Books Read in 2009

These are the books that I read in 2009.  My original goal was to read 60 books this year, but I overshot that, having read 98 books.   Links are to my reviews over at the Book Nook.

January (10 books finished)

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

They Were Single Too by David M. Hoffeditz

Rex by Cathleen Lewis

The Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The God Who is There by Francis Shaeffer

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni

1984 by George Orwell

Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy

February (10 books finished)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

A Chance to Die: the Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliot

Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley

Woe is I by Patricia T. O’Conner

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

March (2 books finished)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

April (8 books finished)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Alexandra: The Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson

Fables, Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Borrows

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

May (11 books finished)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Future Grace by John Piper

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies

In the Name of God by Paula Jolin

June (5 books completed)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama

July (2 books completed)

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren

August (4 books completed)

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias

Faith and Pop Culture (Christianity Today Study Series)

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

September (3 books completed)

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Vhan Zeely and the Time Prevaricators by Mary Bailey

October (18 books…I do think I did something else this month besides reading…)

The President’s House by Margaret Truman

Secrets and Lies by Rhonda McKnight

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett

Wisdom Hunter by Randall Arthur

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

White Picket Fences by Susan Meissner

Shadow Government by Grant Jeffrey

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

Green by Ted Dekker

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Dead of Night by John Marsden

Betrayed! by Stan Telchin

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart

November (10 books)

The Killing Frost by John Marsden

Darkness Be My Friend by John Marsden

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

31 Hours by Masha Hamilton

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

December (15 books)

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose

Chicken and Plums by Marjane Satrapi

The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of  a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken by Howard Whitehouse

Death: The Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Burning for Revenge by John Marsden

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden

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