2008 Book List
Adult Lit/Non-fiction
1. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
2. How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
3. Election by Tom Perrotta
4. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
5. The Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole Carter
6. Women and Money by Suze Orman
7. Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
8. Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
9. A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins by Penny Colman
10. Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
11. Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer
12. Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
13. Desert Children by Waris Dirie
14. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
15. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
16. Sex with Kings: five hundred years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge by Eleanor Herman
17. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
18. Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day by Lisa Taggart
19. Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex by Mary Roach
20. You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not by Farnoosh Torabi
21. Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
22. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
23. The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and why by Amanda Ripley
24. Final Salute: a story of unfinished lives by Jim Sheeler
25. Little girls in pretty boxes: the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters by Joan Ryan
26. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
27. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
28. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
29. Logan's Run by William Nolan
30. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
31. Sex With the Queen: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
32. The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
33. He's a Stud, She's a Slut by Jessica Valenti
34. Grave Matters: A journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial by Mark Harris
35. The Republican Playbook by Andy Borowitz
36. Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
37. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
38. Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet
39. The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own by Nina Garcia
40. I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire
41. Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
42. The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history by Molly Caldwell Crosby
43. Marriage, a history : from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage by Stephanie Coontz
44. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
45. Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden
46. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
47. Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
Children's Lit/YA
1. Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2. Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan
3. The Royal Diaries: Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn Lasky
4. The Royal Diaries: Kaiulani by Ellen Emerson White
5. A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary Of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 by Kathryn Lasky
6. Royal Diaries: Eleanor : Crown Jewel of Aquítaíne by Kristiana Gregory
7. All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
8. A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
9. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
10. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
11. Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg
12. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
13. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
14. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
15. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
16. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
17. The Princess Diaries: Party Princess by Meg Cabot
18. The Princess Diaries: Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot
19. The Princess Diaries: Valentine Princess by Meg Cabot
20. The Princess Diaries: Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot
21. The Princess Diaries: Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
22. All American Girl: Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
23. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Project by Meg Cabot
2007 list
2006 list
1. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
2. How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
3. Election by Tom Perrotta
4. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
5. The Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole Carter
6. Women and Money by Suze Orman
7. Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
8. Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
9. A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins by Penny Colman
10. Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
11. Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer
12. Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
13. Desert Children by Waris Dirie
14. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
15. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
16. Sex with Kings: five hundred years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge by Eleanor Herman
17. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
18. Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day by Lisa Taggart
19. Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex by Mary Roach
20. You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not by Farnoosh Torabi
21. Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
22. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
23. The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and why by Amanda Ripley
24. Final Salute: a story of unfinished lives by Jim Sheeler
25. Little girls in pretty boxes: the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters by Joan Ryan
26. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
27. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
28. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
29. Logan's Run by William Nolan
30. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
31. Sex With the Queen: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
32. The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
33. He's a Stud, She's a Slut by Jessica Valenti
34. Grave Matters: A journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial by Mark Harris
35. The Republican Playbook by Andy Borowitz
36. Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
37. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
38. Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet
39. The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own by Nina Garcia
40. I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire
41. Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
42. The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history by Molly Caldwell Crosby
43. Marriage, a history : from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage by Stephanie Coontz
44. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
45. Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden
46. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
47. Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
Children's Lit/YA
1. Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2. Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan
3. The Royal Diaries: Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn Lasky
4. The Royal Diaries: Kaiulani by Ellen Emerson White
5. A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary Of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 by Kathryn Lasky
6. Royal Diaries: Eleanor : Crown Jewel of Aquítaíne by Kristiana Gregory
7. All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
8. A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
9. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
10. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
11. Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg
12. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
13. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
14. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
15. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
16. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
17. The Princess Diaries: Party Princess by Meg Cabot
18. The Princess Diaries: Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot
19. The Princess Diaries: Valentine Princess by Meg Cabot
20. The Princess Diaries: Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot
21. The Princess Diaries: Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
22. All American Girl: Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
23. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Project by Meg Cabot
2007 list
2006 list