Saturday, January 16, 2010

2009 in review

I'm combining my 2009 lists into one ginormous post. Sorry! Following are the books I read, movies I saw, and shows I went to in 2009. The ones I particularly enjoyed are in bold.

Books
* indicates a reread.
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR (Brands)
The Wordy Shipmates (Vowell)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Outliers: The Story of Success (Gladwell)
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Schwartz)
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Horror (Moore)
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Davis)
Love the One You're With (Giffin)
Into the Wild (Krakauer)
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain (Adams)
A Dirty Job (Moore)
Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man (Carroll)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Rowling)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Whedon & Jeanty)
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Jacobs)
One Hit Wonderland (Hawks)
Everyone Worth Knowing (Weisberger)
Chasing Harry Winston (Weisberger)
Mine Till Midnight (Kleypas)
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith (Cohen)
As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires (Weber)
The Good Terrorist (Lessing)
Heyday (Andersen)
Night Train (Amis)
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Austen & Grahame-Smith)
Double Play (Parker)
Freakin' Fabulous (Kelly)
Basket Case (Hiassen)
"They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance (Pitch)
How to Be Popular (Cabot)
Pants on Fire (Cabot)
A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
Beyond Band of Brothers (Winters)
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling)
The Poe Shadow (Pearl)
Notes From the Underwire: Adventures From My Awkward & Lovely Life (Cummings)
Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons)
Atonement (McEwan)
Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound With a Minor League Misfit (McCarthy)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
Best Friends Forever (Weiner)
*Good in Bed (Weiner)
*In Her Shoes (Weiner)
*Every Boy's Got One (Cabot)
Epileptic (David B)
*The Ghost in the Third Row (Coville)
*The Ghost Wore Gray (Coville)
People of the Book (Brooks)
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America (Gould)
The Dud Avocado (Dundy)
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History (Ortved)
*Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Assassins (Sondheim & Weidman)
Beatles: The Biography (Spitz)
American on Purpose: The Improbably Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot (Ferguson)

Movies
Milk
Revolutionary Road
The Reader
Last Chance Harvey
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Watchmen
Sunshine Cleaning
Star Trek
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Up
(500) Days of Summer
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I Love You, Beth Cooper
The Hangover
Julie & Julia
Inglourious Basterds

Theater
The Heavens Are Hung in Black - Ford's Theatre
The Civil War - Ford's Theatre
Ragtime - Kennedy Center
Arcadia - Folger
Jersey Boys - National Tour
Show Boat - Signature
A Christmas Carol - Ford's Theatre

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Confessions of a Shopaholic Watchmen? I think I missed that one...

Barb said...

Edited. Though that would be an interesting movie.