I read less books in 2009 than I had read in 2008, which is not entirely disappointing because I was also able to jazz-ify my bookshelf! Look at the before and after and tell me that’s not worth the 7 book difference:


Here’s what I read in 2009, the date and names of the first and second book got omitted, but I promise there was something there!
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3. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves – Russell, Karen (01/23)
4. The Awakening – Chopin, Kate (02/08)
5. Poetics – Aristotle (02/15)
6. King Lear – Shakespeare, William (02/16)
7. Push – Sapphire (02/17)
8. Othello – Shakespeare, William (02/21)
9. White Noise – DeLillo, Don (03/07)
10. Naked – Sedaris, David (03/15)
11. Notes from Underground – Dostoevsky, Fyodor (03/24)
12. Down These Mean Streets – Thomas, Piri (04/2)
13. The Beautiful and Damned – Fitzgerald, F. Scott (04/24)
14. Still Life With Woodpecker – Robbins, Tom (05/03)
15. Are You Somebody? – O’Faolain, Nuala (05/11)
16. HTHCAPIDWP – Giblin, L (05/16)
17. The Other Side of Paradise – Chin, Staceyann (06/18)
18. No-Body – Foreman, Richard (06/26)
19. 50 Great Short Stories – Crane, Milton (07/04)
20. Travels With Charley – Steinbeck, John (07/19)
21. Selected Poems – Sexton, Anne (07/21)
22. Lolita – Nabokov, Vladimir (07/29)
23. Things Fall Apart – Achebe, Chinua (08/05)
24. Nine Stories – Salinger, J.D. (08/13)
25. The Glass Castle – Walls, Jeannette (08/22)
26. White Teeth – Smith, Zadie (09/07)
27. No One Writes to the Colonel – Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (09/13)
28. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (11/7)
29. The Book of Other People – Smith, Zadie (11/14)
30. On Beauty – Smith, Zadie (12/19)
31. Selected Poems – Eliot, T.S. (12/21)
And as for what was read in 2008, look here: http://noisyseed.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/a-list-of-books-i-read-in-2008/