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2009 Book List
Since I doubt I'll be finishing the novel I'm currently reading by the end of the night I've decided to go ahead and post my 2009 reads. Books and ratings under the cut.
2009 Book List
January
1. 1984 – George Orwell: 4/5
2. Black Like Me- John Howard Griffin: 3/5
3. Diary – Chuck Palahniuk: 3/5
4. Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk: 4/5
5. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist: 4/5
6. Soul Kitchen – Poppy Z. Brite: 4.5/5
7. Night World, Book 1 – L.J. Smith: 1/5
8. Real World – Natsuo Kirino: 4.5/5
9. Suite Scarlett – Maureen Johnson: 4/5
10. Sybil – Flora Rheta Schrieber: 4.5/5
11. The Value of X – Poppy Z. Brite: 4/5
12. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia – Marya Hornbacher: 5/5
February
13. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis: 5/5
14. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald: 3/5
15. Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris: 4.5/5
16. Post-Mortem – Patricia Cornwell: 3/5
17. Magic’s Pawn – Mercedes Lackey: 1/5
18. Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel: 3/5
19. Snuff – Chuck Palahniuk: 2.5/5
20. Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk: 3.5/5
March
21. 13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson: 3/5
22. The Bermudez Triangle (re-read) – Maureen Johnson: 5/5
24. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut: 4/5
25. Exquisite Corpse (re-read) – Poppy Z. Brite: 5/5
26. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray: 5/5
27. Keeping You a Secret (re-read) – Julie Anne Peters: 5/5
28. The Key to the Golden Firebird – Maureen Johnson: 3.5/5
29. Looking For Alaska – John Green: 5/5
30. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman: 2.5/5
31. The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut: 4.5/5
32. Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner: 3.5/5
April
33. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green: 4/5
34. Animal Farm (re-read) – George Orwell: 5/5
35. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray: 5/5
36. Girl At Sea – Maureen Johnson: 3.5/5
37. Hannibal – Thomas Harris: 2/5
38. Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk: 1/5
39. The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass – 3/5
40. No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre – 4.5/5
41. Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs: 3/5
42. The Bone Doll’s Twin – Lynn Flewelling: 4/5
43. Weaveworld – Clive Barker: 1/5
May
44. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill: 3.5/5
45. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger: 5/5
46. The Count of Monte Cristo (re-read) – Alexandre Dumas: 5/5
47. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon: 3.5/5
48. Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser: 4/5
49. The Sweet, Far Thing – Libba Bray: 5/5
50. The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglass Adams: 4.5/5
51. Luna – Julie Anne Peters: 4/5
52. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park – Steve Kluger: 3/5
53. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn and David Levithan: 4/5
54. Paper Towns – John Green: 4/5
55. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson: 4/5
June
56. Marked – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
57. Body of Evidence – Patricia Cornwell: 3/5
58. Madness: A Bipolar Life – Marya Hornbacher: 3/5
59. Mysterious Skin – Scott Heim: 4.5/5
60. Purge: Rehab Diaries – Nicole Johns: 4.5/5
61. A Strong and Sudden Thaw – R.W. Day: 4.5/5
62. The Thief of Always – Clive Barker: 4/5
63. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks: 1/5
64. Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates: 1/5
July
65. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon: 3.5/5
66. The Crow: The Lazarus Heart – Poppy Z. Brite: 3.5/5
67. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Luis Stevenson: 3/5
68. Betrayed – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
69. Chosen – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
70. Untamed – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
71. My Loose Thread – Dennis Cooper: 1/5
72. Uninvited – Amanda Marrone: 3/5
73. Wrong: Stories – Dennis Cooper: 1/5
August
74. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
75. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
76. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
77. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
78. Dante’s Inferno: 4/5
79. Lord of the Flies – Willian Golding: 5/5
80. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes – Edith Hamilton: 2.5/5
81. The Night Watch – Sarah Waters: 3/5
82. Oedipus the King – Sophocles: 3/5
83. Stick Figure – Lori Gottlieb: 3.5/5
84. Hidden Warrior – Lynn Flewelling: 4/5
September
85. Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K. Hamilton: 3/5
86. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess: 4/5
87. Impulse (re-read) – Ellen Hopkins: 4/5
88. Naked – David Sedaris: 4.5/5
89. Rainbow Boys (re-read) – Alex Sanchez: 4/5
90. Rainbow High (re-read) – Alex Sanchez: 4/5
91. Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann: 4/5
92. Veronicka Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption – Paulo Coelho: 3/5
93. Wake – Lisa McCann: 2.5/5
94. The Weight of Silence – Heather Gudenkauf: 2/5
October
95. The Best Little Girl in the World – Steven Levenkron: 1/5
96. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak: 4.5/5
97. Dracula – Bram Stoker: 3.5/5
98. Empress of the World – Sara Ryan: 2.5/5
99. Going Bovine – Libba Bray: 4.5/5
100. The House You Pass on the Way – Jacqueline Woodson: 2/5
101. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins: 5/5
102. Night (re-read) – Elie Weisel: 5/5
103. No Plot? No Problem! – Chris Baty: 3.5/5
104. The Road – Cormac McCarthy: 1/5
105. The Rules of Attraction – Bret Easton Ellis: 4/5
106. The Stranger – Albert Camus: 3/5
107. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris: 4/5
November
108. Florida Roadkill – Tim Dorsey: 4/5
109. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins: 5/5
110. Keeping You a Secret (re-read) – Julie Anne Peters: 5/5
111. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold: 3/5
112. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey – Chuck Palahniuk: 1/5
113. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells: 2/5
114. Wide Awake – David Levithan: 4/5
115. Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon: 3/5
December
116. A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive – Dave Pelzer: 4/5
117. Dare Truth or Promise – Paula Boock: 1/5
118. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: 5/5
119. Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances – John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle: 4.5/5
120. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson: 4.5/5
121. Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead: 4/5
122. Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater: 3/5
123. Ash – Malinda Lo: 4/5
124. Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher: 4.5/5
125. Thirsty (re-read) – M.T. Anderson: 4.5/5
126. Looking For Alaska (re-read) – John Green: 5/5
127. Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane: 4/5
127 books total.
Best of the Year: Wasted by Marya Hornbacher, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Looking For Alaska by John Green, The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Worst of the Year:: Night World by L.J. Smith, Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, House of Night, books 1-4 by P.C. and Kristin Cast, Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates, My Loose Thread and Wrong by Dennis Cooper, The Best Little Girl in the World by Stephen Levenkron, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, Dare Truth or Promise and by Paula Boock.
Not a bad year at all.
2009 Book List
January
1. 1984 – George Orwell: 4/5
2. Black Like Me- John Howard Griffin: 3/5
3. Diary – Chuck Palahniuk: 3/5
4. Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk: 4/5
5. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist: 4/5
6. Soul Kitchen – Poppy Z. Brite: 4.5/5
7. Night World, Book 1 – L.J. Smith: 1/5
8. Real World – Natsuo Kirino: 4.5/5
9. Suite Scarlett – Maureen Johnson: 4/5
10. Sybil – Flora Rheta Schrieber: 4.5/5
11. The Value of X – Poppy Z. Brite: 4/5
12. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia – Marya Hornbacher: 5/5
February
13. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis: 5/5
14. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald: 3/5
15. Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris: 4.5/5
16. Post-Mortem – Patricia Cornwell: 3/5
17. Magic’s Pawn – Mercedes Lackey: 1/5
18. Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel: 3/5
19. Snuff – Chuck Palahniuk: 2.5/5
20. Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk: 3.5/5
March
21. 13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson: 3/5
22. The Bermudez Triangle (re-read) – Maureen Johnson: 5/5
24. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut: 4/5
25. Exquisite Corpse (re-read) – Poppy Z. Brite: 5/5
26. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray: 5/5
27. Keeping You a Secret (re-read) – Julie Anne Peters: 5/5
28. The Key to the Golden Firebird – Maureen Johnson: 3.5/5
29. Looking For Alaska – John Green: 5/5
30. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman: 2.5/5
31. The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut: 4.5/5
32. Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner: 3.5/5
April
33. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green: 4/5
34. Animal Farm (re-read) – George Orwell: 5/5
35. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray: 5/5
36. Girl At Sea – Maureen Johnson: 3.5/5
37. Hannibal – Thomas Harris: 2/5
38. Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk: 1/5
39. The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass – 3/5
40. No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre – 4.5/5
41. Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs: 3/5
42. The Bone Doll’s Twin – Lynn Flewelling: 4/5
43. Weaveworld – Clive Barker: 1/5
May
44. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill: 3.5/5
45. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger: 5/5
46. The Count of Monte Cristo (re-read) – Alexandre Dumas: 5/5
47. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon: 3.5/5
48. Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser: 4/5
49. The Sweet, Far Thing – Libba Bray: 5/5
50. The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglass Adams: 4.5/5
51. Luna – Julie Anne Peters: 4/5
52. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park – Steve Kluger: 3/5
53. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn and David Levithan: 4/5
54. Paper Towns – John Green: 4/5
55. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson: 4/5
June
56. Marked – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
57. Body of Evidence – Patricia Cornwell: 3/5
58. Madness: A Bipolar Life – Marya Hornbacher: 3/5
59. Mysterious Skin – Scott Heim: 4.5/5
60. Purge: Rehab Diaries – Nicole Johns: 4.5/5
61. A Strong and Sudden Thaw – R.W. Day: 4.5/5
62. The Thief of Always – Clive Barker: 4/5
63. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks: 1/5
64. Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates: 1/5
July
65. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon: 3.5/5
66. The Crow: The Lazarus Heart – Poppy Z. Brite: 3.5/5
67. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Luis Stevenson: 3/5
68. Betrayed – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
69. Chosen – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
70. Untamed – P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
71. My Loose Thread – Dennis Cooper: 1/5
72. Uninvited – Amanda Marrone: 3/5
73. Wrong: Stories – Dennis Cooper: 1/5
August
74. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
75. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
76. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
77. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read) – J.K. Rowling: 5/5
78. Dante’s Inferno: 4/5
79. Lord of the Flies – Willian Golding: 5/5
80. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes – Edith Hamilton: 2.5/5
81. The Night Watch – Sarah Waters: 3/5
82. Oedipus the King – Sophocles: 3/5
83. Stick Figure – Lori Gottlieb: 3.5/5
84. Hidden Warrior – Lynn Flewelling: 4/5
September
85. Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K. Hamilton: 3/5
86. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess: 4/5
87. Impulse (re-read) – Ellen Hopkins: 4/5
88. Naked – David Sedaris: 4.5/5
89. Rainbow Boys (re-read) – Alex Sanchez: 4/5
90. Rainbow High (re-read) – Alex Sanchez: 4/5
91. Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann: 4/5
92. Veronicka Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption – Paulo Coelho: 3/5
93. Wake – Lisa McCann: 2.5/5
94. The Weight of Silence – Heather Gudenkauf: 2/5
October
95. The Best Little Girl in the World – Steven Levenkron: 1/5
96. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak: 4.5/5
97. Dracula – Bram Stoker: 3.5/5
98. Empress of the World – Sara Ryan: 2.5/5
99. Going Bovine – Libba Bray: 4.5/5
100. The House You Pass on the Way – Jacqueline Woodson: 2/5
101. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins: 5/5
102. Night (re-read) – Elie Weisel: 5/5
103. No Plot? No Problem! – Chris Baty: 3.5/5
104. The Road – Cormac McCarthy: 1/5
105. The Rules of Attraction – Bret Easton Ellis: 4/5
106. The Stranger – Albert Camus: 3/5
107. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris: 4/5
November
108. Florida Roadkill – Tim Dorsey: 4/5
109. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins: 5/5
110. Keeping You a Secret (re-read) – Julie Anne Peters: 5/5
111. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold: 3/5
112. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey – Chuck Palahniuk: 1/5
113. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells: 2/5
114. Wide Awake – David Levithan: 4/5
115. Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon: 3/5
December
116. A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive – Dave Pelzer: 4/5
117. Dare Truth or Promise – Paula Boock: 1/5
118. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: 5/5
119. Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances – John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle: 4.5/5
120. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson: 4.5/5
121. Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead: 4/5
122. Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater: 3/5
123. Ash – Malinda Lo: 4/5
124. Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher: 4.5/5
125. Thirsty (re-read) – M.T. Anderson: 4.5/5
126. Looking For Alaska (re-read) – John Green: 5/5
127. Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane: 4/5
127 books total.
Best of the Year: Wasted by Marya Hornbacher, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Looking For Alaska by John Green, The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Worst of the Year:: Night World by L.J. Smith, Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, House of Night, books 1-4 by P.C. and Kristin Cast, Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates, My Loose Thread and Wrong by Dennis Cooper, The Best Little Girl in the World by Stephen Levenkron, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, Dare Truth or Promise and by Paula Boock.
Not a bad year at all.