Book List 2008
January
Atonement — Ian McEwan
Paint it Black — Janet Fitch
Spot of Bother — Mark Haddon
Deer Hunting with Jesus — Joe Bageant*
The Value of X — Poppy Z. Brite
The Bright Forever — Lee Martin
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell — Tucker Max*
Dance of Death — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Book of the Dead — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Dearly Devoted Dexter — Jeff Lindsay
The Department of Lost and Found — Allison Winn Scotch
Sammy’s Hill — Kristin Gore
12
February
Trans-Sister Radio — Chris Bohjalian
Sanctuary — Raymond Khoury
Cabinet of Curiosities — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Gumbo Limbo — Tom Corcoran
Blue Blood — Melissa De La Cruz
Zero at the Bone — Bryce Marshall and Paul Williams*
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid — Bill Bryson*
The Emperor’s Children — Claire Messud
The Spellman Files — Lisa Lutz
Skylight Confessions — Alice Hoffman
Songs of the Humpback Whale — Jodi Picoult
23
March
Picture Perfect — Jodi Picoult
Out — Natsuo Kirino
Odd Thomas — Dean Koonz
Harvesting the Heart — Jodi Picoult
Scarlet Feather — Maeve Binchy
The Almost Moon — Alice Sebold
Third Degree — Greg Iles
The Monsters of Templeton — Lauren Groff
Quentins — Maeve Binchy
Midwives — Chris Bohjalian
Change of Heart — Jodi Picoult
34
April
The Final Days: The Last Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House — Barbara Olson*
Betrayal — John Lescroart
People of the Book — Geraldine Brooks
Clapton: The Autobiography — Eric Clapton*
For Love of Audrey Rose — Frank DeFillitta
Another City, Not My Own — Dominick Dunne
The List — Steve Martini
The Emperor of Ocean Park — Stephen L. Carter
42
May
Gardens of Stone — Nicholas Proffit
The Beatles — Bob Spitz*
Whitethorn Woods — Maeve Binchy
Survivor — Tabitha King
The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty
Relic — Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
Lullaby — Chuck Palahniuk
Hold Tight — Harlen Coben
50
June
Snuff — Chuck Palahniuk
Bluebeard — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Stranger Than Fiction — Chuck Palahniuk
Lost Boys — Orson Scott Card
The Venetian Betrayal — Steve Berry
Firefly Summer — Maeve Binchy
Escape — Carolyn Jessup*
Mango Opera — Tom Corcoran
Simple Genius — David Balducci
59
July
The Know-It-All — A.J. Jacobs*
Rivethead — Ben Hamper*
Man, Woman and Child — Erich Segal
Hammerhead Ranch Motel — Tim Dorsey
Saigon, Illinois — Paul Hoover
The Double Bind — Chris Bohjalian
Blaze — Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Wheel of Darkness — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Air Dance Iguana — Tom Corcoran
The Octopus Alibi — Tom Corcoran
Gone — Lisa Gardner
After Dark — Haruiki Murakami
Ordinary Heroes — Scott Turow
Bone Island Mambo — Tom Corcoran
The Perfect Husband — Lisa Gardner
Bones to Ashes — Kathy Reichs
The Abortionist’s Daughter — Elisabeth Hyde
What Was Lost — Catherine O’Flynn
77
August
The Outlander — Diana Gabaldon
Running the Amazon — Joe Kane*
Babycakes — Armistead Maupin
The Bone Garden — Tess Gerritson
The Devil’s Labyrinth — John Saul
The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
Run — Ann Patchett
Dragonfly in Amber — Diana Gabaldon
85
September
The Night Ferry — Michael Robothom
Voyager — Diana Gabaldon
Drums of Autumn — Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross — Diana Gabaldon
Stone Cold — David Baldacci
In the Woods — Tana French
Obedience — Will Lavender
92
October
Rant — Chuck Pahalniuk
Fall on Your Knees — Ann-Marie MacDonald
Obsession — Jonathan Kellerman
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon — Crystal Zevon
The Lost Tomb — David Gibbons
Slam — Nick Hornby
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now — Sandra Tsing Loh
The Maze of Bones (Bk. 1 of the 39 Clues) –Rick Riordan
Goldman’s Anatomy — Glenn Savan
Beasts — Joyce Carol Oates
FOXFIRE: Confessions of a Girl Gang — Joyce Carol Oates
Little Chapel by the River — Gwendolyn Bounds
The Tender Bar — JR Moehringer
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November
St. Dale — Sharyn McCrumb
Life Penalty — Joy Fielding
Ghost Riders — Sharyn McCrumb
Be True to Your School — Bob Greene
Twilight — Stephanie Meyer
Bleeding Kansas — Sara Paretsky Doctors on the Edge — Frederick Abrams
First Patient — Michael Palmer
Currently reading:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle — David Wroblewski
The City of Fallen Angels — John Behrendt
White Teeth — Zadie Smith
