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I know everyone has anxiously been awaiting this for the past year so here:
First, if you only plan to read 2 books in 2009, read Shooting War by Anthony Lappe (the best book I read this year, hands down) and The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.
Youth Fiction
- Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
- Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
- A Mango-Shaped Space - Wendy Mass
- Sweethearts - Sara Zarr
- Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger
- Cures for Heartbreak - M.E. Rabb
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters - Lesley M. M. Blume
- Hello, Groin - Beth Goobie
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart
- Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
- Debbie Harry Sings in French - Meagan Brothers
- Waiting for Normal - Leslie Connor
- Wild Girls - Pat Murphy
- Child of Dandelions - Shenaaz Nanji
- Skin Deep - E.M. Crane
Fiction
- My Sister, My Love: the intimate story of Skyler Rampike - Joyce Carol Oates
- The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry
- What I Was - Meg Rosoff
- Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
- Revenge - Stephen Fry
- When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
- The Liar - Stephen Fry
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
- Birds of America: stories - Lorrie Moore
- Herland, The yellow wall-paper, and selected writings - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker (although her poems are pretty dreadful)
- The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Poetry
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde - Audre Lorde
- Revolutionary Letters - Diane di Prima
Memoirs/Biographies
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington power broker - Stacy A. Cordery
- Bento box in the heartland : my Japanese girlhood in whitebread America - Linda Furiya
- Not Quite What I was Planning: six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
- Angela Davis: an Autobiography - Angela Davis
- Recollections of My Life as a Woman: the New York years: a memoir - Diane Di Prima
- Living My Life - Emma Goldman
- Bella Abzug: how one tough broad from the Bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, pissed off Jimmy Carter, battled for the rights of women and workers, rallied against war and for the planet, and shook up politics along the way: an oral history - Suzanne Levine & Mary Thom
- Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition - Frida Kahlo
Non-Fiction
- Beyond Animal Rights: a Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals - edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams
- Illness as Metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors - Susan Sontag
- Bill of wrongs : the executive branch's assault on America's fundamental rights - Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
- Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
- Transforming a Rape Culture
- Medical Apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present - Harriet A. Washington
- Can We Talk About Race?: and other conversations in an era of school resegregation - Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Rain Without Thunder: the ideology of the animal rights movement - Gary L. Francione
- Feminism is for Everybody: passionate politics - bell hooks
- Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry - Gail A. Eisnitz
- He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 other double standards every woman should know - Jessica Valenti
- Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? - Gary L. Francione
- "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?": and other conversations about race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
- In defense of our America : the fight for civil liberties in the age of terror - Anthony D. Romero
- Voices of resistance : Muslim women on war, faith & sexuality
- The Terror Dream : fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America - Susan Faludi
- Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence
- Color of Violence : the Incite! anthology
- The Pornography of Meat - Carol J. Adams
- Living Among Meat Eaters: the vegetarian's survival handbook - Carol J. Adams
- The Dialectic of Sex: the Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone
- Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Mary Roach
- Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World - Bob & Jenna Torres
- The Book of General Ignorance - John Mitchinson
- Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation - Ellen Bravo
Graphic Novels
- Any part of the Fables series - Bill Willingham
- Aya by Marguerite Abouet
- Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine
- Potential - Ariel Schrag
- Robot Dreams - Sara Varon
- Come Over, Come Over - Lynda Barry
- One hundred demons - Lynda Barry
- Daddy's Girl - Debbie Drechsler
- Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
- We are on Our Own: a memoir - Miriam Katin
- Lucky - Gabrielle Bell
- Definition - Ariel Schrag
- Shake Girl
- Lust - Ellen Forney
- Coraline - Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell
- 1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham
- A People's History of American Empire : a graphic adaptation - Howard Zinn
- Fables Covers - James Jean and Bill Willingham
Most Disappointing Book of the Year
- Paper Towns - John Green (While he is very good at writing "nice guy" characters, the ladies in his book always seem 2-d and appear to only exist in relation to the protagonist. Other than that, this book was pretty good. Well, except for the last 20 pages or so, which were complete shit.)
First, if you only plan to read 2 books in 2009, read Shooting War by Anthony Lappe (the best book I read this year, hands down) and The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.
Youth Fiction
- Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
- Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
- A Mango-Shaped Space - Wendy Mass
- Sweethearts - Sara Zarr
- Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger
- Cures for Heartbreak - M.E. Rabb
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters - Lesley M. M. Blume
- Hello, Groin - Beth Goobie
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart
- Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
- Debbie Harry Sings in French - Meagan Brothers
- Waiting for Normal - Leslie Connor
- Wild Girls - Pat Murphy
- Child of Dandelions - Shenaaz Nanji
- Skin Deep - E.M. Crane
Fiction
- My Sister, My Love: the intimate story of Skyler Rampike - Joyce Carol Oates
- The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry
- What I Was - Meg Rosoff
- Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
- Revenge - Stephen Fry
- When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
- The Liar - Stephen Fry
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
- Birds of America: stories - Lorrie Moore
- Herland, The yellow wall-paper, and selected writings - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker (although her poems are pretty dreadful)
- The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Poetry
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde - Audre Lorde
- Revolutionary Letters - Diane di Prima
Memoirs/Biographies
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington power broker - Stacy A. Cordery
- Bento box in the heartland : my Japanese girlhood in whitebread America - Linda Furiya
- Not Quite What I was Planning: six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
- Angela Davis: an Autobiography - Angela Davis
- Recollections of My Life as a Woman: the New York years: a memoir - Diane Di Prima
- Living My Life - Emma Goldman
- Bella Abzug: how one tough broad from the Bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, pissed off Jimmy Carter, battled for the rights of women and workers, rallied against war and for the planet, and shook up politics along the way: an oral history - Suzanne Levine & Mary Thom
- Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition - Frida Kahlo
Non-Fiction
- Beyond Animal Rights: a Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals - edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams
- Illness as Metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors - Susan Sontag
- Bill of wrongs : the executive branch's assault on America's fundamental rights - Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
- Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
- Transforming a Rape Culture
- Medical Apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present - Harriet A. Washington
- Can We Talk About Race?: and other conversations in an era of school resegregation - Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Rain Without Thunder: the ideology of the animal rights movement - Gary L. Francione
- Feminism is for Everybody: passionate politics - bell hooks
- Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry - Gail A. Eisnitz
- He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 other double standards every woman should know - Jessica Valenti
- Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? - Gary L. Francione
- "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?": and other conversations about race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
- In defense of our America : the fight for civil liberties in the age of terror - Anthony D. Romero
- Voices of resistance : Muslim women on war, faith & sexuality
- The Terror Dream : fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America - Susan Faludi
- Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence
- Color of Violence : the Incite! anthology
- The Pornography of Meat - Carol J. Adams
- Living Among Meat Eaters: the vegetarian's survival handbook - Carol J. Adams
- The Dialectic of Sex: the Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone
- Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Mary Roach
- Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World - Bob & Jenna Torres
- The Book of General Ignorance - John Mitchinson
- Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation - Ellen Bravo
Graphic Novels
- Any part of the Fables series - Bill Willingham
- Aya by Marguerite Abouet
- Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine
- Potential - Ariel Schrag
- Robot Dreams - Sara Varon
- Come Over, Come Over - Lynda Barry
- One hundred demons - Lynda Barry
- Daddy's Girl - Debbie Drechsler
- Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
- We are on Our Own: a memoir - Miriam Katin
- Lucky - Gabrielle Bell
- Definition - Ariel Schrag
- Shake Girl
- Lust - Ellen Forney
- Coraline - Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell
- 1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham
- A People's History of American Empire : a graphic adaptation - Howard Zinn
- Fables Covers - James Jean and Bill Willingham
Most Disappointing Book of the Year
- Paper Towns - John Green (While he is very good at writing "nice guy" characters, the ladies in his book always seem 2-d and appear to only exist in relation to the protagonist. Other than that, this book was pretty good. Well, except for the last 20 pages or so, which were complete shit.)