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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