The other day on Twitter, I asked 1) what everyone’s first book of 2009 is/was/will be? and 2) What else they were planning to read in 2009? The responses were awesome and I’ve added so many great new books to the “to read” list! I’ve compiled all the answers here so you, too, may add to the endless list of literary awesomeness you plan to tackle this year!

@danicouture “Book of Negroes.”

mlle_djinn I already did it! Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. Real first book-The Other Hand by Chris Cleave. Amazing so far, halfway through.

largeheartedboy I’ve finished Laila Lalami’s Secret Son & Patrick Somerville’s The Cradle so far in 2009, what a great way to start the year!

amykchulik “Gabriela, Clove & Cinnamon” by Jorge Amado for my book club. Have you read it?

wingedfeetxc 2666 by Roberto Bolano

Bookgirl96 I’m reading A Journal for Jordan right now. Excellent. On a non-fiction kick

TerryBain a Short History of the Printed Word

sarahtrimble I’m getting in sci-fi. Ursula K. LeGuin’s ‘The Dispossessed’. Read one of her books in December and loved it. You read her?

rebachin Sunshine by Robin McKinley: the rambling (in a good way) narration reminds me of my own thought patterns. p14 and lovin it.

AlgonquinBooks Read REMAINDER, now reading MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME and finishing Jamaica Kincaid’s THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER

sillysgood re 1st book: just received Endgame Volume 1 by Derrick Jensen. & am currently reading Black White & Jewish by Rebecca Walker

mightyflynn 1st book of ’09 is Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon. Finished Neverland by J O’Neill on 1/2 but started it 12/31.

missdeneen I’m starting off the year with Waking the Dead by John Eldredge

poggibonsi99 Right now reading The Monsters of Templeton and The Complete Persepolis.

travellingone (Non-fiction) _Climate Wars_ by Gwynne Dyer calls to me the loudest to be read.

susan_marie 1st books I’m reading in 09 a mix: Home, Nonviolent Communication, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Child’s Garden of Verses!

BostonBookGirl I already read A RELIABLE WIFE, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG and, if nothing is on TV tonight, will finish Patchett’s RUN.

AnnKingman Have read 3 books in 2009, all were great, only 1 is published yet – Dr. Olaf Van Schuler’s Brain. Other 2 will be out in summer

cathyskye First? I’m already on book #3.

thebrainlair I will finish Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.

bonnyglen My 09 reading yr is off to good start: finished World Made by Hand; The Uncommon Reader; am rding Ten-Year Nap now.

Lionnesss I’ve been missng the Newberry’s the last couple of years. I’ll read those.

lostwondr Plan to read Twinkie Deconstructed. Should be done with my current book tonight and then can start this one.

miss_om I plan to FINISH reading The Life of Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd. Have started so so many times

BlushngMushroom I plan to read the story of Poepi and The Giant as each new book in the story comes available. Google the title to find it.

jodiwilldare Looking forward to the new short story collections by Ali Smith and Mary Gaitskill

i_am_lisa This year, at least for the 1st 1/2, I’m going to be reading lots of YA books for class. The 2nd 1/2, reading whatever I want!

mightyflynn To read: The Tsar’s Dwarf by Fogtdal/Water Dogs by Lewis Robinson/I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph/2666 by Bolano

boyreporter mostly catching up on stuff from 2008. Will start Yates’ Revolutionary Road soon, should read Boyden’s Through Black Spruce

dianefischler Poisonwood Bible, for one. Eyeing that for years. 11:07 PM Jan 4th from web in reply to booksin140

silvakreuz “Syrup” by Maxx Barry ^.^

ibeforem I finished off Eclipse by Richard North Patterson last weekend. I liked it!

tatvictoria Snowball Warn Buffet’s bio..I need recession tips

mkindness started with SWEETNESS @ BOTTOM OF THE PIE (due in Apr.) plan 2 read several classics in summer: reading challenge I’m devising

FredRamey Th last bk of 2666 + Masha Hamilton & Estrin edits,a touch of LaoTsu for strength & I need a copy of The Savage Detectives quick

janelane Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

janelane A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Solnit

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