Books I Read in 2009

Wow. It's been a long time. I am going to start posting more often now as Ahmad and I are expecting our first daughter in just about 6 weeks. I thought I would start off with a list of the books I read in 2009.

The list is long, I think in part because I got a Kindle for Christmas (thanks Mom and Laura) in 2008 and it without a doubt increased my reading capabilities. It changed my life, but that's a different story.

I read a lot of books this year. A lot of great books, actually. Here they are:

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

2. The Arabian Nights by Annonymous

3. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

4. Duma Key by Stephen King

5. Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

6. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

9. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano

10. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

11. Just After Sunset by Stephen King

12. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

13. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

14. The Qur'an

15. The Reader by Berhard Schlink

16. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

17. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

18. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

19. The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

20. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

21. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

22. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

I enjoyed them all, but in particular, I loved Born to Run, The Reader, The Alchemist and The Zookeeper's Wife. I LOVED The Unbearable Lightness of Being, as well.

Enjoy! And visit my library over at Librarything.com if you're interested!