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\"The<\/a>So many books, so little time-part two<\/p>\n

My son started keeping a reading list in third grade, so I did too. This is the second year we\u2019ve done this. Last year I set a goal to read better books but this year I actually read MORE books that weren\u2019t necessarily of the highest quality. I\u2019m finding that more and more I lean to read to escape, rather than be challenged, which is kind of sad.<\/p>\n

My favorite book of 2008 was probably The Comfort of Strangers<\/em><\/a> by Ian McEwan, he also wrote Atonement<\/em><\/a>, which I loved. I have a few more of his books on my night table so I\u2019m looking forward to those. Other favorites were The End of the Affair<\/em><\/a>, by Graham Greene, and Water for Elephants<\/em><\/a> by Sara Gruen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to hear about other people\u2019s favorite books this year.<\/p>\n

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  1. 19 Minutes \u2013 Jodi Picoult<\/li>\n
  2. Blood Brothers \u2013 Nora Roberts<\/li>\n
  3. Bookends-Jane Green<\/li>\n
  4. The Breakdown Lane-Jacquelyn Mitchard<\/li>\n
  5. A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hossseini<\/li>\n
  6. Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert<\/li>\n
  7. The Year of Magical Thinking-Joan Didion<\/li>\n
  8. Garlic and Sapphires-Ruth Reichel<\/li>\n
  9. Boy-Roald Dahl<\/li>\n
  10. Creation in Death-J.D. Robb<\/li>\n
  11. The Last Beach Bungalow-Jennie Nash<\/li>\n
  12. Three Cups of Tea-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin<\/li>\n
  13. Paris to the Moon-Adam Gopnik<\/li>\n
  14. Suburban Diva-Tracy Henry<\/li>\n
  15. The Not-So-Perfect Man-Valerie Frankel<\/li>\n
  16. The Hollow-Nora Roberts<\/li>\n
  17. The End of the Affair-Graham Greene<\/li>\n
  18. Summerland-Michael Chabon<\/li>\n
  19. There\u2019s No Place Like Here-Cecelia Ahern<\/li>\n
  20. Bridge of Sighs-Richard Russo<\/li>\n
  21. Tribute-Nora Roberts<\/li>\n
  22. Outside Providence-Peter Farrelly<\/li>\n
  23. The Pact-Jodi Picoult<\/li>\n
  24. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict-Larie Viera Rigler<\/li>\n
  25. Remember Me? \u2013 Sophie Kinsella<\/li>\n
  26. The Sweet Potato Queens Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit-Jill Conner<\/li>\n
  27. Jinx-Meg Cabot<\/li>\n
  28. The Writing Class-Jincy Willett<\/li>\n
  29. Kabul Beauty School-Deborah Rodriguez<\/li>\n
  30. Water for Elephants \u2013 Sara Gruen<\/li>\n
  31. Married Lovers-Jackie Collins<\/li>\n
  32. Talk Talk-T.C. Boyle<\/li>\n
  33. Twilight-Stephenie Meyer<\/li>\n
  34. Certain Girls-Jennifer Weiner<\/li>\n
  35. 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!)<\/li>\n
  36. Are you there Vodka, it\u2019s me Chelsea? \u2013 Chelsea Handler<\/li>\n
  37. Size 12 is not Fat-Meg Cabot<\/li>\n
  38. The Last Lecture-Randy Pfausch<\/li>\n
  39. Strangers in Death-J.D. Robb<\/li>\n
  40. Expensive People-Joyce Carol Oates<\/li>\n
  41. Candy Girl-Diablo Cody<\/li>\n
  42. The Comfort of Strangers-Ian McEwan<\/li>\n
  43. New Moon-Stephanie Meyer<\/li>\n
  44. All American Girl-Meg Cabot<\/li>\n
  45. Ready or Not-Meg Cabot<\/li>\n
  46. I Just Want my Children to be Happy-Aaron Cooper<\/li>\n
  47. Queen of Babble-Meg Cabot<\/li>\n
  48. House of Testosterone-Sharon O\u2019Donnell<\/li>\n
  49. Keep Your Skirt On-Starshine Roshell<\/li>\n
  50. My Antonia-Willa Cather<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Originally posted on January 2, 2009.<\/p>\n

    Click to read The Books of 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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