2009 books

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I'm calling 2009 over for books, since I don't think I'll finish another book before January 1st. Here is an updated book summary for 2009.

January: Spook
February: Queen Margot (didn't finish), Without Feathers (didn't finish)
March-April: The Corrections
May: My Sister's Keeper
June: Love in the Time of Cholera (didn't finish), Bonk
July: Julie & Julia
August: The White Queen, Her Fearful Symmetry
September: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, First Among Sequels
October: The Subtle Knife
November: Wishful Drinking, Official Book Club Selection, Genesis
December: This is Your Brain on Music (didn't finish)

Total started: 17
Total finished: 13

By the genres:
3 memoirs (Julie & Julia, Wishful Drinking, Official Book Club Selection)
2 non-fictions (Spook, Bonk)
3 modern novels (The Corrections, My Sister's Keeper, Her Fearful Symmetry)
2 fantasies (First Among Sequels, The Subtle Knife)
1 sci-fi novel (Genesis)
2 historical novels (The White Queen, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

New (to me) authors:
Jonathan Franzen (Corrections)
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Guernsey)
Carrie Fisher (Wishful)
Kathy Griffin (Official)
Bernard Beckett (Genesis)

Authors I'd read before:
Mary Roach (Stiff)
Jodi Picoult (The Pact)
Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl, half of Earthly Joys)
Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)
Jasper Fforde (The Thursday Next series)
Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass)

Ranking, starting with best-liked:

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2. Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell
4. Genesis, by Bernard Beckett
5. Spook, by Mary Roach
6. Bonk, by Mary Roach
7. Official Book Club Selection, by Kathy Griffin
8. First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde
9. The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
10. Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher
11. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
12. The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory
13. My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult

9 female authors
4 male authors

Where I got the books from:
3 were loaned to me by Bethany (Guernsey, Fearful, Sequels)
3 were gifts from Mike (Spook, Bonk, Subtle)
2 were loaned to me by Lindsay (Official, Wishful)
I bought Julie
Rice gave me Genesis
Sue gave me Corrections
My mom loaned me Keeper
LivingSocial sent me Queen

Books read for book clubs:
Julie (Page & Popcorn)
Keeper (ARMANi)

By publication year:
2009: 3 (Symmetry, Queen, Official)
2008: 3 (Guernsey, Bonk, Wishful)
2007: 1 (Sequels)
2006: 1 (Genesis)
2005: 2 (Spook, Julie)
2004: 1 (Keeper)
2001: 1 (Corrections)

Books I didn't finish:
2006: 1 (This is Your Brain on Music)
1988: 1 (Love in the Time of Cholera)
1975: 1 (Without Feathers)
1845: 1 (Queen Margot)
1997: 1 (Knife)