Books Read in 2008

For a long time I resisted posting book reviews here because I was afraid of being pigeonholed.  Nearly all of my publications are reviews but that is just one venue I use for my writing.  It appears my reviews bring readers to my site but hopefully they find more when they start looking around.

Here is my list of books read in 2008.  I only began keeping track in July so I read more than 34 books but I couldn’t remember all of them.  If there is a book review published here or elsewhere, I’ve included the link for it.  The bolded ones are my favorites. 

1. Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives – Pam Houston and Megan McMorris
2. The Unseen – T.C. McMullen
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Robert Mack
4. ErRatic – N.D. Hansen-Hill
5. About Alice – Calvin Trillin
6. The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli – Ginetta Correli
7. Gimp: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand You Can Fold – Or You Can Play – Mark Zupan with Tim Swanson
8. The Hunters – Claire Messud
9. Red Ant House – Ann Cummins
10. No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas For Your Blog – Margaret Mason
11. The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelancing – Diana Burrell and Linda Formichelli
12. Heat – Bill Buford
13. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
14. The Rule of Four – Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
15. Born Standing Up: A Comics Life – Steve Martin
16. The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock: The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Selling More Work Faster – Diana Burrell and Linda Formichelli
17. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
18. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida
19. Greywalker – Kat Richardson
20. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
21. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
22. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
23. Poltergeist – Kat Richardson
24. The Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler
25. In The Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
26. The Headless Cupid – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
27. The Good German – Joseph Kanon
28. Dirt: An American Campaign – Mark LaFlamme
29. Any Given Doomsday – Lori Handeland
30. Ever – Gail Carson Levine
31. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
32. The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection – Michael Ruhlman
33. Things the Grandchildren Should Know – Michael Oliver Everett
34. Sweetsmoke – David Fuller