2009

Books that I recommend highly have an asterisk!

1 Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power by Eberhard Jäckel
2 Hitler (Profiles in Power) by Ian Kershaw
3 Germans Into Nazis by Peter Fritzche *
4 Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
5 Women in Nazi Society by Jill Stephenson
6 War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study of the Ethics of Violence by Susan Niditch *
7 Like a Bird in a Cage:' The Invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE by Lester L. Grabbe, ed.
8 Indian Survival on the California Frontier by Albert L. Hurtado
9 The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire by Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
10 Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History by Carolyn Merchant, ed.
11 The Tain by Thomas Kinsella, ed.
12 The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
13 Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
14 Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
15 Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier *
16 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
17 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
18 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
19 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
20 The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer
21 The Rose: A Novel Based on Beauty and the Beast by Jennifer Baker
22 To Weave a Web of Magic by Claire Delacroix, Lynn Kurland, Patricia McKillip, Sharon Shinn
23 The Queen in Winter by Claire Delacroix, Lynn Kurland, Sarah Monette, Sharon Shinn
24 The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther by Rebecca Kohn
25 Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
26 Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black
27 The Tourist in Yosemite, 1855-1985 by Stanford E. Demars
28 Chalice by Robin McKinley
29 The Reptile Room: Or, Murder! by Lemony Snicket
30 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
31 The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn
32 Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
33 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
34 Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
35 Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
36 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
37 Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
38 Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
39 The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
40 The Truth-Teller's Tale by Sharon Shinn
41 The Dream-Maker's Magic by Sharon Shinn
42 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
43 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
44 The Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
45 Elemental Magic by Sharon Shinn, Rebecca York, Carol Berg, Jean Johnson
46 Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (re-read) *
47 Boys That Bite by Mari Mancusi
48 Stake That by Mari Mancusi
49 Girls That Growl by Mari Mancusi
50 An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
51 Waking by Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry
52 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield **
53 The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë: A Novel by Syrie James *
54 The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman *
55 Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
56 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance-Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith *
57 Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
58 Lilah: A Novel by Marek Halter
59 The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly **
60 Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
61 The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
62 Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein
63 The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities: An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts and Oddities, from Asthmatic Mice to Plants that Can Kill by Nick Bakalar
64 Masks by Fumiko Enchi
65 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
66 What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
67 The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene by Mavis Haut
68 The Song of Songs by Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch, Robert Alter
69 A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
70 Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
71 Fitcher's Brides by Gregory Frost *
72 The Myth of Sisyphus and other Essays by Albert Camus
73 Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins
74 Bismarck and the Development of Germany: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871 by Otto Pflanze
75 No Go the Bogeyman by Marina Warner
76 A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak 1) by Darren Shan
77 Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by Peter Berkowitz
78 The Crimes of Love by the Marquis de Sade
79 Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
80 A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
81 Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
82 The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque Du Freak 2) by Darren Shan
83 The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next 1) by Jasper Fforde
84 Management Basics for Information Professionals (Second Edition) by G. Edward Evans, Patricia Layzell Ward
85 Foundations of Library and Information Science (Second Edition) by Richard E. Rubin
86 Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
87 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
88 Marked by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
89 The More I See You by Lynn Kurland
90 The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
91 Dada and After by Alan Young
92 Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871 by Arden Bucholz
93 Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
94 Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and his Wives by Maria Tatar *
95 The Face of Another by Kobo Abé
96 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
97 The Box Man by Kobo Abé
98 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami *
99 Beastly by Alex Finn
100 The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
101 The Coma by Alex Garland
102 A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle