❖ Reading List, 2009

Do you follow my Reader’s Notebook entries religiously, yet struggle to keep them straight from month-to-month? Hate digging through the archives to remind yourself of that baseball book I read last spring? You’re in luck. As tradition dictates, here is my full list of books read in 2009.*

* Slightly delayed, obviously.

The numbers were down from recent years. But when you consider that I A) took a sabbatical from reading in the first quarter of the year, finishing just one book during that period and B) I took three months to read Infinite Jest, I’m pretty pleased with the results.

1   <em>Why We Suck</em> - Denis Leary
2   <em>Shakespeare Wrote For Money</em> - Nick Hornby
3   <em>Baseball Between The Numbers</em> - Baseball Prospects 
4   <em>Legacy Of Ashes</em> - Tim Weiner 
5   <em>The Bad Guys Won</em> - Jeff Pearlman 
6   <em>Watching Baseball Smarter</em> - Zack Hample
7   <em>The Teammates </em>- David Halberstam 
8   <em>Blow The House Down</em> - Robert Baer 
9   <em>Road Work</em> - Mark Bowden 
10  <em>Redemption Song</em> - Chris Salewicz 
11  <em>Eleanor Rigby</em> - Douglas Coupland 
12  <em>Best Music Writing 2008</em> 
13  <em>Lush Life</em> - Richard Price 
14  <em>40 Watts From Nowhere</em> - Sue Carpenter 
15  <em>Woe To Live On</em> - Daniel Woodrell 
16  <em>Maps And Legends</em> - Michael Chabon 
17  <em>Zeitoun</em> - Dave Eggers 
18  <em>Ball Four</em> - Jim Bouton 
19  <em>The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging</em> 
20  <em>Zen and the Art of Happiness</em> - Chris Prentiss
21  <em>Infinite Jest</em> - David Foster Wallace
22      <em>The Book of Basketball</em> - Bill Simmons
23  <em>Ripped</em> - Greg Kot 
24 <em>Sharp Objects</em> - Gillian Flynn 
25  <em>Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana</em> - Phillip M. Hoose 
26  <em>100 Greatest Albums</em> - Edited by Jacob Hoye