
Here's the list of books I read in 2009:
January
Dewey:The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
Murder in Miniature - Margaret Grace
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
Nathan Coulter - Wendell Berry
What's So Great about Christianity? - Dinesh D'Sousa
Fidelity - Wendell Berry
Death by Cashmere - Sally Goldbaum
The Castle in the Attic - Elizabeth Winthrop
Thai Die - Monica Ferris
Bath Tangle - Georgette Heyer
Andy Catlett: Early Travels - Wendell Berry
February
Enquiry - Dick Francis
The Memory of Old Jack - Wendell Berry
Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World - Rebecca Manley Pippert
Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kastner
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think - Ray Comfort
An Irish Country Doctor - Patrick Taylor
A World Lost - Wendell Berry
March
The Reason for God - Timothy Keller
Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
The Wild Birds - Wendell Berry
The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
The Antioch Effect - Ken Hemphill
Remembering - Wendell Berry
That Distant Land - Wendell Berry
Paths of Glory - Jeffrey Archer
April
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Death of a Witch - M.C. Beaton
Real Education - Charles Murray
The Beach Street Knitting and Yarn Society - Gil MacNeil
Teatime for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith
May
Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Mighty Queens of Freeville - Amy Dickinson
Natural Elements - Richard Mason
Waiting for the Weekend - Witold Rybczynski
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
The Servants' Quarters - Lynn Freed
These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife - Bina Cady Kiyonaga
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
June
Because the Time is Near - John MacArthur
Dropped Dead Stitch - Maggie Sefton
Knit Two - Kate Jacobs
The Lost Quilter - Jennifer Chiaverini
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
July
Village School - Miss Read
Village Diary - Miss Read
Storm in the Village - Miss Read
Miss Clare Remembers - Miss Read
The Enemy Within - Kris Lundgaard
August
Ripping Things to Do - Jane Brocket
Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
Fishing for Gold - Karni Perez
Over the Gate - Miss Read
Village Christmas - Miss Read
The Fairacre Festival - Miss Read
Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer - Jane Brocket
The White Robin - Miss Read
September
Editions and Impressions - Nicholas Basbanes
Three Cheers, Secret Seven - Enid Blyton
Patterns in the Sand - Sally Goldenbaum
The Wednesday Wars - Gary D. Schmidt
Tyler's Row - Miss Read
Uncle Sam's Plantation - Star Parker
Losing Mum and Pup - Christopher Buckley
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken
October
There Goes the Bride - M.C. Beaton
Fatally Flaky - Diane Mott Davidson
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Quench the Lamp - Alice Taylor
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age - Arthur Herman
The Clockwork Twin - Walter Brooks
My Friends, the Miss Boyds - Jane Duncan
November
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals - Gillian Gill
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
1700 - Maureen Waller
Rereadings - Anne Fadiman, editor
End the Fed - Ron Paul
The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith
December
Dead Men Don't Crochet - Betty Hechtman
The American Senator - Anthony Trollope
The Chilling Stars - Nigel Calder and Henrik Svensmark
First to Fight - Victor Krulak
Even Money - Dick Francis and Felix Francis
SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
La's Orchestra Saves the World - Alexander McCall Smith
A Rumpole Christmas - John Mortimer
The Pioneer Woman Cooks - Ree Drummond
In the President's Secret Service - Ronald Kessler
Family Album - Penelope Lively
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson
A Splendor of Letters - Nicholas Basbanes
How lovely that you got to read so much Wendell Berry!
ReplyDeleteI noticed the Wendell Berry too! What inspires me about your reading is the nonfiction choices (like economics and politics, sociology and academic studies). What I love about your book list from the year is the common book loves we have.
ReplyDeleteBook lists...my favorite! I notice that we've read several of the same ones this year. Oh, and the picture you added is one I used on a bookmark for my husband along with this poem by Arnold Lobel:
ReplyDeleteBooks to the ceiling
Books to the sky
My piles of books are a mile high
How I love them
How I need them
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them
What a great year of reading!!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm worn out just looking at your list! Haha you inspire me to read more!
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