All the books that have in one way or another found their way into my collection in 2009. And in order of acquisition, because I've been adding to this post for the last 365 days:
A Time of Angels, by Karen Hesse
Trouble Don't Last, by Shelley Pearsall
The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney
The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan
Pis'ma Tsarskoi Sem'i iz Zatocheniia, by E.E. Alfer'ev
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Faberge: Easter Gifts, by T.N. Muntyan
Last Days of the Romanovs, by Helen Rappaport
Le Tsarevitch, enfant martyr, by Eugenie de Grece
Beyond the Miracle Worker, by Kim E. Nielsen
The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy
La "Maison a destination speciale" by Valentin Speranski
The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale
Desyat' Let na Imperatorskiy Yakhte "Shtandart" by Nikolai Sablin
Ubiistvo Tsarskoi Sem'i, by M.K. Diterikhs
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Skorbnyi Angel, by Sergei Fomin
Living Dead Girl, by Elizabeth Scott
Enna Burning, by Shannon Hale
River Secrets, by Shannon Hale
I Was So Mad, by Mercer Mayer
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Faberge and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, by Gerard Hill
Faberge: Court Jewelers to the Tsars, by Habsburg-Lothingen & Solodkoff
Aleksandrovskii Dvorets-Muzei v Detskom Sele, by V.I. Yakovlev
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, by a heap of righteously geeky folks
Fire, by Kristin Cashore (print & audio editions)
Forest Born, by Shannon Hale
Once Was Lost, by Sara Zarr
A Season of Gifts, by Richard Peck
Stitches, by David Small
Gibel' Tsarskoi Sem'i, by Nikolai Ross
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
I must say it's been quite a year for Romanov books. And now for the nerdy math portion of the program:
My calculator informs me I've acquired 23.03% of the 152 books I read last year. As usual.
(Last year's figures: 36 out of 167 = 21.55%)
