<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shattersnipe: malcontent &amp; rainbows]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[fozmeadows]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/author/fozmeadows/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Books 2009]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>January</strong></p>
<p><em>The Uncommon Reader &#8211;</em> Alan Bennett</p>
<p><em>I Was Told There’d Be Cake</em> – Sloane Crosley</p>
<p><em>Memoirs of a Master Forger – </em>William Heaney</p>
<p><em>The Lovely Bones – </em>Alice Seabold</p>
<p><em>Little Brother </em>&#8211; Cory Doctorow</p>
<p><em>Shakspeare – </em>Bill Bryson</p>
<p><em>The Diamond Age – </em>Neal Stephenson</p>
<p><em>On The Road – </em>Jack Kerouac</p>
<p><strong>February</strong></p>
<p><em>Let The Right One In – </em>John Ajvide Lindqvist</p>
<p><em>Freakonomics – </em>Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner</p>
<p><em>Watchmen</em> – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons</p>
<p><strong>March</strong></p>
<p><em>Evernight – </em>Claudia Gray</p>
<p><em>Proust and the Squid – </em>Maryanne Wolf</p>
<p><em>Stargazer – </em>Claudia Gray</p>
<p><strong>April</strong></p>
<p><em>Love Hina (Volumes 1 – 4) – </em>Ken Akamatsu</p>
<p><em>Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle – </em>Manda Scott</p>
<p><em>The Forest of Hands and Teeth &#8211; </em>Carrie Ryan</p>
<p><em>American Journeys – </em>Don Watson</p>
<p><strong>May</strong></p>
<p><em>Orb Speculative Fiction: Issue #6 – </em>Sarah Endacott (ed)</p>
<p><em>Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – </em>Paul Torday</p>
<p><em>Bloodhound – </em>Tamora Pierce</p>
<p><em>City of Bones – </em>Cassandra Clare</p>
<p><em>City of Ashes – </em>Cassandra Clare</p>
<p><em>City of Glass – </em>Cassandra Clare</p>
<p><em>The Reformed Vampire Support Group </em>&#8211; Catherine Jinks</p>
<p><em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8: Time of Your Life – </em>Joss Whedon and Karl Moline</p>
<p><strong>June</strong></p>
<p><em>Midnighters: Touching Darkness – </em>Scott Westerfeld</p>
<p><em>The Hunger Games – </em>Suzanne Collins</p>
<p><em>Midnighters: Blue Noon – </em>Scott Westerfeld</p>
<p><em>Foundling – </em>D. M. Cornish</p>
<p><em>Lamplighter – </em>D. M. Cornish</p>
<p><em>Blaze of Glory – </em>Michael Pryor</p>
<p><em>Heart of Gold – </em>Michael Pryor</p>
<p><em>Word of Honour</em> – Michael Pryor</p>
<p><strong>July</strong></p>
<p><em>The Rise of the Iron Moon – </em>Stephen Hunt</p>
<p><em>The Dragon Keeper – </em>Robin Hobb</p>
<p><em>V for Vendetta – </em>Alan Moore and David Lloyd</p>
<p><strong>August</strong></p>
<p><em>Vulture’s Gate – </em>Kirsty Murray</p>
<p><em>Tallow</em> – Karen Brooks</p>
<p><em>How To Ditch Your Fairy – </em>Justine Larbalestier</p>
<p><em>Dead Until Dark – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>The Gone-Away World</em> – Nick Harkaway (re-read) (review <a href="https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/the-gone-away-world/">here</a>)</p>
<p><em>Living Dead in Dallas – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>The Parliament of Blood – </em>Justin Richards</p>
<p><em>Bedlam: London and its Mad – </em>Catharine Arnold</p>
<p><em>The Secret Ministry of Frost – </em>Nick Lake</p>
<p><em>Strange Angels – </em>Lili St. Crow</p>
<p><em>Club Dead – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>Dead to the World – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><strong>September</strong></p>
<p><em>The Time Traveler’s Wife – </em>Audrey Niffenegger</p>
<p><em>Dead as a Doornail &#8211; </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>Definitely Dead – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>All Together Dead – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>From Dead to Worse – </em>Charlaine Harris</p>
<p><em>Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution – </em>Robert Lacey</p>
<p><em>Odd and the Frost Giants – </em>Neil Gaiman</p>
<p><em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – </em>Stieg Larsson</p>
<p><em>Wicked Lovely – </em>Melissa Marr</p>
<p><strong>October</strong></p>
<p><em>Vampire Academy – </em>Richelle Mead</p>
<p><em>Frostbite – </em>Richelle Mead</p>
<p><em>A Study in Scarlet – </em>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p>
<p><em>Leviathan – </em>Scott Westerfeld</p>
<p><em>Shadow Kissed – </em>Richelle Mead</p>
<p><em>Blood Promise – </em>Richelle Mead</p>
<p><em>On the Edge: My Story – </em>Richard Hammond</p>
<p><em>Rosemary and Rue – </em>Seanan McGuire</p>
<p><em>The Blade Itself – </em>Joe Abercrombie</p>
<p><em>A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian – </em>Marina Lewycka</p>
<p><strong>November</strong></p>
<p><em>Wicked – </em>Gregory Maguire</p>
<p><em>Gothic Sports (Volumes 1 – 3) &#8211;</em> Anike Hage</p>
<p><em>Fruits Basket (Volumes 1 – 4) – </em>Natsuki Takaya</p>
<p><em>The Blind Assassin – </em>Margaret Atwood</p>
<p><em>Unseen Academicals – </em>Terry Pratchett</p>
<p><em>The Youngest Templar – </em>Michael P. Spradlin</p>
<p><em>Vernon God Little – </em>DBC Pierre</p>
<p><em>Ink Exchange – </em>Melissa Marr</p>
<p><em>Suite Scarlett – </em>Maureen Johnson</p>
<p><em>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – </em>Suzanne Collins</p>
<p><em>The End of Mr Y – </em>Scarlett Thomas</p>
<p><em>Before They Are Hanged – </em>Joe Abercrombie</p>
<p><em>Her Fearful Symmetry – </em>Audrey Niffenegger</p>
<p><strong>December</strong></p>
<p><em>Last Argument of Kings – </em>Joe Abercrombie</p>
<p><em>Graceling – </em>Kristin Cashore</p>
<p><em>Brilliance of the Moon – </em>Lian Hearn</p>
<p><em>Betrayals – </em>Lili St. Crow</p>
<p><em>Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth – </em>Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou</p>
<p><em>Storm Front – </em>Jim Butcher</p>
<p><strong>Total Read: </strong>87</p>
<p><strong>New: </strong>86</p>
<p><strong>Rereads:</strong> 1</p>
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