Books of 2009

(I'm going to be trying to start this blog up again. My resolution this year was to try to write at least a little bit every day in SOME kind of form, and a blog is a nice lazy way to kind of cheat and get that out of the way)

Anyway, I had a goal to get to 50 books in 2009 -- I didn't quite make it in 2008 because... uh... I discovered Pokemon in 2008 and so that ate into most of my subway time where I'd normally be reading. I did make it this year, but cheated a little by counting comics (if they're collected in one volume I think it counts).

My favorites are bolded. If I'm not too lazy this weekend I might try to do a top ten list kind of thing.

1) The Children of Hurin -- J.R.R. Tolkien

2) In The Miso Soup -- Ryu Murakami

3) Persuasion -- Jane Austen

4) Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk

5) Lucifer Vol. 1

6) Lucifer Vol. 2

7) Lucifer Vol. 3

8) Lucifer Vol. 4

9) Lucifer Vol. 5

10) Lucifer Vol. 6

11) Lucifer Vol. 7

12) Lucifer Vol. 8

13) Lucifer Vol. 9

14) Lucifer Vol. 10

15) Lucifer Vol. 11

16)War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy

17) B is for Beer -- Tom Robbins

18) Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

19) The Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood

20) The Stolen Child -- Keith Donohue

21) Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

22) Twilight -- Stephanie Meyer

23) Gilgamesh -- Derek Hines

24) The Trial -- Franz Kafka

25) Three Guineas -- Virginia Woolf

26) Live and Let Die -- Ian Fleming

27) Dancing Girls -- Margaret Atwood

28) Watchmen -- Alan Moore

29) The Eye in the Pyramid -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

30) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

31) Oryx and Crake -- Margaret Atwood

32) The Sirens of Titan -- Kurt Vonnegut

33) The Golden Apple -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

34) Official Book Club Selection -- Kathy Griffin

35) Maps and Legends -- Michael Chabon

36) The Year Of The Flood -- Margaret Atwood

37) Lost Girls -- Alan Moore

38) Leviathan -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

39) Kitchen -- Banana Yoshimoto

40) New Moon -- Stephanie Meyer

41) Look at the Birdie -- Kurt Vonnegut

42) Almost Transparent Blue -- Ryu Murakami
43) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh -- Michael Chabon

44) Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters -- Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

45) Baseball in April -- Gary Soto

46) Child of God -- Cormac McCarthy

47) A Princess of Mars -- Edgar Rice Burroughs

48) The Integral Trees -- Larry Niven

49) The Time Machine -- H.G. Wells

50) Amrita -- Banana Yoshimoto

51) Alien Xmas -- Stephen Chiodo & Jim Strain