Books Read in 2009

November

81. SIPAT KULTURA: Tungo sa Mapagpalayang Pagbabasa, Pag-aaral at Pagtuturo ng Panitikan (2007) by Rolando Tolentino
80. Betrayal (2006) by Marquis De Sade, Translated by Andrew Brown
79. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (2009) by Slavoj Žižek

October

78. A Void (1969) By Georges Perec, Translated by Gilbert Adair
77. The Art of Seduction (2001) by Robert Greene
76. In the Miso Soup (1997) by Ryu Murakami, Translated by Ralph McCarthy
75. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie

September

74. Tellers of Tales, Singers of Songs: Selected Critical Essays (2001) by Soledad S. Reyes
73. Ang Panitikan ng Pambansang Demokrasya (1990) by Gelacio Guillermo
72. The Chinese Notebook (2004) by Ron Silliman
71. The Lake (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata, Translated by Reiko Tsukimura
70. The Key to the Tower (1997) by Gilbert Adair
69. Aspects of the Novel (1927) by E.M. Forster
68. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1974) Translated with an Introduction by Brian Stone

August

67. Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Translated by John Cumming
66. The Last Man (1957) by Maurice Blanchot, Translated by Lydia Davis
65. The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Ann Dunnigan
64. The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satires (1918-1963) Edited by Mirra Ginsburg
63. Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002) by Slavoj Žižek
62. The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
61. The Exchange and Other Stories (1968-1981) by Yury Trifonov, Translated by Ellendea Proffer, Helen Burlingame, Jim Somers, Byron Lindsey
60. Slavoj Žižek Presents Mao: On Practice and Contradiction (1967, 2007) by Mao Tse-Tung, Intro. by Slavoj Žižek

July

59. Macbeth (1623) by William Shakespeare
58. New Mass Art and Other Related Essays (1974-1987) by Kris Montanez
57. The Temple of Golden Pavilion (1956) by Yukio Mishima, Translated by Ivan Morris
56. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) by Paulo Freire, Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos
55. Literary Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition (1996) by Terry Eagleton

June

54. Ten Novels and Their Authors (1948) by Somerset Maugham
53. Disappearance (1987) by Yury Trifonov, Trans. by David Lowe
52. A Room of One’s Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
51. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1954) by Samuel Beckett
50. How to Read Lacan (2006) by Slavoj Žižek
49. The Ladies Paradise (1883) by Emile Zola, Translated by Brian Nelson

May

48. Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by J.V. Stalin
47. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1971) by Louis Althusser, Translated by Ben Brewster
46. Appleby Talking (1954) by Michael Innes
45. The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Meaning of Sarkozy (2007) by Alain Badiou, Translated by David Fernbach
43. Delta of Venus (1969) by Anais Nin
42. Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
41. Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
40. Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges, Trans. by Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, Anthony Kerrigan, L. A. Murillo, Dudley Fitts, John M. Fein, Harriet de Onás, and Julian Palley.
39. Illuminations: Reflections and Essays (1931-1940) by Walter Benjamin, Translated by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

April

38. Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe
37. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008) by Slavoj Žižek
36. In a German Pension (1911) by Katherine Mansfield
35. The Way of a Serpent (1982) by Torgny Lindgren, Translated by Tom Geddes
34. Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) by Mordecai Richler
33. Uniform Justice (2003) by Donna Leon, Translated by Andrew Sachs
32. The Master and Margarita (1940-1941) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

March

31. The Killer Inside Me (1952) by Jim Thompson
30. Red Dust: A Path Through China (2001) by Ma Jian, Translated by Flora Drew
29. The Philosophy of Marx (1995) by Etienne Balibar, Translated by Chris Turner
28. The Marquis of O-, The Earthquake in Chile, and The Foundling (1808-1811) by Heinreich Von Kleist, Translated by Richard Stokes
27. Sinister Stones (1954) by Arthur W. Upfield
26. Killing Time in a Warm Place (1992) by Jose Dalisay
25. Inventor of the Disposable Culture: King Camp Gillette (2001) by Tim Dowling
24. The Three-Cornered Hat (1874) by Pedro Antonio De Alaracon, Edited and Trans. by Alexander R. Tulloch
23. The Good Terrorist (1985) by Doris Lessing
22. Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville
21. The Maltese Falcon (1929) by Dashiell Hamett
20. The Blue Flower (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
19. Virgin Soil (1877) by Ivan Turgenev, Translated by Constance Garnett
18. On the Eve (1860) by Ivan Turgenev, Translated by Glibert Gardiner
17. The Moon and Sixpence (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham

February

16. Bedroom Revolutionary: An Apocryphal Anecdote (2004) by Andrew Minh
15. Great Expectations (1860-1861) by Charles Dickens
14. Hadji Murad (1904) by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Louise and Alymer Maude
13. Götz and Meyer (1998) by David Albahari, Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
12. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008) by Slavoj Žižek
11. Fox in the Attic (1961) by Richard Hughes
10. The Days of Abandonment (2002) by Elena Ferrante, Translated by Ann Goldstein
9. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

January

8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Trans. by Gregory Rabassa
7. The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It (2001) by Gilbert Adair
6. The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Andrew MacAndrew
5. Hostage: London (1977) by Geoffrey Household
4. Lethe in Vegas (2008) by Chris AlAswad
3. How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) by Alain de Botton
2. Unfair to Goliath (1968) by Ephraim Kishon
1. The Terra-Cotta Dog (1996) by Andrea Camilleri, Trans. by Stephen Sartarelli.

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