Anything else is not as important
2009 had an auspicious start (technically began in December as always), but again, as always, tapered off towards the end. Even so, reading 85 books this year is pretty great. I feel very accomplished.
JANUARY (6)
The Alcoholic - Jonathan Ames
Wake Up, Sir! - Jonathan Ames
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye - Jonathan Lethem
Our Story Begins - Tobias Wolff
How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society - Farhad Manjoo
FEBRUARY (9)
How the Water Feels to the Fishes - Dave Eggers
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Tiny One - Eliza Minot
The Brambles - Eliza Minot
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape - Sarah Manguso
Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama - Edited by Jory John
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Minor Robberies - Deb Olin Unferth
Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
MARCH (7)
The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
Salvation Boulevard - Larry Beinhart
Bagambo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
On Beauty- Zadie Smith
The Other Side of the River - Alex Kotlowitz
The Man in the Ceiling - Jules Feiffer
Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
APRIL (8)
A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage - Mark Twain
Blue Avenger Cracks The Code - Norma Howe
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
The Blue Avenger and the Theory of Everything - Norma Howe
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
MAY (2)
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
Small Wonder - Barbara Kingsolver
JUNE (15)
Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir - Jeffrey Brown
The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
The End - Lemony Snicket
Eat the Document - Dana Spiotta
The Old Left - Daniel Menaker
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
JULY (10)
Total Immersion - Allegra Goodman
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Nat Turner - Kyle Baker
LIfe, The Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
Hapworth 16, 1924 - JD Salinger
The Book of Phoebe - Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
No one belongs here more than you. - Miranda July
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - JK Rowling
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer - Novella Carpenter
AUGUST (8)
House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye - Jonathan Lethem
My Latest Grievance - Elinor Lipman
The Inn at Lake Devine - Elinor Lipman
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn - Alice Mattison
In the Nature of Cities - Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw
SEPTEMBER (8)
Black Water Rising - Attica Locke
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Changes in the Land -William Cronon
The Paradise of all these Parts - John Hanson Mitchell
Commencement -J. Courtney Sullivan
I Married a Communist - Phillip Roth
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Fires in the Mirror - Anna Deavere Smith
OCTOBER (5)
Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
A Clearing in the Distance - Witold Rybczynski
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
NOVEMBER (2)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
Dr. Horrible -Joss Whedon
DECEMBER (5)
Mirror, Mirror - Gregory Maguire
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
The Making of Where the Wild Things Are - Dave Eggers & Spike Jonze
2BRO2B - Kurt Vonnegut