Books read (for pleasure, not work!) in 2009:

1. The Woman Who Rides like a Man by Tamora Pierce

2. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

3. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

4. Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson

5. What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

6. Paper Towns by John Green

7. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

8. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

9. Fire by Kristin Cashore

10. Hate List by Jennifer Brown

11. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

12. Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

13. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

14. The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen

15. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

16. The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by L. J. Smith

17. Winter Dreams, Christmas Love by Mary Francis Shura

And that’s it. Which is less than half of what I read last year. Five were re-reads, so twelve were new to me. And only one grown-up book! You might ask why the number went down so drastically. Well, my submissions went up pretty drastically this year. Those numbers?

I counted 427 manuscripts in my submissions log for this year. (Of those, 196 were agented, and most of the rest were from writers who attended conferences at which I spoke.) Thank the technology gods for my Sony Reader!