2009 was an exciting year for my family. We visited our mothers in Arizona and Texas, attended the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, enjoyed a great summer filled with cultural activities, and took a trip to Australia and New Zealand. I also published a book. It will be difficult for 2010 to match the past year.
Looking back, I see many books and movies worth remembering. So it is time again to issue the ricklibrarian Books That Matter and Other Awards. Happy Holiday Reading!
Recent Nonfiction
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave Trading Family in U. S. History by Thomas Norman DeWolf
The Oxford Project with photographs by Peter Feldstein and text by Stephen G. Bloom
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet by Edward Humes
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War by Robert Roper
The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art by Hugh Howard
Recent Fiction
Dream City by Brendan Short
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Great Old Books
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: From the Projects to Prep School by Charlise Lyles
Children's Books
Little Audrey by Ruth White
Babar's Museum of Art (Closed Mondays) by Laurent de Brunhoff
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Audiobooks
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Readers' Advisory - It has been a great year in this category.
The Inside Scoop: A Guide to Nonfiction Investigative Writing and Exposés by Sarah Statz Cords
Read On ... Women's Fiction by Rebecca Vnuk
The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, Second Edition by Joyce Saricks
Read On ... Life Stories by Rosalind Reisner
Movies
The Singing Revolution
Curse of the Golden Flower
Nobody Knows
As We Forgive
Munyurangabo
Blog in Library Science
Points of Reference
Presentations at Conferences
Rethinking Reference Collections
Helping Job Hunters: Recommendations and Resources for Librarians
Unconference at ALA in Chicago
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