2009 Book List

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In 2009, I read 45 books:

1. Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
2. Voyage by Adele Geras
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. My Antonia by Willa Cather
5. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
6. Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
8. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (counted as one book)
9. The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg
10. The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory
11. The Crowing Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
13. Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
14. Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady
15. Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses by Stephen Davis
16. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
17. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
20. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
21. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
22. Christy by Catherine Marshall
23. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
24. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
25. Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
26. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
27. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (reread)
28. The Color of Fire by Ann Rinaldli
29. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. Sula by Toni Morrison
32. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
33. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
34. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
35. The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
36. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
37. Border Music by Robert James Waller
38. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
39. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
40. The Color of Water by James McBride
41. Red River by Lalita Tademy
42. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
43. Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
44. Remember Me: Women and Their Friendship Quilts by Linda Otto Lipsett
45. The Solstice Evergreen: The History, Folklore and Origins of the Christmas Tree by Sheryl Ann Karas

Since I started keeping track in 2005, I have read 126 books, including young adult fiction. That is an average of 2.1 books per month over the past five years. Last year, I only read 16 books, so this year was an amazing improvement.

My goal for 2010 is to read 50 books! I would like to reread the Harry Potter series, but I have at least one dozen other titles to tackle first.