Bookish thoughts on everything from literary fiction to classics to nonfiction.
2008 Books
1. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett - ★★★★
2. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka - ★★★★☆
3. Grace by Richard Paul Evans - ★★★
4. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - ★★★☆
5. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - ★★★★
6. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - ★★★★☆
7. Coraline by Neil Gaiman - ★★★★
8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - ★★★★
9. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum - ★★★★
10. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman - ★★★★★
11. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri - ★★★★★
12. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - ★★★★
13. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket - ★★★★☆
14. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett - ★★★☆
15. The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum - ★★★☆
16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - ★★★★
17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - ★★★★
18. The Overcoat and the Nose by Nikolai Gogol - ★★★☆
19. Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale - ★★★★
20. Our Town by Thornton Wilder - ★★★★★
21. The Art Of War by Sun Tzu - ★★★★
22. The Tempest by William Shakespeare - ★★★★
23. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - ★
24. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson - ★★★★
25. The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis - ★★★★
26. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - ★★★★
27. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander - ★★☆
28. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice - ★★★☆
29. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta - ★★★☆
30. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse - ★★★★☆
31. Beloved by Toni Morrison - ★★★★
32. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach - ★★★
33. Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4) by Orson Scott Card - ★★★★
34. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - ★★★★★
35. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare - ★★★★
36. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin - ★★★★
37. The Shack by William P. Young - ★★★
38. "D" is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton - ★★★★
39. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery - ★★★★★
40. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - ★★★★☆
41. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - ★★★★
42. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer - ★★★★★
43. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer - ★★★☆
44. Twilight Stephenie by Meyer - ★★★★
45. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic - ★★★★
46. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo - ★★★☆
47. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby - ★★★★☆
48. Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler - ★★★★
49. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury - ★★★
50. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon - ★★★
51. Tales From the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald - ★★★☆
52. Marley & Me by John Grogan - ★★★★
53. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - ★★★★★
54. Oracle Night by Paul Auster - ★★★☆
55. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn - ★★★★
56. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - ★★★★★
57. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - ★★★☆
58. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels) by Jasper Fforde - ★★★★
59. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - ★★★★★
60. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris - ★★★★
61. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - ★★★★
62. Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis - ★★★☆
63. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory - ★★★
64. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson - ★★★☆
65. Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes - ★★☆
66. In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield - ★★★
67. Passport Diaries by Tamara Gregory - ★★
68. How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen - ★★
69. Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville - ★★★
70. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin - ★★★★☆
71. True At First Light by Ernest Hemingway - ★★★☆
72. The Appeal by John Grisham - ★★★
73. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - ★★★★★
74. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton - ★★★★
75. Falling Man by Don DeLillo - ★★★
76. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker - ★★★☆
77. Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal - ★★☆
78. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - ★★★★
79. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - ★★★★☆
80. Sisterchicks in Gondolas by Robin Jones Gunn - ★★★☆
81. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli - ★★★☆
82. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - ★★★
83. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman - ★★★★★
84. Where The Birds Go When It Rains Paul by Jamie Wesseler - ★
85. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - ★★★☆
86. The Story of My Life by Hellen Keller - ★★★★
87. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo - ★★★★☆
88. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling - ★★★★★
89. Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery - ★★★★
90. Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris - ★★★
91. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad - ★★★☆
92. Austenland by Shannon Hale - ★★★☆
93. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman - ★★★☆
94. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak - ★★★★☆
95. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard - ★★
96. Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik - ★★★★
97. The Prestige by Christopher Priest - ★★★★
98. Howl, and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg - ★★★☆
99. Straight Man by Richard Russo - ★★★☆
100. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - ★★★★★
101. What Is the What by Dave Eggers - ★★★★
102. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks - ★★
103. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - ★★★★☆
104. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - ★★★★
105. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - ★★★★
106. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon - ★★★☆
107. James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot - ★★★★
108. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - ★★★★
109. Jane Austen by Carol Shields - ★★★★
110. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway - ★★★
111. A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl - ★★★★
112. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - ★★★☆
113. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - ★★★★★
114. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - ★★★★☆
115. Me : Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn - ★★★☆
116. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck - ★★★★★
117. A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot - ★★★★
118. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger - ★★★★
119. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - ★★★
120. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - ★☆
121. Tis by Frank McCourt - ★★★★
122. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - ★★★★
123. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - ★★★★★
124. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - ★★★★
125. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - ★★★
126. Unveiled by Francine Rivers - ★★★★
127. Irish Girls About Town by Maeve Binchy - ★★★★
128. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson - ★★★★
129. Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy - ★★★★
130. George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl - ★★★
131. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - ★★★★★
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