Best of 2009

2009′s Best Books For Me:

I’m going to do my breakdown of best books I’ve read this year, though some of these may not necessarily have been published in 2009, but earlier in the decade.

I read 63 books in 2008, and my goal for 2009 as to read more than that. I surprised myself by reading 100 books in 2009 and reviewing all of them! I also started including more poetry reviews and interviews here on the blog and at 32 Poems blog and the D.C. Literature Examiner.

However, my personal writing goals of working each week toward a poetry or novel word count did not stick, and I stopped posting writing goal updates sometime during the year — heck, it was so long ago that I stopped I don’t even remember when. I also did not finish editing my poetry manuscript! Big FAIL!

OK, 2009, it’s time to say goodbye. I’m going to start of with the books I think were the worst.

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Not Worth Checking Out of the Library (ending with the worst):

5. Now Silence by Tori Warner Shepard

4. The Traitor’s Wife by Susan Higginbotham

3. The Michael Jackson Tapes by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

2. Follow Me by Joanna Scott

1. The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick

Now that the nitty gritty is out of the way, lets get to the best books I’ve read this year:

Best Book I’ve Read for the Everything Austen Challenge:

A Match for Mary Bennet by Eucharista Ward

Best Book I’ve Read for the WWII Reading Challenge:

Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino

Best Humor Book of 2009 (I only read three, so take this with a grain of salt):