2009 is over and through. It's time for the 2009 Flying Inn book awards. All books I've read in 2009 are eligible.
Best Fiction book I read this year: Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini
Best History book I read this year: The Histories by Herodotus
Best overall Nonfiction I read this year: Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson
Hardest book I read this year: Introduction to Aristotle particularly his Posterior Analytics)
Most Eclectic book I read this year: Max Maven’s Book of Fortune Telling by Max Maven
Most Beautiful book I read this year: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
And here is the list of books I read this year:
Faust Eric by Terry Pratchett 12/09
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett 12/09
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 12/09
On Nothing by Hilaire Belloc 12/09
The Republic by Plato (Robin Waterfield, trans.) 12/09
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett 11/09
Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith 11/09
Josephus: The Essential Writings (Paul L. Maier, trans.) 10/09
Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini 9/09
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 9/09
The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah 9/09
The Klingon Gambit by Robert E. Vardeman 9/09
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes (Alan Sommerstein, trans.) 8/09
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (Philip Vellacott, trans.) 8/09
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays, trans.) 8/09
What is a Masterpiece? by Kenneth Clark 8/09
The Apostolic Fathers (J. B. Lightfoot, ed.) 8/09
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 7/09
Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl by N. D. Wilson 7/09
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman 7/09
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl 7/09
Oxford Annotated Apocrypha Revised Standard Version 7/09
Principles of War by Jim Wilson 7/09
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 7/09
Metamorphoses by Ovid (Charles Martin, trans.) 7/09
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien 7/09
Introduction to Aristotle by Aristotle (Richard McKeon, ed.) 6/09
Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil (James Rhoades, trans.) 6/09
The Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith 6/09
Against Christianity by Peter Leithart 6/09
Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (J.I. Packer, trans.) 5/09
Dandelion Fire by N.D. Wilson 5/09
Heaven Misplaced by Douglas Wilson 5/09
The Aeneid by Virgil (Robert Fitzgerald, trans.) 5/09
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers 4/09
Early History of Rome by Livy (Aubrey de Sélincourt, trans.) 4/09
What He Must Be by Voddie Baucham Jr. 4/09
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 4/09
The Nibelungenlied (William Nanson Lettsom, trans.) 4/09
Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini 2/09
Max Maven's Book of Fortunetelling by Max Maven 1/09
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (John Davie, trans.) 1/09
Orestia by Aeschylus (Richmond Lattimore, trans.) 1/09
The Histories by Herodotus (Aubrey de Sélincourt, trans.) 1/09
The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 1/09
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