I joined a book group online this year ... the 75 Book Challenge for 2009 ... on LibraryThing.  I've kept track through a post on their website.  Here is a list of all the books I've read this year.  As you can see, I've surpassed the 75 mark and am into the 100's.  I guess I'm averaging around 3 books a week.  It's been an interesting year for reading ... I think I've run the gamut!  Enjoy the list!




January Books:
* Duma Key: A Novel by Stephen King
* Toys to Crochet: Dozens of Patterns for Dolls, Animals, Doll Clothes, and Accessories by Claire Garland
* Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
* Frankenstein The Graphic Novel: Original Text by Mary Shelley
* The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
* Mixed Blood: A Thriller by Roger Smith
* Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman
* Mr. Paradise by Elmore Leonard
* Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman
* The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell by Jorge Amado
* My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
* My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

February Books:
* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
* Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
* The Trusting and the Maimed, and other Irish Stories by James Plunkett
* Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
* The Virgin Knows: an art theft thriller by Christine Palamidessi Moore
* Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
* Not Quite What I Was Planning by Rachel Fershleiser
* The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
* Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
* Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

March Books:
* Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work: Stories
by Jason Brown
* The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
* Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
* Fix-it and forget-it big cookbook : 1400 best slow cooker recipes! by Phyllis Pellman Good
* Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
* The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
* The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
* The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
* Kipling's Choice by Geert Spillebeen
* The Stettheimer Dollhouse by Sheila W. Clark

April Books:
* Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
* Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt
* The Night Battles by M.F. Bloxam
* About Grace by Anthony Doerr
* Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
* Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa
* Shimmer by Eric Barnes

May Books:
* Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer
* The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
* This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
* Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler
* Wife of the Gods: A Novel by Kwei Quartey
* The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
* Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
* The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
* Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
* Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell
* Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny
* Skellig by David Almond

June Books:
* The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
* A Dark Traveling (Parallel Worlds) by Roger Zelazny
* Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
* In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
* Thunderstruck by Eric Larson
* City Primeval - High Noon in Detroit by Elmore Leonard
* Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
* The Savage by David Almond
* Time Stops for No Mouse (Hermux Tantamoq Adventure) by Michael Hoeye
* A Flickering Light (Portraits of the Heart, Book 1) by Jane Kirkpatrick
* Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
* No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
* The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

July Books:
* Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine
* Secrets in the Fire by Henning Mankell
* Ride The Fire by Pamela Clare
* Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
* Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
* All That Remains: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
* Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter: Sherlock Holmes Meets Karl Marx by Lewis Feuer
* The Ruins (Vintage) by Scott Smith
* The Summons by John Grisham
* Eleventh Hour (FBI Series) by Catherine Coulter
* Blind Side by Catherine Coulter
* I Can't Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney
* Clockwork by Philip Pullman
* The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime) by Stephen King

August Books
* Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) by Nancy Atherton
* Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
* Robin: The Lovable Morgan Horse (Morgan Horse Series) (The Morgan Horse Series) by Ellen F. Feld
* Regeneration by Pat Barker
* I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
* The Big Book of Grimm (Factoid Books) by Jonathan Vankin
* Beyond My Father's Farm by George J. Zeller
* Lethal Legacy (Alexandra Cooper Novel): A Novel by Linda Fairstein

September Books
* Watchmen by Alan Moore
* Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
* Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
* The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
* V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
* The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman
* The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelazny

October Books
* The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman
* Spring-Heeled Jack by Philip Pullman
* Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe
* The Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
* Strapless by Deborah Davis
* A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner
* The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
* Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang
* A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov
* Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
* Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
* The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

November Books
* The White Lioness by Henning Mankell
* Greek And Roman Ghost Stories by Lacy Collison-Morley
* Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
* Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
* Sidetracked by Henning Mankell