favorites of 2009

[meganbmoore]

I keep intending to to do “best of” posts for 2009, and then not. And so, here are my favorites in books, manga (favorites as far as what I read this year goes) movies, US and UK TV, and anime.

Books:

Ilona Andrews: Magic Strikes
M.T. Anderson: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
Jane Austen: Emma
Frank Beddor: The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy
Jim Butcher: Turn Coat, First Lord’s Fury
Emma Donoghue: Kissing the Witch
Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, Cousin Phillis, Lois the Witch
Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways
Ellen Kushner: The Privilege of the Sword
Marjorie M. Liu: Dirk & Steele series
Fuyumi Ono: The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas
Dru Pagliassotti: Clockwork Heart
Edith Pattou: East
Elizabeth Peters: The Laughter of Dead Kings
Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Perilous Gard
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Madeleine Robins: Point of Honour
Sherwood Smith: Once A Princess, Twice A Prince, Inda
Novala Takemoto: Kamikaze Girls
Gail Tsukiyama: The Samurai’s Garden
Megan Whalen Turner: The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia

Manga:

Antique Gift Shop
Aria
Black Lagoon
Blade of the Immortal
Claymore
Clover
Fullmetal Alchemist
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
Kaze Hikaru
Otomen
Planet Ladder
Skip-Beat
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
xxxHolic

Movies:

Heroic Trio
Iron Jawed Angels
Kamikaze Girls
Mrs. Henderson Presents
My Man Godfrey
The Ring
Stage Beauty

US and UK TV:

Babylon 5
Farscape:
Foyle’s War
House of Eliot
The Inside
Nero Wolfe
Twin Peaks (Up through the reveal of who the killer is. After that, only Denise’s legs are really worth the price of admission.)
Upstairs, Downstairs
Wives and Daughters

Anime:

Gankutsuou