What a great reading year 2009 was. I read 135 books, finished all 11 of my 2009 my challenges, made good progress on my two on going challenges, read several books out of my comfort zone and all in all had a great time.
My absolute favorites this year were:The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle by David
Wroblewski review The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer & Barrows
review hereTea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
review hereThanks For the Memories by Cecelia
Ahern review hereThe Help by Kathryn
Stockett review hereTortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
review hereMe Talk Pretty One Day by David
Sedaris review hereThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel
Barbery reviewDog Days by John Levitt
reviewSome of my other favorite books this year were:The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger review hereMiracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
review The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by
Stieg Larsson reviewThe Lost City of Z by David
Grann review hereBless Your Heart, Tramp by Celia
Rivenbark review hereSundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
review hereBrewster's Millions by George Barr
McCutcheon review hereCannery Row by John Steinbeck
review hereGil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
review hereA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
review hereFire Me by Libby
Malin review hereStaying Dead by Laura Anne
Gilman reviewThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill
Bryson review hereDivine Justice by David
Baldacci review hereAppaloosa by Robert B. Parker
review here1776 by David McCullough
review hereBooks out of my comfort zone:
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael
Beah review hereRobinson Crusoe by Daniel
DeFoe review hereMoll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
review hereThe Christmas Day Murders by Sheriff J.B. Smith
review hereBattle on the Bay by Edward T.
Cotham, Jr.
review hereSome of my least favorite were:Heart of Stone by C.E. Murphy
review hereI just assumed that I would like this since I like to read urban fantasy. The main character irritated me. I thought I might read another in the series anyway, but so far not so.
Obsessed by Ted
Dekker review hereI am a Ted
Dekker fan so I was surprised that I found one of his books I didn't like.
The Night Gardner by George
Pelecanos review hereI really disliked the end. The book wasn't anything like I thought it would be.
Death Match by Lincoln Child
review hereIt's not that I disliked this one so much as I got bored in the middle of it.
Cross Country by James Patterson
reviewIt didn't seem like I was reading
about Alex Cross.
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
reviewI was
disappointed in this book.