2009 - Read - Your - Own - Books - Challenge

Hosted by MizB the rules are simple:

* set a goal for how many of your OWN books you’d like to read in 2009 (I chose 100) COMPLETED 11/2009


* read from your own collection between January 1st and December 31st, 2009

1. Madness: A Bipolar Life; Hornbacher - 4/5
2. The Book of Bright Ideas; Kring - 5/5
3. Frangipani; Vaite - 4/5
4. Breadfruit; Vaite - 4/5
5. A Golden Age; Anam - 4.5/5 - audio
   
6. The Four Agreements; Ruiz - 5/5
7. Women of the Silk; Tsukiyama - 4.5/5
8. The Space Between Us; Umrigar - 4.5/5
   
9. In the Country of Men; Matar - 3.5/5 - audio
10. The Secret; Byrne - 1/5
11. Mercy; Picoult - 3.5/5
12. Travels in the Scriptorium; Auster - 2/5 audio
13. Still Alice; Lisa Genova - 5/5
14. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 4.5/5
15. The Mercy Papers; Romm - 3.5/5
16. The Emperor of Ocean Park; Carter 4/5 - audio
17. Finding Your Own North Star; Beck - 4/5
18. The White Tiger; Adiga - 3/5
19. The Winter of Our Discontent; Steinbeck - 4/5
20. The Weight of Heaven; Umrigar - 5/5
21. Dog On It; Quinn - 4/5
22. The Cradle; Somerville - 3/5
23. Murder Most Frothy; Coyle - 4/5
24. Santa Fe Rules; Stuart Woods - 3/5 (audio)
25. Almost Home; Jenoff - 4/5 (review copy)
26. Heat; Stuart Woods - 2.5/5 (audio)
    
27. The Simplest of Acts; Haney - 4/5 (review)
28. Apologize, Apologize; Kelly - 2/5 (audio)
29. Shanghai Girls; Lisa See - 4.5/5 (review)
30. All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome; Hoopman - 5/5
31. Happy for No Reason; Marci Shimoff - 4/5 (audio)
32. Gringos in Paradise; Golson - 4/5
33. Prayers For Sale; Sandra Dallas - 4.5/5 (review copy)
34. The Visibles; Sara Shepard - 4/5 (review copy)
35. The Bone Garden; Tess Gerritsen - 3.5/5
36. Dark Places; Gillian Flynn - 4/5 (review)
37. Dark Tide; Andrew Gross - 4/5 (audio)
38. The Blue Notebook; James Levine - 5/5 (review)
39. The Black Girl Next Door; Baszile - 4/5 (review)
40. Burnt Shadows; Shamsie - 3.5/5 (review)
41. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Bradley (review)
42. The Chosen One; Williams - 4.5/5 (audio-review)
43. Broken: A Love Story; Lisa Jones - 4/5 (review)
44. Beach Chair Diaries; Spurr - 4/5
45. A Disobedient Girl; Ru Freeman - 3.5/5 (review)
46. Perfection; Julie Metz - 4/5 (review)
    
47. Swimming Lessons; Mary Alice Monroe - 4/5 (audio)
48. A Short History of Women; Kate Walbert - 4/5 (review)
49. Labor Day; Joyce Maynard - 5/5 (review)
50. The Bride's Farewell; Meg Rosoff - 3.5/5 (review)
51. A Lion Called Christian; Bourke and Rendall - 5/5
52. So Happy Together; McFadden - 4/5 (review)
53. A Happy Marriage; Yglesias - 4.5/5 (review)
54. Magicians; Grossman - 5/5 (review)
55. God of War; Silver - 5/5 (review)
56. When the Sun Goes Down; Breuhaus - 4/5
57. The Calligrapher's Daughter; Kim - 5/5 (review)
58. Benny & Shrimp; Mazetti - 4/5 (review)
59. The House on Sugar Beach; Cooper - 4.5/5 (review)
60. Dry Ice; White - 4/5 (audio)
61. Loving Frank; Horan - 4/5 (audio)
62. Life Sentences; Lippman (audio)
63. Song of Renewal; Harvey - 4/5 (review)
64. Firefly Cloak; Sheri Reynolds - 3.5/5
65. The Idea of Love; Louise Dean - 3/5 (review)
66. The Day the Falls Stood Still; Cathy Buchanan - 4.5/5 (review)
67. Daddy's Girl; Scottoline - 3/5 (audio)
68. Julie and Julia; Powell - 5/5
69. Homer's Odyssey; Gwen Cooper - 4.5/5 (review)
70. After You; Julie Buxbaum - 4/5 (review)
71. Revolutionary Road; Richard Yates - 4.5/5
72. The Woodstock Story Book; Sackett and Levine - 4.5/5 (review)
    
73. The Dragon House; Shors - 4/5 (review)
74. The Shimmer; Morrell - 3.5/5 (review)
75. The Hidden Life of Deer; Marshall Thomas - 3/5 (review)
76. Loitering With Intent; Woods - 2/5 (audio)
    
77. Bird in Hand; Kline - 3.5/5 (review)
78. Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD; Maloney - 4/5 (review)
79. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind; Kamkwamba and Mealy - 4.5/5 (review) (audio)
    
80. I Was Told There'd Be Cake; Sloane Crosley - 3/5
81. Day After Night; Anita Diamant - 4/5 (review)
82. Sari Shop Widow; Bantwal - 4/5 (review)
83. Broken Window; Deaver - 4/5 (audio)
84. The Brutal Telling; Penny - 4/5 (review)
85. Tortilla Flat; John Steinbeck - 4.5/5
86. Mathilda Savitch; Lodato - 4/5 (review)
87. Baking Cakes in Kigali; Gaile Parkin - 4/5 (review)
88. Solace; Temes - 4/5
89. A Duty to the Dead; Todd - 4/5
90. Gifts from the Sea; Lindbergh - 5/5
91. Zen and the Art of Happiness; Prentiss - 4/5
92. Sworn to Silence; Castillo - 4/5 (audio)
93. Haunted Island; Nadler - 3/5
94. Recipe Club; Israel and Garfinkle - 4/5(review)
95. The Christmas Cookie Club; Pearlman - 3/5 (review)
96. The Haunting of Hill House; Shirley Jackson - 4.5/5
97. Picking Bones from Ash; Mockett - 4.5/5 (review)
    
98. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - 4/5 (review)
99. Away; Amy Bloom 4/5
100. The Christmas Dog; Carlson - 4/5
101. Her Fearful Symmetry; Audrey Niffenegger - 4/5 (review)
     
102. Await Your Reply; Chaon - 4.5/5 (review)
103. The Christmas List - 5/5
104. Wishin and Hopin; Wally Lamb - 5/5 (review)
     
105. Half Broke Horses; Walls - 5/5 (review)
106. Holiday Grind; Coyle - 4/5 (review)
107. The Girl on Legare Street; Karen White - 4/5
108. Amen, Amen, AMen; Sher - 4/5
109. New World Monkeys; Mauro - 3/5
110. The Lovely Bones; Sebold (audio) 4/5
111. Rainwater; Sandra Brown (review) 5/5
112. Alice I Have Been; Benjamin (review) 4.5/5
113. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt; Beth Hoffman (review) - 5/5
114. Mean Mothers; Peg Streep - 4/5