2008 has been a year of a bit of upheaval, including a halfway-across-the-country move and a new job. My finish rate is way down and there is a lot of junk food. But here is, in order, what I have read this year so far:
- Irreligion by John Allen Paulos
- Laika by Nick Abadzis
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- The Bible: a Biography by Karen Armstrong
- The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
- Stepmother by Robert Coover
- Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- The End of Biblical Studies by Hector Avalos
- The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
- Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse
- Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith
- The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
- The Sister by Poppy Adams
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Sway by Zachary Lazar
- On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail
- Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
- Deadly Beloved by Max Allan Collins
- Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
- I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
- Money Shot by Christa Faust
- The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
- Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
- Mathematics for the General Reader by E.C. Titchmarsh
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (re-read)
- The Facts of Winter by Paul Poissel
- Exercises de Style by Raymond Queneau
- The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
- The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
- Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Contractor by Charles Holdefer
- The Murderer Vine by Shepard Rifkin
- The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson
- Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus by Salley Vickers
- Mythologies by Roland Barthes
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts
- When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- Fade to Blonde by Max Phillips
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 28
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
- Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
- Tales from the Drones Club by P.G. Wodehouse
- Wieland or the Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
- The Five Thousand and One Nights by Penelope Lively
- Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Meet Mr Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse
- Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
- Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel
- Consequences by Penelope Lively
- Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy
- Descartes’ Bones by Russell Shorto
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- Inverted World by Christopher Priest
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Black: the history of a color by Michel Pastoureau
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Chimes” by Charles Dickens
- The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton
- The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling



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