2009 Book Count

So last year I attempted something I failed in 2008, which was to keep a list of books I read that year. The list is incomplete, as I lost the files on my hard drive not once, but TWICE last summer. Most of the list is cobbled from memory, but it's fairly complete. Here's a breakdown of what I read:

Total Books Read:
59

Books I Read For The Blog:
Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
The Host- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn- Stephenie Meyer
Left Behind- Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Books I Read For School:
The Stone Diaries- Carol Shields
Crackpot- Adele Wiseman
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neal Hurston
The Lives of Girls and Women- Alice Munro
Yo!- Julia Alvarez

Children's Books That I Probably Shouldn't Count But I Will:
Wayside School is Falling Down- Louis Sachar
The Celery Stalks at Midnight- James Howe
My Teacher Fried My Brains- Bruce Coville

Author I Read The Most:
Chuck Klosterman, with 7 books on the list.
Dean Koontz is second, with 5 books.
Douglas Coupland and CS Lewis are third, with 4 books.

Book I Read The Most:
There were a bunch I read twice:

Can You Keep a Secret?- Sophie Kinsella
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story- Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman IV- Chuck Klosterman
The Undomestic Goddess- Sophie Kinsella
The Eight- Katherine Neville
Remember Me- Sophie Kinsella

Book Series I Read The Most:
Chronicles of Narnia, with 4 books.

Best Book:
Life Expectancy, Sphere, Chuck Klosterman IV, Prey, The Devil Wears Prada

Worst Book (excluding blog books)
She Went All The Way, Crackpot, Stone Diaries, Lives of Girls and Women, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Complete List:
1. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neal Hurston
3. The Devil Wears Prada- Lauren Weisberger
4. Everyone Worth Knowing- Lauren Weisberger
5. Chasing Harry Winston- Lauren Weisberger
6. Can You Keep a Secret?- Sophie Kinsella
7. Can You Keep a Secret?- Sophie Kinsella
8. Remember Me?- Sophie Kinsella
9. Odd Hours- Dean Koontz
10. Your Heart Belongs To Me- Dean Koontz
11. Lucifer’s Hammer- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
12. Eleanor Rigby- Douglas Coupland
13. All Families Are Psychotic- Douglas Coupland
14. Turn Coat- Jim Butcher
15. Prey- Michael Crichton
16. The Eight- Catherine Neville
17. Sphere- Michael Crichton
18. Good Omens- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
19. Grave Peril- Jim Butcher
20. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
21. Undomestic Goddess- Sophie Kinsella
22. Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
23. Everworld Book 1- KA Applegate
24. Everworld Book 2- KA Applegate
25. Everworld Book 3- KA Applegate
26. Brother Odd- Dean Koontz
27. Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
28. The Host- Stephenie Meyer
29. Breaking Dawn- Stephenie Meyer
30. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story- Chuck Klosterman
31. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story- Chuck Klosterman
32. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
33. Chuck Klosterman IV- Chuck Klosterman
34. Sphere- Michael Crichton
35. How Not To Write a Novel-
36. Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
37. Summer Knight- Jim Butcher
38. She Went All The Way- Meg Cabot
39. Slacker Girl- Alexandra Koslow
40. Microserfs- Douglas Coupland
41. The Lives of Girls and Women- Alice Munro
42. Chuck Klosterman IV- Chuck Klosterman
43. Downtown Owl- Chuck Klosterman
44. Yo!- Julia Alvarez
45. All Families Are Psychotic- Douglas Coupland
46. Left Behind- Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
47. The Stone Diaries- Carol Shields
48. Crackpot- Adele Wiseman
49. The Undomestic Goddess- Sophie Kinsella
50. The Eight- Katherine Neville
51. Life Expectancy- Dean Koontz
52. The Magician’s Nephew- CS Lewis
53. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe- CS Lewis
54. Wayside School is Falling Down- Louis Sachar
55. The Celery Stalks at Midnight- James Howe
56. A Horse and His Boy- CS Lewis
57. The Silver Chair- CS Lewis
58. Breathless- Dean Koontz
59. My Teacher Fried My Brains- Bruce Coville

You don't even know how mad I am that I didn't get a round number.