Here it is, a list of every book I read in 2009. Total comes to 34, which is about average for me these days. However, if you take the time to read the whole list, you’ll realize a lot of these are popular fiction. What can I say, I am a busy man.

Best Fiction – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larson
Best Non Fiction – The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian – Robin Lane Fox

1. The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian – Robin Lane Fox
2. The Monkey’s Raincoat – Robert Crais
3. Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction – Julia Annas
4. The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
5. A History of the Jews – Paul Johnson
6. A Small Town in Germany – John LeCarre
7. The Early Church: The Story of Emergent Christianity From the Apostolic Age to the Dividing of the Ways Between the Greek East and the Latin West – Henry Chadwick
8. A Canticle for Liebowtiz – Walter M. Miller
9. Saint Augustine – Gary Wills
10. A Coffin for Dimitrios – Eric Ambler
11. Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor – Anthony Everitt
12. Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic’s Guide to Life in the Grid – Stanley Newman
13. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
14. The Incident – David Ignatius
15. The Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan
16. The Books of God and Physics – Enrique Joven
17. Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina – Robert graves
18. The Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus
19. Civilization of the Middle Ages – Norman F. Cantor
20. The Man on the Balcony – Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
21. The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch – Sue Fishkoff
22. Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
23. A Conspiracy of Paper – David Liss
24. Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels – Hella Winston
25. Tradition: Orthodox Jewish Life in America – Mal Warshaw
26. Rainbow Six – Tom Clancy
27. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the Word of Competitive Scrabble – Stefan Fatsis
28. Occult America: The Secret History of how Mysticism Shaped our Nation – Mitch Horowitz
29. Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice – Wayne Dosick
30. The Alienist – Caleb Carr
31. The Laughing Policeman – Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
32. The Hidden – Tobias Hill
33. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larson