The Month in Books - July 2009

At the start of 2009, I set a goal to read 30,000 pages by year's end. I am measuring progress in pages, rather than titles, to avoid last year's bias toward shorter books. Here's what I read in July:

1. The Korean War - Max Hastings (review)
2. Possession - A.S. Byatt (review)
3. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (review)
4. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (review)
5. The Search for Modern China - Jonathan Spence (review)
6. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks (review)
7. Khrushchev - William Taubman (review)
8. Arthur & George - Julian Barnes (review)
9. The Lazarus Project - Aleksandar Hemon (review)

Pages Read: 4,427
Year-to-Date: 21,671