Books I read in 2008


Guess who graduated from college / became largely unemployed in 2008?

  1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera  mr
  2. Isabel Allende – Eva Luna (again)  mr
  3. J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan  p, c
  4. Marcus Borg (ed.) – Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally  nf
  5. Samuel Beckett – The Lost Gospel of Q  nf
  6. Haruki Murakami – The Elephant Vanishes  mr
  7. Richard Adams – Watership Down  ya, c
  8. Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451  c
  9. Kurt Vonnegut – A Man Without a Country  m
  10. Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Dart  sf/f
  11. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Left Hand of Darknes  sf/f
  12. Monica Furlong – Wise Child  ya
  13. Garth Nix – Sabriel  sf/f ya
  14. Garth Nix – Lirael  sf/f ya
  15. Garth Nix – Abhorsen  sf/f ya
  16. Neil Gaiman – Stardust  sf/f
  17. Liz Gilbert – Eat Pray Love  m
  18. Anne McCaffrey – The Dragonriders of Pern  sf/f
  19. Matthew Pearl – The Dante Club  m
  20. Arthur Golden – Memoirs of a Geisha  pf
  21. Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things  pf
  22. Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist  mr pf
  23. Paulo Coelho – The Pilgrimage  m
  24. Lev Grossman – Codex  m/s
  25. Paulo Coelho – By the River I Sat Down and Wept  mr
  26. David Guterson – Snow Falling on Cedars  pf
  27. Ursula K. LeGuin – A Wizard of Earthsea sf/f
  28. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Tombs of Atuan  sf/f
  29. Rebecca Wells – Little Altars Everywhere  pf
  30. Louis Joseph Vance – The Lone Wolf  m/s
  31. Rebecca Wells – The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  pf
  32. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club  pf
  33. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  pf
  34. Agatha Christie – Poirot’s Casebook: A Collection of 50 Poirot Stories  m/s
  35. Agatha Christie – Hickory Dickory Death  m/s
  36. Agatha Christie – Third Girl  m/s
  37. Daniel Pinkwater – 5 Novels  ya f
  38. Jeanne DuPrau – The City of Ember  ya
  39. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Farthest Shore  sf/f
  40. Agatha Christie – Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot  m/s
  41. Brian Jacques – Mossflower  ya
  42. Ursula K. LeGuin – Tehanu  sf/f
  43. Agatha Christie – Murder Preferred  m/s
  44. Mario Vargas Llosa – The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto  mr
  45. Robert C. OBrien – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH  ya
  46. Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World  mr
  47. Morrie Schwartz – Morrie: In his own Words  m
  48. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice  c
  49. Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility  c
  50. Miles Harvey – The Island of Lost Maps  nf
  51. Anne McCaffrey – Dragonsinger  sf/f
  52. Jeffrey Brown – Clumsy  gn
  53. Anne McCaffrey – Dragondrums  sf/f
  54. Fred Bodsworth – Last of the Curlews  f
  55. Don DeLillo – White Noise  f
  56. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game  sf/f
  57. William Gibson – Neuromancer  sf/f
  58. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  pf sf/f
  59. Robert Benson – Home by Another Way: Notes on the Caribbean  nf
  60. Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember  m/s
  61. J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace  pf

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