2009 Book List
I’m a big nerd that keeps lists. Here’s the list of my completed books (so far) for 2009. Keep in mind, I am also a bookseller and don’t just read what I like, but also what my customers like, to have opinions and comparisons to offer those customers. All reviews can be found on my shelfari.com account.
1. Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan (Jan.)
2. Sense & Sensibility – Austen (Jan.)
3. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift (Jan.)
4. Pride & Prejudice – Austen (Jan.)
5. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict – Rigler (Feb.)
6. Suite Francaise – Nemirovsky (Feb.)
7. Oliver Twist – Dickens (Feb.)
8. Up the Down Staircase – Kaufman (Feb.)
9. Jane Eyre – Bronte (Feb.)
10. The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne (March)
11. Mary Queen of Scots – George (March)
12. East of Eden – Steinbeck (March)
13. Little Chapel on the River – Bounds (March)
14. Banvard’s Folly – Collins (March)
15. Stupid & Contagious – Crane (March)
16. Decaffeinated Corpse – Coyle (March)
17. Series of Unfortunate Events #12 – Snicket (April)
18. Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams (April)
19. Empire of Darkness – Jacq (April)
20. Kilmeny of the Orchard – Montgomery (April)
21. Blackbird – Lauk (May)
22. The War of the Crowns – Jacq (May)
23. The Castle – Kafka (May)
24. Lover’s Vows – Inchbald (May)
25. Amsterdam – McEwan (May)
26. Egyptian Magic – Budge (May)
27. Mansfield Park – Austen (May)
28. The Flaming Sword – Jacq (May)
29. Moby Dick – Melville (May)
30. Watermelon – Keyes (June)
31. A Wizard of Earthsea – Le Guine (June)
32. On Basilisk Station – Weber (June)
33. Nefertiti – Moran (July)
34. Zenith Rising – Goodell (July)
35. Coffee & Coffeehouses – Hattox (July)
36. Living Dead in Dallas – Harris (July)
37. French Pressed – Coyle (July)
38. City of Dreaming Books – Moers (July)
39. Time Was Soft There – Mercer (July)
40. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Fitzgerald (July)
41. Out of the Silent Planet – Lewis (July)
42. The Twelfth Transforming – Gedge (Aug.)
43. Far From the Madding Crowd – Hardy (Aug.)
44. At Home in Mitford – Karon (Aug.)
45. The Search for Nefertiti – Fletcher (Aug.)
46. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Bray (Aug.)
47. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Austen and Grahame-Smith (Aug.)
48. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Scamander (Aug.)
49. Cathy’s Key (Aug.)
50. Founding Brothers – Ellis (Sept.)
51. Sunshine – McKinley (Sept.)
52. Club Dead – Harris (Sept.)
53. Hunger’s Brides – Anderson (Sept.)
54. Dead to the World – Harris (Sept.)
55. The Shadow of the Wind – Ruiz Zafon (Sept.)
56. Dead as a Doornail – Harris (Sept.)
57. Definitely Dead – Harris (Sept.)
58. Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass – Carroll (Sept.)
59. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe (Sept.)
60. Foucault’s Pendulum – Eco (Sept.)
61. Flying Colors – Forester (Oct.)
62. Commander Hornblower – Forester (Oct.)
63. The Heretic Queen – Moran (Oct.)
64. The Communist Manifesto – Marx (Oct.)
65. The Fountainhead – Rand (Nov.)
66. On Art and Life – Ruskin (Nov.)
67. All Together Dead – Harris (Nov.)
68. From Dead to Worse – Harris (Nov.)
69. The Piano Tuner – Mason (Nov.)
70. The Ghost and Mrs. McClure – Kimberly (Nov.)
71. Lady Susan – Austen (Dec.)
72. Jumper: Griffin’s Story – Steven Gould (Dec.)
73. Madame Bovary – Gustav Flaubert (Dec.)
74. Unclean Spirits – M.L.N. Hanover (Dec.)
75. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (Dec.)
76. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray (Dec.)
77. Stardust – Neil Gaiman (Dec.)
78. The Looking Glass Wars – Frank Beddor (Dec.)
79. Seeing Redd – Frank Beddor (Dec.)
What have you read this year?
Anakalian Whims 
Charley said,
October 29, 2012 at 12:46 am
I do trust all the ideas you have introduced in your post.
They are really convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very
quick for starters. May you please lengthen them a little
from next time? Thank you for the post.
Books I Read in 2010 « Anakalian Whims said,
January 19, 2013 at 6:06 am
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