2009 Books

Num Rating Author Title Category
1 ** Wodehouse, P.G. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England [Fiction]
2 *** Goulart, Ron Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines [History]
3 ** Campbell, John W., Jr The Black Star Passes [Fiction]
4 **** McWhorter, John Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English [Linguistics]
5 **** Wodehouse, P.G. A Damsel in Distress [Fiction]
6 **** Stafford, David The Silent Game: The Real World of Imaginary Spies [Literary Criticism]
7 ***** Usborne, Richard Wodehouse at Work to the End [Literary Criticism]
8 **** Yagoda, Ben About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made [History]
9 *** Usborne, Richard Clubland Heroes [Literary Criticism]
10 *** Piper, H. Beam Space Viking [Fiction]
11 **** Lofficier, Jean-Marc & Randy The Pocket Essential Tintin [Literary Criticism]
12 ** Duncan, Paul The Pocket Essential Noir Fiction [Literary Criticism]
13 ***** Jameson, Malcolm Bullard of the Space Patrol [Fiction]
14 **** Kuttner, Henry Mutant [Fiction]
15 ** Wallace, Edgar The Four Just Men [Fiction]
16 **** Fleming, Ann Marie The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam [Biography]
17 **** Dash, Mike Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century [History]
18 **** Wodehouse, P.G. The Clicking of Cuthbert [Fiction]
19 *** Silverberg, Robert Starman's Quest [Fiction]
20 **** Hutchison, Don The Great Pulp Heroes [Literary Criticism]
21 ** Greenberg, Martin, ed. Men Against the Stars [Fiction]
22 **** Kerr, Philip A Quiet Flame [Fiction]
23 *** Eisner, Will The Heart of the Storm [Comics]
24 *** Wodehouse, P.G. Indiscretions of Archie [Fiction]
25 **** Colwin, Laurie Home Cooking [Cooking]
26 **** Moskowitz, Sam The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom [History]
27 ** Pekar, Harvey The Beats: A Graphic History [History]
28 ** Oppenheim, E. Phillips The Double Traitor [Fiction]
29 * Yilmaz, Lev Sunny Side Down [Comics]
30 **** Okrent, Arika In the Land of Invented Languages [Linguistics]
31 **** Pressfield, Steven Killing Rommel [Fiction]
32 *** Smith, George O. The Worlds of George O. [Fiction]
33 *** Schulman, Paul Buhle & Nicole Wobblies!, eds. [Comics]
34 ** Hodgson, William Hope Carnacki the Ghost-Finder [Fiction]
35 *** Davis, Norbert Holocaust House [Fiction]
36 *** Falkner, J. Meade Moonfleet [Fiction]
37 **** Paterson, Michael Life in Victorian Britain [History]
38 **** Smith, E.E. "Doc" Galactic Patrol [Fiction]
39 *** Brickhill, Paul The Dam Busters [History]
40 ** Boothby, Guy A Bid for Fortune: or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta [Fiction]
41 **** Pound, Reginald The Strand Magazine: 1891-1950 [History]
42 **** Meinhardt, Anne & Olaf Meinhardt The Trans-Siberian Railway [Travel]
43 *** Cudmore, Dana The Remarkable Howe Caverns Story [HIstory]
44 U Albrand, Martha No Surrender [Fiction]
45 **** Neate, Wilson Pink Flag [Music]
46 *** Smith, George O. The Fourth "R" [Fiction]
47 **** Pomiane, Edouard de French Cooking in Ten Minutes [Cooking]
48 ***** Coles, Manning Drink to Yesterday [Fiction]
49 ***** Pomiane, Edouard de Cooking with Pomiane [Cooking]
50 **** Heggen, Thomas Mister Roberts [Fiction]
51 **** Fies, Brian Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics]
52 ***** Myers, Rollo H. Erik Satie [Biography/Music]
53 U Leiber, Fritz Gather, Darkness! [Fiction]
54 **** Davis, Norbert The Mouse in the Mountain [Fiction]
55 **** Coles, Manning A Toast to Tomorrow [Fiction]
56 ** Page, Norvell The City Destroyer [Fiction]
57 **** Mattson, Stephen Duncombe & Andrew The Bobbed-Haired Bandit [History]
58 **** Oppenheim, E. Phillips The Kingdom of the Blind [Fiction]
59 **** Smith, E.E. "Doc" Triplanetary [Fiction]
60 **** Coe, Andrew Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States [Cooking]
61 U Sims, Michael, ed. The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime [Fiction]
62 **** Mundy, Talbot Jimgrim and Allah's Peace [Fiction]
63 *** Bould, Mark, et al. Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction [Literary Criticism]
64 * Johnson, Daniel White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard [History]
65 **** Kerr, Philip If the Dead Rise Not [Fiction]
66 *** Rockwell, Carey Stand By For Mars! [Fiction]
67 *** Airth, Rennie River of Darkness [Fiction]
68 *** "Sapper" Bulldog Drummond [Fiction]
69 **** Barnes, Melvyn Best Detective Fiction [Literary Criticism]
70 **** Gerrold, David Jumping Off the Planet [Fiction]
71 *** James, P.D. Talking About Detective Fiction [Literary Criticism]
72 ***** Gerrold, David Bouncing Off the Moon [Fiction]
73 * Gilmore, Anthony Hawk Carse [Fiction]
74 ***** Ferguson, Harry Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy [History]
75 *** Davis, Norbert Sally's in the Alley [Fiction]
76 *** Vansant, Dwight Zimmerman & Wayne The Vietnam War: A Graphic History [Comics]
77 *** Sen, Colleen Taylor Curry: A Global History [Cooking]
78 **** Gerrold, David Leaping to the Stars [Fiction]
79 ** Rockwell, Carey Danger in Deep Space [Fiction]
80 ***** Walker, John The Hacker's Diet [Health]
81 *** Panshin, Alexei & Cory The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence [Literary Criticism]
82 **** Campbell, John W., Jr. John Campbell's Solar System [Science]
83 *** Mann, George The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [Literary Criticism]

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