Books Read 2008
Here's my 2008 list!
1. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
3. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Jennifer 8. Lee
5. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
6. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
7. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
8. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
10. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
11. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
12. A Death in Belmont, Sebastian Junger
13. Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
14. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
15. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
16. Black and White and Dead All Over, John Darnton
17. Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi
18. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
20. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
21. Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen
22. The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner
23. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, Michael Chabon
24. Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid, Stanley Newman with Mark Lasswell
25. Shimura Trouble, Sujata Massey
26. Allegra Maud Goldman, Edith Konecky
27. The Hollow, Agatha Christie
28. A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
29. Clever Maids, Valerie Paradiz
30. The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
31. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
Some second novels and later parts of series were among my least favorite reads this year. I really need to read some higher-quality literature this year if I'm really going to get a master's degree in English... suggestions welcome. And I'd like to read more this year, but on the bright side, I read less because I biked to work for 6 months out of the year, thus cutting my commute reading by 50%.
1. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
3. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Jennifer 8. Lee
5. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
6. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
7. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
8. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
10. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
11. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
12. A Death in Belmont, Sebastian Junger
13. Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
14. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
15. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
16. Black and White and Dead All Over, John Darnton
17. Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi
18. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
20. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
21. Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen
22. The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner
23. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, Michael Chabon
24. Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid, Stanley Newman with Mark Lasswell
25. Shimura Trouble, Sujata Massey
26. Allegra Maud Goldman, Edith Konecky
27. The Hollow, Agatha Christie
28. A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
29. Clever Maids, Valerie Paradiz
30. The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
31. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
Some second novels and later parts of series were among my least favorite reads this year. I really need to read some higher-quality literature this year if I'm really going to get a master's degree in English... suggestions welcome. And I'd like to read more this year, but on the bright side, I read less because I biked to work for 6 months out of the year, thus cutting my commute reading by 50%.