Books!

Hey, if all the cool kids are doing it, who am I to argue? Here's the books I've read this year, in convenient clicky format.
(Many thanks to Tracey for formatting this for me.)

January 2009
Against Medical Advice by James Patterson and Hal Friedman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Audition by Barbara Walters
With This Ring by Amanda Quick
Definitely Deadby Charlaine Harris
Torchwood: SkyPoint by Phil Ford
The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
Tales of Beedle the Bardby J.K Rowling
Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber

February 2009
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Books, the Prequel

So, the last booklist I kept ran from July to July. I posted January and February of this year-the completist in me now requires I post July through December.

July to December, 2008
1. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2. Escape, Carolyn Jessop
3. Torchwood: Trace Memory, David Llewellyn
4. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
5. Ramona's World, Beverly Cleary.I read most of these when I was a kid; somehow I'd missed this one. I kind of enjoyed it anyway. I think I'm going to see if my brother wants my old copies to read to my niece;she's about the age where she'd like them.
6. The Edge of Winter, Luanne Rice. I really enjoyed this one.
7. The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
8. A Good Yarn, Debbie Macomber. This just made me want to take up swimming and knitting.
9. Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwall. I didn't actually read this one; just skimmed to figure out who the murderer was. Something about one of her characters being an evil!lesbian struck me as lazy characterization.
10. The Killing Game, Iris Johansen. Skimmed this one too, mostly. This was supposed to have a supernatural element. I suppose the fact that the dog was telepathic counts, but I didn't think I was supposed to take that literally.
11. Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen.
12. That Day the Rabbi Left Town, Harry Kemelman. The mystery wasn't interesting, but the discussion of Jewish beliefs was.
13. Torchwood: The Twilight Streets, Gary Russell
14. Brother Odd, Dean Koontz. Very good. Kind of spooky.
15. Blood Dreams, Kay Hooper
16. Rosewood Casket, Sharyn McCrumb. I loved this one. The history of the land is a character all to itself in this one.
17. Reserved for the Cat, Mercedes Lackey. It had ballerinas and cats, so I forgive it for the weird ending.
18. Dewey, The Small-Town Library cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
19. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar, M.C.A. Hogarth. Technically a re-read, since I first read them here: http://www.stardancer.org/kherishdar/. Gorgeous artwork, gorgeous stories, gorgeous worldbuilding-and that last is notable, since I usually wave off "worldbuilding" as synonymous with "no plot". Some of these stories remind me of haiku in prose.
20. Mistral's Kiss, Laurell K. Hamilton
21. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini.
22. The Music of the Spheres, Elizabeth Redfern
23. Lick of Frost, Laurell K. Hamilton
24. Marked, P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
25. Betrayed, P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
26. Chosen, P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
27. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (re-read)
28. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
29. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
30. Torchwood: Pack Animals, Peter Anghelides