I’m pleased with my prolific reading output in 2009: 24 books read, most for pleasure since I was a teenager. It “helps” that I didn’t do as much writing as in recent years. That should change this year, I hope.

Anyway, thanks to Visual Bookshelf — check the left side of my FB profile — here’s my reading list for ’09 (in reverse order, from end of year to beginning):

• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (started mid-Dec. ’09; 30/43 stories read)
• Ragtime (Doctorow)
• The March (Doctorow)
• Assassination Vacation (Vowell)
• Catch Me If You Can (Abagnale)
• The Machine (Posnanski)
• The Young Lions (Shaw)
• Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (Huhn)
• The Lost Symbol (Brown)
• Chasing Moonlight (Friedlander)
• Sam Rice: A Biography (Carroll)
• A Game of Inches (Morris)
• The Devil in the White City (Larson – audiobook version)
• Glory Road (Haskins/Wetzel)
• Sin in the Second City (Abbott)
• Satchel (Tye)
• The Black Prince of Baseball (Dewey/Acocella)
• Living on the Black (Feinstein)
• Opening Day (Eig)
• For The Thrill of It (Baatz)
• The Given Day (Lehane)
• Larceny and Old Leather (Ham)
• A Voyage Long and Strange (Horwitz)
• When Pride Still Mattered (Maraniss – started just after Christmas ’08)