Here are the books I read during 2009. A look back: I helped raise money for the local women’s shelter, performed in The Vagina Monologues, spoke on the radio about veganism, painted the bedroom, proposed my thesis project, failed comps, collected thesis data, saw The Killers live, enrolled in a library science master’s program, started giving blood more, started an Etsy shop, lost 20 pounds doing the No-S Diet, joined a book club, passed comps, started a job as a special ed para, ran a 5K in 32:55, and graduated with my clinical psych master’s.
- Year of Living Biblically – Jacobs
- Why We Suck – Leary
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – O’Brien
- Perfume – Suskind
- Madame Bovary’s Ovaries – Barash & Barash
- Harvest for Hope – Goodall
- Children of Men – James
- Wide Window – Snicket
- Surprising Power of Family Meals – Weinstein
- Invention of Hugo Cabret – Selznick
- People of Sparks – Du Prau
- Prophet of Yonwood – Du Prau
- Diamond of Darkhold – Du Prau
- Choke – Palahniuk
- Miles from Nowhere – Mun
- Disguise – Hamilton
- Watchmen – Moore
- Reader – Schlink
- Only Girl in the Car – Dobie
- Gone Baby Gone – Lehane
- Kite Runner – Hosseini
- No-S Diet – Engels & Kallen
- Looking Glass Wars – Beddor
- Banker to the Poor – Yunus
- Life of Pi – Martel
- Time Traveler’s Wife – Niffenegger
- Author Unknown – Foster
- Odd Thomas – Koontz
- Be Happy Without Being Perfect – Domar
- Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament – Browne
- Tale of Despereaux – DiCamillo
- Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties – Rotolo
- Handmade Nation – Levine & Heimeril
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button (story) – Fitzgerald
- In the Woods – French
- Bunnicula – Howe
- Stories Rabbits Tell – Davis & Demello
- End of Overeating – Kessler
- Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur – Hari
- Boy in the Striped Pajamas – Boyne
- Murder in the Marais – Black
- Revolutionary Road – Yates
- Running with Scissors – Burroughs
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Rowling
- Boss of You – Bacon & Mears
- My Sister’s Keeper – Picoult
- Practical Cyclist – Haynes
- Craft Inc. – Ilasco
- City, Not Long After – Murphy
- Unit – Holmqvist
- Graveyard Book – Gaiman
- Enduring Love – McEwan
- Haunting of Hill House – Jackson
- Tales of the City – Maupin
- Louder than Words – McCarthy
- Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew – Notbohm
- Chi Running – Dreyer
- Book of Lost Things – Connolly
- How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization – Crimmins
- Coraline – Gaiman
- Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Edwards
- Gift from the Sea – Lindbergh
- Miserable Mill – Snicket
- Austere Academy – Snicket
- Amsterdam – McEwan
- Manchurian Candidate – Condon
- Power of Myth – Campbell
- Ersatz Elevator – Snicket
- Vile Village – Snicket
- Journey to the Center of the Earth – Verne
- Have a Little Faith – Albom
- Eating Animals – Foer
- Gates – Connolly
- Casino Royale – Fleming
- Box (stories) – Matheson
- Why We Make Mistakes – Hallinan
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby – Petrushevskaya
- What the Dog Saw – Gladwell
Attempted but Unfinished
Sick Girl – Silverstein
How the States Got Their Shapes – Stein
Wild Places – McFarlane
Defiance – Tec
In Hanuman’s Hands – Rao
Dangerous Angels – Block
Midwives – Bohjalian
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