Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Books Read in 2008

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1. Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
2. The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
3. Tales of Moonlight and Rain - Akinari Ueda
4. The Bleeding Dusk - Colleen Gleason
5. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt - Nick Hornby
8. Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata
9. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
10. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
11. Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear
12. The Ash Garden - Dennis Bock
13. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
14. Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse
15. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
16. Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman
17. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
18. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot
19. Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
20. Every Secret Thing - Laura Lippman
21. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Eleanor Coerr
22. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
23. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
24. The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
25. Down to a Sunless Sea - Mathias B. Freese
26. The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
27. The Scortas' Sun - Laurent Gaudé
28. Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
29. Matrimony - Joshua Henkin
30. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style - Matt Madden
31. Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation - Michael Zielenziger
32. How to Be a Canadian - Will Ferguson & Ian Ferguson
33. Clouds Over Mountains - Matt Joseph
34. When Twilight Burns - Colleen Gleason
35. Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman
36. Cave in the Snow - Vicki Mackenzie
37. Daisy Miller - Henry James
38. A Geisha's Journey: My Life as a Kyoto Apprentice - Komomo & Naoyuki Ogino
39. Sisters of Misery - Megan Kelley Hall
40. Three Shadows - Cyril Pedrosa
41. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - Daoud Hari (with Dennis Michael Burke & Megan M. McKenna)
42. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
43. Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence - Nick Bantock
44. The Secret Lives of People in Love - Simon Van Booy
45. Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
46. The Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman
47. Dingo - Charles de Lint
48. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
49. Lighting the Dark Side - William R. Potter
50. The Book of Proper Names - Amélie Nothomb
51. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
52. The Watsons - Jane Austen
53. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
54. The Painter of Shanghai - Jennifer Cody Epstein
55. Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues - Nick Bantock
56. The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes - Nick Bantock

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