Books Read in 2009

Here they are. In bold are the best of the best:

Hatchet; Watchmen; Poachers; X-Ray; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; How I Became Stupid; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party; Wild Ducks Flying Backward; St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves; Ask the Dust; When You Are Engulfed in Flames; Maps & Legends; Eats Shoots & Leaves; My Life and Hard Times; Boy Proof; Moominvalley in November; The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky; Trout Fishing in America; The Reason for God; Welcome to the Monkey House; Are You There, God? It’s Me. Kevin.; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; I Love You, Beth Cooper (audio); Angela’s Ashes; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Downtown Owl; To Have and Have Not; The Partly Cloudy Patriot; Andromeda Klein; The Beatles (audio); Consider the Lobster; Assassination Vacation; Dreams from my Father; Dubliners; Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams; An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Homes in New England; Basil’s Dream; The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History; Slam; King Dork (audio); Up Close: Harper Lee; Shoplifting From American Apparel; Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood; In Watermelon Sugar; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; The Widow and the Tree; How I Became a Famous Novelist; Juliet, Naked; Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life; On Writing