Books 2009



  1. The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
  2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  3. The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
  4. The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
  5. The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack
  6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  7. Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fatteh
  8. Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
  9. Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
  10. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  11. Fresh Off the Boat by Melissa De La Cruz
  12. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
  13. Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park
  14. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  15. Small Steps by Louis Sachar
  16. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
  17. Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
  18. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  19. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
  20. Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh
  21. The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep
  22. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
  23. Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
  24. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  25. Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
  26. Deogratias by J. P. Stassen
  27. Kampung Boy by Lat
  28. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  29. Whisper in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac
  30. Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
  31. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  32. Night of the Chupacabras by Marie G. Lee
  33. The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
  34. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
  35. The Conch Bearer by Chitra Divakaruni
  36. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiminez
  37. Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac
  38. Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith
  39. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  40. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
  41. What Janie Found by Caroline B. Cooney
  42. The Voice on the Radio by Caroline B. Cooney
  43. Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney
  44. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  45. When Will There be Good News? by Barbara Atkinson
  46. The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
  47. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  48. Q & A by Vikas Swarup
  49. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  50. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
  51. Mansfield Park Revisited by Joan Aiken
  52. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  53. Tea Time For the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
  54. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  55. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  56. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  57. I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci
  58. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
  59. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
  60. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
  61. Elizabeth in Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
  62. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  63. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  64. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  65. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
  66. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  67. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  68. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
  69. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
  70. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
  71. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
  72. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
  73. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
  74. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
  75. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
  76. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  77. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
  78. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
  79. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  80. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  81. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
  82. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  83. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  84. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
  85. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
  86. The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynn
  87. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
  88. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  89. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
  90. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
  91. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
  92. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  93. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
  94. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
  95. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  96. The Secret Hangman by Peter Lovesey
  97. The Headhunters by Peter Lovesey
  98. I'll never Be French (No Matter What I Do) by Mark Greenside
  99. Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
  100. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  101. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  102. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  103. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
  104. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules by Jeff Kinney
  105. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
  106. Emma by Jane Austen
  107. Story Time by Edward Bloor
  108. TTYL by Lauren Myracle
  109. The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
  110. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  111. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
  112. The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
  113. Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gail Parkin
  114. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  115. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
  116. A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
  117. There Will Never Be Another You by Carolyn See
  118. Portugese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
  119. Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
  120. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  121. The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
  122. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  123. Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
  124. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  125. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  126. A House to Let by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
  127. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  128. The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell
  129. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
  130. In the Woods by Tana French
  131. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  132. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  133. A Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham
  134. The Likeness by Tana French