2009 Books

The ubiquitous list of all the books I read this year, I'm quite impressed that it is as eclectic as it is.  I definitely stepped out of my boundaries this year.  86 books in all.  I think I need to step it up if I hope to reach 100 books next year.  Anyway, here's the final list. 

• The Road Out of Hell by Anthony Flacco
• The Things that Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
• Soul Catcher by Leigh Bridger
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
• Spellbinder by Helen Stringer
• Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman
• Hex in High Heels By Linda Wisdom
• The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson
• Across the Endless River by Thad Carhart
• Elynia by David Michael Belczyk
• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda
• The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
• How to Catch and Keep a Vampire by Diana Laurence
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Nightfall by L. J. Smith
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• Playing House by Fredrica Wagman
• The Fury and Dark Reunion by L. J. Smith
• Grace Hammer by Sara Stockbridge
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Awakening and The Struggle by L. J. Smith
• Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• The Shimmer by David Morrell
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
• Be Your Own Brand by David McNally and Karl D. Speak
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
• The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
• I Can See You by Karen Rose
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• The Divorce Party by Laura Dave
• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
• The Rapture by Liz Jensen
• Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
• Persona Non Grata by Ruth Downie
• Wounded by School by Kirsten Olson
• Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
• Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
• The Lie by Fredrica Wagman
• The Link by Colin Tudge
• Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
• Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer
• Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Birthright by Nora Roberts
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Hot Ice by Nora Roberts
• Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
• Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts
• Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carre
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Marley and Me by John Grogan
• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer