What I read in 2008

Total: 154 books

January (14)

• The Ghost Drum by Susan Price
• The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe (library audio book)
• xxxHOLiC, Volume 6 by CLAMP (graphic novel)
• End in Tears by Ruth Rendell (audio book, abridged)
• Politics 101 by Anna Smith
• The Adventures of the Railway Cat by Phyllis Arkle
• Extreme Office Crafts by Jimmy Knight and Tom Chalmers
• One False Move by Alex Kava (library audio book)
• Christmas Carols for Cats by Julie and John Hope
• Clan Ground by Clare Bell
• A Room with a View by EM Forster (library audio book)
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• The Insatiable Moon by Michael Riddell
• Can’t You Bastards Read? by Mark Lynch (cartoons)

February (10)

• Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls by Christopher Milne
• The Amish Landscape by Robert Holman
• I Couldn’t Cry When Daddy Died by Iris Galey
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• There’s No Toilet Paper… On the Road Less Travelled by Doug Lansky (ed.)
• Duende by Jason Webster
• The Riddle and the Knight by Giles Milton
• The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel (library audio book)

March (12)

• Chicago Loop by Paul Theroux
• Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
• The Abbess of Crew by Muriel Spark
• Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton (library audio book)
• The Crow Biddy by Gillian White
• Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley
• The Big Book of Epic Fail by Aaron Williams (comics)
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (library audio book)
• Love Like Hate Adore by Deirdre Purcell
• My Side of the Matter by Truman Capote
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

April (18)

• Jesus and the Adman by Rhidian Brook
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby (library audio book)
• Book Book by Fiona Farrell
• Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer
• Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
• The Sky People and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
• Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
• Der seltsame Bücherfreund by Gerard Hoffnung (cartoons)
• The Joy of Reading by Cindy Chang (quotes)
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• Sickened by Julie Gregory
• Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space by Linda Jaivin
• Eat Dessert First by Chris Brethwaite et al (quotes)
• It’s a Dog & Cat World by Randy Evert and Jack Lindstrom (cartoons)
• Children on Happiness by David Heller (quotes)
• Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
• Sauerkraut and Enterprise by Edna Staebler
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

May (13)

• Soft Voices Whispering by Adrienne Dines
• Neurotica by Sue Margolis
• Welcome to Higby by Mark Dunn
• Dogs are from Pluto, Cats are from Uranus by Scott Wilson (cartoons)
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Memoirs of an Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson (library audio book)
• A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard
• The Old Age of El Magnifico by Doris Lessing
• Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
• Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith (library audio book)

June (10)

• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Pic
  oult
• In Code by Sarah and David Flannery
• Hamlet: An Actor Prepares by Harry Venning (cartoons)
• Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood (library audio book)
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar
• Mercy by Jodi Picoult
• Brothers by Ted van Lieshout

July (15)

• Erewhon by Samuel Butler (library audio book)
• Garfield Beefs Up by Jim Davis (cartoons)
• Garfield Sits Around the House by Jim Davis (cartoons)
• Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Fluke by Christopher Moore
• Village of Stone by Xiaolu
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (library audio book)
• The Cat Who Went Up the Creek by Lilian Jackson Braun
• The Truth by Terry Pratchett
• Ancient Enemies by Elizabeth North
• Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morgurgo
• Rosie Meadows Regrets… by Catherine Alliott (library audio book)
• The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare by Lilian Jackson Braun (borrowed from a non-bookcrosser)

August (7)

• The Girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons
• The Cat Who Went Into the Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun (borrowed from a non-bookcrosser)
• The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
• Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
• The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by Lilian Jackson Braun (borrowed from a non-bookcrosser)
• Bewitched by Ian Locke
• Saturnalia by Lindsey Davis (library audio book)

September (12)

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (library audio book)
• The School Mistress with the Golden Eyes by Stratis Myrivilis
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester (library audio book)
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (library audio book)
• Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
• The Lynx Hunter and Other Stories by Owen Marshall
• The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century by Scott Adams
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
• The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
• The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll, edited by Martin Gardner

October (11)

• Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
• Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
• The Manipulators by Jeffrey Robinson
• Tell it to the Skies by Erica James (library audio book)
• At Your Convenience (postcards)
• Outside Valentine by Liza Ward
• Making It by Patrick Evans
• Mother Tongue by Joan Rosier-Jones
• ‘Tis by Frank McCourt
• Junk by Melvin Burgess
• Crumpy’s Campfire Companion by Barry Crump

November (15)

• Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (library audio book)
• Impassioned Clay by Stevie Davies
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
• Cat Haiku by Deborah Coates (poetry)
• Get Fuzzy: Groovitude by Darby Conley (cartoons, borrowed from alkaline-kiwi)
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller
• Exegesis by Astro Teller
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Road to Mars by Eric Idle
• The Valley by Di Morrissey (library audio book)
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff (children’s picture book)
• All Bones and Lies by Anne Fine

December (17)

• Bosom Buddies: Beyond Girls’ Talk by Deborah McKinlay
• Dead Sexy by Kathy Lette
• Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
• Hostel Girl by Maurice Gee
• Christmas Holiday by W Somerset Maugham
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Ozma of Oz by L Frank Baum
• The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd (library audio book)
• The Rag Doll by Geoffrey Hooker
• A Backpack and a Bit of Luck by Zhang Su Li
• A Mislaid Magic by Joyce Windsor
• The Doll House Caper by Jean S O’Connell
• The Littles and the Lost Children by John Peterson
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
• Jennifer Government by Max Barry
• Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser (library audio book)

What I read in 2007 (123 books)
What I read in 2006 (140 books)
What I read in 2005 (168 books)

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