2009 Booklist

*Drumroll, please*

Announcing Valderi Valdera's 2009 booklist (Barnes and Noble, here I come)! And yes, half of these are carry-overs from Booklist Aught 8. I read just over 40 books last year, but I cheated a bit and six of them were re-reads of books not on the list. Will have to try a little harder to make it up to the big 6-0!

First up this year is Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. And yes, you can expect I'll be writing another blog entry shortly as a follow up to my film review. I'm about 30 pages in and it's not nearly as painful as Christopher Paolini's Eragon, so there is hope yet.

2009 Booklist

1. 13 Clocks, James Thurber
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
3. Blindness, Jose Saramago
4. Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
5. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
6. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
8. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ian Fleming
9. The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
10. Close Range, Annie Proulx
11. Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
12. Downtown Owl, Chuck Klosterman
13. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollen
14. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
15. Emma, Jane Austen
16. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
17. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
18. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
19. Ghost Girl, Tonya Hurley
20. The Giver, Lois Lowery
21. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
22. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J K Rowling
24. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
25. I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
26. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
27. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
28. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
29. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
30. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
31. Madeline is Sleeping, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
32. Minority Report and Other Stories, Philip K Dick
33. Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire
34. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
35. Neuromancer, William Gibson
36. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollen
37. On Writing, Stephen King
38. Paradise Lost, John Milton
39. Pastoralia, George Saunders
40. Possession, A. S. Byatt
41. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
42. Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
43. Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez
44. Remember Me, Christopher Pike
45. Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker
46. Shop Girl, Steve Martin
47. The Tales of Beadle the Bard, JK Rowling
48. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo
49. Tangled Webs, Anne Bishop
50. The Third Witch, Rebecca Reisert
51. The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
52. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffeneger
53. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
54. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
55. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
56. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffery Eugenides
57. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
58. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
59. Watership Down, Richard Adams
60. Wicked: The Grimmerie, David Cote