2009 booklist

I have so much work and relative nonsense to get done before this Christmas thing happens. I still haven't finished Christmas present shopping or house cleaning or even thought about cooking. And don't even get me started on how much work I need to get done by the end of the year.

I'm thinking our San Antonio holiday adventure is going to consist of me spending a whole lot of time in the hotel room working.

Ho ho ho!

So, since I've been procrastinating (something I do not wear like a badge, for the record), here is my 2009 reading list. I ended up reading much more off the list than I planned last year, so there are lots of repeats.

Here is to a year of reading.

A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream by Rick Kogan
A Crime So Monsterous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Ray by Barry Hannah
Song of My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White by Tom Sancton
The Adventures of Augi March by Saul Bellow
The Birth House: A Novel by Ami McKay
The Gathering by Annie Enright
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Loss of Leon Meed: A Novel by Josh Emmons
The Making of a Southerner by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
The Year of Pleasures: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
They Call Me Red by Orhan Pamuk
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys