This chronological list includes books started prior to, but finished in, 2009. Dates in parentheses are those the
book in question was finished.
Bayonets to Lhasa, Peter Fleming (1.3.09)
Blake: A Biography, Peter Ackroyd (1.8.09)
Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction, Kate Wheeler, ed. (1.19.09)
Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis and Quincy Toupe (1.21.09)
First You Shave Your Head, Geri Larkin (1.21.09)
World Made By Hand, James Howard Kunstler (1.24.09)
Zen Wrapped In Karma Dipped In Chocolate, Brad Warner (2.16.09)
The Great Derangement, Matt Taibbi (2.18.09)
World Outside the Window, Kenneth Rexroth (Bradford Morrow, ed.) (3.1.09)
Over the Abyss: My Life in Soviet Special Operations, I.G. Starinov (Robert Suggs, trans.) (3.16.09)
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation, Richard Vinen (3.16.09)
The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (3.20.09)
Zen Buddhism: A History- India & China, Heinrich Dumoulin (4.5.09)
The Great Betrayal, Douglas Sutherland (4.7.09)
Halting State, Charles Stross (4.30.09)
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds, Jonathan Spence (5.5.09)
The Diamond Sutra (Red Pine, trans.) (5.12.09)
After Dark, Haruki Murakami (5.19.09)
Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser (5.20.09)
Alone With Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism, Stephen Batchelor (5.26.09)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (5.27.09)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick (5.29.09)
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (5.5.09)
The City and the City, China Mieville (5.24.09)
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey, Kenneth Blanchard, William Oncken, & Hal Burrows (7.5.09) (not by choice)
Get In The Van, Henry Rollins (7.9.09)
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, Jay Garfield, trans. (7.24.09)
The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng, Red Pine, translation and commentary (7.28.09)
Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor (7.30.09)
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust (8.6.09)
The Tower Struck By Lightning, Fernando Arrabal (8.24.09)
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch (8.27.09)
After the Harkness Gift: A History of Phillips Exeter Academy since 1930, Julia Heskel and Davis Dyer (9.3.09)
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (9.12.09)
I Am A Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter (9.14.09)
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, Carole Tomkinson, ed. (9.17.09)
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing, Ian Buruma (9.25.09)
Family, Ba Jin (10.1.09)
Rickshaw, Lao She (10.6.09)
Ambivalent Zen: One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Path, Lawrence Shainberg (11.2.09)
Mao's Last Revolution, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals (11.25.09)
A Quinzaine for this Yule, Ezra Pound (12.11.09)
The Case for Literature, Gao Xingjian (12.18.09)
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth, Sun Shuyun (12.22.09)
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