Books and Short Stories Read in 2015
JANUARY
1. Golden Son by Pierce Brown
2. Abominable by Dan Simmons
3. The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon
FEBRUARY
4. A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice
5. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
6. The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
7. The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
8. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
MARCH
9. Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
10. Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner
11. Lady Killer, Issue #1 by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich
12. All the Birds, Singing, by Evie Wyld
13. Rat Queens, Volume One: Sass and Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch
14. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
APRIL
15. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
16. The Clockwork Wolf by Lynn Viehl
17. A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley
18. The Invention of Fire by Bruce Holsinger
19. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
MAY
20. The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity 1 by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
21. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
22. The Harvest Man by Alex Grecian
23. Wayward: Volume 1, String Theory by Jim Zub and Steve Commings
24. The Tithe, #1 by Matt Hawkins, Rahsan Ekedal, and Bill Farmer
25. 84, Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff
JUNE
26. Off Shore by Penelope Fitzgerald
27. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
28. The Secret Place by Tana French
29. Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal
30. Finding Camlann by Sean Pidgeon
31. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett – DNF
32. A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay
JULY
33. The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl – DNF
34. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
35. Pax Morgana by Bill Coffin – DNF
36. Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
37. Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
AUGUST
38. The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
39. Something Magic This Way Comes by Martin H Greenberg and Sarah A. Hoyt
40. 1602: Witch Hunter Angela, Part 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Stephanie Hans
41. 1602: Witch Hunter Angela, Part 2 by Marguerite Bennett and Stephanie Hans
42. Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews
43. The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makki
44. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrie
SEPTEMBER
45. Daughter of the House by Rosie Thomas
46. The Water Witch by Juliet Dark
Books and Short Stories Read in 2014
JANUARY
1. The Descent by Alma Katsu
2. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
3. The Book of Apex: Volume 4 edited by Lynne M. Thomas
4. Black Bottle by Anthony Huso
FEBRUARY
5. A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
6. A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
7. The Yard by Alex Grecian
MARCH
8. Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 44
9. Above by Isla Morley
10. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
11. Citadel by Kate Mosse
12. Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
APRIL
13. The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosney
14. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
15. Dragon’s Child: The King Arthur Trilogy by MK Hume
MAY
16. Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill
17. Warrior of the West: The King Arthur Trilogy by MK Hume
18. The Bloody Cup: The King Arthur Trilbogy by MK Hume
19. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1: Cosmic Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven, and Sara Pichelli
JUNE
20. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
21. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
22. Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, and Will Conrad
23. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon
24. The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
25. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
JULY
26. Libriomancer By Jim C. Hines
27. The Book of Life by Diana Harkness
28. The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman – DNF
29. The Scar by China Miéville – DNF
30. Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks – DNF
31. Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews
32. The Fever by Megan Abbott
AUGUST
33. Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews
34. The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
35. Conversion by Katherine Howe
36. Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove
37. Guardians of the Galaxy: Prelude by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
38. The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory
SEPTEMBER
39. California by Eden Pepucki
40. And Blue Skies from Pain by Stina Leight
41. The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott
42. Unseaming by Mike Allen
OCTOBER
43. The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
44. The Tudor Vendetta by C.W. Gortner
45. Rooms by Lauren Oliver
46. From Whitechapel by Melanie Clegg
NOVEMBER
47. Fledging by Octavia Butler
48. Disenchanted & Co. by Lynn Viehl
49. The Slow Regard of Silent Thing by Patrick Rothfuss
50. Whitechapel Gods by SM Peters — DNF
51. The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
52. Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith
DECEMBER
53. Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey
54. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
55. Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
56. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
57. The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
Books and Short Stories Read in 2013
JANUARY
1. The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
2. Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide
3. Futurama #63: Robots Gone Wild, Editor Nathan Kane
4. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
5. Hellboy: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
6. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
FEBRUARY
7. The Anubis Gate by Tim Powers
8. Faithful Place by Tana French
9. Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
10. World War Z by Max Brooks
11. The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft
12. The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
MARCH
13. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
14. Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
15. Frozen Solid by James M. Tabor
16. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
17. Clockwork Phoenix 4 edited by Mike Allen
APRIL
18. Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
19. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
20. Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
21. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
22. The Shadow of the Sun by Barbara Friend Ish
MAY
23. The Inquisitor’s Wife by Jeanne Kalogridis
24. Before the Storm by Melanie Clegg
25. Questing Beast by Ilona Andrews
26. The Black Country: A Novel of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad by Alex Grecian
27. Advent by James Treadwell
28. Blood Sisters by Melanie Clegg
29. Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
JUNE
30. Circle of Shadows by Imogen Robertson
31. Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
32. The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
33. Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant – DNF (plan to try later in year)
34. Please Don’t Tell by Elizabeth Adler
35. The Last Page by Anthony Huso
JULY
36. Arthurian Fantasy: Three Short Stories by Jennifer Roberson
37. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
38. The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
39. Kindred by Octavia Butler
40. The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
41. The Tudor Conspiracy by C.W. Gortner
42. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
AUGUST
43. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
44. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
45. Sabriel by Garth Nix
SEPTEMBER
46. Broken Harbor by Tana French
47. Breed by Chase Novak
48. The Black Fire Concerto by Mike Allen
49. The Storm by Clive Cussler
50. Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
OCTOBER
51. This House is Haunted by John Boyne
52. Four Summoner’s Tales by Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden, David Liss, and Jonathan Maberry
53. Lord Foul’s Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson — DNF
54. The Love Artist by Jane Alison
NOVEMBER
55. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
56. The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katherine Green
57. City of Lost Dreams by Magnus Flyte
Books read/sampled for a class on historical fiction writing: (I plan to revisit most of these books at some point since only chapters or sections were read for the class)
— The Recess by Sophia Lee
— Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
— The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
— The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
— A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In addition to the above, the following books were read in full for the class:
The Love Artist by Jane Alison
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katherine Green
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
The Ghost Bride by Yangzse Choo
58. The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
59. Fever by Mary Beth Keane
DECEMBER
60. The Ghost Bride by Yangzse Choo
61. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
62. Alien by Alan Dean Foster
63. Vampires Don’t Sparkle edited by Michael West
Books and Short Stories Read in 2012
JANUARY
1. The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
2. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
3. Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility adapted by Nancy Butler and Sonny Liew
4. The Secret Diary of a Princess: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Melanie Clegg
5. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
6. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
FEBRUARY
8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
9. The House that I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
10. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
11. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
MARCH
12. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
13. Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
14. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
15. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
16. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
17. Emma by Jane Austen – DNF
18. Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1) by Gail Carriger
19. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
20. Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger
21. The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
APRIL
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
24. The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower 1 by Stephen King
25. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
26. The Gathering by Anne Enright
27. The Watchers by Jon Steele
28. All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
29. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson
MAY
30. The Invisible Man by HG Wells
31. Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate #3) by Gail Carriger
32. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
33. Railsea by China Mieville
JUNE
34. The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
35. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
36. Heartless (The Parasol Protectorate #4) by Gail Carriger
37. The Reckoning by Alma Katsu
38. Timeless (The Parasol Protectorate #5) by Gail Carriger
39. The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett
JULY
40. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
41. Among Others by Jo Walton
42. Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
43. Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
44. In The Woods by Tana French
45. Timeless Desire by Gywn Cready
46. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
AUGUST
47. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
48. The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
49. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
50. The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
51. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
52. Under the Dome by Stephen King
SEPTEMBER
53. All Seeing Eye by Rob Thurman
54. The Map of the Sky by Felix J. Palma
55. Abominable by William Meikle
56. The New World by Patrick Ness
57. The End of My Y by Scarlett Thomas
58. Ghosts of Manhattan by Douglas Brunt
59. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
60. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
61. The Venice Conspiracy by Sam Christer
62. Berserker by William Meikle
OCTOBER
63. Death in the Floating City by Tasha Alexander
64. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
65. The Loch by Steve Alten
66. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
67. Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson
68. The Courtier’s Secret by Donna Russo Morin
NOVEMBER
69. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
70. A Crystal Age by W.H. Hudson
71. Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley
72. Key Out of Time by Andre Norton — DNF
73. The Likeness by Tana French
74. City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
75. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
76. In My Dreams by Sarah Addison Allen (short story)
DECEMBER
77. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
78. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
79. Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
80. The History of Us by Leah Stewart
Books and Short Stories Read in 2011
JANUARY
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
2. The Tudor Secret by CW Gortner
3. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Last Pendragon: A Story of Dark Age Wales by Sarah Woodbury
5. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
6. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
7. Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
8. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
9. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
FEBRUARY
10. The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
11. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
12. Autumn: The City by David Moody
13. A Conspiracy of Kings by Meghan Whalen Turner
14. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
15. Emily and Einstein by Linda Frances Lee
16. Fathom by Cherie Priest
MARCH
17. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
18. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
19. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
20. The Gates by John Connolly
21. The Other Life by Ellen Meister
22. Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson
23. The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
24. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
25. The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick – DNF
APRIL
26. The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
27. Minding Ben by Victoria Brown – DNF
28. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
29. Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
30. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
31. Witch Woman by Jeanette Baker
32. Dawn of Avalon: Morgan and Merlin — The Beginning by Anna Elliott
33. The Gauntlet: A Kit Marlowe Short by Karen Chance
34. The Queen’s Witch: A Kit Marlowe Short by Karen Chance
MAY
35. The Hypnotist by MJ Rose
36. The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
37. Livia, Empress of Rome by Matthew Dennison
38. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
39. Abandoned by Amanda Stevens
40. Heat Wave by Richard Castle
41. Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance by Sara Poole
42. The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
43. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
JUNE
44. Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen
45. The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
46. The Postmortal by Drew Magary
47. Child of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley
48. Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews
49. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins – DNF
50. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
51. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
JULY
52. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
53. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
54. Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
55. The Darling Strumpet by Gillian Bagwell
56. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola & John Byrne
57. Reign of Madness by Lynn Cullen
58. Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin
AUGUST
59. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
60. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
61. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
62. Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
63. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
64. A Long-Forgotten Truth by Rachel Ballard
65. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jule Verne
66. Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliott
SEPTEMBER
67. The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracies, Treason, and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
68. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
69. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
70. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
71. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
72. Fiction Noir: Thirteen Stories, An Anthology edited by Rick Tannenbaum
73. The Taker by Alma Katsu
74. The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen
OCTOBER
75. Captain Nemo by Kevin J. Anderson
76. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
77. The Stonehenge Legacy by Sam Christer
78. That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley
79. A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander
80. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
81. One Way Out: Tommy Pulls the Trigger by Seymon White
82. The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann
83. The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
84. Queen of the Summer Stars by Persia Woolley
85. The Queen’s Rival by Diane Haeger
NOVEMBER
86. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
87. Star Trek 7 adapted by James Blish
88. The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York City by Deborah Blum
89. The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss
90. One Shot by Lee Child
DECEMBER
91. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
92. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
93. A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin
94. The Affair by Lee Child
95. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Issue 1 by Nancy Butler and Janet K. Lee
96. Futurama, Issue #57, Steampunk’d, editor Bill Morrison
97. Futurama, Issue #58, Boomsday!, editor Bill Morrison
98. Murder in the Bastille by Cara Black
99. MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
Books and Short Stories Read in 2010
JANUARY
1. Tender is the Night by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
2. Versailles by Kathryn Davis
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
5. The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
6. The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens
7. The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
8. Ligeia from The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe (short story)
9. The Fall of the House of Usher from The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edger Allen Poe (short story)
10. The Midnight Guardian: A Millennial Novel by Sarah Jane Stratford
11. Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
12. Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
13. Conspirata by Robert Harris
14. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
FEBRUARY
15. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
16. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
17. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
19. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. The Magicians & Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett
21. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
MARCH
22. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
23. Isis: A Tale of the Supernatural by Douglas Clegg
24. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
25. The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
26. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
27. The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen
28. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
29. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
30. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
31. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi – DNF
APRIL
32. Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
33. The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
34. A Corpse at St. Andrews Chapel by Mel Starr
35. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
36. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley – DNF
37. The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
38. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
39. Pendragon’s Banner by Helen Hollick
40. Shadow of the King by Helen Hollick
MAY
41. The Ark by Boyd Morrison
42. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
43. Persuasion by Jane Austen
44. The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
45. The City & The City by China Mievielle
46. In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
47. Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland
JUNE
48. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
49. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
50. The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick
51. Benighted by Kit Whitfield
52. The Divine Sacrifice by Tony Hays
53. Fire by Kristin Cashore
54. Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
JULY
55. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
56. The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn
57. The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion
58. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
59. The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich- DNF
60. The Scarlet Contessa by Jeanne Kalogridis
61. The Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
62. Kraken by China Mieville
AUGUST
63. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
64. Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
65. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
66. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
67. Howls’ Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
68. The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
69. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
70. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch – DNF
71. The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America by Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith
72. Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
73. Life in Medieval France by E.R. Chamberlin
74. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
75. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
SEPTEMBER
76. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
77. Esperanza by Trish J. MacGregor
78. The Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper
79. Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
80. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
81. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
82. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
83. The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin
84. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
OCTOBER
85. The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford – DNF
86. A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
87. Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen
88. Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom – DNF
89. The Burning Times by Jeanne Kalogridis
90. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
91. Corrag by Susan Fletcher
92. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
NOVEMBER
93. The Hard Way by Lee Child
94. Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
95. The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett
96. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
97. The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
98. The Exile by Diana Gabaldon
99. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
DECEMBER
100. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
101. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
102. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
103. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Books and Short Stories Read in 2009
(My first year blogging I didn’t break books out by month.)
1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
3. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
5. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
6. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
7. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
11. Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
12. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland &
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
13. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
14. Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament by S.G. Browne
15. Nightwalker by Heather Graham
16. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
17. The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
18. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
19. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
21. The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
24. Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
25. Without Fail by Lee Child
26. Tripwire by Lee Child
27. Running Blind by Lee Child
28. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
29. Mortal Prey by John Sanford
30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
31. Memnoc the Devil by Anne Rice — DNF
32. The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
33. Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black
34. Killing Floor by Lee Child
35. Die Trying by Lee Child
36. Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
37. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
38. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
39. Echo Burning by Lee Child
40. The Camel Club by David Baldacci
41. Persuader by Lee Child
42. The Mage’s Daughter by Lynn Kurland
43. Dracula by Bram Stoker
44. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
45. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
46. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
47. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
48. Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
49. Drood by Dan Simmons (Did Not Finish)
50. Century: Book 1 The Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario
51. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
52. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
53. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
54. Dracula The Undead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
55. Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell
56. Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell
57. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
58. The King’s Favorite by Susan Holloway Scott
59. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
60. Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal
61. The Killing Way by Tony Hays
62. The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch
63. The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici by Jeanne Kalogridis
64. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
65. Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
66. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
67. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
68. Covenant with the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
69. A Highlander’s Temptation by Sue-Ellen Welfonder
70. Kristin Lavransdatter: I The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
71. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett — DNF
72. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
73. Fallen by Lauren Kate
74. The Archer’s Tale by Bernard Cornwell
75. The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
76. Star Trek: The Great Adventures, Book 1 by James Blish
77. Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
78. Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
79. The Taker and the Keeper by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin
80. Powers by John B. Olson (Did Not Finish)
81. Into the Path of Gods by Kathleen Cunningham Guler
82. The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
Just Book Reading 