The 2009 Book List

Books read in 2009:

January
Without a Backward Glance, Kate Veitch
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
Shelter Me, Juliette Fay
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Trouble the Water, Nicole Seitz
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs (audio book)
The Ha-Ha, Dave King
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (audio book)

February
Church of the Dog, Kaya McLaren
How Right You Are Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Dream Homes, Joyce Zonana
Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint
Stiff, Mary Roach
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Fool, Christopher Moore
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
a boy of good breeding, Miriam Toews
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
Company of Liars, Karen Maitland
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay

March
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen (audio book)
Cold Rock River, Jackie Lee Miles
The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Paper Towns, John Green
The Laws of Harmony, Judith Ryan Hendricks
In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh
Words in a French Life, Kristin Espinasse
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint
A Long Stone's Throw, Alphie McCourt (audio book)
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
Open Me, Sunshine O'Donnell

April
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
A Bad Case of Stripes, David Shannon
Madapple, Christina Meldrum
World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler
Population: 485, Michael Perry
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Precious, Sandra Novack
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (audio book)
A Thousand Voices, Lisa Wingate
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie
Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden

May
Foreign Tongue, Vanina Marsot
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria, Eve Brown-Waite
Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
Firmin, Sam Savage
The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thuy
The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Frederick Reiken
Bound South, Susan Rebecca White
The Lost Hours, Karen White

June

Little Bee, Chris Cleave

The God of War, Marisa Silver

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

The Widow's Season, Laura Brodie

The Only True Genius in the Family, Jennie Nash

The Last Beach Bungalow, Jennie Nash

Bitter Sweets, Roopa Farooki

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe

Into the Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea

North of Beautiful, Justina Chen Headley

Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs

July

Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat (audio book)

The Walking People, Mary Beth Keane

Girl Overboard, Justina Chen Headley

Kinky Gazpacho, Lori Tharps

The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu

The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway

The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa

Mudbound, Hillary Jordan

The World in Half, Cristina Henriquez

Small Town Odds, Jason Headley

August

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

The Earth Hums in B Flat, Mari Strachan

The Weight of Silence, Heather Gunderkauf

The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips
The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty

The Favorites, Mary Yukari Waters

The Magicians, Lev Grossman

Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel

The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (audio book)