Monday, January 5, 2009

Books Read in 2008

1. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4/5
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See 3/5
3. Monk's Hood - Ellis Peters (reread)
4. Persuasion - Jane Austen 3/5
5. LA Confidential - James Ellroy 4/5
6. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg 3/5
7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving 4/5
8. The Saffron Kitchen - Yasmin Crowther 3/5
9. St. Peter's Fair - Ellis Peters (reread)
10. Dealing With Dragons - Patricia C Wrede (reread)
11. Cast Two Shadows - Ann Rinaldi (reread)
12. Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/5
13. The Leper of St. Giles - Ellis Peters (reread)
14. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai 2/5
15. The Last Silk Dress - Ann Rinaldi (reread)
16. The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera 5/5
17. The Red and the Black - Stendhal 4/5
18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 4/5
19. The Virgin in the Ice - Ellis Peters (reread)
20. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (reread)
21. The Sanctuary Sparrow - Ellis Peters (reread)
22. Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg 4/5
23. Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert 3/5
24. Saturday - Ian McEwan 5/5
25. Searching for Dragons - Patricia C Wrede (reread)
26. Calling on Dragons - Patricia C Wrede (reread)
27. Talking to Dragons - Patricia C Wrede (reread)
28. The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory 4/5
29. The Devil's Novice - Ellis Peters (reread)
30. Dead Man's Ransom - Ellis Peters (reread)
31. Quite a Year for Plums - Bailey White 2/5
32. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen - Susan Gregg Gilmore 5/5
33. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison (reread)
34. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God - Louise Rennison (reread)
35. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates 1/5
36. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 5/5
37. The Pilgrim of Hate - Ellis Peters 4/5
38. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 2/5
39. The Alienist - Caleb Carr (reread)
40. The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury 4/5
41. The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
42. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 5/5
43. Daisy Miller - Henry James 2/5
44. Adolphe - Benjamin Constant 2/5
45. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas - Louise Rennison (reread)
46. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants - Louise Rennison (reread)
47. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 3/5
48. American Gods - Neil Gaiman 3/5
49. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy 5/5
50. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling (reread)
51. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling (reread)

Favorite Fiction: The Woman in White
Least Favorite Fiction: Blonde
Favorite Non Fiction: The Third Chimpanzee (ok, let's be for real...that was the ONLY non fiction I read this year)
Favorite ReRead: Treasure Island

1 comment:

Lezlie said...

There is a lot of good stuff there. That's so cool that you make time for rereads. I have some I'd like to revisit, but I rarely do! :-)

Lezlie