Books I've Read, 2009

+Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone by JKR (reread- duh)
+Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets by JKR (reread)
+Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban by JKR (reread)
+Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire by JKR (reread)
+Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix by JKR (reread)
+Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince by JKR (reread)
+Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows by JKR (reread, but only for the second time)
+The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JKR
+The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
+The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Not as good as "Assassination Vacation," but few books are.)
+Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
+My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler (Very funny fluff read)
+The Prestige by Christopher Priest (Waaay creepier than the movie!)
+Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (The movie was so much better.)
+V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
+The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (Very funny & thought provoking)
+Inside Inside by James Lipton
+The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (reread)
+Coraline by Neil Gaiman
+The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
+The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
+The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
+Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
+The Giver by Lois Lowry
+The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs (Another gem. Can't wait for A.J.'s next book!)


Best Book: Tie between The Year of Living Biblically and The Unlikely Disciple. Both give some great insights into religious practice and spirituality, in two very different ways.

Worst Book: Forrest Gump. This book is nothing like the movie, which I love. If I had been the movie exec who read this, I never would have optioned it. A rare example of a book being worse than it's movie companion.

Looking Forward to in 2010: Currently finishing up Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, and 1491 by Charles C. Mann. Looks like another non-fiction heavy year for me.
Also looking forward to the final installment of The Hunger Games series, and getting more use out of my library card.

A Happy New Year to all!

Books I've Read, 2008 (12/28/08)