One of my favorite things about the end of the year is all of the "Best of..." and "Top Ten..." and other end of the year lists of books, music, films, etc. I decided at the beginning of 2009 that I was going to keep a running list of all the books I read throughout the year (with the exception of material read for school). Although I would not recommend all of these (some were quite dull and disappointing) and this is not my Best Books of 2009 list, I thought I would share anyway...
***denotes my favorites.
#denotes currently being read.
***Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
by Jennifer Block
Serve God, Save the Planet
by Matthew Sleeth, MD
Rockabye: From Wild to Child
by Rebecca Woolf
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
by Patricia Harman
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices
edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
***The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
by Molly Wizenberg
***Ballistics
by Billy Collins
***Living on the Earth
by Alicia Bay Laurel
***Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Taking Woodstock
by Elliot Tiber
***Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
by Tina Cassidy
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman
***An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
by James Orbinski, MD
***Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
by Deborah Ellis
***Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
by Jenna Woginrich
Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir
by Cara Muhlhahn
***Birth Your Way: Choosing Birth at Home or in a Birth Center
by Sheila Kitzinger
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
by Wendell Steavenson
***Wide Neighborhoods
by Mary Breckinridge
The Silenced Cry: One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan
by Ana Tortajada
Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan
by Katherine Kiviat and Scott Heidler
Pilgrims
by Garrison Keillor
Family Planning
by Karan Mahajan
***Midwifery and Childbirth in America
by Judith Pence Rooks
Born in the USA: How a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first
by Marsden Wagner
Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
by James E. McWilliams
***Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles: A Novel
by Margaret George
***Last Night at Twisted River
by John Irving
#Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien
#A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
What did you read this 2009 year?
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