2009 reading list update

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I was looking at some of the tags in my journal, and (whoa!) it's been months since I updated my reading list. So, even though I'm pretty damn close to the end-of-the-year wrap up (and hopefully my announcement of reaching book 50!), I feel like I'm past due for an update.

So here goes nothing!
1. The Tales of Beetle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
2. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Changed the World by Vicki Myron
3. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
5. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
6. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
7. The Nonrunnner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and on With Your Training by Dawn Dais
8. What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
9. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
10. Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
11. Grendel by John Gardner
12. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
13. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse Series #1) by Charlaine Harris
14. Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse Series #2) by Charlaine Harris
15. Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse Series #3) by Charlaine Harris
16. Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse Series #4) by Charlaine Harris
17. Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse Series #5) by Charlaine Harris
18. Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse Series #6) by Charlaine Harris
19. All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse Series #7) by Charlaine Harris
20. From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse Series #8) by Charlaine Harris
21. Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse Series #9) by Charlaine Harris
22. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
23. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
24. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
25. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
28. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
29. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
30. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
31. My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon by Bart Yasso
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
34. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

And the more recent books....
35. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
36. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
37. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
38. The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness by Pam Reed
39. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
40. Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete by Benjamin Cheever
41. Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka
42. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
43. Bonk: The Curious Couplings of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
44. A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi
45. Totally Useless History of the World by Ian Crofton
46. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
47. The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game by Michael Lewis
48. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

And I'm almost there.  I'm reading 2 books right now, alternating based on my mood.  I fully plan to finish them and reach 50 by New Year's Eve!