Books Read in 2009

Submitted by Belladonna on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 04:45
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  1. 1. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
  2. 2. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  3. 3. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  4. 4. Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
  5. 5. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid
  6. 6. Story Telling - Tori Spelling
  7. 7. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
  8. 8. The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
  9. 9. Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck
  10. 10. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
  11. 11. The Giver - Lois Lowry
  12. 12. The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
  13. 13. Joy In the Morning - Betty Smith
  14. 14. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
  15. 15. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  16. 16. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  17. 17. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
  18. 18. One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
  19. 19. Light On Snow - Anita Shreve
  20. 20. A Three Dog Life - Abigail Thomas
  21. 21. Bread & Dreams - Jonatha Ceely
  22. 22. The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
  23. 23. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  24. 24. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
  25. 25. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes - Diane Chamberlain
  26. 26. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  27. 27. Two For the Dough - Janet Evanovich
  28. 28. Three to Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich
  29. 29. Breaking Clean - Judy Blunt
  30. 30. Her Last Death - Susanna Sonnenberg
  31. 31. Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
  32. 32. A Mother Held Hostage - Barbara Borntrager
  33. 33. The Prize Pulitzer - Roxanne Pulitzer
  34. 34. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  35. 35. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - Lisa See
  36. 36. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
  37. 37. Devil in the Details - Jennifer Traig
  38. 38. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  39. 39. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
  40. 40. The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
  41. 41. Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica
  42. 42. Multiple Blessings - Jon & Kate Gosselin
  43. 43. A Break With Charity - Ann Rinaldi
  44. 44. Wasted - Marya Hornbacher
  45. 45. Four to Score - Janet Evanovich
  46. 46. High Five - Janet Evanovich
  47. 47. Hot Six - Janet Evanovich
  48. 48. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  49. 49. Ten Degrees of Reckoning - Hester Rumberg
  50. 50. A Brain Wider Than the Sky - Andrew Levy
  51. 51. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
  52. 52. Might As Well Laugh About It Now - Marie Osmond
  53. 53. Where the River Ends - Charles Martin
  54. 54. Behind the Smile - Marie Osmond
  55. 55. Sweet Life - Barry Manilow
  56. 56. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  57. 57. Confessions of a Contractor - Richard Murphy
  58. 58. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs - Michael Collins
  59. 59. Brain Surgeon - Keith Black
  60. 60. Life & Other Calamities - KL Gifford
  61. 61. House Calls & Hitching Posts - Dorcas Sharp Hoover
  62. 62. The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos
  63. 63. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25 & the Search for the American Dream - Adam Shepard
  64. 64. Gimme Shelter - Mary Elizabeth Williams
  65. 65. Hungry Monkey - Matthew Amster-Burton
  66. 66. Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Far - Donny Osmond
  67. 67. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
  68. 68. Family Feasts for $75 a Week - Mary Ostyn
  69. 69. Tired of Being Tired - Jesse Lynn Hanley & Nancy Deville
  70. 70. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
  71. 71. Driving With Dead People - Monica Holloway
  72. 72. Monica's Story - Andrew Morton
  73. 73. On Writing - Stephen King
  74. 74. Columbine: A True Crime Story - Jeff Kass
  75. 75. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
  76. 76. Drinking, a Love Story - Caroline Knapp
  77. 77. Forever Young: My Friendship with JFK Jr. - Bill Noonan
  78. 78. Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-home-Dad - David Eddie
  79. 79. The Shack - William P. Young
  80. 80. Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
  81. 81. Lies My Mother Never Told Me - Kaylie Jones
  82. 82. The Food of a Younger Land - Mark Kurlansky
  83. 83. Official Book Club Selection - Kathy Griffin
  84. 84. Never Give Up - Ron Heagy
  85. 85. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
  86. 86. Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
  87. 87. Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic
  88. 88. Beautiful Stranger - Hope Donahue
  89. 89. Keep Climbing - Sean Swarner
  90. 90. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
  91. 91. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
  92. 92. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
  93. 93. It Ain't All About the Cooking - Paula Deen
  94. 94. Madness - Marya Hornbacher
  95. 95. The Year of the Intern - Robin Cook
  96. 96. Darkness Visible - William Styron
  97. 97. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  98. 98. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
  99. 99. Summer - Edith Wharton
  100. 100.Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  101. 101.The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
  102. 102.The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty
  103. 103.Testimony - Anita Shreve
  104. 104.Six Days on a Raft - Bill Harrison
Nance01/17/2009

I've like The Birds and The Apple Tree from Du Maurier, but I didn't read Rebecca yet.

Do you like it? Do you find it haunting or too kitsch?

Belladonna01/19/2009

Hi Nance! Glad you dropped by. I've admired your reading lists for a long time - no one reads more than you!

Anyways, I really liked Rebecca! It's quite descriptive and at times a bit slow, but I think it is one of a kind in creating a "feeling" both for the house and for Rebecca. I highly recommend reading it! I'll now have to check into her other works.

Nance11/09/2009

Maybe if you like the kind of Rebecca, you would probably like The River King by Alice Hoffman as the writing really looks like Du Maurier, Byatt and Süskind.