The Books of 2008
I've put up my list of books I read in 2008. Every year, I think I should start doing this list on the computer so I don't have to then spend time typing it up at the end of the year, but there's something so satisfying about writing each book down in my notebook. I did at least type it up into Excel this year so I could just mail merge into the html code.
I had a really hard time narrowing down the best books of the year. Instead of a top five in alphabetical order by author, this year, I have one that was the absolute best book of the year and the six other best books I read in alphabetical order by author.
The Best Book
The best book I read all year, as I've already mentioned was My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park by Steve Kluger.
The Other Best Books of 2008
I had a really hard time narrowing down the best books of the year. Instead of a top five in alphabetical order by author, this year, I have one that was the absolute best book of the year and the six other best books I read in alphabetical order by author.
The Best Book
The best book I read all year, as I've already mentioned was My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park by Steve Kluger.
The Other Best Books of 2008
- Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway.The day I broke up with my boyfriend Evan was the day he wrote the song.
- Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos.My fall from suburban grace, or, more accurately, my failure to achieve the merest molehill of suburban grace from which to fall, began with a dinner party and a perfectly innocent, modestly clever, and only faintly quirky remark about Armand Assante.
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer.Almost everyone in Utah County has heard of the Lafferty boys.
- My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley.A dried, crumpled leaf blew across the toe of his shiny black boot as he lifted his right foot.
- Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr."Four-ball, side pocket."
- Impossible by Nancy Werlin.On the evening of Lucy Scarborough's seventh birthday, after the biggest party the neighborhood had seen since, well, Lucy's sixth birthday, Lucy got one last unexpected gift.