"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

^ quote from Anna Quindlen

Books read in 2009:

The Girls by Lori Lansens
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Benson and Alephonsion

Deng + Benjamin Ajak

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele

The Blue Bedroom by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong

The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe by Betsey Osborne

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

47 Roses by Peter Sheridan

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by

Mary Ann Shaffer + Annie Barrows

The Courtyard by Marcia Willett

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina

What Remains by Carol Radziwill

Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

The Groom to Have Been by Saher Alam

Real Sex by Lauren Winner

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Chol-hwan Kang

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Favorite book of 2008:

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Favorite book of 2009:

Tie! The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner.

Kick-off book for 2010:

The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs