Read in 2009

All Passion Spent-Vita Sackville-West

American Sublime-Elizabeth Alexander

Amours de Voyage-Arthur Hugh Clough

Annie John-Jamaica Kincaid

The Ante-Room-Kate O’Brien

Beauty-Sherri Tepper

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on a Writing Life-Anne Lamott

Bloodchild and other stories-Octavia Butler

The Bloody Chamber-Angela Carter

The Book of Night Women-Marlon James

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding-Julia Strachey

Chicken With Plums-Marjane Satrapi

A Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens

Communion: The Female Search for Love-bell hooks

Consequences-E.M. Delafield

D Is for Dahl: A gloriumptious A-Z guide to the world of Roald Dahl-Roald Dahl

The Darkest Child-Delores Phillips

The Desperate Ones-Allyson Shaw

The Devil’s Arithmetic-Jane Yolen

Embroideries-Marjane Satrapi

Family History-Vita Sackville-West

The Female Man-Joanna Russ

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process-Robert D. Richardson

Fledgling-Octavia Butler

Flush: A Biography-Virginia Woolf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf-Ntozake Shange

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me-Roald Dahl

The Ha-Ha– Jennifer Dawson

Half of A Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heaven of Drums-Ana Gloria Moya

The House on Mango Street-Sandra Cisneros

I Know Why the Caged BIrd Sings-Maya Angelou

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose-Alice Walker

The Left Hand of Darkness-Ursula K. LeGuin

Little Boy Lost-Marghanita Laski

The Little Stranger-Sarah Waters

Making Conversation-Christine Longford

Matchless: A Christmas Story-Gregory Maguire

Mariana-Monica Dickens

Medea-Euripedes

Miss Buncle’s Book by DE Stevenson

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day-Winifred Watson

My Children! My Africa!-Athol Fugard

The Mysterious Benedict Society-Trenton Lee Stewart

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey-Trenton Lee Stewart

Of Bees and Mist-Erick Setiawan

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return-Marjane Satrapi

Persuasion-Jane Austen

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane-Katherine Howe

remembered rapture: the writer at work-bell hooks

The Rising Tide– M.J. Farrell

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes-Eleanor Coerr

Saplings-Noel Streatfield

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

Say You’re One Of Them-Uwem Akpan

Seedfolks-Paul Fleischman

So Long A Letter-Mariama Ba

Some Flowers-Vita Sackville-West

Sonata Mulattica-Rita Dove

Song of the Trees-Mildred D. Taylor

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit-Julius Lester

Triangular Road-Paule Marshall

Twilight-Stephanie Meyer

The Uncommon Reader-Alan Bennett

Under This Unbroken Sky-Shandi Mitchell

The Victorian Chaise-Longue– Marghanita Laski

Voices-Ursula LeGuin

The Well and the Mine-Gin Phillips

Who was changed and who was dead-Barbara Comyns

Why we makes mistakes: How we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average-Joseph Hallinan

The Writer’s Home Companion: An anthology of the world;s best writing advice from Keats to Kunitz-Joan Bolker

Writing Down the Bones-Natalie Goldberg

The Yellow Wallpaper-Charlotte Perkins Gilman