2008 Reading List
- David Baldacci, Total Control (1/1/08-1/10/08) [1]
- Philip Ardagh, A House Called Awful End (1/4/08-1/13/08) [1]
- Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea^ (1/4/08-1/14/08) [1]
- John Bellairs, The House With A Clock In Its Walls (1/14/08-1/16/08) [1]
- Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford (1/17/08-1/20/08) [1]
- Anne McCaffrey, No One Noticed The Cat^ (1/20/08-1/21/08) [1]
- William Gibson, Neuromancer^ (1/16/08-1/27/08) [1]
- Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed^ (1/28/08-2/11/08) [1]
- Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest^ (2/12/08-2/17/08) [1]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign Of Four^ (2/17/08-2/21/08) [1]
- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (1/28/08-2/21/08) [1]
- Alexandra Benedict, Too Great A Temptation^ (2/27/08-3/3/08) [1]
- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander^ (3/3/08-3/18/08) [1]
- Chris Ware, ed., The Best American Comics^ (2/26/08-3/19/08) [1]
- Christina Schwarz, Drowning Ruth^ (3/19/08-3/24/08) [1]
- Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh^ (3/25/08-4/21/08) [1]
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (1/22/08-5/2/08) [2]
- Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (5/2/08-5/5/08) [2]
- Minister Faust, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2/12/08-5/12/08) [1]
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic* (started and finished on 5/12/08) [1]
- Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks* (5/12/08-5/13/08) [1]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of The Baskervilles (5/13/08-5/15/08) [1]
- Ray Broekel, The Great American Candy Bar Book* (10/4/07-5/16/08) [1]
- Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising (5/15/08-5/17/08) [1]
- Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three (5/17/08-5/20/08) [1]
- Susan Cooper, Greenwitch (5/20/08-5/21/08) [1]
- Patricia Cornwell, Book of the Dead (5/21/08-5/26/08) [1]
- Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (5/26/08-5/27/08) [1]
- Susan Cooper, The Grey King (6/1/08-6/3/08) [1]
- Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree (6/5/08-6/9/08) [1]
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (6/10/08-6/11/08) [1]
- Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron (6/15/08-6/21/08) [1]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (6/14/08-6/22/08) [1]
- Stephenie Meyer, New Moon (6/11/08-6/24/08) [1]
- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse (6/24/08-6/25/08) [1]
- Alberto Manguel, The Library At Night* (5/30/08-6/30/08) [1]
- Roald Dahl, The Witches (7/7/08-7/9/08) [1]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (7/9/08-7/10/08) [1]
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (6/22/08-7/13/08) [1]
- Rachel Carson, Under The Sea Wind* (7/14/08-7/16/08) [1]
- Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants (7/18/08-7/19/08) [1]
- John Bellairs, The Ghost in the Mirror (7/17/08-7/20/08) [1]
- Monty Roessel, Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up* (started and finished on 7/21/08) [1]
- Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (7/22/08-8/1/08) [1]
- Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn (8/4/08-8/7/08) [1]
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (8/8/08-8/10/08) [1]
- John Bellairs, The Figure in the Shadows (8/18/08-8/20/08) [1]
- Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (8/12/08-8/20/08) [1]
- Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything* (8/10/08-8/22/08) [2]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear (8/20/08-8/24/08) [1]
- John Bellairs, The Curse of the Blue Figurine (8/24/08-8/25/08) [1?]
- John Bellairs, The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt (8/28/08-8/30/08) [1]
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (8/25/08-8/30/08) [1]
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (8/30/08-9/2/08) [1]
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (9/3/08-9/12/08) [2]
- Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (9/12/08-9/16/08) [2?]
- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (9/13/08-9/17/08) [2]
- Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of Earth's Last Dinosaur* (5/13/08-9/24/08) [1]
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (9/18/08-9/25/08) [2]
- Kathy Reichs, Bones to Ashes (9/26/08-9/30/08) [1]
- Mercer Mayer, Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp (started and finished on 10/1/08) [1]
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (9/30/08-10/4/08) [1]
- Jennifer Rardin, Once Bitten, Twice Shy (10/3/08-10/5/08) [1]
- Enid Bagnold, National Velvet (10/2/08-10/7/08) [1]
- John Bellairs, The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (10/9/08-10/11/08) [3+]
- Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth (10/8/08-10/11/08) [1]
- Richard Hughes, A High Wind In Jamaica (10/11/08-10/13/08) [1]
- Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us* (9/18/08-10/13/08) [1]
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel (10/14/08-10/22/08) [1]
- Sascha Hastings (curator), Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imagination* (10/14/08-10/31/08) [1]
- Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (11/1/08-11/2/08) [1]
- Libba Bray, Rebel Angels (11/3/08-11/15/08) [1]
- Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (11/15/08-11/28/08) [1]
- Shaun Tan, The Arrival (12/3/08-12/4/08) [1]
- J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (started and finished on 12/4/08) [1]
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (10/25/08-12/6/08) [1]
- Richard Walser, North Carolina Legends (12/16/08-12/18/08) [1]
- Anton Chekhov, Rothschild's Fiddle and Other Stories (12/6/08-12/20/08) [1]
- Tasha Tudor, Tasha Tudor's Sampler: A Tale for Easter, Pumpkin Moonshine, and The Dolls' Christmas (started and finished on 12/24/08) [a lot]
- Jean Marzollo, I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles (started and finished on 12/24/08) [a lot]
- Michael Cart, ed., In The Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (12/21/08-12/30/08) [1]
Bold indicates a particular favorite.
* denotes non-fiction
^ denotes a book read for my Seminar in Popular Materials
Numbers in brackets indicate how many times I've read a particular book.
Dates following titles indicate the date I started and finished the book.
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