2009 To Be Read List

I mentioned the other day about paperbackswap.com and my love of reading.  I have an ongoing list on the site of books I want to order when I get a credit (from mailing a book of my own to someone else).  The following books are the current list as of today.  I’m sure I’ll add more as the year goes along and I’d like to keep a page here for the books I read each year.  To wit:

1. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
2. 1st to Die (Women’s Murder Club, Bk 1) James Patterson
3. 2nd Chance (Women’s Murder Club, Bk 2) James Patterson, Andrew Gross 
4. 3rd Degree (Women’s Murder Club, Bk 3)James Patterson, Andrew Gross 
5. 4th of July (Women’s Murder Club, Bk 4)James Patterson, Maxine Paetro 
6. The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 
7. Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver 
8. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Camille Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp 
9. Atonement Ian McEwan 
10. Austenland: A Novel Shannon Hale 
11. The Awakening Kate Chopin 
12. The Beginning and the End Naguib Mahfouz 
13. Broken for You Stephanie Kallos 
14. Carley’s Song (Job’s Corner Chronicles, #2) Patricia Sprinkle 
15. Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
16. Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody 
17. A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 
18. The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 
19. The Covenant (Abram’s Daughters) Beverly Lewis
20. Crossing Over: One Woman’s Escape from Amish Life Ruth Irene Garrett, Rick Farrant 
21. Crow Lake Mary Lawson
22. The Debt (Women of Faith Fiction) Angela Hunt 
23. Devil’s Waltz / Bad Love (Alex Delaware, Bks 7 and  Jonathan Kellerman 
24. Eastward Ha! S. J. Perelman
25. Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 
26. Eden Close Anita Shreve 
27. Eventide Kent Haruf
28. Everywhere That Mary Went Lisa Scottoline 
29. The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West
30. Garden Spells Sarah Addison Allen 
31. Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times Steve Solomon 
32. Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier 
33. The Glass Castle : A Memoir Jeannette Walls 
34. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive Alexander McCall Smith
35. Grievous Sin Faye Kellerman
36. Handling Sin Michael Malone 
37. Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Joyce Milton 
38. Harvesting the Heart Jodi Picoult
39. Home Warming Emilie Barnes, Anne Christian Buchanan, Susan Rios
40. Ill Wind Rachel Caine 
41. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Peter Matthiessen 
42. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 
43. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini -
44. Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 
45. Ladder of Years Anne Tyler 
46. The Last Time They Met Anita Shreve 
47. Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner 
48. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah 
49. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s John Elder Robison
50. Love in the Ruins Walker Percy 
51. Lying Awake Mark Salzman 
52. Margaret’s Peace Linda Hall 
53. Marley and Me : Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog John Grogan
54. Me & Emma Elizabeth Flock
55. Mercy Jodi Picoult 
56. The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd 
57. The Moviegoer Walker Percy 
58. Mrs. Mike Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman 
59. My Antonia Willa Cather
60. My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great Dixie Cash 
61. My Home Is Far Away : An Autobiographical Novel Dawn Powell
62. Naked in Death J. D. Robb 
63. Never Look Back Lesley Pearse 
64. the other Boelyn girl Philippa Gregory 
65. Peony in Love: A Novel Lisa See 
66. Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver 
67. The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve 
68. Plainsong Kent Haruf 
69. The Prodigal (Abram’s Daughters, Bk 4) Beverly Lewis
70. Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 
71. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester
72. Queen’s Own Fool : A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots Jane Yolen, Robert Harris 
73. The Quilter’s Apprentice Jennifer Chiaverini 
74. Raising Demons Shirley Jackson 
75. The Remember Box Patricia Houck Sprinkle 
76. The Revelation (Abram’s Daughters) Beverly Lewis 
77. The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey Candice Millard 
78. Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs 
79. Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices Jodi Picoult 
80. The Starter Wife Gigi Levangie Grazer
81. The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 
82. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 
83. A Thread of Grace : A Novel Mary Doria Russell 
84. A Time To Mend Angela Hunt
85. Twilight Stephanie Meyer 
86. Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
87. West with the Night Beryl Markham
88. Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 

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