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Blood, Bread and Poetry by Adrienne Rich
• The Gay Teen, ed. Gerald Unks
• The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
• Fünfzig Gedichte des Expressionismus, selected by Dietrich Bode
• Die wunderbaren Jahre by Reiner Kunze
• Arts of the Possible, by Adrienne Rich
• Incidences in the life of a slavegirl, by Linda Brent.
• The End of Alice, by A. M. Homes
• Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett.
• Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett
• Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett
• Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling
• Dragonsbane (albeit in German, Der Schwarze Drache), by Barbara Hambly
• Imperium, by Robert Harris
• Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
• Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
• The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
• Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
• Glenraven, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Glenraven II, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Zeit der Maskierung - Lebensgeschichten lesbischer Frauen im dritten Reich, Claudia Schoppman
• Der Umgang der nationalsozialistischen Justiz mit Homosexuellen, Carola von Bülow
• The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood
• Lesbische Identität in der Adoleszenz, Karin Kolbe (Lesbian Identity in Adolescence).
• Ganz normale Mütter: lesbische Frauen und ihre Kinder, Birgit Sasse. (Completely normal mothers: lesbian women and their children)
• Lesbische Frauen: Lebenswelt - Beziehungen - Psychotherapie, Kristine Falco
• Beyond Sex and Romance? The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction. By Elaine Hutton
• The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
• A hat full of sky, by Terry Pratchett
• "... ist unstreitig homosexuell": Diskriminierung von Lesben und Schwulen in Arbeits- und Zivilrecht, Manuela Malt
• Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Katherine Forrest

Books between years:

• Elling by Simon Bent, based on the novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen
• Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
• Suicidal Behaviour in Europe. Schmidtke (ed.) et. al
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
• Prince Caspian, by C. S. Lewis