The books I read in 2008

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February

1. 2nd Chance - James Patterson
2. The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane - Terrance Dicks
3. My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel by Steven Brust - http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html

March

1. Torchwood: Hidden by Steven Savile. [audio book read by Naoko Mori]
2. The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko

April

1. Something Borrowed - Paul Magrs
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (A must read - I couldn’t put it down)
3. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
4. Call The Midwife - Jennifer Worth
5. Stolen - Tess Gerritsen
6. Body Double - Tess Gerritsen

May

1. One Dance in Paris - Julia Holden
2. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
3. High School Musical: Stories from East High 5 - Broadway Dreams
4. Divas Don’t Knit - Gil McNeil (Best Chick-lit book I’ve read in ages - made me giggle out loud throughout!)
5. The Palace of Laughter - Jon Berkeley
6. Dr Who: Sting of the Zygons - Stephen Cole
7. Dr Who: Snowglobe 7 - Mike Tucker
8. Love and Other Near Death Experiences - Mil Millington

June

1. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
2. The Future Homemakers of America - Laurie Graham
3. The brief history of the dead - Kevin Brockmeier
4. Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
5. I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
6. Summer Term at St Clare’s - Enid Blyton
7. Mort - Terry Pratchett
8. Through a Glass Darkly - Jostein Gaarder (Re-read)
9. Dr. Who: Only Human - Gareth Roberts

July

1. My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time - Liz Jensen
2. 2 Girls - Perihan Magden
3. Archer’s Goon - Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
4. American Gods - Neil Gaiman

August

1. Torchwood: Trace Memory - David Llewellyn
2. Call After Midnight - Tess Gerritsen
3. L8r, g8r - Lauren Myracle
4. Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett
5. Dr Who: Forever Autumn - Mark Morris
6. Growing Pains - Billie Piper

September

1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
2. Devil Bones - Kathy Reichs
3. Going GaGa - Mel Giedroyc
4. One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
5. Dr Who: The Art of Destruction - Stephen Cole
6. Dr Who: Peacemaker - James Swallow
7. The Madolescents - Chrissie Glazebrook

October

1. Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl’s Diary 1842-1843 - Sue Reid
2. The Nameless City - H. P. Lovecraft [Audiobook read by Gareth David-Lloyd]
3. Blitz: A Wartime Girl’s Diary 1940-1941 - Vince Cross
4. Crosscut - Meg Gardiner
5. Dr Who: Sick Building - Paul Magrs
6. Between the Lines/My Story Uncut - Jason Donovan
7. My Side of the Story: The Plague - Philip Wooderson
8. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

November

1. The Plague and the Fire - James Leasor
2. Secrets of the Fearless - Elizabeth Laird (I started reading just after lunch and finished before bed the same day - a couple of predictable twists but a compelling read nonetheless)
3. The Eyes of a King - Catherine Banner
4. My Story: Titanic - An Edwardian Girl's Diary, 1912 - Ellen Emerson White
5. Torchwood: The Twilight Streets - Gary Russell
6. Dr Who: Wooden Heart - Martin Day
7. Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell (so far from her best that I started it in January and only just finished…)

December

1. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris (supposedly good but actually rubbish!)
2. Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
3. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
4. How Low Can You Go? - Tom Chesshyre
5. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
6. Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell (almost a return to previous form. In the second half of the book at least. Maybe there’s still hope.)
7. Dr Who: The Stone Rose - Jacqueline Rayner