Sunday, January 11, 2009

2008 Reads
I enjoyed most of them. My favorites are in Blue. Highly Recommended.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans

Patron Saint of Liars By Ann Patchett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

Reading Lolieta in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation by Julie Salamon

Saint Maybe by Ann Tyler

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

The Mistresses Daughter by AM Homes

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Atonement by Ian McEwan

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock

Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult

Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory

The Shack by William P. Young

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Schuyler's Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Messenger by Lois Lowry

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

And Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers

As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Francine Rivers

The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis

Sold Patricia McCormick

Kira Kira Cynthia Kadohata