Books Read in 2009

(Archive of books read in 2009)

January 2009
Teaser by Jan Brogan (2008) - 291 pgs - Crime Fiction (S/T) - 3.5 Stars
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler (2008) - 343 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
Zoo Station by David Downing (2007) - 293 pgs - Crime Fiction (S/T) - 4 Stars
Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith (2008) - 332 pgs - Nonfiction
Broad Street by Christine Weiser (2008) - 234 pgs - Fiction


February 2009
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup (2005) - 318 pgs - Fiction - 4 Stars
The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson (2009) - 288 pgs - Nonfiction - 3 Stars


March 2009
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1861) - 632 pgs - Fiction (S/T) - 4.5 Stars
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (1987) - 416 pgs - Science Fiction (GN) - 4 Stars
Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughn (2007) - 303 pgs - Fantasy - 3 Stars
Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn (2008) - 226 pgs - Fantasy - 3.5 Stars
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn (2009) - 282 pgs - Fantasy - 3 Stars
Kitty Raises Hell by Carrie Vaughn (2009) - 311 pgs - Fantasy - 3.5 Stars


April 2009
The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories by Catherine Brady (2009) - 227 pgs - Fiction (ss) - 3.5 Stars
The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks (2009) - 312 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
Probable Claws by Clea Simon (2009) - 255 pgs - Crime Fiction - 4 Stars
Starfinder by John Marco (2009) - 326 pgs - Fantasy (YA) - 3.5 Stars
The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten (2007) - 311 pgs - Crime Fiction (MYS) - 4 Stars


May 2009
Precious by Sandra Novack (2009) - 274 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (2009) - 290 pgs - Fiction - 4 Stars
The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris (2009) - 319 pgs - Suspense/Thriller - 4 Stars
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond (2009) - 306 pgs - Fiction - 5 Stars
Defending Angels by Mary Stanton (2008) - 293 pgs - Fantasy/Mystery - 3.5 Stars


June 2009
Angel's Advocate by Mary Stanton (2009) - 304 pgs - Fantasy/Mystery - 3.5 Stars
A World I Never Made by James LePore (2009) - 262 pgs - Suspense/Thriller - 4 Stars
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandell (2009) - 247 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn Wall (2009) - 319 pgs - Fiction - 5 Stars
Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin by Lisa Sweetingham (2009) - 442 pgs - Nonfiction - 4 Stars


July 2009
The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson (2009) - 299 pgs - Crime Fiction - 4.5 Stars
One More Year by Sana Krasikov (2008) - 196 pgs - Fiction (short stories) - 4 Stars
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (2009) - 312 pgs - Fantasy - 3 Stars
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (2007) - 338 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (1997) - 321 pgs - Fiction - 3 Stars


August 2009
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey (2009) - 319 pgs - Crime Fiction - 3.5 Stars
In the Woods by Tana French (2007) - 429 pgs - Crime Fiction - 4.5 Stars
The Promised World by Lisa Tucker (2009) - 319 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
Parker: The Hunter (Richard Stark’s Parker, Book 1) by Darwyn Cooke (2009) - 140 pgs - Crime Fiction (GN) - 4 Stars
Shades of Grey by Clea Simon (2009) - 216 pgs - Crime Fiction - 4 Stars
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan (2009) - 280 pgs - Crime Fiction - 3.5 Stars
Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch (2009) - 317 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars


September 2009
Eleanor Rushing by Patty Friedmann (2000) - 275 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman (2009) - 374 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Durfar by Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis (2008) - 316 pgs - Nonfiction


October 2009
De Marco Empire by J Lou McCartney (2008) - 345 pgs - Fiction (Romance) - 2.5 Stars
Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal (2009) - 362 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl (2009) - 386 pgs - Crime Fiction - 4 Stars
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (2009) - 303 pgs - Fiction - 4 Stars
In the Wake of the Boatman by Jonathon Scott Fuqua (2008) - 307 pgs - Fiction - 4.5 Stars
Push by Sapphire (1996) - 192 pgs - Fiction - 5 Stars


November 2009
Lion of Senet by Jennifer Fallon (2002) - 558 pgs - Fantasy - 3.5 Stars
Face Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan (2009) - 280 pgs - Crime Fiction - 3.5 Stars
The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia (2010) - 387 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge (2009) - 322 pgs - Fiction - 4 Stars


December 2009
The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White (2009) - 335 pgs - Fiction - 3 Stars
Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics (2009) - 104 pgs - Fantasy - 4 Stars
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (2006) - 218 pgs - Fiction - 3.5 Stars
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) - 52 pgs - Fiction - 4 Stars
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden (2006) - 704 pgs - Nonfiction - 4 Stars
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2006) - 552 pgs - Fiction - 5 Stars
Interpreter of Maladies (1999) - 198 pgs - Fiction - Fiction (short stories) - 4 Stars