2009 Book List

This year was a pretty good year for reading. I managed to get through 61 books, with only 6 repeats (italicized. Of course, this does not count the several books that I started and did not finish — I will not count those until I actually finish them.

Of note this year, many of these books I checked out from the library or borrowed from friends, so I managed to save a significant amount of money over my usual book reading expenditures. I have marked the borrowed books with an asterisk.

1. The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12; A Memory of Light, #1) – Robert Jordan
2. * The Last Colony – John Scalzi
3. * The Ghost Brigades – John Scalzi
4. * The Millionaire Next Door – Steven D. Levitt and Thomas J. Stanley
5. * Under the Dome – Stephen King
6. * King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
7. * Old Man’s War (Book 1) – John Scalzi
8. * The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time – Douglas Adams
9. * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) – Robert M. Pirsig
10. * The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
11. * This Immortal – Roger Zelazny
12. * Drood – Dan Simmons
13. * Batman: The Killing Joke – Alan Moore
14. * Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel – Michio Kaku
15. * The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman
16. * I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work – Julie Jansen
17. * Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) – Charlaine Harris
18. * Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) – Charlaine Harris
19. * Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) – Charlaine Harris
20. * Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) – Charlaine Harris
21. * Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) – Charlaine Harris
22. * Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) – Charlaine Harris
23. Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach (HP Technologies) – Robert Charles Metzger
24. How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
25. * Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High – Kerry Patterson
26. How to Read a Book – Mortimer J. Adler
27. * Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi
28. Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert’s Voice) – Bill Blunden
29. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
30. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
31. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas R. Hofstadter
32. Preacher Vol. 1: Gone To Texas – Garth Ennis
33. The Double Helix – James D. Watson
34. I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel – Tom Wolfe
35. The Sandman Vol. 01: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
36. Of Saints and Shadows (The Shadow Saga, #1) – Christopher Golden
37. Bone Crossed (Mercedes Thompson, #4) – Patricia Briggs
38. Iron Kissed (Mercedes Thompson, #3) – Patricia Briggs
39. Blood Bound (Mercedes Thompson, #2) – Patricia Briggs
40. Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, #1) – Patricia Briggs
41. The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins
42. * Just After Sunset – Stephen King
43. * The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers – Keith R. Mcfarland
44. Code Complete, Second Edition – Steve McConnell
45. The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain’s Untapped Potential – Tony Buzan
46. 1984 – George Orwell
47. Mean Streets – Jim Butcher
48. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) – Jim Butcher
49. Batman: Year One – Frank Miller
50. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware – Andy Hunt
51. Crisis on Infinite Earths – Marv Wolfman
52. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master – Andrew Hunt
53. Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) – Jim Butcher
54. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller
55. Upsetting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 3) – Harry Turtledove
56. * The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible – and Other Journeys – James Burke
57. * The Conscience of a Liberal – Paul Krugman
58. * The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life – Twyla Tharp
59. Welcome to the Jungle (The Dresden Files, Prequel) – Jim Butcher
60. Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time, #6) – Robert Jordan
61. Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1) – Jim Butcher

This year, I hope to do more mathematics and computer science reading than I normally do, as well as doing more study on personal finance. I am sure a healthy bit of fiction will fall into my reading list as well.

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