Books Read 2009
This is the first time I've posted this list before the end of the year, but having not yet started another book, I doubt I'll finish one within the next 25 hours.
I really don't read a lot of non-fiction and I tend to blaze through what I do pick up; however, this year the nonfiction took a back seat to some truly terrific fiction. I read (and reread) some incredible novels this year. I was surprised by how much I liked Bright Lights, Big City, less so by how much I loved Anna Karenina. I spent several early months this year on just three books: Anna, Gone with the Wind, and Bonfire of the Vanities. I'm sad to have only read 22 books this year, but I kept up with four magazines (a weekly and three monthlys), taught lots of Kaplan classes (about 8, I think), biked to work for several months, and ran a half-marathon in the fall. I saw this as an "in-between" year in my life, one in which I began doing the work toward changing my life in 2010, yet the year flew by. Fortunately, I was blessed with some wonderful reading along way, including the amazing Olive Kitteridge, which I only read this week and which I already want to read again!
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger*
- Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell*
- The New Jewish Wedding, Anita Diamant
- The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
- Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
- Royal Flush, Rhys Bowen
- A Royal Pain, Rhys Bowen
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
- Expecting Adam, Martha Beck
- Easter Rising, Michael Patrick Macdonald
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, editors of The Huffington Post
- Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities, Jeff Mapes
- The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
- The Magicians, Lev Grossman
I really don't read a lot of non-fiction and I tend to blaze through what I do pick up; however, this year the nonfiction took a back seat to some truly terrific fiction. I read (and reread) some incredible novels this year. I was surprised by how much I liked Bright Lights, Big City, less so by how much I loved Anna Karenina. I spent several early months this year on just three books: Anna, Gone with the Wind, and Bonfire of the Vanities. I'm sad to have only read 22 books this year, but I kept up with four magazines (a weekly and three monthlys), taught lots of Kaplan classes (about 8, I think), biked to work for several months, and ran a half-marathon in the fall. I saw this as an "in-between" year in my life, one in which I began doing the work toward changing my life in 2010, yet the year flew by. Fortunately, I was blessed with some wonderful reading along way, including the amazing Olive Kitteridge, which I only read this week and which I already want to read again!