Books read in 2009

Here's my usual reference post of what I read in 2009. I seem to organize these differently every year, but this way works as well as any. I read 66 books in 2008, and 52 in 2007, so I'm a book less than last year but still better than the year before. Which seems pretty good given that this year I was trying to graduate and get through my first quarter of college.

• 65. The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton (fiction)
  
• 64. Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (fiction)
  
• 63. Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes (fiction)
  
• 62. Indians! by Arthur Kopit (play)
  
• 61. Biography: A Game by Max Frisch (play)
  
• 60. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (fiction)
  
• 59. Offending the Audience by Peter Handke (play)
  
• 58. The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (play)
  
• 57. Happy Days by Samuel Beckett (play)
  
• 56. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (fiction - Greek)
  
• 55. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (fiction - mystery)
  
• 54. The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (play)
  
• 53. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (play)
  
• 52. Medea by Euripides (play)
  
• 51. The Balcony by Jean Genet (play)
  
• 50. The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco (play)
  
• 49. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (play)
  
• 48. The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'neill (play)
  
• 47. Six Characters in Search of An Author by Luigi Pirandello (play)
  
• 46. The Good Person of Sichuan by Bertolt Brecht (play)
  
• 45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (fiction)
  
• 44. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (fiction)
  
• 43. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (nonfiction)
  
• 42. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (play)
  
• 41. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (fiction - reread)
  
• 40. Helen by Euripides (play)
  
• 39. Farthing by Jo Walton (fiction - mystery)
  
• 38. Nameless by Sam Starbuck (fiction)
  
• 37. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (fiction - short)
  
• 36. The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett (fiction - short)
  
• 35. On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad (fiction)
  
• 34. The Queen and I by Sue Townsend (fiction)
  
• 33. Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard (fiction)
  
• 32. Poems by Wilfred Owen (poetry)
  
• 31. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (fiction)
  
• 30. Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce (fiction - young adult)
  
• 29. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (fiction - mystery)
  
• 28. The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (fiction)
  
• 27. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (fiction)
  
• 26. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (fiction)
  
• 25. The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell (nonfiction - biography)
  
• 24. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (fiction - fantasy)
  
• 23. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (fiction)
  
• 22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (fiction)
  
• 21. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice (fiction - reread)
  
• 20. Lady Susan by Jane Austen (fiction - short)
  
• 19. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin (nonfiction - biography)
  
• 18. The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard (play)
  
• 17. The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce (fiction - young adult, reread)
  
• 16. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
  
• 15. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (fiction - mystery)
  
• 14. Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce (fiction - young adult)
  
• 13. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne (fiction - children's)
  
• 12. The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley (fiction)
  
• 11. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (fiction)
  
• 10. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (fiction)
  
• 9. Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea (nonfiction)
  
• 8. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (fiction)
  
• 7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (fiction - short)
  
• 6. Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poetry)
  
• 5. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (fiction - mystery)
  
• 4. Beowulf by Anonymous (poetry)
  
• 3. King Richard III by William Shakespeare (play)
  
• 2. The Mislaid Magician by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (fiction - young adult)
  
• 1. Nurk by Ursula Vernon (fiction - children's)