Books Read in 2009

This is my ongoing list of books I've read in 2009, with the most recently read at the bottom of the list. My goal is to read 52 books this year, last year I squeaked by and managed 50, and I'm upping it by 2 and making it an ongoing goal from now on! See my list of books I read in 2008 here, and feel free to make suggestions!

• Non-fiction books are in blue.
• My favorites are in bold.
• Books I read for book club are in italics or purple italics (yes I am in 2 now)
  

Books read in 2009:

1. Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
2. Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobson.
3. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
4. Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism by Jenny McCarthy
5. Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart
6. Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads: Dealing with the Difficult Parents in Your Child's Life by Rosalind Wiseman and Elizabeth Rapoport
7. Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
8. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
9. Death: A Life with George Pendle
10. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
11. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
12. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments Book 1)
13. Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
14. The Lost Girls by Laurie Fox
15. Hunted by P.C. and Kristin Cast
16. The Cobra Event by Richard Preston (2nd time reading)
17. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
18. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
19. Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (2nd time)
21. Skin Trade by Laurell K Hamilton
22. Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
23. Breasts by Meema Spadola
24. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
25. Tithe by Holly Black
26. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
27. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
28. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
29. Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
30. Escape by Carolyn Jessup
31. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods book 1)
32. Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods book 2)
33. Revelations by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods book 3)
34. The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley
35. The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods book 4)
36. Rage Against the Meshugunah by Danny Evans (of Dad Gone Mad)
37. Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton (Merry Gentry Series)

Books I plan to read in 2009:

• If God is Love by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
• What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire
• The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
• The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong (of Dooce)
• Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver