So many books, so little time-part two
My son started keeping a reading list in third grade, so I did too. This is the second year we’ve done this. Last year I set a goal to read better books but this year I actually read MORE books that weren’t necessarily of the highest quality. I’m finding that more and more I lean to read to escape, rather than be challenged, which is kind of sad.
My favorite book of 2008 was probably The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, he also wrote Atonement, which I loved. I have a few more of his books on my night table so I’m looking forward to those. Other favorites were The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
I’d love to hear about other people’s favorite books this year.
- 19 Minutes – Jodi Picoult
- Blood Brothers – Nora Roberts
- Bookends-Jane Green
- The Breakdown Lane-Jacquelyn Mitchard
- A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hossseini
- Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Year of Magical Thinking-Joan Didion
- Garlic and Sapphires-Ruth Reichel
- Boy-Roald Dahl
- Creation in Death-J.D. Robb
- The Last Beach Bungalow-Jennie Nash
- Three Cups of Tea-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Paris to the Moon-Adam Gopnik
- Suburban Diva-Tracy Henry
- The Not-So-Perfect Man-Valerie Frankel
- The Hollow-Nora Roberts
- The End of the Affair-Graham Greene
- Summerland-Michael Chabon
- There’s No Place Like Here-Cecelia Ahern
- Bridge of Sighs-Richard Russo
- Tribute-Nora Roberts
- Outside Providence-Peter Farrelly
- The Pact-Jodi Picoult
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict-Larie Viera Rigler
- Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
- The Sweet Potato Queens Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit-Jill Conner
- Jinx-Meg Cabot
- The Writing Class-Jincy Willett
- Kabul Beauty School-Deborah Rodriguez
- Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
- Married Lovers-Jackie Collins
- Talk Talk-T.C. Boyle
- Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
- Certain Girls-Jennifer Weiner
- Hometown Santa Barbara-Nancy Ransohoff, Zak Klobucher, Starshine Roshell, Cheryl Crabtree, Leslie Dinaberg (yes, I wrote some of it, but I read all of it and really liked the history chapters, Cheryl!)
- Are you there Vodka, it’s me Chelsea? – Chelsea Handler
- Size 12 is not Fat-Meg Cabot
- The Last Lecture-Randy Pfausch
- Strangers in Death-J.D. Robb
- Expensive People-Joyce Carol Oates
- Candy Girl-Diablo Cody
- The Comfort of Strangers-Ian McEwan
- New Moon-Stephanie Meyer
- All American Girl-Meg Cabot
- Ready or Not-Meg Cabot
- I Just Want my Children to be Happy-Aaron Cooper
- Queen of Babble-Meg Cabot
- House of Testosterone-Sharon O’Donnell
- Keep Your Skirt On-Starshine Roshell
- My Antonia-Willa Cather
Originally posted on January 2, 2009.
Click to read The Books of 2007.