Here are the books I read in 2009. It's quite a lot fewer than I read in 2008, and I didn't maintain the even balance between fiction and non-fiction I aim for, but I can live with a 56/44 split. These are presented in reverse order, i.e. the one I finished most recently is listed first.
- The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
- Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times by Ralph Stanley with Eddie Dean
- Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
- Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip—Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
- How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
- I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
- Demon Ex Machina: Tales of a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
- State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
- Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
- The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
- The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams
- Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, Michael Lewis, ed.
- A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument by Jasper Rees
- Polo: The Runaway Book by Regis Faller
- Deja Demon: The Days and Nights of a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Get Real by Donald E. Westlake
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
- Revenge of the Spellmans: A Novel by Lisa Lutz
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
- The Associate by John Grisham
- The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism! by Dave Barry
- The Writing Class by Jincy Willett
- The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son by David Gerrold
- Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson
- Demons Are Forever: Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War by James Mann
- The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel by Charlie Huston
- Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
- Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey Gods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More by Scott Adams
- The Shack by William P. Young
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding by Heather King
- The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty by Steven Waldman
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts by Tom Farley and Tanner Colby
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile