Here is a list of books I read in 2009. Friends and family pledged money for every book I read, and at the end of the year I was able to donate $5,000 to Blood:Water Mission!
#1 – The Bernini Bust by Iain Pears (review)
#2 – Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson (review)
#3 – Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne (review)
#4 – Welcome to my Planet by Shannon Olson (review)
#5 – Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg (review)
#6 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (review)
#7 - Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood (review)
#8 - He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt (review)
#9 - You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe (review)
#10 - Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (review)
#11 - A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (review)
#12 - Case of the Missing Books by Ian Samson (review)
#13 - The Suspect by John Lescroart (review)
#14 - The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (review)
#15 - The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier (review)
#16 - Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen (review)
#17 - The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (review)
#18 – How the World Makes Love by Franz Wisner (review)
#19 - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (review)
#20 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin (review)
#21 - What a Girl Wants by Kristin Billerbeck (review)
#22 - Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson (review)
#23 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (review)
#24 - Mr. Dixon Disappears by Ian Samson (review)
#25 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (review)
#26 - Gentleman of Leisure by PG Wodehouse (review)
#27 - My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay (review)
#28 - She’s Out of Control by Kristin Billerbeck (review)
#29 - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (review)
#30 - The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (review)
#31 - The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg (review)
#32 - Howard’s End by E.M. Forster (review)
#33 - Just Courage by Gary Haugen (review)
#34 - The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet (review)
#35 - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (review)
#36 - Firmin by Sam Savage (review)
#37 - The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte (review)
#38 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (review)
#39 - Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas (review)
#40 - The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl (review)
#41 - The Dangerous Act of Worship by Mark Labberton (review)
#42 - Wide Awake by Erwin McManus (review)
#43 - The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (review)
#44 - Austenland by Shannon Hale (review)
#45 - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (review)
#46 - Oxygen by John B. Olson and Randall Ingermanson (review)
#47 - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (review)
#48 - Snobs by Julian Fellowes (review)
#49 - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (review)
#50 - The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (review)
#51 - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (review)
#52 - The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (review)
#53 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (review)
#54 - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (review)
#55 - A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis (review)
#56 - Black by Ted Dekker (review)
#57 - A People’s History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass (review)
#58 - Your Money Counts by Howard Dayton (review)
#59 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (review)
#60 - One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook (review)
#61 - The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (review)
#62 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (review)
#63 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (review)
#64 - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (review)
#65 - Daughters of Hope by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett (review)
#66 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (review)
#67 - What Difference do it Make? by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (review)
#68 - Angry Conversations with God by Susan Isaacs (review)
#69 - Sex God by Rob Bell (review)
#70 - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller (review)
#71 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (review)
#72 - My French Whore by Gene Wilder (review)
#73 - Jumping Through Fires by David Nasser (review)
#74 - The Simple Life by Thom Rainer and Art Rainer (review)
#75 - The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs (review)
