The Best Books I Read in 2009

Listed alphabetically by author

Corrigan, Kelly. The Middle Place

Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique

Genova, Lisa. Still Alice

Hoffman, Alice. The Story Sisters

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

O’Connell, Carol. Bone by Bone

Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude

Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

Zaslow, Jeffrey. The Girls from Ames


Honorable Mention

Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own

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