My 2009 List

"House of Many Ways” DWJ                                      “Eight Days of Luke” DWJ

“Middlesex” JE                                                            “Good Omens” NG

“The Peasants” Reymont                                            “The Monster of Florence”

“Gods Behaving Badly” M Phillips                              “Life of Pi”

“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”                               “The Boxcar Children”

“Number the Stars”                                                    “James and the Giant Peach”

“Ines Del Alma Mia” Allende                                     “I Am a Cat” Soseki Natsume

“The Doctor’s Wife” Sawako Ariyoshi                        “The Waiting Years” Fumiko Enchi

“Black Rain” Masuji Ibuse                                          “The Gathering” AE

“The Years of Extermination” SF                                “Falling Man” DD

“Tree of Smoke” DJ                                                    “The Savage Detectives” RB

“The Kings of New York” MW                                    “The Zookeeper’s Wife” DA

“The Yamato Dynasty” Sterling Seagrave                  “Watchmen” Alan Moore

“The Giver”                                                                 “Island of the Blue Dolphins”

“The Outsiders”                                                          “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”

“Educating Momoko” Joji Numata                             “The Japanese Mind” Osamu Ikeno

“Wild Swans” Jung Chang                                           “Source of Japanese Tradition” de Bary

“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstresses”           “Reading Lolita in Tehran”

“A Thousand Splendid Suns” KH                                 “Exit A” A Swofford

“V for Vendetta” A Moore                                          “The Sun Over Breda” AP-R

“Water for Elephants”                                                “The Virgin Suicides” JE

“The Vagina Monologues” EE                                    “The Ultimate Hitchikers’ Guide”

“Artemis Fowl Series”                                                 “Book of Byron Poetry”

“Middlemarch”                                                           “Unaccustomed Earth”

“The Forever War”                                                     “The World is What it is”