It’s time to start this year’s list of books read. Hopefully, I won’t space out for a couple of months, like I did last year, and at the end of the year I’ll have successfully created a list of all the books I read in 2008:
January:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
Twinkle, Twinkle, Kaori Ekuni
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
Sky Dancer, Witi Ihimaera
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
The Heroines, Eileen Favorite
From Heaven Lake, Vikram Seth
February:
Between, Georgia, Joshilyn Jackson
Three Junes, Julia Glass
Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
The Whole World Over, Julia Glass
Earthly Pleasures, Karen Neches
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
March:
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Peony in Love, Lisa See
Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller
I’jaam, Sinan Antoon
Midnight in Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
April:
Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman
The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay
The Geographer’s Library, Jon Fasman
Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos
Keeper and Kid, Edward Hardy
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker
May:
Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips
Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
The Virgin of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
Ink Exchange, Melissa Marr
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
My Best Friend’s Girl, Dorothy Koomson
Broken Paradise, Cecilia Samartin
Apples are from Kazakhstan, Christpher Robbins
The Society of S, Susan Hubbard
June:
Mrs. Lieutenant, Phyllis Zimbler Miller
The Way Life Should Be, Christina Baker Kline
Woman in Red, Eileen Goudge
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Queen of the Road, Doreen Orion
The Year of Disappearances, Susan Hubbard
Rosewater and Soda Bread, Marsha Mehran
Octavian Nothing, M.T. Anderson
The Reincarnationist, M.J. Rose
July:
The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen
Nice to Come Home To, Rebecca Flowers
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida
The Palace of the Snow Queen, Barbara Sjoholm
The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
The Red Scarf, Kate Furnivall
August:
Ghostwalk, Rebecca Scott
The Last Time I Was Me, Cathy Lamb
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sedaris
Going to Bend, Diane Hammond
The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
In the Woods, Tana French
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
September:
Run, Ann Patchett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, Jennie Shortridge
Origin, Diana Abu-Jaber
If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
October:
Tethered, Amy MacKinnon
Thank You for All Things, Sandra Kring
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Heretic’s Daughter, Kathleen Kent
Who By Fire, Diana Spechler
November
The Memorist, M.J. Rose
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Between the Tides, Patti Callahan Henry
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
The Likeness, Tana French
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
Life After Genius, M. Ann Jacoby
Apart from the Crowd, Anna McPartlin
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Riding with the Queen, Jennie Shortridge
Broken, Daniel Clay
December
Fledgling, Octavia Butler
Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
Annie Dunne, Sebastian Barry
Angelina’s Children, Alice Ferney
Whistling in the Dark, Lesley Kagen
Going Down South, Bonnie Glover
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Stout
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
The End of the Alphabet, CS Richardson
Jill, I love your reading list. “Garden Spells” is a great book.
Also, I see that you’ve read “The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi”
That was one of my favorites last year.
Have you read “Twelve Little Cakes” by Dominika Dery?
I think you would like it.
Jill, I want to be you when I grow up. I’ve let my reading lapse so much in recent years.
So now I need to go find if you wrote about People of the Book. Our Rabbi is leading a discussion on them at our B&N (I think tomorrow night).
DAMN! You’ve read a lot of books already this year. I feel an inferiority complex coming on…
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you have a nice blog here!:) and you’ve read so much in 2008 already! wow!! impressive!:)
Thanks Ramya!
Haha =)
if you are the same SOFTDRINK alias then I just mooched the book Mrs. Lieutenant from you a few hours ago.
Thank-you again
Sylvie
I came here off a search re The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, which maybe you read but omitted from this list?
I’m impressed by your blog — good times. You might be interested in my little project, The Hieroglyphic Streets, soon to feature a post about Mavala Shikongo….