2009: a year of staying in

[tamaranth]

What I read in 2009:
75 books, all reviewed with this tag
- 40 by women and 35 by men
- 19 sf, 12 historical, 4 non-fiction, 21 fantasy, 10 crime, 4 horror (some books fall into more than one category)

Those marked *** I especially liked.

• 2009/75: The Minotaur -- Barbara Vine


• 2009/74: Kindred -- Octavia E. Butler


• *** 2009/73: The Demon's Lexicon -- Sarah Rees Brennan


• 2009/72: Song of Kali -- Dan Simmons


• 2009/71: Measuring the World -- Daniel Kehlmann (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)


• *** 2009/70: Lavinia -- Ursula Le Guin


• 2009/69: The Light Ages -- Ian MacLeod


• 2009/68: Boating for Beginners -- Jeanette Winterson


• *** 2009/67: The End of Mr. Y -- Scarlett Thomas


• 2009/66: Halting State -- Charles Stross


• 2009/65: The Time-Traveller's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger


• *** 2009/64: White is for Witching -- Helen Oyeyemi


• 2009/63: Doors Open -- Ian Rankin


• 2009/62: Salt -- Jeremy Page


• 2009/61: The Bones of the Earth -- Michael Swanwick


• 2009/60: The Fire -- Katherine Neville


• 2009/59: The Game -- Diana Wynne Jones


• 2009/58: Mr Allbones' Ferrets -- Fiona Farrell


• 2009/57: Flying too High -- Kerry Greenwood


• 2009/56: The Electric Telepath -- Jan Mark


• 2009/55: The Pirate's Daughter -- Margaret Cezair-Thompson


• 2009/54: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safran Foer


• *** 2009/53: The Angel's Cut -- Elizabeth Knox


• 2009/52: Tampa Burn -- Randy Wayne White


• 2009/48-51: Sanibel Flats, Captiva, Shark River, Twelve Mile Limit -- Randy Wayne White


• 2009/47: A Song for Nero -- Thomas Holt


• 2009/46: Fathom -- Cherie Priest


• *** 2009/45: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science -- Mary Roach


• 2009/44: Nova -- Samuel R. Delany


• 2009/43: Fly by Night -- Frances Hardinge


• 2009/42: Boudicat -- Robin Price


• 2009/41: Cambridge Blue -- Alison Bruce


• 2009/40: Galapagos -- Kurt Vonnegut


• 2009/39: Thirteenth Child -- Patricia Wrede


• 2009/38: The Eagle of the Ninth -- Rosemary Sutcliff


• *** 2009/37: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel


• 2009/36: Blackberry Wine -- Joanne Harris


• 2009/35: Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons


• *** 2009/34: The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway


• 2009/33: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon -- Stephen King


• 2009/32: Corambis -- Sarah Monette


• 2009/31:The Dead Man's Brother -- Roger Zelazny


• 2009/30: Stealing Magic -- Tanya Huff


• 2009/29: Odd and the Frost Giants -- Neil Gaiman


• 2009/28:The Cat with the Tulip Face -- A R Morlan


• *** 2009/27: Song of Time -- Ian MacLeod


• 2009/26: The Quiet War -- Paul McAuley


• 2009/25: House of Suns -- Alastair Reynolds


• 2009/24: The Original Road Kill Cookbook -- B. R. Peterson


• 2009/23: The Burial at Thebes -- Seamus Heaney


• 2009/22: Subterfuge -- Ian Whates (ed)


• *** 2009/21: Flora's Dare ... -- Ysabeau Wilce


• 2009/20: Martin Martin's On the Other Side -- Mark Wernham


• 2009/19: The Thief -- Megan Whalen Turner


• *** 2009/18: Flora Segunda ... -- Ysabeau Wilce


• 2009/17: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England -- Brock Clarke


• 2009/16: The Hidden World -- Paul Park


• 2009/15: Urban Shaman -- C. E. Murphy


• 2009/14: Un Lun Dun -- China Miéville


• *** 2009/13: Quicksilver -- Christie Dickason


• *** 2009/12: Living with Ghosts -- Kari Sperring


• *** 2009/11: Matter -- Iain M. Banks


• 2009/10: Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man -- Norah Vincent


• 2009/09: The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova


• 2009/08: Newton's Wake -- Ken MacLeod


• 2009/07: Every Day is Mother's Day -- Hilary Mantel


• *** 2009/06: Wit's End -- Karen Joy Fowler


• 2009/05: The Bone Key -- Sarah Monette


• 2009/04: Anathem -- Neal Stephenson


• 2009/03: House of Many Ways -- Diana Wynne Jones


• 2009/02: Life of Pi -- Yann Martel


• 2009/01: Tanglewreck -- Jeanette Winterson

One of my resolutions is to finish the unfinished: which leaves me set to continue reading Transition (Banks), Retribution Falls (Wooding), The Child's Book (Byatt), Beloved and God (Lambert), Generation Kill (Wright) and To The Ends of the Earth (Golding).

What am I looking forward to?
The Demon's Covenant (Brennan)
[unknown title] (Wilce)
Iorich (Brust)
... suspect many more, but these are the ones I can think of without recourse to 'coming soon' lists!