However, looking at my archives, that's not entirely true -- I have been more or less absent all year. One benefit of blogging less is reading more, at least compared to some years. Without further ado, I present the list of books I read in 2009:
- Hoot [fiction] by Carl Hiassen
- Fieldwork [fiction] by Mischa Berlinski
- Scarlet Feather [fiction] by Maeve Binchy
- The Hour I First Believed [fiction] by Wally Lamb
- The Islandman [memoir] by Tomas O’Crohan
- Baby Proof [fiction] by Emily Giffin
- The Watchmen [graphic novel] by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood [non-fiction] by Taras Grescoe
- McCarthy’s Bar [travel] by Pete McCarthy
- The Way That I Went [non-fiction] by Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Catherine, Called Birdy [fiction] by Karen Cushman
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life [non-fiction] by Barbara Kingsolver
- Terror on the Burren [fiction] by Re O Laighleis
- Frog Haven [fiction manuscript] by Mary Stebbins Taitt
- Digging to America [fiction] by Anne Tyler
- Budding Prospects [fiction] by T.C. Boyle
- How the Irish Saved Civilization [non-fiction] by Thomas Cahill
- Jaywalking with the Irish [travel] by David Monagan
- Good Omens [fiction] by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- Adirondack Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Adventures, Misadventures, and the Pursuit of “The 46” [essays] edited by Carol Stone White
- Cannery Row [fiction] by John Steinback
- Mt. Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak Bagger [travel] by Kevin Flynn
- Northanger Abbey [fiction] by Jane Austen
- To See Every Bird on Earth [non-fiction] by Dan Koeppel
- Handle with Care [fiction] by Jodi Picoult
- Jaguar: One Man’s Struggle to Establish the World’s First Jaguar Preserve [non-fiction] by Alan Rabinowitz
- Parable of the Sower [fiction] by Octavia Butler
- Storkbites [memoir] by Marie Etienne
