Books Read 2009

If I’ve posted any thoughts on these, they’re linked.

January
Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
Paris to the Moon – Adam Gopnik
McSweeney’s 28
Confessions of a Teenage Sleuth – Chelsea Cain
Dictation: A Quartet – Cynthia Ozick
State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America – Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (editors)

February
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
Without a Trace – Carolyn Keene
Like Like – Lorrie Moore
Click – Various Authors
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science – Atul Gawande
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963 – Susan Sontag

March
Days Between Stations – Steve Erickson
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
Persepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi
Maus I – Art Spiegelman
The Women – T. C. Boyle
Maus II – Art Spiegelman
The Three Incestuous Sisters – Audrey Niffenegger
Noisy Outlaws…. – Various (published by McSweeney’s)
The Adventuress – Audrey Niffenegger
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel – Kevin Cornelius
Beat the Reaper – Josh Bazell

April
Scott Pilgrim Volume 1 – Bryan Lee O’Malley
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
Stop Forgetting to Remeber – Peter Kuper
Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea – Chelsea Handler
Absolute Sandman Volume 1 – Neil Gaiman
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules – David Sedaris (editor)
McSweeney’s 29
Spoon River Anthology – Edgar Lee Masters
Let’s Talk About Love (33 1/3) – Carl Wilson
Anthropology: 101 True Love Stories – Dan Rhodes
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories – Anton Chekhov

May
Odes to Common Things – Pablo Neruda
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Girl on the Fridge – Etgar Keret
The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft Volume 1 – Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness – Richard Yates
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 1 – Various
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. L. Lockhart
My Horizontal Life – Chelsea Handler
American Primitive – Mary Oliver
Home Baking – Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Poetry 180 – Billy Collins (editor)
Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlife – David Eagleman
The Monsters of Templeton – Lauren Groff
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian – Kurt Vonnegut
A Mercy – Toni Morrison
B is for Beer – Tom Robbins
Nobody Move – Denis Johnson
Absolute Sandman Volume 2 – Neil Gaiman
Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris

June
Dog On It – Spencer Quinn
Steps – Jerzy Kosinski
Tales from Outer Suburbia – Shaun Tan
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Manual of Detection – Jedidiah Berry
Ghosts – Cesar Aira
The Snow Goose – Paul Gallico
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art – Scott McCloud
The Trouble with Poetry – Billy Collins
Pageant Perfect Crime – Carolyn Keene
Runaways Volume 1 – Brian K. Vaughan
Castle Waiting – Linda Medley
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Perfect Cover – Carolyn Keene
The Perfect Escape – Carolyn Keene
The Eternal Smile – Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
Embrioderies – Marjane Satrapi
Fables: Legends in Exile – Bill Willingham
Y: The Last Man: Unmanned – Brian K. Vaughan
The Book of Dead Philosophers – Simon Critchley
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout

July
The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
Blankets – Craig Thompson
Lowboy – John Wray
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Other Electricities – Ander Monson
Chicken with Plums – Marjane Satrapi
A History of the World in Six Glasses – Tom Standage
Runaways Volume Two – Brian K. Vaughan
Bounjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
The Woman Chaser – Charles Willeford
Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
The Dangerous Alphabet – Neil Gaiman
The Last Temptation – Neil Gaiman
Love Story – Erich Segal
Fables: Animal Farm - Bill Willingham