Breaking News: I read 81 books in 2008

Dec. 30th, 2008 at 5:17 PM

Well, I read 81 books this year and thus I rule.

Here are the books I'd suggest you read in 2009. The entire list is behind the cut.

Best Comedy: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
Best Tragedy: Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Best I Rule Book: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
Best Sci Fi: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin (Seriously, read this book even if you don't like sci fi)
Best Wit (heh): Wit's End - Karen Joy Fowler
Best "Holy Crap Why Haven't All these People Committed Suicide": When will there be good news? - Kate Atkinson
Best Voice to the Voiceless: Lavinia - Ursula le Guin

Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (1/18/08)
Freakonomics (Re-read) - Levitt (1/20/08)
The Scent of Shadows - Vicki Pettersson (1/22/08)
Working for the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow (1/23/08)
Alice in Rapture, Sort of - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1/24/08)
Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris (1/25/08)
Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris (1/27/08)
Guilty Pleasures - Hamilton (1/29/08)
Gossip Girls - Cecily Von Ziegesar (1/30/08)
All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Myster... by Charlaine Harris (2/3/08)
Whistling In the Dark by Lesley Kagen (2/4/08)
Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found by Ken Foster (2/4/08)
You know you love me - Cecily Von Ziegesar (2/7/08)
In the Forests of the Night - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2/8/08)
All I want is Everything - Cecily Von Ziegesar (2/10/08)
Touch the Dark - Karen CHANCE (2/11/08)
Circus of the Damned - Laurell Hamilton (2/15/08)
Reluctantly Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2/15/08)
Dead Man Rising: A Dante Valentine Novel (Book 2) by Lilith Saintcrow (2/17/08)
Demon in My View - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2/22/08)
All but Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2/24/08)
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (2/26/08)
Life on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers (2/27/08)
Claimed by Shadow - Cassandra Palmer (3/12/08)
Dark Possession - Christine Feehan (3/13/08)
Bloody Bones - Laurell Hamilton (3/16/08)
Saint City Sinners - Lilith Saintcrow (3/19/08)
The Killing Dance - Laurell Hamilton (3/23/08)
Alice in April - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (3/23/08)
Alice in between - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (3/23/08)
The Outlaw Demon Wails - Kim Harrison (3/26/08)
Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (3/27/08)
Howl (from the editors of BARK) (3/31/08)
Blue Moon - Laurell Hamilton (4/5/08)
Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell Hamilton (4/6/08)
I am America (And so can You!) - Stephen Colbert (4/9/08)
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (4/15/08)
Narcissus in Chains - Laurell Hamilton (4/20/08)
Alice the Brave - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4/21/08)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (4/23/08)
To Hell and Back - Lilith Saintcrow (5/4/08)
Ink Exchange - Melissa Marr (5/3/08)
Fire Study - Snyder (5/11/08)
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (5/15/2008)
City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare (5/18/08)
The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle (5/30/08)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (6/4/08)
Fables and Folk Tales from around the World (6/30/08)
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd (7/6/08)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (7/13/08)
Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost (7/21/08)
His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle (7/22/08)
Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich (7/28/08)
Wise Talk, Wild Women - Gwen Mazer (8/4/08)
Looking Back - Lois Lowry (8/5/08)
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin (8/11/08)
Marked - PC Cast - 8/12/08
Betrayed - PC Cast - 8/14/08
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris - 8/20/08
Wit's End - Karen Joy Fowler - 9/9/08
The Canon - Natalie Angier - 9/12/08
Embrace the Night - karen Chance - 9/14/08
The Princess and the Hound - Harrison - 9/16/08
A Thousand Never Evers - Shana Burg - 9/17/08
Faerie Wars - Herbie Brennan - 9/25/08
Fudoki - Kij Johnson - 10/10/08
Across the Wall - Garth Nix 10/18/08
Mister Monday - Garth Nix - 10/22/08
Uglies - Scott Westerfield - 10/27/08
Powers - Ursula Le Guin - 11/2/08
Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix - 11/3/08
Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix - 11/8/08
Sir Thursday - Garth Nix - 11/12/08
When will there be good news? - Kate Atkinson - 11/15/08
Lady Friday - Garth Nix - 11/20/08
Superior Saturday - Garth Nix - 11/26/08
The Fall - Garth Nix - 11/28/08
The Castle - Garth Nix - 11/29/08
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke - 11/30/08
Lavinia - Ursula le Guin - 12/14/2008
Blackbird House - Alice HOffman - 12/25/08

Comments

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smeddley

Dec. 31st, 2008 01:59 am (UTC)

We've read a lot of the same series! (Harris, Harrison, Cast, Nix, just to name a few!)

I'm listening to Touch the Dark by Karen Chance right now, and honestly, the narration leaves a lot to be desired and I really can't get into the story... I've thought about quitting, but... I'm not sure. If you can remember (it's pretty long ago for you) what did you think?

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rinalia

Jan. 1st, 2009 03:46 am (UTC)

To be honest, I can't remember much of the book...obviously it didn't leave a memorable impression! That's enough for me to say it wasn't all that great. :)

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