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I thought it would be fun to see what everyone read in 2008.
January
The Thirteenth Tale, Dianne Setterfield
Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max
Choke, Chuck Pahalniuk
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
The Distant Land of my Father, Bo Caldwell
The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow
The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
February
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Duchess: The Story of Sarah Churchill, Susan Holloway Scott
'Tis, Frank McCourt
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishigaro
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
This Common Secret, Susan Wicklund
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Sisters, Mary S Lovell
Falling Man, Don DeLillo
March
Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum
An Inconvenient Book, Glenn Beck
Atonement, Ian McEwan
When the Dancing Stopped, Brian Hicks
Pnin, Vladimir Nabakov
Michael Moore is a Big, Fat, Stupid White Man, Jason Clark and David T Hardy
The American Way of Death Revisited, Jessica Mitford
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans, Ann Coulter
April
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Gold Digger, Constance Rosenblum
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
The Plague, Albert Camus
Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
May
Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
The Wednesday Letters, Jason F Wright
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Real McCain, Cliff Schecter
Nectar From a Stone, Jane Guill
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
1000 White Women, Jim Fergus
June
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Victorian London, Liza Picard
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs
The Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
July
Spook, Mary Roach
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Family, Ed Sanders
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir
Death in a Prairie House, William Drennan
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Louder Than Words, Jenny McCarthy
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Shining, Stephen King
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Body Project, Joan Jacob Brumberg
The Light of the Home, Harvey Green
The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
August
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
The Meaning of Wife, Anne Kingston
The Know-It-All, AJ Jacobs
Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
Sellevision, Augusten Burroughs
Fanny Hill, John Cleland
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
The Conservative's Handbook, Phil Valentine
Freakonomics, Stephen D Levitt and Steven Dubner
Prom Nights from Hell, Misc
September
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Obama Nation, Jerome Corsi
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
The Firefly Cloak, Sheri Reynolds
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English Literature, Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D
October
Blood Sucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
The Complete Jack the Ripper, Donald Rumbelow
Fleeced, Dick Morris
The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
Veronika Decides to Die, Paul Coelho
Bonk, Mary Roach
The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
November
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
The Acid House, Irvine Welsh
American Eve, Pauline Uruburu
I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
The North China Lover, Marguerite Duras
December
Shakespeare, Bill Bryson
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
Sula, Toni Morrison
Look at my Striped Shirt, Phat Phree
The Waiter Rant, the waiter
Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
The Girls That Went Away, Ann Fessler
January
The Thirteenth Tale, Dianne Setterfield
Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max
Choke, Chuck Pahalniuk
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
The Distant Land of my Father, Bo Caldwell
The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow
The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
February
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Duchess: The Story of Sarah Churchill, Susan Holloway Scott
'Tis, Frank McCourt
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishigaro
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
This Common Secret, Susan Wicklund
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Sisters, Mary S Lovell
Falling Man, Don DeLillo
March
Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum
An Inconvenient Book, Glenn Beck
Atonement, Ian McEwan
When the Dancing Stopped, Brian Hicks
Pnin, Vladimir Nabakov
Michael Moore is a Big, Fat, Stupid White Man, Jason Clark and David T Hardy
The American Way of Death Revisited, Jessica Mitford
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans, Ann Coulter
April
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Gold Digger, Constance Rosenblum
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
The Plague, Albert Camus
Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
May
Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
The Wednesday Letters, Jason F Wright
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Real McCain, Cliff Schecter
Nectar From a Stone, Jane Guill
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
1000 White Women, Jim Fergus
June
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Victorian London, Liza Picard
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs
The Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
July
Spook, Mary Roach
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Family, Ed Sanders
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir
Death in a Prairie House, William Drennan
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Louder Than Words, Jenny McCarthy
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Shining, Stephen King
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Body Project, Joan Jacob Brumberg
The Light of the Home, Harvey Green
The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
August
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
The Meaning of Wife, Anne Kingston
The Know-It-All, AJ Jacobs
Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
Sellevision, Augusten Burroughs
Fanny Hill, John Cleland
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
The Conservative's Handbook, Phil Valentine
Freakonomics, Stephen D Levitt and Steven Dubner
Prom Nights from Hell, Misc
September
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Obama Nation, Jerome Corsi
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
The Firefly Cloak, Sheri Reynolds
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English Literature, Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D
October
Blood Sucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
The Complete Jack the Ripper, Donald Rumbelow
Fleeced, Dick Morris
The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
Veronika Decides to Die, Paul Coelho
Bonk, Mary Roach
The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
November
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
The Acid House, Irvine Welsh
American Eve, Pauline Uruburu
I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
The North China Lover, Marguerite Duras
December
Shakespeare, Bill Bryson
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
Sula, Toni Morrison
Look at my Striped Shirt, Phat Phree
The Waiter Rant, the waiter
Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
The Girls That Went Away, Ann Fessler
both a good and bad thing), I'm hoping to get back to reading 5 or 6 books a month like I used to.
