Books read in 2009
Favorites are bolded. Rereads are italicized.
1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance: An Inquiry into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
2. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule them All - Eric Bronson
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
6. Thank You For Smoking - Christopher Buckley
7. The Boy Detective Fails - Joe Meno
8. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for the American Soul - Karen Abbott
9. Star Wars and Philosophy - William Irwin
10. The Irresistable Revolution - Shane Claiborne
11. A Jesuit Off-Broadway - James Martin
12. The Matrix and Philsophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real - William Irwin
13. Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff
14. Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - Geoff Dyer
15. La Malade Imaginarie - Moliere
16. La Dame aux Camelias - Alexandre Dumas, fils
17. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
18. Medea - Euripides
19. An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
20. Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think! - Gard L. Hardcastle
21. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekov
22. Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
23. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
24. Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book About Everything and Nothing - William Irwin
25. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
26. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
27. Sundays with Vlad: From Pennsylvania to Transylvania, One Man's Quest to Live in the World of the Undead - Paul Bibeau
28. The Late Hector Kipling - David Thewlis
29. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation - Elizabeth Berg
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
30. Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
31. On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
32. The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss - Jonathan Letham
33. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
34. You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
35. Blindness - Jose Saramago
36. The Lost Art of Walking - Geoff Nicholson
37. Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints - James Martin
38. Pugetopolis: A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice -Knute Berger
39. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
40. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
41. My Life with the Saints - James Martin
42. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
43. Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis
44. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
45. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
46. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
47. Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category - Various
48. Set this House in Order: A Romance of Souls - Matt Ruff
49. Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
50. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
51. Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
52. A Lion Amoung Men - Gregory Maguire
53. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
54. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
55. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
56. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
57. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safron Foer
58. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
59. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
60. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
61. The Gunslinger (Dark Tower #1) - Stephen King
62. The Secret of Lost Things - Seridan Hay
63. When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
64. The Rise and Fall of English: Restructuring English as a Discipline - Robert Scholes
65. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
66. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change - Stanley Fish
67. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
68. King Lear - William Shakespeare
69. Sula - Toni Morrison
70. Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
71. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
72. Grammar and Gender - Dennis Baron
73. Errors and Expectations - Mina Shaughnessy
74. Beloved - Toni Morrison
75. The Transitive Vampire - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
76. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss
77. Jazz - Toni Morrison
78. Love - Toni Morrison
79. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
80. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
81. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead - Max Brooks
82. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
83. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
84. What I Talk About When I Talk about Running - Haruki Murakami
85. The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
86. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
87. Personal Record - Rachel Toor
88. I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President - Josh Lieb
89. American Nerd: A Story of My People - Benjamin Nugnet
90. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
91. Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
92. Cross-Talk on Compositional Theory: A Reader - Victor A. Villanueva
93. Literary Theory: An Anthology - Michael Ryan and Julie Rivkin