Erik Smetana | Writer

A list of the books, journals and publications I had the pleasure of reading in 2009. Most of the publications, if not all, on this list are available online at the likes of Amazon, Powell's and Barnes & Noble (or if you live near where I do - Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books, Big Sleep Books, Booksmarts or Left Bank Books). For those that may not be so easily available, a quick Google search should start you on the path to obtaining them for your own reading enjoyment.

An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
Apex Magazine: December 2008
Apex Magazine: January 2009
Backpack Literature (2nd Ed.), Kennedy & Gioia (Editors)
Battle of the Labyrinth, The, Rick Riordan
Best New American Voices 2008, John Kulka (Editor)
Book Thief, The, Markus Zusak
Charlemagne Pursuit, The, Steve Berry
Chicago Way, The, Michael Harvey
Collagist, The, #1
Collagist, The, #2
Collagist, The, #3
Collagist, The, #4
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
Devil in the White City, The, Erik Larson
Election, Tom Perrotta
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
Fade, Lisa McMann
Forest of Hands and Teeth, The, Carrie Ryan
Genesis, Bernard Beckett
How I Became a Famous Novelist, Steve Hely
Just After Sunset, Stephen King
Kiss of Life, Daniel Waters
Last Olympian, The, Rick Riordan
Lightning Thief, The, Rick Riordan
Little Sleep, The, Paul Tremblay
Longman Reader, The (9th Ed.), Nadell, Langan & Comodromos (Editors)
Man Who Turned Into Himself, The, David Ambrose
Manual of Detection, The, Jedediah Berry
Mine All Mine, Adam Davies
Monsters of Templeton, The, Lauren Groff
No Plot? No Problem!, Chris Baty
O'Henry Prize Stories 2008, The, Laura Furman (Editor)
Prodigal Blues, Gary A. Braunbeck
Quick Fiction, Issue 14
Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, The (1st Ed.), Martone & Williford (Editors)
Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, The (2nd Ed.), Martone & Williford (Editors)
Sea of Monsters, The, Rick Riordan
Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 24
Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 25
Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 26
Somnambulist, The, Jonathan Barnes
Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman
St. Lucy's School for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
Strega, Andrew Vachss
Temporary People, Steven Gillis
Things That Fall From the Sky, Kevin Brockmeier
Thuglit, Issue 29
Thuglit, Issue 30
Thuglit, Issue 31
Time Travelers, The, Linda Buckley-Archer
Titan's Curse, The, Rick Riordan
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson
View From the Seventh Layer, The, Kevin Brockmeier
Wetlands, Charlotte Roche
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon