2008 Books Read List

I've decided to keep a list of all the books I've read each year. In 2008 I read 73 books. I think that's quite good! Obviously I didn't start out the year intending to read so much and blog about them all. But after reading some great book blogs and joining up in a few challenges, I ended up reading quite a few books. My goals for 2009 are to read at least 100 books and the Bible.

Challenges Completed:
1% Well-Read Challenge
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge
Classics Challenge
R.I.P. III Challenge

Challenges Almost Completed:
Amanda's-in-the-middle-of-too-many-books-challenge (shy of just one!)


January
1. The Queen's Bastard - Robin Maxwell
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

February
3. Atonement - Ian McEwan
4. My Dream of You - Nuala O'Faolain
5. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
6. The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren

March
7. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
8. Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella
9. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
10. Chasing Windmills - Catherine Ryan Hyde

April
11. The River King - Alice Hoffman
12. The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber
13. The Last Boleyn - Karen Harper
14. I Just Want My Pants Back - David Rosen
15. The Color of a Dog Running Away - Richard Gwyn
16. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
17. Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami

May
18. The Rossetti Letter - Christi Phillips
19. Full House - Janet Evanovich
20. One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
21. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
22. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

June
23. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
24. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
25. The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
26. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
27. Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
28. The Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean
29. The Colour - Rose Tremain
30. The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
31. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

July
32. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
33. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
34. The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
35. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
36. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
37. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
38. The Last Summer (of You and Me) - Ann Brashares
39. The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry
40. Summer - Edith Wharton

August
41. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
42. These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
43. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
44. The Spanish Bow - Andromeda Romano-Lax
45. The Richest Season - Maryann McFadden
46. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

September
47. The Steppe and Other Stories - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
48. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
49. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

October
50. The Terror - Dan Simmons
51. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
52. The Best Place to Be - Lesley Dormen
53. The Manikin - Joanna Scott
54. In the Woods - Tana French
55. Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
56. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
57. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

November
58. The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
59. Away - Amy Bloom
60. Run - Ann Patchett
61. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
62. The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer
63. Chez Moi - Agnes Desarthe
64. National Geographic Traveler: Egypt - Andrew Humphreys
65. When We Were Gods - Colin Falconer

December
66. Scot on the Rocks - Brenda Janowitz
67. Jack with a Twist - Brenda Janowitz
68. The Green Beauty Guide - Julie Gabriel
69. Who by Fire - Diana Spechler
70. The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
71. The Cloud Atlas - Liam Callanan
72. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
73. The City of Ember - Jeanne Duprau