Thursday, January 01, 2009

Books Read in 2008: All 89 of Them

I was hoping to read 100 this year, but I got lazy again. 

Fiction: General
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Fluke: or I know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
  • Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
  • You Suck! by Christopher Moore
  • The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Keep by Jennifer Egan
  • Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  • The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer
  • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction: Mystery & Suspense
  • Death in Holy Order by P.D. James
  • The Murder Room by P.D. James
  • Innocent Blood by P.D. James
  • Jane & The Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron
  • Jane & the Wandering Eye by Stephanie Barron
  • Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
  • Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  • Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
  • Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  • Living DeItalicad in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  • Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
  • Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
  • Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
  • Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
  • All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
  • From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
  • Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
  • Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
  • Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
  • Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
  • Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
  • Thriller edited by James Patterson
  • The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • The Boomerang Clue by Agatha Christie
  • Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
  • The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
  • An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
  • Obedience by Will Lavender
  • The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
  • Killer on the Road by James Ellroy
  • HeartSick by Chelsea Cain
Fiction: Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy
  • The Terror by Dan Simmons
  • World War ZItalic: an Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  • The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  • ItalicThe Ruins by Scott Smith
  • Duma Key by Stephen King
  • The Children of Men by P.D. James
  • Dispatch by Bentley Little
  • ItalicThe Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
  • Sunshine by Robin McKinley
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  • The Good, The Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison
  • Every Which Way by Dead by Kim Harrison
  • Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson

Fiction: Junk
  • The Murder List by Julie Garwood
  • All Night Long by Jayne Anne Krentz
  • TItaliche Dead Room by Heather Graham
  • Killer Dreams by Iris Johansen
  • Cover of Night by Linda Howard
  • Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag
  • The Third Wife by Jasmine Cresswell
  • Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood
  • Dead on the Dance Floor by Heather Graham
  • Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen
  • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  • Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
  • Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
  • No Escape by Heather Lowell
  • The Night of the Blackbird by Heather Graham
  • Hurricane Bay by Heather Graham
  • The Seance by Heather Graham
Non-Fiction
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold by Geoffrey Abbot
  • Does this Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? by Peter Walsh
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers by Mary Roach
  • Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Women of the White House by Cromac O'Brien
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • The Dead Travel Fast: Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula by Eric Nuzum
  • The Maul and the Pear Tree by P.D. James and T. A. Critchley
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
  • Getting Things Done: Guide to Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

2 comments:

Erin said...

I just finished Calamity Physics over the holiday--loved it!

Media Kitten said...

I did too. It was so fun, and a pretty surprising ending!