Monday, January 7, 2008

Books Read in 2008

(This post will be routinely updated as an ongoing list.)

1. Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
2. The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
3. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
4. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
5. A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi
6. Hope's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
7. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
8. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
11. Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
12. Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
13. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
14. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
15. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
16. Swimming Lessons and other stories..by Rohinton Mistry
17. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
18. The Translator by Daoud Hari
19. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
20. One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
21. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
22. Girlbomb by Janice Erlbaum
23. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
24. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
25. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
26. Bound by Sally Gunning
27. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
28. You Can Prevent Global Warming (and save money!) 51 Easy Ways by Jeffrey Langholz, Ph.D. and Kelly Turner
29. This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
30. Maggie Again by John Husband
31. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
32. Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
33. Sin in the Second City by
34. Mothernight by Sarah Stovell
35. The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell
36. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
37. A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander
38. House-Bound by Winifred Peck
39. The Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
40. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
42. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
43. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
44. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
45. Daughter of the Ganges by Asha Miro
46. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
47. In the Woods by Tana French
48. So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
49. On Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard A. Hunt
50. Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi
51. Little Face by Sophie Hannah
52. Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly
53. The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham
54. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
55. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
56. The Likeness by Tana French
57. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
58. Resistance by Agnes Humbert
59. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
60. Resistance by Owen
61. There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
62. The Pages in Between by Erin Einhorn
63. Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers
64. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
65. Testimony by Anita Shreve
66. Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
67. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
68. A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
69. Immoveable Feast by John Baxter
70. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
71. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
72. The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel
73. Hurting Distance by Sophie Hannah
74. Fixing Shadows by Susan Barrett
75. Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun
76. Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
77. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
78. Revenge by Mary Stanley
79. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
80. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
81. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
82. The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
83. The Widow's War by Sally Gunning.
84. Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
85. The Minotaur by Barbara Vine

2 comments:

Carrie K said...

That book sounds so good! And naturally my library can't find it although it was nice of it to inform me I spelled "miss" correctly.

julochka said...

inspired by your list of books read in 2008, i'm making a list as well! i don't think i've ever really kept track before of how much i read. i'm actually surprising myself! thanks for the inspiration!

/julie
http://julochka.blogspot.com