I read these books in 2009. Changing commute times meant more time for sleep, less time for reading. I was proud of myself for reading more in 2008, looks like I slacked a bit, though I did a lot less re-reading. Better next year!!

What was your favorite read of the year?

JANUARY
Offbeat Bride – Ariel Meadow Stallings
Intimate Weddings – C. Friedrichson
Jo Garten’s Weddings – J. Garten
The Graphic Design Reader – S. Heller
Sword and Citadel (Book of the New Sun 3 and 4) – G. Wolfe
Opening Up – T. Taormino
The Player of Games – Iain Banks
Beautiful Botanicals – B. King

FEBRUARY
After Dark – Haruki Murakami
Watchmen – Alan Moore
The Boleyn Inheritance – P. Gregory
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Your Vintage Wedding – Nancy Eaton
Things Fall Apart – C. Achebe

MARCH
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Conscious Bride – Sheryl Paul
A Widow For One Year – John Irving

APRIL
The Winds of War – H. Wouk
The Eight – Katherine Neville
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – M. Pollan

MAY
The Robber Bridegroom – Eudora Welty
Delta Wedding – Eudora Welty
The Ponder Heart – Eudora Welty
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Summer – Edith Wharton
The Lime Works – Thomas Bernhard

JUNE
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – H. Murakami
The Logogryph – Thomas Wharton
House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski
The Necklace and Other Tales – Guy de Maupassant

JULY
Spook Country – W. Gibson
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddin
Veronica – N. Christopher
Vile Bodies – E. Waugh

AUGUST
Kakfa on the Shore – H. Murakami

SEPTEMBER
Love & Money – Opdyke
Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson – Helperin
The Constant Princess – P. Gregory

OCTOBER
The Man in the Iron Mask – A. Dumas
War and Remembrance – H. Wouk

NOVEMBER
A Room With A View – E. M. Forster
I’m So Happy For You – Lucinda Rosenfeld
The Michael Jackson Tapes – Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Remainder – Tom McCarthy

DECEMBER
One Michael Jackson – Margo Jefferson