2009 Book List

"She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain." - Louisa May Alcott

In 2008, I read 47 books. I wanted to improve on my 2009 reading.


January:
The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
You Belong to Me - Mary Higgins Clark
Stagger ford - John Hassler
Robinson Crusoe* - Daniel Defoe
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
The Tale of Despereaux - Kate Dicamillo
The Host - Stephenie Meyer



February:
Emma* - Jane Austen
Killer Swell - Jeff Shelby
Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
Wide Sargasso Sea* - Jean Rhys
Bloody Bones - Laurell K Hamilton

March:
Jane Eyre* - Charlotte Bronte
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Sense and Sensibility* - Jane Austen



April:
The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory

May:
The Woman in White* - Wilkie Colins
Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith

June:
The Shack - Wm. Paul Young
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Messenger - Lois Lowry
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
Persuasion* - Jane Austen
Club Dead - Charlaine Harris

July :
The Time Machine* - H.G. Wells
Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
Phantom of the Opera* - Gaston Leroux
Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
Animal Farm* - George Orwell

August:
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
Lost - Gregory Maguire
Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult

September:
Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
Something Borrowed - Emily Griffin
City of Thieves - David Beniof
Undead and Unwed - Mary Janice Davidson
Something Blue - Emily Griffin
Baby Proof - Emily Griffin

October:
All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris

November:
Northanger Abbey* - Jane Austen
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La Sombra del Viento - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fireproof - Eric Wilson
Love the One You’re With - Emily Griffin


December:
An Assembly Such as This: a Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Undead and Unemployed - Mary Janice Davidson

* = Classics list

Fifty nine! Booyah! Fifty Nine!! Even WITH April and October at only one book that entire month!! Also, I don't count audio books in this above list. These are all books I read, not listened to. (I don't consider hearing a book in my car on the way to and from work "reading." Were I to add those, forget about it.)

Wow, I have some serious reading to do in 2010!