Another Year of Books

I guess this book-listing is going to be an annual thing. I haven't written a book review in a long time.

Anyway, here are the books I read in 2009. A plus sign means I liked it. Multiple plus signs mean I really, really liked it. The lack of a plus sign isn't necessarily a negative review; it just didn't stick with me.

I don't know if you do, but I count graphic novels as books. There are several listed here. Meanwhile, I hope none of my professors see this and find out how many graphic novels I read instead of the books they assigned....

The Painted Veil +
by W. Somerset Maugham

The Almost Moon +
by Alice Sebold

Restless
by William Boyd

Morgan's Passing ++
by Anne Tyler

The Fifth Child
by Doris LEssing

Sula
by Toni Morrison

French Milk +
by Lucy Knisley

The Golden Gate
by Vikram Seth

The Adrian Mole Diaries +
by Sue Townsend

Q and A
by Vikas Swarup

The Jungle Book +
by Rudyard Kipling

The Godmother
by Carrie Adams

The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beastly +
by Alex Flinn

Schuyler's Monster ++
by Robert Rummel-Hudson

Neverwhere ++
by Neil Gaiman

The King in the Window
by Adam Gopnik

The House of Many Ways +
by Diana Wynne Jones

The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister ++
by Gregory Maguire

The Sirens of Titan ++
by Kurt Vonnegut

Mister Pip +
by Lloyd Jones

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life ++
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World +
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness +
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together +
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Castle Waiting ++
by Linda Medley

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe +
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

The Book Thief +++!!
by Markus Zusak

Lucky +
by Alice Sebold

Our Lady of the Artichokes
by Katherine Vaz

Juliet, Naked +
by Nick Hornby

Elements +
by Stephen Gutierrez