…and that’s that.

Here is the master list of books for 2009:

  1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  2. Brooklyn was Mine: Essays edited by Chris Knutsen & Valerie Steiker
  3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  4. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
  5. Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
  6. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer
  8. Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
  9. Cash by Johnny Cash
  10. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
  11. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  12. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  13. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
  14. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  15. Blankets by Craig Thompson
  16. Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
  17. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  18. Brooklyn Noir edited by Tim McLoughlin
  19. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
  20. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  21. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  22. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
  23. The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
  24. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  25. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
  26. Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
  27. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  28. She Got Up Off The Couch by Haven Kimmel
  29. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  30. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  31. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
  32. Clandestine by James Ellroy
  33. When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  34. The Ghost Map by Stephen Johnston
  35. Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
  36. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  37. Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
  38. Adverbs by Daniel Handler
  39. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  40. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
  41. The World According to Garp by John Irving
  42. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  43. 33 1/3 Dusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes
  44. 33 1/3 Highway 61 Revisited by Mark Polizzotti
  45. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  46. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
  47. Lush Life by Richard Price
  48. The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
  49. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  50. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  51. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  52. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

(2008 happened, too.)

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