I started 26 books and completed 24 books in 2009.

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Completed:

• Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman (1) Assembly Such As This by Pamela Aidan (Historical, Romance) [2009-01-06]
  Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's point of view (first in a trilogy).
• Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman (2) Duty And Desire by Pamela Aidan (Historical, Romance) [2009-01-08]
  Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's point of view (second in a trilogy).
• Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman (3) These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan (Historical, Romance) [2009-01-10]
  Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's point of view (third in a trilogy).
• Faery Rebels (1) Knife by R J Anderson (TeenKid, Fantasy) [2009-01-24]
  "Knife woke in a cold sweat, the torn edge of her wing sizzling with pain. How long had she lain unconscious? Her worst fears had come to pass: she was trapped, flightless, a prisoner. The humans had put her in a box, and now they had come to torment her..."
• Seven Daughters And Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen, Bahija Lovejoy (TeenKid, Fantasy) [2009-02-24]
  Buran cannot - Buran will not - sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city.
• Howls Moving Castle (1) Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Fantasy) [2009-04-20]
• Howls Moving Castle (3) House Of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones (Fantasy) [2009-04-23]
  Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle Norland is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time.
• Mr Darcy Presents His Bride by Helen Halstead (Historical, Romance) [2009-05-09]
  A sequel to "Pride and Prejudice"; which finds Elizabeth and Darcy entangled in the frivolity and ferocity of social intrigues.
• Ever by Gail Carson Levine (TeenKid, Fantasy) [2009-05-17]
  Kezi is fated to die. Olus, god of the winds, has fallen in love with her, and will do anything to save her. But can fate be thwarted?
• Colors Of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley (TeenKid, SF) [2009-05-21]
  Bart Steele has just graduated from the Academy and qualified as an Astrogator. Instead of getting a berth on a human ship, however, he disguises himself as an alien Lhari and signs on to one of their ships, risking his life to break the Lhari's monopoly on intergalactic travel by finding out what element is missing from human attempts to copy the Lhari warp drive.
• Sharing Knife (1) Sharing Knife Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold (Fantasy) [2009-06-13]
  Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. Dag Redwing is a Lakewalker patroller weighted down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilities. Little do they know that, very soon, their fates will be entangled.
• Sharing Knife (4) Sharing Knife Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Fantasy) [2009-06-16]
  As Dag's maker abilities have grown, so has his concern about who or what he is becoming. At the end of a great river journey, Dag is offered an apprenticeship to a master groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration with the camp's rigid mores with respect to farmers...
• Chaos Chronicles (1) Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A Carver (SF) [2009-06-25]
  TWO UNLIKELY HEROES When survey pilot John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes forever . . . and for an alien quarx, one hundred million years of solitude suddenly comes to an end.
• Harper Connelly (1) Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris (Fantasy, Mystery) [2009-07-13]
  When I was fifteen, I was struck by lightning. I recovered, mostly. I have a strange spiderweb pattern of red on my torso and right leg. I have headaches. I have many fears. And I can find dead people. That was the part that interested the professor...
• Sookie Stackhouse (1) Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Fantasy) [2009-07-18]
  Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much... she can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. One problem: he's a vampire.
• Chaos Chronicles (2) Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A Carver (SF) [2009-07-21]
  John Bandicut, the reluctant hero who saved Earth in Neptune Crossing, is stranded on the artificial structure known as Shipworld, searching for keys to its mysteries, when he discovers a Nemesis that threatens to destroy more than Earth.
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (SF) [2009-07-22]
  Big Brother is watching you. Who is watching back?
• Elements Of Style by William Strunk, E B White (Non-Fiction) [2009-07-31]
  The Little Book of English style.
• Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton (Non-Fiction) [2009-08-22]
  Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman?
• Essential Dr Strange1 by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (Fantasy, Graphic Novel) [2009-09-20]
  Steven Strange is Doctor Strange. But he is no doctor, and least not the kind that would initially come to mind. He is the Master of the Mystic Arts, a sorcerer supreme, a white knight whie wields black magic against blacker villains still.
• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy) [2009-10-24]
  Elantris was the city of the gods. What power could have cursed it?
• Old Mans War (2) Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (SF) [2009-10-30]
  The universe is a dangerous place for humanity - and it's about to become more dangerous. Three races we've fought before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.
• Assumed Engagement by Kara Louise (Historical, Romance) [2009-12-25]
  After Elizabeth refuses Darcy's offer of marriage, he leaves Kent, hoping to forget her forever. An untimely accident, however, renders him unconscious. His sister, Georgiana, holds a letter he had written earlier stating his intent to ask for Elizabeth's hand. She sends for her, believing them to be engaged. In this variation of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are thrown together at Pemberley. As she cares for him, she begins to see a man very different than what she believed him to be.
• Perfect Stranger by Anne Gracie (Historical, Romance) [2009-12-30]
  They vow to love, honor, cherish... and then get to know one another.

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