Karen's 2008 Reading List

Now I started cooking with gas. I discovered LibraryThing and started cataloging my collection (I have a long ways to go, but I've made a start). I hadn't yet discovered the active and vibrant posting on the LT site, from people who care about books, who read a LOT, and who recommend a LOT.

I also came across 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and started trying to read more and more of the "better" books, while still reading books that I simply wanted to read.

Here's what I read in 2008:

Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Pride and Prescience, or, a Truth Universally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Murder in the Stacks by Marion Boyd Havighurst
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Bagels
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
All Aboard for Ararat by H.G. Wells
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Programming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by Frank Moore Cross
Suspense and Sensibility, or First Impressions Revisited by Carrie Bebris
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
Lives of the Rakes: The Hell Fire Club by E. Beresford Chancellor
North by Northanger, or, The Shades of Pemberley by Carrie Bebris
The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ackenburg
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England by Seller and Yeatman
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
Clean Cut by Theresa Monsour
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Staggerford by Jon Hassler
The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
Cold Blood by Theresa Monsour
Dark House by Theresa Monsour
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith
Herstory ed. Ruth Ashley and Deborah Gore Ohrn
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B.R. Myers
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Free for All by Don Borchert
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths (was Norse Gods and Giants) by D'Aulaires
Blind Rage by Terri Persons
Blind Spot by Terri Persons
Yeh Yeh's House by Evelina Chao
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Emma by Jane Austen
Creation in the Old Testament ed. Bernhard W. Anderson
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
Around the World in Eighty Days by H.G. Wells
The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Sorrow of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Aesop's Fables
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Warrior by Frances Richey
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Liberty by Garrison Keillor
Ain't Nothin' As Sweet As My Baby by Jett Williams
God Said, "Ha!" by Julia Sweeney
Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Love Songs of Asia by Powys Mathers
Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
De occulta philosophia (vol. 1, Natural World) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

Books read in 2008: 88 (that's a lot of "8"s!)