Read in 2009

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
• Language, Society and Power edited by Jean Stilwell Peccei and Ishtla Singh
  
• The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry edited by Joseph Bristow
• Hero by Perry Moore
  
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
  
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  
• The Girl In the Castle Inside the Museum by Kate Bernheimer and Nicoletta Ceccoli
  
• The Princess' Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy and Catherine Hyde
  
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet
• Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
  
• Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
  
• Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
• Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
• Fables: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
• Fables: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
• Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Feminism: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret Walters
• Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi
  
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  
• Paper Towns by John Green
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Crow Country by Mark Cocker
  
• We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin
  
• East by Edith Pattou
• Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell
• Clan Ground by Clare Bell
• Parasite Positive by Scott Westerfeld
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• Death Note v1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  
• Death Note v2 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  
• Death Note v3 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  
• The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
• Death Note v4 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  
• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
  
• Death Note v5 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
• Black Hole by Charles Burns
  
• Starfinder by John Marco
• Emma Vol 1 by Kaoru Mori
• Emma Vol 2 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Emma Vol 3 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Emma Vol 4 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Emma Vol 5 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Emma Vol 6 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Emma Vol 7 by Kaoru Mori
  
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
• Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice

• Fudoki by Kij Johnson
• My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
  
• The Lovers by Brian Friel
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
• Sorrow by John Lawson
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
• Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
• Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
• Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernandez
• The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
• What it Takes to Pull me Through by David L. Marcus
  
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
• The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
  
• Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by Andre Jordan
  
• Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
• Emma v.8 by Kaoru Mori

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• Here, There be Dragons by James A Owen
• Skellig by David Almond
• The Tygrine Cat by Inbali Iserles
• The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
• An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
• Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
• The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman & Gris Grimly
• Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
• Translations by Brian Friel
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
• Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
• Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
• The Savage by David Almond & Dave McKean

• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Feeling Like a Kid by Jerry Griswold
• The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy
  
• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• Shakespeare Manga: Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Emma Vieceli
• Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
  
• Bone: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: The Dragonslayer by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: Old Man's Cave by Jeff Smith
• Bone: Ghost Circles by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: Treasure Hunters by Jeff Smith
  
• Bone: Crown of Horns by Jeff Smith
  
• Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
  
• The Lament for Arthur Cleary by Dermot Bolger
• The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
• Reasonable Creatures by Katha Pollitt
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
• Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle

• Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
  
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
  
• The Tramway End by Dermot Bolger
  
• Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age edited by Martha Vicinus
• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• What I Was by Meg Rosoff
• The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry
• Euripides' Medea by Brendan Kennelly
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Picasso by Gertrude Stein
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Don't Call Me a Crook! by Bob Moore
  
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
• Cheek by Jowl by Ursula Le Guin
  
• Euripides' The Trojan Women by Brendan Kennely
• Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin

• The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston
• Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• Salamander Dream by Hope Larson
• Genders by Cora Kaplan and David Glover
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
• Uneven Developments by Mary Poovey
• Slow Storm by Danica Novgorodoff
• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  
• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
  
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
  
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine
• The Princess Test by Gail Carson Levine
• Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• a cool moonlight by Angela Johnson
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Emma Vol 9 by Kaoru Mori
  
• Unauthorized Pleasures by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
  

• Bayou Vol 1 by Jeremy Love
  
• Dramacon: Ultimate Edition by Svetlana Chmakova
  
• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
  
• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
  
• Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Geektastic edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
• Trese: Unreported Murders by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo
  
• Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliott
• Day of Tears by Julius Lester
• Myself When Young by Daphne du Maurier
  
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
• Who Killed Amanda Palmer by Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman
• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
• The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson
• The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
  
• Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
  
• The Brontës Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
  
• The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
  
• The History of the West Wing by Jiayu Sun and Guo Guo
  
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
  
• Black Juice by Margo Lanagan

• Emma by Jane Austen
• Cemetery Stories by Katherine Ramsland
• Wolf by Gillian Cross
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
  
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (x5)
  
• Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen
  
• Fables: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham et al
• Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
• Piece by Piece by Tori Amos and Ann Powers
  
• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
• The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
• Wonderland by Tommy Kavoc and Sonny Liew

• Chiggers by Hope Larson
  
• Bluestockings by by Jane Robinson
  
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
• River Boy by Tim Bowler
• Virginity or Death! by Katha Pollitt
  
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale by Bronwyn Carlton
  
• Howards End by E.M. Forster
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
  
• Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
• Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
• The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
• The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
• Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
  
• Come Closer by Sara Gran
• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
  


• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  
• The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley
  
• Sleeping Naked is Green by Vanessa Farquharson
  
• Remembrance by Theresa Breslin
• Arvore by Memory Arnould
• The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
• Scheherazade: Comics about Love, Treachery, Mothers and Monsters edited by Megan Kelso
  
• Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• Dolltopia by Abby Denson
  
• Re-Gifters by Mike Carey, Sonny Liew and Marc Hempel
  
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Underground by Haruki Murakami
  

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
  
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  
• Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation by Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller
  
• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• A Dance for Emilia by Peter S. Beagle
• Cold by Bill Streever
  
• Atlas by Katrina Vandenerg
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
  
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
  

My Favourite Reads of 2009