In 2008, I did not post or talk much, but I read a few books.
January
Christopher Andrew, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
Celia Rees, Witch Child.
Celia Rees, Sorceress.
Danny Goodman, Javascript & DHTML Cookbook.
February
Danny Goodman, Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference.
Scott Westerfield, Extras.
"A. Parody," Eats, Shites & Leaves.
John Straley, The Woman Who Married a Bear.
Mark Hinshaw, Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis.
Clotilde Dusoulier, Chocolate & Zucchini: Dialy Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen.
Margaret Hathaway, The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese.
Witold Rybczynski, Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture.
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
John Grant, Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time.
Kai Meyer, The Glass Word.
March
Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software.
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness.
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.
Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial.
Uwe Steinmueller and Jürgen Gulbins, The Art of RAW Conversion.
Maureen Elenga, Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown.
April
Nathan Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America.
David McCullough, The Great Bridge.
Ruth Reichl, Comfort Me With Apples.
May
Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development.
Michael Mahemoff: Ajax Design Patterns.
Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men.
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid.
Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea.
June
Nigel Calder, Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science.
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight.
Timothy Egan, Breaking Blue.
Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food.
Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story.
Stephenie Meyer, New Moon.
Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse.
July
Scott McClellan, What Happened.
Kalen Delaney, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization.
Bill Buford, Heat.
Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics.
Charles de Lint, Dingo.
Julie Kenner, Deja Demon.
Charles de Lint, Little (Grrl) Lost.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Ian McDonald, Brasyl.
Matthew Wells, 30 Bridges.
John Roderick, Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan.
August
Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City.
Christopher Schmitt, CSS Cookbook.
Shelley Powers, Adding Ajax.
Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn.
Upton Sinclair, Oil!.
Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell, SQL Hacks.
Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
William Gibson, Spook Country.
Robert Sullivan, Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.
Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts.
September
Richard Grant, Another Green World.
Geoff Ryman, Air.
Jeff Smith, Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil.
Lorrie Cranor and Simson Garfinkel (ed), Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use.
Neal Stephenson, Anathem.
Thomas McNamee, Alice Waters & Chez Panisse.
Caroline Stevermer, A Scholar of Magics.
October
Michael Largo: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die.
Lee Holmes, Windows Powershell Cookbook.
David and Raina Hawley, Excel Hacks.
Jake Arnott, Truecrime.
November
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).
Mike Davis, Dead Cities.
Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the Tinman.
Lance Verelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination.
Erick Lyle, On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City.
David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard.
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, The Book of Animal Ignorance.
December
James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador, Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.
David Sucher, City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village.
Chelsea Cain, Heartsick.
Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Steven Erie, Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California.
Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love.
Henry Petroski, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design.
Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation.
Nancy Pearl, More Book Lust.
Christopher Andrew, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
Celia Rees, Witch Child.
Celia Rees, Sorceress.
Danny Goodman, Javascript & DHTML Cookbook.
February
Danny Goodman, Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference.
Scott Westerfield, Extras.
"A. Parody," Eats, Shites & Leaves.
John Straley, The Woman Who Married a Bear.
Mark Hinshaw, Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis.
Clotilde Dusoulier, Chocolate & Zucchini: Dialy Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen.
Margaret Hathaway, The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese.
Witold Rybczynski, Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture.
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
John Grant, Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time.
Kai Meyer, The Glass Word.
March
Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software.
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness.
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.
Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial.
Uwe Steinmueller and Jürgen Gulbins, The Art of RAW Conversion.
Maureen Elenga, Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown.
April
Nathan Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America.
David McCullough, The Great Bridge.
Ruth Reichl, Comfort Me With Apples.
May
Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development.
Michael Mahemoff: Ajax Design Patterns.
Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men.
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid.
Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea.
June
Nigel Calder, Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science.
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight.
Timothy Egan, Breaking Blue.
Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food.
Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story.
Stephenie Meyer, New Moon.
Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse.
July
Scott McClellan, What Happened.
Kalen Delaney, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization.
Bill Buford, Heat.
Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics.
Charles de Lint, Dingo.
Julie Kenner, Deja Demon.
Charles de Lint, Little (Grrl) Lost.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Ian McDonald, Brasyl.
Matthew Wells, 30 Bridges.
John Roderick, Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan.
August
Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City.
Christopher Schmitt, CSS Cookbook.
Shelley Powers, Adding Ajax.
Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn.
Upton Sinclair, Oil!.
Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell, SQL Hacks.
Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
William Gibson, Spook Country.
Robert Sullivan, Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.
Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts.
September
Richard Grant, Another Green World.
Geoff Ryman, Air.
Jeff Smith, Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil.
Lorrie Cranor and Simson Garfinkel (ed), Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use.
Neal Stephenson, Anathem.
Thomas McNamee, Alice Waters & Chez Panisse.
Caroline Stevermer, A Scholar of Magics.
October
Michael Largo: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die.
Lee Holmes, Windows Powershell Cookbook.
David and Raina Hawley, Excel Hacks.
Jake Arnott, Truecrime.
November
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).
Mike Davis, Dead Cities.
Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the Tinman.
Lance Verelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination.
Erick Lyle, On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City.
David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard.
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, The Book of Animal Ignorance.
December
James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador, Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.
David Sucher, City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village.
Chelsea Cain, Heartsick.
Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Steven Erie, Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California.
Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love.
Henry Petroski, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design.
Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation.
Nancy Pearl, More Book Lust.