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Lassie Notes - January 26, 2010

Best Books Read in 2009

Teen Fiction

  • Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - Great for Teens and Adults
  • L.A. Meyer - Bloody Jack Adventures - Good series to listen to
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
  • Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
  • The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
  • The Graveyard by Neil Gaiman
  • Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Fantasy and Science Fiction

  • Fragment by Warren Fahy - Michael Crichton Style
  • The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
  • Retrieval Artist Series - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve

Audiobooks

  • Adriana Trigiani books
  • Reader: Ilyana Kadushin

Biographies and Memoirs

  • Helping me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a year on th brink of the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick
  • Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
  • Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through and Back by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine
  • Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy by Lynn Marie Smith
  • High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips
  • Prairie Tale: A Memoir by Melissa Gilbert
  • My Booky Wood: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand
  • Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
  • Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
  • Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life by Tim Russert
  • A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of Ocean by Tori Murden Mcclure
  • Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak
  • Losing Mom an Pup by Christopher Buckley

Mainstream Fiction

  • The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
  • A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
  • The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
  • The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
  • Four Freedoms by John Crowley
  • Last Night in the Twisted River by John Irvings
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  • Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  • Discworld by Terry Pratchett
  • Author: Steven Johnson - The Ghost Map
  • The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
  • Border Songs and The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingslover

Mystery/Suspense

  • Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
  • On What Grounds (Coffee Mysteries) by Cleo Coyle
  • Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
  • Get Real by Donald Westlake
  • The Likeness by Tana French
  • The Blonde by Duane Swierczynski
  • Jane Whitfield Novels by Thomas Perry
  • The Signal by Ron Carlson
  • Whisper to the Blood (A Kate Shugak Novel) by Dana Stabenow
  • Charlaine Harris
  • Assassination Vacation
  • Soulless by Gail Carriger
  • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters