2009 Reading List

Works read this year: 145/100

Works Completed in 2009:
1. Robinson, Ray (ed). Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration. 177 pages. 1.2.09
2. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel. 132 pages. 1.10.09
3. Miller, Kathleen E. Last Laughs: Funny Tombstone Quotes and Famous Last Words. 157 pages. 1.12.09
4. Carson, Anne (ed). If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. 355 pages. 1.13.09
5. Hamilton, Laurell K. A Stroke of Midnight. 385 pages. 1.16.09
6. Hamilton, Laurell K. The Harlequin. 422 pages. 1.23.09.
7. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
8. Hamilton, Laurell K. Mistral's Kiss. 302 pages. 1.28.09.
9. Armstrong, Kelley. Men of the Otherwold. 369 pages. 1.29.09.
10. Glaspell, Susan. Trifles and "A Jury of her Peers". 48 pages. 1.29.09 +
11. Peacock, Caro. A Dangerous Affair. 303 pages. 2.2.09.
12. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 303 pages. 2.4.09.*
13. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09.+
14. Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue: English, and How it Got That Way. 245 pages. 2.12.09
15. Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Poems. 125 pages. 2.12.09.
16. McCarthy, Jenny. Belly Laughs. 165 pages. 2.14.09.
17. De La Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade. 305 pages. 2.14.09.
18. Hamilton, Laurell K. A Lick of Frost. 342 pages. 2.14.09.
19. Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. 328 pages. 2.17.09.
20. Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. 244 pages. 2.20.09.
21. Hamilton, Laruell K. Swallowing Darkness. 365 pages. 2.22.09.
22. Briggs, Patricia. Bone Crossed. 309 pages. 2.27.09.
23. Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 281 pages. 2.28.09. +
24. Harrison, Kim. White Witch, Black Curse. 504 pages. 3.2.09.
25. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 284 pages. 3.10.09.
26. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 189 pages. 3.12.09.
27. Cast, P.C. and Kristin Cast. Hunted. 323 pages. 3.16.09.
28. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.09.
29. Vern, Jules. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. 291 pages. 3.24.09. *
30. Lockwood, Cara. Wuthering High. 272 pages. 3.28.09.
31. Arthur, Keri. Dangerous Games. 384 pages. 4.2.09.
32. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Fantasy Lover. 352 pages. 4.4.09.
33. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. 99 pages. 4.5.09.
34. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Night Pleasures. 336 pages. 4.6.09.
35. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Night Embrace. 416 pages. 4.12.09.
36. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Dance with the Devil. 368 pages. 4.14.09.
37. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie. 331 pages. 4.15.09.
38. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. 238 pages. 4.17.09.
39. Moore, Christopher. Bloodsucking Fiends. 291 pages. 4.18.09.
40. Moore, Christopher. You Suck: A Love Story. 328 pages. 4.20.09.
41. Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson. 196 pages. 4.22.09.
42. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. 109 pages. 4.28.09. +
43. Hamilton, Laurell K., Green, Alves. The First Death. 128 pages. 5.1.09.
44. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia, eds. Literature: An Introduction... Vol. 2: Poetry. 38 pages (selection). January - May 2009. +
45. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia, eds. Literature: An Introduction... Vol. 1: Fiction. 74 pages (selection). January - May 2009. +
46. Sleator, William. House of Stairs. 166 pages. 5.3.09.
47. Hamilton, Laurell K, Lim, Booth. Guilty Pleasures: Volume 2. 144 pages. 5.5.09.
48. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Kiss of the Night. 382 pages. 5.6.09.
49. Le Fanu, Sheridan. Carmilla. 112 pages. 5.6.09.
50. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 184 pages. +
51. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Seize the Night. 352 pages. 5.9.09.
52. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Sins of the Night. 384 pages. 5.11.09.
53. Harris, Charlaine. Dead and Gone. 320 pages. 5.17.09.
54. Lovecraft, H.P. "The Call of Cthulhu." 31 pages. 5.18.09.
55. Orwell, George. 1984. 254 pages. 5.19.09.
56. Moore, Alan, et al. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 176 pages. 5.20.09.
57. Pratchett, Terry. The Truth. 348 pages. 5.23.09.
58. Campbell, Bruce. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. 338 pages. 5.25.09.
59. Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal. 377 pages. 5.28.09.
60. Moore, Alan and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. 416 pages. 5.28.09.
61. Pratchett, Terry. Making Money. 394 pages. 5.29.09.
62. Harris, Charlaine. Grave Sight. 320 pages. 5.31.09.
63. Harris, Charlaine. Grave surprise. 320 pages. 6.1.09.
64. Hamilton, Laurell K. Skin Trade. 486 pages. 6.4.09.
65. Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. 267 pages. 6.4.09. *
66. Harris, Charlaine. Shakespeare's Landlord. 214 pages. 6.5.09.
67. Harris, Charlaine. An Ice Cold Grave. 288 pages. 6.5.09.
68. Arnold, Catharine. Necropolis: London and Its Dead. 247 pages. 6.8.09.
69. Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 213 pages. 6.10.09.
70. Harris, Charlaine. Shakespeare's Champion. 224 pages. 6.12.09.
71. Harris, Charlaine. Shakespeare's Christmas. 224 pages. 6.12.09.
72. Slater, Maya. The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy. 324 pages. 6.15.09.
73. Pratchett, Terry. Nation. 367 pages. 6.17.09..
74. O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah. 249 pages. 6.19.09.
75. Harris, Charlaine. Shakespeare's Trollope. 194 pages. 6.22.09.
76. Harris, Charlaine. Shakespeare's Counselor. 243 pages. 6.22.09.
77. Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. 240 pages. 6.23.09.
78. Harris, Charlaine. Real Murders. 304 pages. 6.25.09.
79. Harris, Charlaine. A Bone to Pick. 272 pages. 6.26.09.
80. Harris, Charlaine. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse. 240 pages. 6.29.09.
81. Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 96 pages. 6.29.09.
82. Harris, Charlaine. The Julius House. 240 pages. 6.30.09.
83. Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Breast. 279 pages. 7.2.09.
84. Harris, Charlaine. Dead Over Heels. 272 pages. 7.3.09.
85. Harris, Charlaine. A Fool and His Honey. 272 pages. 7.3.09.
86. Harris, Charlaine. Last Scene Alive. 224 pages. 7.4.09.
87. Hall, Traci. Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways. 240 pages. 7.5.09.
88. Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980. 250 pages. 7.8.09.
89. Adrian, Lara. Kiss of Midnight. 432 pages. 7.10.09.
90. Oakley, Annie (ed). Working Sex: Sex Workers Write about a Changing Industry. 301 pages. 7.12.09.
91. Blumenfeld-Kosinksi, Renate. Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. 153 pages. 7.12.09.
92. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Unleash the Night. 384 pages. 7.15.09.
93. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Dark Side of the Moon. 384 pages. 7.16.09.
94. Feynman, Richard P. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Ed. Jeffrey Robbins. 257 pages. 7.18.09.
95. Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. 529 pages. 7.23.09.
96. Harris, Charlaine. Poppy Done to Death. 288 pages. 7.25.09.
97. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Devil May Cry. 384 pages. 7.28.09.
98. Verne, Jules. Around the World in 80 Days. 297 pages. 8.4.09.*
99. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Acheron. 816 pages. 8.4.09.
100. Valenti, Jessica. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women. 219 pages. 8.7.09.
101. Colbert, Stephen. I Am America (And So Can You!). 230 pages. 8.9.09.
102. Rowling, J.K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. 111 pages. 8.10.09.
103. Pratchett, Terry. Men at Arms. 377 pages. 8.11.09.
104. Pratchett, Terry. Feet of Clay. 357 pages. 8.12.09
105. Lowry, Lois. Messenger. 169 pages. 8.13.09.
106. Pratchett, Terry. Night Watch. 338 pages. 8.17.09
107. Pratchett, Terry. Monstrous Regiment. 405 pages. 8.24.09.
108. Adrian, Lara. Kiss of Crimson. 416 pages. 8.28.09.
109. Adrian, Lara. Midnight Awakening. 400 pages. 8.29.09.
110. Adrian, Lara. Midnight Rising. 384 pages. 9.1.09.
111. Briggs, Patricia. Hunting Ground. 286 pages. 9.4.09.
112. Pratchett, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. 265 pages. 9.6.09.
113. Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. 304 pages. 9.10.09.
114. Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. 118 pages. 9.13.09.
115. Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair. 382 pages. 9.17.09.
116. Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. 112 pages. 9.19.09.
117. Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 327 pages. 10.3.09.
118. Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard book. 307 pages. 10.3.09.
119. Armstrong, Kelley. Frostbitten. 339 pages. 10.5.09.
120. Verne, Jules. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 279 pages. 10.8.09.*
121. Moore, Christopher. A Dirty Job. 387 pages. 10.14.09.
122. Pratchett, Terry. Unseen Academicals. 400 pages. 10.20.09.
123. Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. 512 pages. 10.23.09.
124. Andrews, Donna. Murder with Peacocks. 296 pages. 10.25.09.
125. Roach, Mary. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. 303 pages. 10.29.09.
126. Adrian, Lara. Veil of Midnight. 368 pages. 11.6.09.
127. Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. 300 pages. 11.16.09.
128. Andrews, Donna. Murder with Puffins. 290 pages. 11.19.09.
129. Andrews, Donna. Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos. 293 pages. 11.20.09.
130. Andrews, Donna. Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon. 297 pages. 11.23.09.
131. Andrews, Donna. We'll Always Have Parrots. 340 pages. 11.25.09.
132. George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain. 177 pages. 11.26.09. *
133. Collins, Paul. The Book of William: How Shakespeare's Fist Folio Changed the World. 219 pages. 11.28.09.
134. Adrian, Lara. Ashes of Midnight. 368 pages. 12.3.09.
135. Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. 104 pages. 12.5.09.
136. Andrews, Donna. Owls Well That Ends Well. 326 pages. 12.7.09.
137. Hamilton, Laruell K. Divine Misdemeanors. 333 pages. 12.11.09
138. Shepherd, Jean. In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. 264 pages. 12.13.09.
139. Andrews, Donna. No Nest for the Wicket. 304 pages. 12.14.09.
140. Armstrong, Kelley. Exit Strategy. 480 pages. 12.15.09.
141. Danielewski, Mark Z. The Whalestoe Letters. 83 pages. 12.16.09. .
142. Gautier, Théophile. The Mummy's Foot. 48 pages. 12.20.09.
143. Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 156 pages. 12.24.09.*
144. Grafton, Sue. 'A' is for Alibi. 215 pages. 12.27.09
145. Grafton, Sue. 'B' is for Burglar. 211 pages. 12.30.09.

Incomplete Reads:
1. Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Hummingbird's Daughter. 10 chapters (approx. 118 pages). 7.3.09.
2. Grahame-Smith, Seth. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 25 pages. 10.4.09.

Reading List Color code:
Modern horror/vampire
Pregnancy/Baby Books
Classic Literature
Poetry, Short Stories, and Drama
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Biography/Nonfiction
Fiction, YA, etc
Graphic Novels
* Read to Brooks
+ Read for work