Book List 2008
My goal is to read 50 books in 2008. That's about 4 books a month. I averaged about 1 1/2 in 2007, so this might be ambitious, but what the hell? If anybody has any recommendations (or reminders of recommendations you've given me before since I'm forgetful like that), is currently reading something good, or has a book list of their own for 2008, please comment!
* = already started/to be finished
** = to be acquired
FICTION
ADAMS, Richard - Watership Down*
DUNN, Katharine - Geek Love**
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey - Middlesex**
FABER, Michael - The Crimson Petal and the White**
FABER, Michael - Vanilla Bright Like Eminem**
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera**
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel - Memories of my Melancholy Whores**
GAARDER, Jostein - The Orange Girl**
GIBBONS, Kaye - Charms for the Easy Life
GLEASON, Colleen - When Twilight Burns: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles #4 (Aug 2008)**
HAMBLY, Barbara - A Free Man Of Color: Benjamin January Series #1*
HAMBLY, Barbara - Fever Season: Benjamin January Series #2
HAMBLY, Barbara - Graveyard Dust: Benjamin January Series #3
KING, Stephen - The Stand: Unabridged*
KOSTOVA, Elizabeth - The Historian*
MCKENDRICK, Elspeth - Perfidia** 01.14.08
NORMAN, Diana - A Catch of Consequence*
NORMAN, Diana - The Sparks Fly Upward
O'NEILL, Jamie - At Swim, Two Boys
SEDARIS, David - Naked**
SARAMAGO, Jose - Blindness**
SETTERFIELD, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale**
SETON, Anya - Green Darkness
SUSKIND, Patrick - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer**
SWANN, Leonie - Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story**
WELLINGTON, David - Monster Island: A Zombie Novel**
CLASSICS
BALZAC, Honore de - A Murky Business
BALZAC, Honore de - Old Goriot
CARROLL, Lewis (edited by Martin Gardner) - The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
DUMAS, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
HUGO, Victor - Les Misérables
KEROUAC, Jack - On the Road*
NON-FICTION
DENNET, Daniel C. - Darwin's Dangeous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
DYSON, George - Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence*
EGAN, Timothy - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl**
FISCHER, David - Historians' Fallacies: Toward A Logic of Historical Thought**
FOREMAN, Amanda - Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire
KRISHNAMURTI, Jiddu - Freedom From the Unknown
KEMBLE, Frances Anne - Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839*
LARSON, Eric - The Devil In White City*
TILLYARD, Stella - Aristocrats
* = already started/to be finished
** = to be acquired
FICTION
ADAMS, Richard - Watership Down*
DUNN, Katharine - Geek Love**
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey - Middlesex**
FABER, Michael - The Crimson Petal and the White**
FABER, Michael - Vanilla Bright Like Eminem**
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera**
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel - Memories of my Melancholy Whores**
GAARDER, Jostein - The Orange Girl**
GIBBONS, Kaye - Charms for the Easy Life
GLEASON, Colleen - When Twilight Burns: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles #4 (Aug 2008)**
HAMBLY, Barbara - A Free Man Of Color: Benjamin January Series #1*
HAMBLY, Barbara - Fever Season: Benjamin January Series #2
HAMBLY, Barbara - Graveyard Dust: Benjamin January Series #3
KING, Stephen - The Stand: Unabridged*
KOSTOVA, Elizabeth - The Historian*
MCKENDRICK, Elspeth - Perfidia** 01.14.08
NORMAN, Diana - A Catch of Consequence*
NORMAN, Diana - The Sparks Fly Upward
O'NEILL, Jamie - At Swim, Two Boys
SEDARIS, David - Naked**
SARAMAGO, Jose - Blindness**
SETTERFIELD, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale**
SETON, Anya - Green Darkness
SUSKIND, Patrick - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer**
SWANN, Leonie - Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story**
WELLINGTON, David - Monster Island: A Zombie Novel**
CLASSICS
BALZAC, Honore de - A Murky Business
BALZAC, Honore de - Old Goriot
CARROLL, Lewis (edited by Martin Gardner) - The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
DUMAS, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
HUGO, Victor - Les Misérables
KEROUAC, Jack - On the Road*
NON-FICTION
DENNET, Daniel C. - Darwin's Dangeous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
DYSON, George - Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence*
EGAN, Timothy - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl**
FISCHER, David - Historians' Fallacies: Toward A Logic of Historical Thought**
FOREMAN, Amanda - Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire
KRISHNAMURTI, Jiddu - Freedom From the Unknown
KEMBLE, Frances Anne - Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839*
LARSON, Eric - The Devil In White City*
TILLYARD, Stella - Aristocrats