I read 15 books in 2008 (counting The Kite Runner which I started in 2007 and Innocent Traitor which I just finished, but I read the bulk of each in 2008). Here's the breakdown:
10 novels
3 history non-fiction books (all Alison Weir)
4 historical novels
4 humorous/silly books
2 Thursday Next books
Here is my ranking:
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- The Well of Lost Plots
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- The Kite Runner
- Something Rotten
- The Children of Henry VIII
- Blindness
- Brick Lane
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Innocent Traitor
- The Facebook Book
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England