My intended reading for 2009

I know it is midway through the year, but I've lost the papercopy of thislist and it's good to have it somewhere safe for reference.

FICTION

1. December Heat by Luiz Alfredo Garcia Rosa. South American noir, apparently.
2. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Tragic, and American, going by the title. Because they do it differently over there.
3. The White Guard by Mikhail Bugalov. Shenanigans following the Bolshie revolution.
4. Becoming Madam Mao by Anchee Min. My token attempt to read a book my wife has read. She is sensible and doesn't return the compliment.
5. The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson. One of the authentic Big Beasts of British fantasy writing. So Harry Potter for grown-ups.
6. Purple America by Rick Moody. Purple, and American. Those crazy Yanks!
7. Quisante by Anthony Hope Hawkins. Swashbuckling nonsense, hopefully, from the author of The Prisoner of Zenda.

NON-FICTION

1. The History of the English Church and People by Bebe. Because its all true.
2. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock. Apparently the first full biography of Hitler.
3. For The Islands I Sing by George McKay Brown. A poet's autobiography. Hopefully more interesting than that sounds.
4. America in the Twenties by Geoffery Perrett. So I can wax knowledgable about the parallels between the last Economic Apocalypse and the current one.
5. All Too Human by George Stephanopolous. Clinton insider's account of the Salacious One.
6. Big Muddy by BC Hall and CT Wood. A book about the Mississippi. Why not?
7. The Hemingway Bookclub of Kosovo by Paula Huntly. Either an account of how literature brought some relief to those suffering in the horrors of ethnic cleansing, or a book soon to be adapted into a Stallone movie in which Hemingway takes out Milosevic.

RE-READS

1. Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad. The Great Man's most difficult good book.
2. A Disaffection by James Kelman. I won't be re-reading Translated Accounts just yet.
3. Red Shift by Alan Garner. A totally mad fantasy jamboree, where the past and present and the bit in between get all mixed up. Hopefully I'll understand it better this time.
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Nuff said, surely.
5. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner. Faulkner's great. This novel is strange. But it is referenced in Godard's A Bout De Souffle. Which is cool.
6. From Bondage by Henry Roth. Part three of Roth's Harlem Quartet, written after a helf century of literary silence.
7. Germinal by Emile Zola. Grisly story of miners and anarchists.