JANUARY:

• 1. the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger (1/09/09)
• 2. franny and zooey by j.d salinger (01/12/09)
• 3. the penelopiad by margaret atwood (01/13/09)
• 4. adverbs by daniel handler (01/17/09)
• 5. extremely loud and incredibly close (01/19/09)
• 6. one flew over the cuckoo's nest (01/28/09)

FEBRUARY:

• 7. torture the artist by joey goebel [02/06/09]
• 8. when nietzsche wept by irvin d. yalom [02/20/09]
• 9. the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux [02/27/09]

MARCH:

• 10. bluebeard's egg: stories by margaret atwood [03/04/09]
• 11. complete stories of truman capote [03/12/09]
• 12. demian by herman hesse [03/26/09]

APRIL:

• 13. lolita by vladimir nabokov [04/03/09]
• 14. the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood [04/12/09]
• 15. andrew wyeth: a secret life by richard meryman [04/25/09]

MAY:

• 16. norwegian wood by haruki murakami [05/16/09]
• 17. 1984 by george orwell [05/19/09]
• 18. a streetcar named desire by tennesse williams [05/22/09]
• 19. siddhartha by herman hesse [05/22/09]
• 20. lost in paradise by cees nooteboom [05/24/09]
• 21. sophie's world by jostein gaarder [05/28/09]
• 22. the glass menagerie by tennessee williams [05/28/09]

JUNE:

• 23. the wind up bird chronicle by haruki murakami [06/03/09]
• 24.nausea by jean paul sartre [06/07/09]
• 25. cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut [06/12/09]
• 26. us! songs and stories by chris bachelder [06/25/09]
• 27. south of the border, west of the sun by haruki murakami [06/29/09]

JULY:

• 28. welcome to the monkey house by kurt vonnegut [07/09/09]
• 29. ray in reverse by david wallace [07/20/09]
• 30. kafka on the shore by haruki murakami [07/31/09]

AUGUST:

• 31. i was told there'd be cake by sloane crosley [08/04/09]
• 32. after dark by haruki murakami [08/07/09]
• 33. slapstick by kurt vonnegut [08/08/09]
• 34.the stranger by albert camus [08/12/09]
• 35. the ninth life of louis drax by liz jensen [08/15/09]
• 36. god bless you, dr. kevorkian by kurt vonnegut [08/16/09]
• 37. look at the harlequins! by vladimir nabokov [08/18/09]
• 38. as a man thinketh by james allen [08/21/09]
• 39. sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami [08/22/09]
• 40. the martian chronicles by ray bradbury [08/23/09]
• 41. high fidelity by nick hornby [08/24/09]

SEPTEMBER:

• 42.the world according to garp by john irving [09/03/09]
• 43. the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov [09/08/09]
• 44. into the silent land by paul broks [09/12/09]
• 45. down and out in paris and london by george orwell [09/17/09]

OCTOBER:

• 46. catch 22 by joseph heller [10/01/09]
• 47. modern man in search of a soul by c.g. jung [10/08/09]
• 48. mr. vertigo by paul auster [10/13/09]
• 49. silk by alessandro barrico [10/14/09]
• 50. everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer (re-read) [10/24/09]

NOVEMBER:

• 51. survivor by chuck palahniuk [11/02/09]
• 52. on the road by jack kerouac [11/17/09]
• 53. the book of lost things by john connolly [11/24/09]
• 54. the diagnosis by alan lightman [11/30/09]

DECEMBER:

• 55. cat's eye by margaret atwood [12/04/09]
• 56. middlesex by jeffrey eugenides [12/10/09]
• 57. big fish by daniel wallace [12/11/09]
• 58. the secret history by donna tartt [12/17/09]
• 59. fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury (re-read) [12/19/09]
• 60. slaughter house five by kurt vonnegut [12/20/09]