My favorites of 2009:

Heather, I absolutely loved that If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name!  I don't have it on my list as it was read the year before.  I've read a few of those kinds of small town memoirs, and that, with its heartwarming obituaries, is one of the very best.

Julie, I tried those Cups of Tea in both audio and print and couldn't finish either.  My husband was also quite bored with the audio and shut it off, but then one night on the long ride home from Charleston, he didn't have anything else to listen to but the rest of that.  He ended up finishing it and saying that he did enjoy it.  "Guy had huge balls," I recall him saying.