"2009"

1. The Center of Everything (Moriarty) ~ 3/5

2. Blindness (Saramago) ~ 4/5

3. Lullaby Town (Crais) ~ 3.75/5

4. A Separate Peace (Knowles) ~ 3.25/5

5. Kiss (Dekker & Healy) ~ 2.75/5

* Overtime (Rash) ~ 3.5/5

6. North River (Hamill) ~ 3.5/5

7. The Darker Side (McFadyen) ~ 4.5/5

8. The Full Cupboard of Life (Smith) ~ 3/5

9. Sundays at Tiffany's (Patterson) ~ 2/5

10. Roseflower Creek (Miles) ~ 4.25/5

11. The Mystery of Mary Rogers (Geary) ~ 4.5/5

12. Paper Towns (Green) ~ 3.5/5

13. Hitler Youth (Bartoletti) ~ 4.5/5

14. Jar City (Indridason) ~ 3.5/5

* Cold Harbor (Rash) ~ 3.75/5

* Honesty (Rash) ~ 4/5

* Dangerous Love (Rash) ~ 3.5/5

15. Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley) ~ 3/5

* The Projectionist's Wife (Rash) ~ 4/5

16. The Mephisto Club (Gerritsen) ~ 2.5/5

* Deep Gap (Rash) ~ 4/5

17. A Rule Against Murder (Penny) ~ 4.25/5

18. Sweetsmoke (Fuller) ~ 3.5/5

19. The Plain Janes (Castellucci) ~ 2.5/5

20. No Time for Goodbye (Barclay) ~ 4/5

* Pemberton's Bride (Rash) ~ 3.75/5

^ 21. Skeleton Creek (Carman) ~ 4.5/5

* Speckled Trout (Rash) ~ 4.5/5

22. Chemistry and Other Stories (Rash) ~ 4.5/5

* In the Gray (Potter) ~ 4/5

23. The Wednesday Sisters (Clayton) ~ 3.25/5

24. The Hunger Games (Collins) ~ 4.5/5

25. Still Alice (Genova) ~ 4.75/5

26. Free Fall (Crais) ~ 4/5

* Blessing or Curse? (Potter) ~ 3.75/5

27. The Associate (Grisham) ~ 4/5

28. Very Valentine (Trigiani) ~ 2.25/5

29. The Perks of a Wallflower (Chbosky) ~ 4/5

30. Sweetheart (Cain) ~ 2.25/5

31. Cut (McCormick) ~ 3.5/5

32. The Night Stalker (Swain) ~ 3.5/5

33. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ford) ~ 4/5

34. The City of Ember (DuPrau) ~ 3/5

35. Child 44 (Smith) ~ 3.5/5

36. The Help (Stockett) ~ 4.5/5

37. Murder Runs in the Family (George) ~ 3/5

38. The Housekeeper and the Professor (Ogawa) ~ 4/5

39. 100 Cupboards (Wilson) ~ 3.5/5

40. A Cold Day in Paradise (Hamilton) ~ 4/5

41. Shanghai Girls (See) ~ 4.5/5

42. The Girl She Used To Be (Cristofano) ~ 4.25/5

* Prominent Couple Slain (Potter) ~ 3.75/5

43. The Keepsake (Gerritsen) ~ 3.5/5

44. Poisoned Love (Cane) ~ 4/5

* May 18, 2010 (Potter) ~ 3/5

45. Crank (Hopkins) ~ 4/5

46. 1st to Die (Patterson) ~ 4/5

47. Among the Mad (Winspear) ~ 4.5/5

48. Dairy Queen (Murdock) ~ 3.25/5

49. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Bradley) ~ 3/5

50. The Big Sleep (Chandler) ~ 3/5

51. Crazy for the Storm (Ollestad) ~ 4.25/5

52. Out Stealing Horses (Petterson) ~ 4/5

* Bent, Not Broken (Potter) ~ 4.25/5

* Surviving the Fall (Potter) ~ 2/5

53. Lighting the Dark Side (Potter) ~ 3.5/5

54. Manhunt (Swanson) ~ 5/5

* Pineapple Wars (Bluestein) ~ 3.75/5

55. Glory in Death (Robb) ~ 3.5/5

56. The Weight of Heaven (Umrigar) ~ 4/5

* Hamburger School (Bluestein) ~ 4/5

57. Still Life (Fielding) ~ 3.5/5

58. Astrid & Veronika (Olsson) ~ 4/5

* Serial (Kilborn & Crouch) ~ 4/5

59. The Scarecrow (Connelly) ~ 4/5

60. A World Never Made (LePore) ~ 3.75/5

61. The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Pearson) ~ 2.5/5

62. Voodoo River (Crais) ~ 4/5

63. The Walking People (Keane) ~ 3.75/5

* Skin Deep (Bluestein) ~ 3.5/5

* The Artist's Story (Bluestein) ~ 3.25/5

64. The Dead and the Gone (Pfeffer) ~ 2/5

65. The Reader (Schlink) ~ 4.25/5

66. April & Oliver (Callahan) ~ 3.5/5

* Aibo or Love at First Sight (Bluestein) ~ 3.25/5

67. Operation Yes (Holmes) ~ 4/5

68. Hold Tight (Coben) ~ 4/5

69. The First Part Last (Johnson) ~ 3.5/5

* The Cut the Crap Machine (Bluestein) ~ 3.25/5

70. Beach Trip (Holton) ~ 3.75/5

* The Blanks (Bluestein) ~ 4/5

71. The Killer Angels (Shaara) ~ 2/5

72. Wintergirls (Anderson) ~ 4/5

73. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) ~ 3.5/5

74. Garden Spells (Allen) ~ 3.25/5

75. The Angel's Game (Zafon) ~ 2.75/5

* A Ruined World (Bluestein) ~ 2/5

* North of the Faro (Bluestein) ~ 3.25/5

* Tea (Bluestein) ~ 4/5

76. Tea & Other Ayama Na Tales (Bluestein) ~ 3.5/5

77. How Not To Look Old (Krupp) ~ 4.5/5

* The Secret Session (Hoch) ~ 3.5/5

* Designer Justice (Cohen) ~ 4/5

78. The Chosen One (Williams) ~ 4/5

* Follow Up (Dereske) ~ 3.75/5

79. Boneman's Daughters (Dekker) ~ 2.5/5

80. The Actor and the Housewife (Hale) ~ 3/5

* By Hook or By Crook (Drees) ~ 4.25/5

81. The Blue Notebook (Levine) ~ 4.5/5

* The Letter (Dunbaugh) ~ 3.75/5

82. The Sleeping Doll (Deaver) ~ 4/5

83. Ravens (Green) ~ 2.75/5

84. The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (Geary) ~ 4.5/5

85. This Lovely Life (Forman) ~ 2.5/5

86. Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis) ~ 3.25/5

87. Victorian Murder (Geary) ~ 4.25/5

88. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Lockhart) ~ 2.75/5

89. Fear the Worst (Barclay) ~ 4/5

* Spectral Evidence (Gallison) ~ 2/5

* Knife Flight (Goldman) ~ 4/5

90. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (Summerscale) ~ 3.25/5

91. The God of War (Silver) ~ 3.5/5

92. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Shriver) ~ 3.75/5

93. Die Trying (Child) ~ 3.5/5

94. Illegal (Levine) ~ 4/5

95. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Baker) ~ 3.5/5

96. Hattie Big Sky (Larson) ~ 3.75/5

97. Escape (Jessop) ~ 4.5/5

98. Holly's Inbox (Denham) ~ 4/5

* Death, Cheated (Grippando) ~ 3.75/5

99. The Case of Madeleine Smith (Geary) ~ 4.25/5

100. Sworn to Silence (Castillo) ~ 4/5

101. The Castaways (Hilderbrand) ~ 3/5

102. Ender's Game (Card) ~ 3.5/5

103. Tilt-A-Whirl (Grabenstein) ~ 4/5

104. Clara's War (Kramer) ~ 4.5/5

* My Brother's Keeper (Hale) ~ 3.5/5

105. Deadline (Crutcher) ~ 2.75/5

106. Catching Fire (Collins) ~ 3.5/5

107. Rizzo's War (Manfredo) ~ 4/5

108. The Juror (Green) ~ 2/5

109. Fade Away (Coben) ~ 3.5/5

110. The Maze Runner (Dashner) ~ 3.25/5

* The Flashlight Game (Hansen-Young) ~ 3/5

111. Home Safe (Berg) ~ 3/5

112. Abandoned (McFadyen) ~ 4/5

113. The Gargoyle (Davidson) ~ 1.5/5

114. The Brutal Telling (Penny) ~ 3.5/5

* Mom is My Co-Counsel (Levine) ~ 3.75/5

* Quality of Mercy (Lundin) ~ 4/5

* The Mother (Martinez) ~ 3.75/5

115. Sweeping Up Glass (Wall) ~ 3.25/5

116. If I Stay (Forman) ~ 3.5/5

117. A Circle of Souls (Grandhi) ~ 4/5

* Red Dog (Page) ~ 4.5/5

* A Clerk's Life (Parker) ~ 4.25/5

* Time Will Tell (Phelan) ~ 2.5/5

118. Undiscovered Gyrl (Burnett) ~ 4/5

119. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Bauby) ~ 2.75/5

* Night Court (Rozan) ~ 4/5

* Hard Blows (Swingle) ~ 4/5

120. Prayers for Sale (Dallas) ~ 3.5/5

* Custom Sets (Wallace) ~ 4.25/5

* Bang (Zeman) ~ 2.75/5

* Going Under (Fairstein) ~ 4/5

121. The Prosecution Rests (edited by Fairstein) ~ 4/5

* An Ex-Mas Feast (Akpan) ~ 3.5/5

* I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (Gay) ~ 3.75/5

122. The Lovely Bones (Sebold) ~ 2/5

123. Sorrow's Anthem (Koryta) ~ 3/5

* A Death in the Woods (Gay) ~ 3.75/5

124. The Watchman (Crais) ~ 3/5

125. Same Kind of Different As Me (Hall & Moore) ~ 4/5

* Bonedaddy, Quincy Nell and the 15,000 BTU Electric Chair (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

* The Paperhanger (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

126. Slam (Hornby) ~ 3.5/5

127. Such a Pretty Girl (Wiess) ~ 4/5

128. Monster (Myers) ~ 3.5/5

129. Shadow Prey (Sandford) ~ 3.25/5

* The Man Who Knew Dylan (Gay) ~ 3/5

130. Body Bags (Golden) ~ 3.5/5

131. Gossamer (Lowry) ~ 4/5

* Those Deep Elm Brown's Ferry Blues (Gay) ~ 3.75/5

* Crossroads Blues (Gay) ~ 2.5/5

132. Uglies (Westerfeld) ~ 4.25/5

* Closure and Roadkill on Life's Highway (Gay) ~ 3.75/5

* Sugarbaby (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

* Standing By Peaceful Waters (Gay) ~ 3.25/5

133. A Fountain Filled With Blood (Spencer-Fleming) ~ 3.5/5

* Good 'Til Now (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

* The Lightpainter (Gay) ~ 3.75/5

* My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

134. I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (Gay) ~ 3.5/5

135. What the Dog Saw (Gladwell) ~ 3.5/5

136. I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (Woodson) ~ 3.5/5

137. Sweethearts (Zarr) ~ 3.75/5

138. The Christmas List (Evans) ~ 4/5

139. Labor Day (Maynard) ~ 4/5

140. The Christmas Sweater (Beck) ~ 3.5/5

* Blood Drive (Grisham) ~ 3.75/5

141. Comfort & Joy (Hannah) ~ 1.5/5

142. Tears of the Desert (Bashir) ~ 4.5/5

143. Slay Ride (Grabenstein) ~ 4/5

* Fetching Raymond (Grisham) ~ 4/5

^ Children's Book

* Short Story (not counted)

~ Young Reader (not counted)