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The Year of Readers

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This is a list of books I’ve read for 2009. Technically, sponsors need only pay per book. However, if you would like to donate for everything I read this year, I’m including the short stories as a separate list.

To learn more about this challenge, visit The Year of Readers blog.

Novels/Novellas/Anthologies

  1. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
  2. March by Geraldine Brooks
  3. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
  4. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
  5. Peony In Love by Lisa See
  6. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
  7. A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal
  8. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  10. I Lioed, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Gina Melucci
  11. DO-OVER! by Robin Hemley
  12. The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
  13. Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry
  14. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  16. Follow Me by Joanna Scott
  17. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
  18. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  19. Unholy Domain by Dan Ronco
  20. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  21. Testimony by Anita Shreve
  22. Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
  23. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
  24. Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
  25. Balancing On the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines
  26. The Texicans by Nina Vida
  27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  28. Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
  29. Amigoland by Oscar Casares
  30. The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns by Elizabeth Leiknes
  31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  32. Alex Cross’s Trial by Patterson and DiLallo
  33. Apples and Oranges by Marie Brenner
  34. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  35. In The Wake of the Boatman by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
  36. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
  37. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

Short Stories

  1. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  2. “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick
  3. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence
  4. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
  5. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
  6. “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor