2009 Reading Journal

 

* - A repeat reading

 

January

 

Pushing Leaves Toward the Sun – Mark L. Berry

It's a Dance: Moving With the Holy Spirit – Patrick Oden

The Pacific and Other Stories – Mark Helprin

 

February

 

The Personifid Project – R.E. Bartlett

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

 

March

 

Dune – Frank Hebert

The Complete Peanuts Collection:  1967 – 1968

The Complete Peanuts Collection:  1969 – 1970

Demon: A Memoir – Tosca Lee

 

April  

 

The Silver Chair – C. S. Lewis

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness – Andrew Peterson

The Last Battle – C. S. Lewis

The Savage Detectives (part of it) – Roberto Bolano

 

May

 

Save Me From Myself – Brian ŇHeadÓ Welch

The Dark Man – Marc Schooley

Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, The Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series – Tom Adelman

 

 

June

 

Starfire – Stuart Stockton

BaseballŐs Most Unusual Records – Bob Mackin

Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember – John Feinstein

Lost on Planet China – J. Maarten Troost

 

July

 

Memoir from Antproof Case – Mark Helprin

The 33-Year-Old Rookie – Chris Coste

 

August

The Man with the Golden Torc – Simon R. Green

Velvet Elvis – Rob Bell

Return Policy – Michael Snyder

 

September

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Proprietor – Robert Coover

Tuck – Stephen Lawhead

Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

 

October

The Sacredness of Questioning Everything – David Dark

The Unlikely Disciple: A SinnerŐs Semester at AmericaŐs Holiest University – Kevin Roose

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Don Miller

 

November

The Personifid Invasion – R.E. Bartlett

GodŐs Not Dead (And Neither Are We) – Jerry Wilson

 

December

The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World – Alexander Roy

The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perotta

I Love Brett Favre/I Hate Brett Favre – Ross Bernstein

Once Was Lost – Sara Zarr