books 2009

And now the moment everyone has been waiting for....and by everyone I mean me.....my list of books read in 2009! Only 131 books this year, down from last year's 165 (which can be found here), but I blame grad school and the fact of being employed ALL year on that glitch.
Highlights include:
17 Re-reads (most due to grad school)
Favorites:
The Name of the Wind
The Battle of the Labyrinth/The Last Olympian
The Hero of Ages
Tamora Pierce books
Batman: Year One (what can I say, I love Batman)
Gone and Hunger
The Alchemist Trilogy
Discovering that Dumas had a new(ish) book that had been found in the archives in France.

And a whole stack (almost all) of Caldecott winners and honor books which were not included in this list due to the fact that they take all of 5 minutes to read. Also not included, my library school textbooks because they are boring.
Starred books are re-reads, and yes, I'm aware that I read several books twice in one year, blame grad school for that.

Here's the list:
1. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
2. Moving Targets – Mercedes Lackey
3. The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan
4. Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
5. Kabul Beauty School – Debbie Rodriguez
6. Goodbye, Jimmy Choo – Annie Sanders
7. Tweak – Nic Sheff
8. Winner Take Nothing – Ernest Hemingway
9. Dewey – Vicki Myron
10. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy – Gary D. Schmidt
11. Falling Off the Map – Pico Iyer
12. The Hero of Ages – Brandon Sanderson
13. Locked Rooms – Laurie R. King
14. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
15. Sun in Glory – Mercedes Lackey
16. The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt
17. Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith
18. Deep and Dark and Dangerous – Mary Downing Hahn
19. The Time Paradox – Eoin Colfer
20. The Pirate Hunter – Richard Zacks
21. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
22. Deadline – Chris Crutcher
23. Parzival – Katherine Paterson
24. The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
25. Sword of Ice – Mercedes Lackey
26. King of the Mild Frontier – Chris Crutcher
27. The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart
28. The Gebusi – Bruce Knauft
29. Watchmen – Alan Moore
30. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer *
31. Here There Be Dragons – James A. Owen
32. Easter Rising – Michael Patrick MacDonald
33. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey – Trenton Lee Stewart
34. Two for the Summit – Geoffrey Norman
35. Forever Lily – Beth Nonte Russell
36. Before They are Hanged – Joe Abercrombie
37. Turn Coat – Jim Butcher
38. Rumors – Anna Godbersen
39. Backup – Jim Butcher
40. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon – Dave Barry
41. Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway
42. Welcome to the Jungle – Jim Butcher
43. The Sun Over Breda – Arturo Perez-Reverte
44. Last Argument of Kings – Joe Abercrombie
45. breathe – Cliff McNish
46. Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion – David Bassom
47. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
48. The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
49. Maps and Legends – Michael Chabon
50. Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum
51. Mystic and Rider – Sharon Shinn
52. Song of the Lioness – Tamora Pierce
53. On Royalty – Jeremy Paxman
54. Batman: Year One – Frank Miller
55. The Language of Bees – Laurie R. King
56. Hood – Stephen Lawhead
57. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
58. Merlin’s Dragon – T.A. Barron
59. Schooled – Gordon Korman
60. Mexico City Blues – Jack Kerouac
61. Three Letters from the Andes – Patrick Leigh Fermor
62. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas *
63. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling *
64. Gone – Michael Grant
65. The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger
66. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
67. The Thirteenth House – Sharon Shinn
68. The Black Book of Secrets – FE Higgins
69. Chinese Handcuffs – Chris Crutcher
70. Dark Moon Defender – Sharon Shinn
71. The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword – George R. R. Martin
72. Massachusetts Curiosities – Bruce Gellerman & Erik Sherman
73. Looking for Alaska – John Green
74. Envy – Anna Godbersen
75. Reader and Raelynx – Sharon Shinn
76. X Files: Ruins – Kevin J. Anderson
77. Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson
78. Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
79. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
80. Persepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi
81. Airman – Eoin Colfer
82. Hunger – Michael Grant
83. The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick *
84. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
85. Angry Management – Chris Crutcher
86. In the Hand of the Goddess – Tamora Pierce
87. The Woman who Rides like a Man – Tamora Pierce
88. Red Helmet – Homer Hickam
89. Lioness Rampant – Tamora Pierce
90. 3 Willows – Ann Brashares
91. You Don’t Love Me Yet – Jonathan Lethem
92. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein *
93. Queste – Angie Sage
94. The Alchemist’s Apprentice – Dave Duncan
95. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson *
96. Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt *
97. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen *
98. The Higher Power of Lucky – Susan Patron *
99. Foundation – Mercedes Lackey
100. School of Fear – Gitty Daneshvari
101. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
102. Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
103. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne *
104. The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt *
105. Batman and the Monstermen – Matt Wagner
106. Chains – Laurie H. Anderson
107. Beauty – Robin McKinley
108. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle *
109. The Secret of Platform 13 – Eva Ibbotson
110. Coraline – Neil Gaiman *
111. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis *
112. The Alchemist’s Code – Dave Duncan
113. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
114. The Giver – Lois Lowry *
115. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling *
116. The School Skeleton – Ron Roy
117. Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? – Rebecca Caudill
118. Eagle Strike: An Alex Rider Adventure – Anthony Horowitz
119. The Alchemist’s Pursuit – Dave Duncan
120. Crazy Horse: Sioux Warrior – Brenda Haugen
121. Lincoln: A Photobiography – Russell Freedman
122. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village – Laura Amy Schlitz *
123. The Book of Time – Guillaume Prevost
124. The Wild Things – Dave Eggers
125. Charlie Bone and the Shadow – Jenny Nimmo
126. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
127. Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
128. The Last Cavalier – Alexandre Dumas
129. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
130. Sandry’s Book – Tamora Pierce
131. Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600 – Christopher Gravett

Now on to 2010! First up: Tris' Book by Tamora Pierce, book 2 in the Circle of Magic Quartet