Favorite Books of 2009:

One of the joys of reading is finding authors that I LOVE and who have many books to read.

Anything by:
Sharon Shinn (I would start with Summers at Auburn Castle or The Shape Changer's Wife)
Elizabeth Wein
Jeff Kinney (the Wimpy Kid books are some of the few that actually touch my funny bone)
Jo Walton (who else could do Victorian dragons and pull it off?)
Ruth Downie
K.J. Parker (I sometimes find myself scratching my head and wondering if her books are fantasy by any stretch, but it doesn't matte...