I keep a list of books I read each year — here are the books I read in 2009.
Key:
☆ I liked it a lot.
★ I highly recommend it!
✘ …not so much.
↻ Re-read. (I’m big on revisiting favorite books. Maybe I should blog about that.)
- Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
- ★ Heart and Soul by Sarah A. Hoyt
- The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson
- Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley
- ☆ Talyn by Holly Lisle
- The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- Kris Longknife: Defiant by Mike Shepherd
- The Sheik by E. M. Hull
- Kris Longknife: Resolute by Mike Shepherd
- American Cheeses by Clark Wolf
- ★ The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt
- ★ The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
- ★ The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- ★ The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- ☆ The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- ☆ The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett
- ✘ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- Kris Longknife: Audacious by Mike Shepherd
- Space Race by Deborah Cadbury
- Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- ☆ Darkborn by Alison Sinclair
- ☆ Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip
- ★ ↻ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- ☆ Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
- The Silkie by A. E. van Vogt
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- ☆ Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
- Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
- ★ Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip
- ★ That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
- The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett
- The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
- The Reavers of Skaith by Leigh Brackett
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- ☆ Persuasion by Jane Austen
- ★ ↻ Chalice by Robin McKinley
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt
- Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter
- ☆ Kris Longknife: Intrepid by Mike Shepherd
- The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
- The Sharing Knife: Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
- ★ ↻ The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
- ☆ ↻ The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
- In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip
- The Players of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt