2008 Reading

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