The 2009 Shelf

Author: Ashley

This is an annual post I will keep updated throughout the year. I’ll try to link this list to actual book reviews when possible. Anyone want to offer me anything special for getting to 100 by Dec 31?

1. The Commoner- John Burnham Schwartz
2. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
3. Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
4. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Phillip K. Dick
6. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
7. The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
8. The Future of Love – Shirley Abbott
9. Time Lottery – Nancy Moser
10. The Moon Opera – Bi Feiyu
11. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon – Stephen Prothero
12. The Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd
13. Love’s Apprentice: The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman – Shirley Abbot
14. The Everything Wedding Book – Shelly Hagen
15. The Artful Bride – April Paffrath & Laura McFadden
16. Beautiful Wedding Decorations & Gifts on a Small Budget – Diane Warner
17. How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget – Diane Warner
18. Dark Intergers – Greg Egan
19. Tender Morsels – Margo Lanagan
20. Sundays at Tiffanys by James Patterson
21. The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft
22. A Fatal Waltz: A Novel of Suspense – Tasha Alexander
23. Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher
24. Lilah by Marek Halter
25. La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
26. The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell
27. Guinevere’s Truth and Other Tales by Jennifer Roberson
28. Rasputin’s Daughter by Robert Alexander
29. Travel Well by Christine Aroney-Sine
30. Molokai by Alan Brennert
31. The Sex Life of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
32. Friend Raising by Betty Barnett
33. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
34. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
35. Intended for Pleasure by Dr. Ed Wheat & Gaye Wheat
36. St. Patrick of Ireland by Phillip Freeman
37. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
38. The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner
39. Waiting by Ha Jin
40. Mary of Nazareth by Marek Halter
41. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
42. Tithe by Holly Black
43. The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block
44. The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
45. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
46. Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
47. Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex
48. Under the Table by Katherine Darling
49. Sex God by Rob Bell
50. Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
51. The Philosopher and the Druids by Philip Freeman
52. Bento Box in the Heartland by Linda Furiya
53. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Lee
54. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip by The Waiter
55. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
56. Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost
57. Lost in Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
58. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanuaken
59. A Year in Japan by Kate Williamson
60. Othello by William Shakespeare
61. How to Cook a Dragon by Linda Furiya
62. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
63. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
64. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
65. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson
66. Real World by Natsuo Kirino
67. From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics by Louis
Markos
68. Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson
69. How the World Makes Love by Franz Wisner
70. Japanese Legends
71. The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
72. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
73. Clever Maids by Valerie Paradiz
74. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
75. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief  by Rick Riordan
76. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
77. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
78. Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
79. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
80. Sheet Music by Dr. Kevin Leman
81. Proud Knight, Fair Lady by Naomi Lewis
82. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
83. Spinning Straw into Gold – What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life by Joan Gould
84. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
85. Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
86. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
87. Honolulu by Alan Brennert
88. Life Together – A Discourse on Christian Fellowship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
89. Genesis by Bernard Beckett
90. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
91. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
92. Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
93. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
94. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
95. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
96. The Window by Jeanette Ingold
97. Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli
98. Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simmer
99. The Candymaker’s Gift by Helen Haidle
100. The Small Catechism by Martin Luther