2009 Reviews



January

*Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (Poirot)
The Robe of Skulls - Vivian French 1
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Bonjour, Babar - Jean de Brunhoff 1
The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling 1
Drood - Dan Simmons
The Rabbit and the Turtle - Eric Carle 1
By the Pricking of My Thumbs - Agatha Christie (Tommy & Tuppence) 2
*The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart 1
*The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 1



February

Revelation of Fire - Alla Avilova
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 2
The Conqueror - Georgette Heyer
The September Society - Charles Finch
Winter in Madrid - C.J. Sansom
*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Library Mouse - Daniel Kirk 1
Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie (Tommy & Tuppence)
*The Seance - John Harwood
The Spiderwick Chronicles -  Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black 1 2
The Kingmaking - Helen Hollick



March

Little Miss Spider - David Kirk 1
*Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk - Boris Akunin
Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie (Poirot) 3
The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
Swim Little Fish! and Dinosaur Stomp! - Paul Stickland 1
*The Black Tower - Louis Bayard
*Vienna Blood - Frank Tallis
*The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl



April

Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark - Donna Lea Simpson
*Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 2
King's Fool - Margaret Campbell Barnes
*Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
Sherlock Holmes in America - ed. Martin Greenberg 3
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
*Mother of the Believers - Kamran Pasha
The Dead Beat - Marilyn Johnson 4
Mrs. McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie (Poirot)
The Crimes of Paris - Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler 4
*The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
The Man's Book - Thomas Fink 4
The Lying Tongue - Andrew Wilson



May

What Would Jane Austen Do? - Laurie Brown
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire - C.M. Mayo
Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
*Tanka Tanka Skunk! - Steve Webb 1
*Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Why Shoot a Butler? - Georgette Heyer
The Unfinished Clue - Georgette Heyer
Behold, Here's Poison - Georgette Heyer
The Glassblower of Murano - Marina Fiorato
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren 1
A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy - Charlotte Greig



June

My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl 1
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
*The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farahad Zama
Cousin Kate - Georgette Heyer
Night at the Museum - Milan Trenc 1 2
The Rossetti Letter - Christi Phillips
*The Pet Dragon - Christoph Niemann 1
Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic - Suzanne Weyn 5
*Un Lun Dun - China  Miéville 5
The Devlin Diary - Christi Phillips
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - Doreen Cronin 1



July

Wicked Plants - Amy Stewart 4
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal - Sean Dixon
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke 1 2
Not A Box and Not a Stick - Antoinette Portis 1
Hippolyte's Island - Barbara Hodgson
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat - Lynne Jonell 1
*Of Bees and Mist - Erick Setiawan
An Edible History of Humanity - Tom Standage 4



August

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Inkspell - Cornelia Funke 1
Elephant and Piggie Series - Mo Willems 1
*The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John le Carré
Cowboy & Octopus - Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith 1
The Game - Diana Wynne Jones 5
*The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone - Dene Low 1
Ice Land - Betsy Tobin
Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke 1
The Puzzle King - Betsy Carter
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell



September

The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
God Is an Englishman - R.F. Delderfield
The Composer is Dead - Lemony Snicket 1
*The Somnambulist - Jonathan Barnes
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss - Claire Nouvian 4
The House at Midnight - Lucie Whitehouse
To Serve Them All My Days - R.F. Delderfield
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, Every Friday and New Pet - Dan Yaccarino 1
Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
*The Green Knowe Series - L.M. Boston 1
The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark 3



October

Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear
*The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories - Joan Aiken 1 3
*The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill
*The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo 1
In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu 3
Wonderland - Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew 6
The House of Lost Souls - F.G. Cottam
The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme - Bobbi Katz and Adam McCauley 1
*The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science - Richard Holmes 4
Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link 3 5
Half-Minute Horrors - editor Susan Rich 1 3
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Cain Saga: Forgotten Juliet - Kaori Yuki 3 6
*Spellbinder - Helen Stringer 1
The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
My Rotten Life: Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie - David Lubar 1
The Unburied - Charles Palliser



November

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen
In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles - Chris Welles Feder 4
Toot and Puddle - Holly Hobbie 1
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffeneger
*Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd 1
The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents) - Gina Misiroglu 1 4
The Broken Teaglass - Emily Arsenault
No Wind of Blame - Georgette Heyer
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead 1
Papier-Mâché Monsters - Dan Reeder 4
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations ... One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson 4
Mercury Falls - Robert Kroese
Ophie Out of Oz - Kathleen O'Dell 1
The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler 3
The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata



December

Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook - Sarah Schmelling
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace 2
*East Lynne - Ellen Wood
Holiday Grind - Cleo Coyle
*The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma - Trenton Lee Stewart 1
Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer
Albert - Lani Yamamoto 1
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Runt Farm series - Amanda Lorenzo 1
Mr. Timothy - Louis Bayard
43 Old Cemetery Road series - Kate Klise 1

1 - Children and/or youth book
2 - Book v. Movie post
3 - Short stories
4 - Non-fiction
5 - YA book
6 - Graphic novel