I've been using Librarything for the last few years to keep track of what I read. Here is the list of books I read or listened to in 2009, in the order I finished them.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- Another Life: The Final Burke Novel by Andrew Vachss
- The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGraw
- Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein
- Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
- Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
- Bones by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
- Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
- Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
- The Reader by Bernard Schlink
- Long Lost by Harlan Coben
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
- Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser
- Life Sentence by Laura Lippman
- Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave
- God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee by Michaele Weissman
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
- Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito
- Keeping Hannah Waiting by Dave Clarke
- Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
- Wicked Prey by John Sanford
- Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
- The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
- The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
- Shadows Still Remain by Peter De Jonge
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- Capture by Robert K. Tanenbaum
- The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
- Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel by Jeffrey Deaver
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Dune Road by Jane Green
- How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
- Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Increment by David Ignatius
- Plan B: A Novel by Jonathan Tropper
- The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
- April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
- The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
- New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
- The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
- Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- Die Trying by Lee Child
- Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass
- The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
- The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno
- The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
- Street Dreams by Faye Kellerman
- Q & A by Vikas Swarup
- Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman
- Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- The Embers by Hyatt Bass
- The Poet by Michael Connelly
- The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter
- The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
- Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
- Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Of the 76 books I read or listened to in 2009, only four were non-fiction, 18 were audiobooks, and four have been made into movies. You can see how my 2009 stats compare to the two previous years I've been keeping track in the table below.
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Number of books | 83 | 81 | 76 |
| Audio books | 11 | 32 | 18 |
| Nonfiction | 10 | 13 | 4 |
| Authors read more than once | 11 | 7 | 7 |
Some of my favorites in 2009 were Empire Falls, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, and the first two books in Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire. I also enjoyed listening to Sing them Home which was long and took me a while to get into but once I did I thoroughly enjoyed it and The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. And although I read To Kill a Mockingbird years ago, listening to it on audio was a great treat. The Uncommon Reader was a quick and enjoyable listen and Attack of the Theater People was a totally theatrical out there experience which I'm sure I wouldn't have enjoyed if I had only read it and not listened to it. I was most disappointed by The Story of Edgar Sawtelle which got such hype and not only did I not find it enjoyable to listen to, I DESPISED the ending! April & Oliver was another book that got a lot of hype but I found it underwhelming.
I'm almost done with my first book of 2010 and I have several audio books waiting for me. Some of the books I'm most looking forward to reading or listening to in 2010 are Pat Conroy's new novel, South of Broad, John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River, Sue Grafton's U is for Undertow, and the final book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest which I received as a graduation gift from my friend, CK, who graciously gave me the book her husband shlepped home from London even though she hadn't read it yet.
So here's looking forward to many more reading adventures in 2010!
