My Top 5 Reads of 2009 So Far

I thought I would join my fellow bloggers and post the top 5 books I have read in 2009. Note that this arent limited to 2009 releases, but are just the 5 favorite books I have read in 2009 thus far. Links in the book title take you to the review.

First here are the names of the books I have read so far this year:

Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
In the Eye of Heaven David Keck
The Immortal Prince by Jennifer Fallon
Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley
Night of Knives by Ian Cameron Esslemont
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S Redick
Foundling by D.M. Cornish
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
The Twilight Herald by Tom Lloyd
The Hammer of God by Karen Miller
The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd
A Magic of Twilight by S.L. Farrell
Imager by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
Midwinter by Matthew Sturges
The Riven Kingdom by Karen Miller
Empress by Karen Miller
The Path of Revenge by Russell Kirkpatrick
The Lord-Protector's Daughter by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Icebound Land by John Flanagan

And now my top 5 from the above list:

1) Lamentation by Ken Scholes
2) In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck
3) The Twilight Herald by Tom LLoyd
4) Imager by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
5) Foundling by D.M. Cornish

The nice thing about my top 5 list, is that all 5 have sequels that I plan to read before the end of 2009. So it will be interesting to see if any of those sequels make my end of year list. Even though I only read a little over 20 books, picking my top 5 was harder than I thought. And i have several highly anticipated books coming up in the next few months (The Grave Thief, the next Imager book, Best Served Cold, The Magician, Acacia & The Other Lands, Canticle, etc). I have a feeling the end of year top 10 is gonna be ridiculously hard to determine.