Best Reads from 2009

As you know from this blog, I read. A lot. In fact, from my records I read over 80 novels last year. Here is my list of the best of those. The books are not listed in any particular order.

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (series)
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• The Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (sequel to The Hunger Games)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (series. I just finished reading the third book in the series.)

While not my favorite books from my reading adventures this past year, the following titles receive an honorable mention:

• Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• The journey that saved Curious George : the true wartime escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
• Owly: Flying Lessons by Andy Runton
• Jellaby by Kean Soo
• Shield of Stars by Hilari Bel land Sword of Waters by Hilari Bell (series)
• The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
• Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher