I slowed down in 2008. And even some of the books I did get around to reading were ones I'd read before. Getting ready for the next in the series, etc. Oh, well. For better or worse, here it is (bold titles are those I highly recommend):
1) The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Seltzer
2) Many Bloody Returns, edited by Charlaine Harris
3) 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill
4) Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain
5) Heartstopper, by Joy Fielding
6) Atonement, by Ian McEwan
7) Falling Boy, by Alison McGhee
8) Airman, by Eoin Colfer
9) Demons are a Girl's Best Friend, by Victoria Laurie
10) The Next Thing on my List, by Jill Smolinski
11) The Dead Room, by Heather Graham
12) Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, by Susan Gregg Gilmore
13) Standing Still, by Kelly Simmons
14) The Society of S, by Susan Hubbard
15) Flip-Flopped, by Jill Smolinski
16) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (ever hear of it?)
17) The Year of Disappearances, by Susan Hubbard
18) From Dead to Worse, by Charlaine Harris
19) Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
20) Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
21) The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
22) Unzipped, by Lisa Greiman
23) New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
24) Unplugged, by Lois Greiman
25) Unscrewed, by Lois Greiman
26) Certain Girls, by Jennifer Weiner
27) The Third Angel, by Alice Hoffman
28) Crave, by Cathy Yardley
29) The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, by Joshilyn Jackson
30) Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
31) Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
32) Unmanned, by Lois Greiman
33) The Likeness, by Tana French
34) Undead and Unworthy, by MaryJanice Davidson
35) At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents' House, by Kate Williamson
36) Domestic Affairs, by Eileen Goudge
37) I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
38) Sweetheart, by Chelsea Cain
39) The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
40) The Killing Circle, by Andrew Pyper
41) The Chris Farley Show, by Tom Farley Jr.
42) Serena, by Ron Rash
43) Schooled, by Anisha Lakhani
There were several others I started in 2008 and either couldn't get through or just have had to put them aside to get library books read. Such as:
1) Lonely Werewolf Girl, by Martin Miller (still reading)
2) Wicked: Witch & Curse, by Nancy Holder (horrible, donated to library)
3) North of the Port, by Anthony Bukoski
4) Reading in the Dark, by Seamus Deane (excellent writing)
Books collecting dust that I WILL get to:
1) Finer Things, by Neil Gaiman
2) Angelika, by Arthur Phillips
3) The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
4) The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
5) Soon I will be Invincible, by Austin Grossman
6) Vampire Zero, by David Wellington
7) More Book Lust, by Nancy Pearl
And the newest to my collection given as gifts that I will soon get to:
1) A Whisper of Blood, edited by Ellen Datlow
2) Un Lun Dun, by China Mieville
3) Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren (though technically I read it like 10 times when I was a kid, I still want to read it again)
4) City of Bones, Book One, by Cassandra Clare
5) City of Ashes, Book Two, by Cassandra Clare
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8 years ago
5 comments:
Oh! Oh! (said in the manner of the kid desperately wanting to be called on in class. "Me! Pick me!") When you reread Pippi you should get the version Lauren Child recently illustrated. Cuz it's awesome.
Heather Graham?! Not the actress, I hope???!!!
Your annual book list always makes me feel so illiterate. Sigh.
Nem, That's the one! I put it on my wish list early in the year, and the divine Ms. Llew sent it as a birthday present. :)
Rachie, I'd rather eat my own barf than read something the actress Heather Graham wrote. Not that the author Heather Graham's writing was much better.
What an awesome idea. I'm going to steal it and put up my own list.
Verily, I have not read a one of the books on your list. But I should. I should make it my "April Reading List." Kind of like when I tried to read a book by every Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Except better.
Amanda, ha! You crack me up. :)
Most of the books I read are crap, but I try to get some good ones in there, too. You can pretty much ignore anything I didn't put in bold. Although Lois Greiman was pretty funny, and I think she's a Wisconsin author, so you might enjoy her series.
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