2009 reading roundup

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.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
3. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
4. Another Life: The Final Burke Novel by Andrew Vachss
5. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
8. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGraw
9. Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein
10. Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
11. Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
12. Bones by Jonathan Kellerman
13. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
14. Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler
15. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
16. Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
17. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
18. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
19. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
20. Long Lost by Harlan Coben
21. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
22. Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
23. Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser
24. Life Sentence by Laura Lippman
25. Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave
26. God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee by Michaele Weissman
27. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
28. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
29. Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito
30. Keeping Hannah Waiting by Dave Clarke
31. Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
32. Wicked Prey by John Sanford
33. Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
34. The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
35. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
36. Shadows Still Remain by Peter De Jonge
37. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
38. Capture by Robert K. Tanenbaum
39. The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
40. Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel by Jeffrey Deaver
41. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
42. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
43. Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
44. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
45. Dune Road by Jane Green
46. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
47. Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
48. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
49. The Increment by David Ignatius
50. Plan B: A Novel by Jonathan Tropper
51. The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
52. April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
53. The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
54. New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
55. The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
56. Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman
57. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
58. Die Trying by Lee Child
59. Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass
60. The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
61. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno
62. The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
63. Street Dreams by Faye Kellerman
64. Q & A by Vikas Swarup
65. Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman
66. Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
67. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
68. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
69. The Poet by Michael Connelly
70. The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter
71. The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
72. Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
73. Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass
74. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
75. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
76. 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!