read at least 50 books in 2009

65- The Christmas List- Richard Paul Evans ( the cheese practically dripped from the book, but still not bad )

66- Sugar Cookie Murder- Joanne Fluke ( way more recipes than book, but I still loved it )

67- The Slippery Year- Melanie Gideon ( my library had it marked as fiction and it’s a memoir and a very good one! )

And December so far:

68- Hello Goodbye- Emily Chenoweth ( hard to get into at first, but that was probably just me, I’m a very moody reader. Then very good! )

69- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ( very good, I think the first historical fiction book I’ve ever read. They usually turn me off. This was in letter format and very easy to read. But maybe if they had made it with just short chapters instead, the letter format seemed strange sometimes.

61- In The Heart of the Canyon- Elisabeth Hyde ( A must read! )

62- Hollywood Is Like High School With Money- Zoey Dean ( nice )

63- Other People’s Weddings- Noah Hawley ( good, not what you’d expect from looking at the cover though )

64- Plum Pudding Murder- Joanne Fluke ( so nice and comforting )

55- Murder With Peacocks- Donna Andrews

56- Cream Puff Murder- Joanne Fluke

57- Peach Cobbler Murder- Joanne Fluke

58- Curing The Blues With a New Pair of Shoes- Dixie Cash

59- Lemon Meringue Pie Murder- Joanne Fluke

60- Carrot Cake Murder- Joanne Fluke

49- The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl- Karen Burns ( okay )

50- Dune Road- Jane Green- ( nice )

51-Hope In a Jar- Beth Harbison ( very nice. I loved the 80’s )

52- Swan for the Money- Donna Andrews ( love )

53- The Penny Pinchers Club- Sarah Strohmeyer ( very nice )

54- Second Hand- Michael Zadoorian ( one of the years best! )

43- The Penguin Who Knew Too Much- Donna Andrews

44- We’ll Always Have Parrots- Donna Andrews

45- Then She Found Me- Elinor Lipman ( highly sappy, but very good )

46- Six Geese A- Slaying- Donna Andrews

47- Owls Well That Ends Well- Donna Andrews

48- No Nest For the Wicket- Donna Andrews ( love all her books, nice fun mysteries )

Only two away from 50! Wonder how far over I can go…

35- A Date You Can’t Refuse- Harley Jane Kozak ( don’t remember it at the moment )

36- Miss Harper Can Do It- Jane Berentson ( very good, liked it a lot and the authors style too. )

37- A Homemade Life-Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table- Molly Wizenberg ( nice. short chapters, which is a big plus for me )

38- When Zeffie Got a Clue- Peggy Darty ( very good )

39- Life Without Summer- Lynne Griffin ( Loved it, please read. You won’t regret it. And the only reason I got it was cause I liked the cover and it wasn’t dirty or stinky, sometimes library books are! )

40- Cockatiels at Seven- Donna Andrews- ( nice easy read chick lit mystery )

41- The Fixer Upper- Mary Kay Andrews ( her new one. This may be her best set of characters ever. I hope she writes more about them. )

42- A Wild Affair- Gemma Townley ( nice chick lit )

27- Don’t Let it Be True- Jo Barrett ( good, easy to read )

28- Perfect Fifths- Megan McCafferty ( kind of long winded, and not as good as I remember the others being, but nice to have closure on the series. )

29- Songs for the Missing- Stewart O’Nan ( very good, similar story to #25, different authors )

30- Turning the Paige- Laura Jensen Walker ( good and fun )

31- Bluebird Winter- Linda Howard ( 45 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back )

32- Every Demon Has His Day -Cara Lockwood ( the only one of her books I’ll ever remember reading. Fun and cute. )

33- The Family Man- Elinor Lipman ( nice )

34- Dewey- The Small Town Library Cat who Touched the World – Vicki Myron with Bret Witter ( nice book, very touching story, but there’s lots I skimed, like the parts about Iowa’s history. )

23-Everyone is Beautiful- Katherine Center (good, easy read, different than other books )

24- I Do ( But I Don’t)- Cara Lockwood ( I never remember her books after I read them, but they must be good enough for me to keep reading them )

25- The Local News- Miriam Gershow ( very good )

26- Hissy Fit- Mary Kay Andrews ( I love her books. I think I might want to be her. )

16- The Leisure Seeker- Michael Zadoorian ( I’m going to go ahead and give this my best book of the year. Can’t imagine a better book out there. Please read it! )

17- Cooking and Screaming- Finding My Own Recipe for Recovery- Adrienne Kane ( Very good memoir.)

18- Last Night at the Lobster- Stewart O’Nan ( would have been a contender for book of the year if I hadn’t have read #16. So would #19. )

19- The Good Wife- Stewart O’Nan

20- Deep Dish- Mary Kay Andrews ( Her books make me so happy! I do wonder what the deal was with the pork rinds and a characters obvious food issues and why she didn’t do anything with that storyline. )

21- Lullaby- Jane Orcutt- ( good, very easy read )

22-Paper Scissors Death- Joanna Campbell Slan ( I don’t know what attracts me to mystery chick lit. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t. But the book was good. )

9. Stupid and Contagious- Caprice Crane ( good, had nice short chapters, which I really like )

10. The Oppostie of Love- Julie Buxbaum (very good )

11. Life on the Refrigerator Door- Alice Kuipers (read in like 45 mins, but good. It’s in letter format)

12. Blue Christmas- Mary Kay Andrews ( love all her books )

13. Savannah Blues- Mary Kay Andrews

14- Savannah Breeze- Mary Kay Andrews

15- The Bachelorette Party- Karen McCullah Lutz ( borderline trashy, but great )