The 2009 Reading List, very belatedly

• Godless, Pete Hautmann
• Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History , Michelle Abate
• Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child, Annette Wannamaker
• 31 Hours, Masha Hamilton
• The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt
• Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
• Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
• Somewhere in the Darkness, Walter Dean Myers
• Gringolandia, Lyn Miller-Lachman
• Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Jane Yolen
• Sleeping Ugly, Jane Yolen
• The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
• The Last Book in the Universe, Rodman Philbrick
• The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett
• Making Money, Terry Pratchett
• Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
• The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, Laura Miller
• Fairest, Gail Carson Levine
• The Bloodstone, Jamila Garvin
• Tom Brown's School-Days, Thomas Hughes
• Let it Snow, Johnson, Green, Myracle
• Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
• Whales on Stilts, M. T. Anderson
• Dreamdark: Silksinger, Laini Taylor
• The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen
• Things Change, Patrick Jones
• A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives, ed. Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites
• Breathless, Jessica Warman (ARC)
• Liar, Justine Larbalestier (ARC)
• Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
• Postcards from No Man's Land, Aidan Chambers
• Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
• Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
• The House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones
• Secret Keeper, Mitali Perkins
• A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
• Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
• Becoming Naomi Léon, Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
• Babysitting the Reader: Translating English Narrative Fiction for Girls into Dutch (1946-1995), Mieke Desmet
• Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature, Neal Lester
• Radical Children's Literature, Kimberley Reynolds
• Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature, Clare Bradford
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J. K. Rowling
• Home, Marilynne Robinson
• Free Within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children’s Literature, Rudine Sims Bishop [first book of 2009]