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2009 Books Read

1. Everything Must Go by Elizabeth Flock

2. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson

3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

4. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

5. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund

6. Red River by Lalita Tademy

7. Ahmads War, Ahmads Peace: Surviving Under Saddam by Michael Goldfarb




8. Three Junes by Julia Glass

9. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

10. Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

11. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

12. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

13. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux




14. Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

15. When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan

16. The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin

17. Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison

18. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult




19. Born Standing Up: A Comics Life by Steve Martin

20. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir

21. What to Keep by Rachel Cline

22. So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger

23. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan




24. Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank by Celia Riverbark

25. The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton

26. Forgive Me by Amanda Ward

27. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas

28. Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer




29. A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer

30. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman

31. If Today Be Sweet by Thrity Umrigar

32. Bless Your Heart Tramp and Other Southern Endearments by Celia Rivenbark

33. The Cross Examination of Jesus Christ by Randy D. Singer




34. The Office of Desire by Martha Moody

35. The Broker by John Grisham

36. Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell

37. Straight Up by Lisa Samson

38. The Ha-Ha by Dave King



39. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

40. The Known World by Edqrd P Jones

41. We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg

42. She Got Up Off the Couch:And Other Heroic Acts from Moreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel

43. The Beautiful Fight by Gary Thomas

44. The Used World by Haven Kimmel



45. A Song I Knew by Heart by Bret Lott

46. One L by Scott Turow

47. Sutter's Cross by W. Dale Cramer

48. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

49. Music and Silence by Rose Tremain



50. Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward

51. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

52. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

53. Left for Dead:My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers

54. Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik



55. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

56. Belong to Me by Marisa Los Santos

57. The Last Noel by Michael Malone

58. Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian

59. A Widow for One Year by John Irving

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