2009 Best Reads

The time has come, the walrus said...

To compile "best of" lists.

So here is my list of my Top 10 Reads of 2009. Same rules as last year - only first time reads allowed (no re-reads); and the publishing year doesn't matter, so long as I read it in 2009.

1. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

2. Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden

3. The Disappeared - Kim Echlin

4. The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre

5. Too Much Happiness - Alice Munro

6. The Blythes are Quoted - L. M. Montgomery

7. The Composer is Dead - Lemony Snicket

8. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

9. The Orange Trees of Baghdad - Leilah Nadir

10. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Compiling this list, and comparing it with last year's list, it struck me that overall, the books that I read in 2009 were overall not as good as the books that I read in 2008. Here's hoping for a better year in 2010!