08 February 2010

Top 10s of 2009

My top 10 reads - which weren't published in 2009, it's just when I happened to read 'em:

A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
How Many Miles to Babylon? Jennifer Johnston
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
Che's Afterlife, Michael Casey
I am a Cat, Nastume Soseki
Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle
Murphy, Beckett
The Natural Order of Things, Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

Top 10 movies:

The Hurt Locker
Up
An Education
This is It!
The Informant!
Moon
Tyson
Absurdistan (I know, it was technically released in 2008, but it didn't come out in the US until 2009, so there)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Dead Snow

Runners-up:
35 rhums
In the Loop
Tulpan
Star Trek

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