Herewith my thoughts on each of the books I read in 2009
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J.Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
Franklin: the Writings by Benjamin Franklin
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100 by Erasmus
The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery
Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse
The 10,000 Year Explosion by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes
A Farewell To Alms by Gregory Clark
Kluge by Gary Marcus
Understanding Early Civilizations by Bruce Trigger
On the Origin of Stories by Brian Boyd
Plutarch's Parallel Lives by Plutarch