Here are the books I'd suggest you read in 2009. The entire list is behind the cut.
Best Comedy: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
Best Tragedy: Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Best I Rule Book: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
Best Sci Fi: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin (Seriously, read this book even if you don't like sci fi)
Best Wit (heh): Wit's End - Karen Joy Fowler
Best "Holy Crap Why Haven't All these People Committed Suicide": When will there be good news? - Kate Atkinson
Best Voice to the Voiceless: Lavinia - Ursula le Guin
- Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (1/18/08)
- Freakonomics (Re-read) - Levitt (1/20/08)
- The Scent of Shadows - Vicki Pettersson (1/22/08)
- Working for the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow (1/23/08)
- Alice in Rapture, Sort of - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1/24/08)
- Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris (1/25/08)
- Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris (1/27/08)
- Guilty Pleasures - Hamilton (1/29/08)
- Gossip Girls - Cecily Von Ziegesar (1/30/08)
- All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Myster... by Charlaine Harris (2/3/08)
- Whistling In the Dark by Lesley Kagen (2/4/08)
- Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found by Ken Foster (2/4/08)
- You know you love me - Cecily Von Ziegesar (2/7/08)
- In the Forests of the Night - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2/8/08)
- All I want is Everything - Cecily Von Ziegesar (2/10/08)
- Touch the Dark - Karen CHANCE (2/11/08)
- Circus of the Damned - Laurell Hamilton (2/15/08)
- Reluctantly Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2/15/08)
- Dead Man Rising: A Dante Valentine Novel (Book 2) by Lilith Saintcrow (2/17/08)
- Demon in My View - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2/22/08)
- All but Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2/24/08)
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (2/26/08)
- Life on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers (2/27/08)
- Claimed by Shadow - Cassandra Palmer (3/12/08)
- Dark Possession - Christine Feehan (3/13/08)
- Bloody Bones - Laurell Hamilton (3/16/08)
- Saint City Sinners - Lilith Saintcrow (3/19/08)
- The Killing Dance - Laurell Hamilton (3/23/08)
- Alice in April - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (3/23/08)
- Alice in between - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (3/23/08)
- The Outlaw Demon Wails - Kim Harrison (3/26/08)
- Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (3/27/08)
- Howl (from the editors of BARK) (3/31/08)
- Blue Moon - Laurell Hamilton (4/5/08)
- Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell Hamilton (4/6/08)
- I am America (And so can You!) - Stephen Colbert (4/9/08)
- Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (4/15/08)
- Narcissus in Chains - Laurell Hamilton (4/20/08)
- Alice the Brave - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4/21/08)
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (4/23/08)
- To Hell and Back - Lilith Saintcrow (5/4/08)
- Ink Exchange - Melissa Marr (5/3/08)
- Fire Study - Snyder (5/11/08)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (5/15/2008)
- City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare (5/18/08)
- The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle (5/30/08)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (6/4/08)
- Fables and Folk Tales from around the World (6/30/08)
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd (7/6/08)
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (7/13/08)
- Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost (7/21/08)
- His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle (7/22/08)
- Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich (7/28/08)
- Wise Talk, Wild Women - Gwen Mazer (8/4/08)
- Looking Back - Lois Lowry (8/5/08)
- The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin (8/11/08)
- Marked - PC Cast - 8/12/08
- Betrayed - PC Cast - 8/14/08
- From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris - 8/20/08
- Wit's End - Karen Joy Fowler - 9/9/08
- The Canon - Natalie Angier - 9/12/08
- Embrace the Night - karen Chance - 9/14/08
- The Princess and the Hound - Harrison - 9/16/08
- A Thousand Never Evers - Shana Burg - 9/17/08
- Faerie Wars - Herbie Brennan - 9/25/08
- Fudoki - Kij Johnson - 10/10/08
- Across the Wall - Garth Nix 10/18/08
- Mister Monday - Garth Nix - 10/22/08
- Uglies - Scott Westerfield - 10/27/08
- Powers - Ursula Le Guin - 11/2/08
- Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix - 11/3/08
- Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix - 11/8/08
- Sir Thursday - Garth Nix - 11/12/08
- When will there be good news? - Kate Atkinson - 11/15/08
- Lady Friday - Garth Nix - 11/20/08
- Superior Saturday - Garth Nix - 11/26/08
- The Fall - Garth Nix - 11/28/08
- The Castle - Garth Nix - 11/29/08
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke - 11/30/08
- Lavinia - Ursula le Guin - 12/14/2008
- Blackbird House - Alice HOffman - 12/25/08
