Book Talk

by Kelsey Norwood

in Making Good

2009 book recommendations list collage

Thanks to all the excellent recommendations from my like literary-minded friends, 2009 was a year filled with good books. Here is a complete (I think…) list of books I read in 2009. I would recommend every one except #s 22, 37, 38, and 39.

  1. Schooled by Gordon Korman
  2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
  4. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  5. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  6. Lost by Sarah Prineas
  7. Stolen by Sarah Prineas
  8. The Creative Family by Amanda Soule by Nancy Springer
  9. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan by Nancy Springer
  10. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
  11. The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
  12. The Case of the Bizarre Boquets by Nancy Springer
  13. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady by Nancy Springer
  14. Savvy by Ingrid Law
  15. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
  16. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
  17. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
  18. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  19. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
  20. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  21. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  22. The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
  23. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  24. Holes by Louis Sachar
  25. Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster W. Cline
  26. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  27. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
  28. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
  29. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  30. The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
  31. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  32. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  33. Rapunzel’s Revenge by Dean and Shannon Hale
  34. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  35. The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
  36. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  37. I Am Morgan Le Fay: A Tale From Camelot by Nancy Springer
  38. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
  39. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Here are some of the books on my list for 2010:

  1. The Books of Bayern series by Shannon Hale
  2. This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
  3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  4. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  5. Wings by Aprilynne Pike
  6. These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
  7. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
  8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  9. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
  10. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
  11. Midwives by Chris Bojhalian
  12. Slob by Ellen Potter
  13. A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd

And lots more! What’s on your To-Read list this year?

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