Books Read in 2008

Happy New Year!

Below is the list of books that I read in 2008. Not a bad list, and I'll go over it myself after a good nights sleep. I'm always happy to discuss any of the books on this, or any of my previous lists. Expect a top 10 of 2008 post later this week.


F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Ha Jin - In the Pond (F)

2) Saul Bellow - The Actual (F)

3) Donald Hall - Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport [Mostly Baseball] (NF)

4) Andy Riley - The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides (GN)

5) Flann O'Brien - The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and The Brother (F)

6) Alexandre Dumas, trans. Richard Pevear - The Three Musketeers (F) (reread, new translation)

7) Raymond E. Feist - Magician: Apprentice (F) (reread)

8) Raymond E. Feist - Magician: Master (F) (reread)

9) Raymond E. Feist - Silverthorn (F) (reread)

10) Raymond E. Feist - A Darkness at Sethanon (F) (reread)

11) Raymond E. Feist - Prince of the Blood (F) (reread)

12) Raymond E. Feist - The King's Buccaneer (F) (reread)

13) Bill Bryson - The Mother TOngue (NF)

14) Donald Hall - Without (P)

15) Raymond E. Feist - Shadow of a Dark Queen (F) (reread)

16) Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury (F)

17) Raymond E. Feist - Rise of a Merchant Prince (F) (reread)

18) Raymond E. Feist - Rage of a Demon King (F) (reread)

19) Raymond E. Feist - Shards of a Broken Crown (F) (reread)

20) Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire (F) (reread)

21) Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts - Servants of the Empire (F) (reread)

22) David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day (NF)

23) Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts - Mistress of the Empire (F) (reread)

24) Christopher Woodward - In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art and Literature (NF)

25) Haruki Murakami, trans. Alfred Birnbaum - A Wild Sheep Chase (F)

26) Albert Camus, trans. Matthew Ward - The Stranger (F)

27) Adrian Tomine - Shortcomings (GN)

28) Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood (F)

29) Ernest Hemingway - The old Man and the Sea (F)

30) Elaine Dundy - The Dud Avocado (F)

31) Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (F)

32) Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (F)

33) Terry Pratchett - Thud! (F) (reread)

34) Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum (F) (reread)

35) Zbigniew Herbert, trans. Alissa Valles - The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (P)

36) Glen Cook - Cruel Zinc Melodies (F)

37) Michael Farr - Tintin: The Complete Companion (NF)

38) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: The Princess and the Pirates (F)

39) Rex Stout - The Second Confession (F) (reread)

40) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: A Point of Law (F)

41) Terry Pratchett - Jingo (F) (reread)

42) Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant (F) (reread)

43) Alasdair Gray, Francesca Lowe - Terminus (F)

44) Italo Calvino, trans. William Weaver - Invisible Cities (F)

45) Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory (F)

46) Simon Rich - Ant Farm (F)

47) Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union (F)

48) Georges Simenon, trans. Robert Baldick - Lock 14 (F)

49) G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday (F)

50) Herman Hesse, trans. Jack Zipes - The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse (F)

51) Alexandre Dumas, trans. Robin Buss - The Women's War (F)

52) John Buchan - Thirty Nine Steps (F)

53) Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! (F) (reread)

54) Michael Farr - Tintin & Co. (NF)

55) Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (F)

56) Graham Greene - Our Man In Havana (F)

57) I.J. Parker - The Hell Screen (F)

58) Rex Stout - Not Quite Dead Enough (F) (reread)

59) Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay (F) (reread)

60) Vladimir Nabokov trans. Dmitri Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading (F)

61) Terry Pratchett - Pyramids (F) (reread)

62) George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman (F)

63) Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. various - Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories (F)

64) Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms (F) (reread)

65) Edmund White - The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (NF)

66) Rex Stout - The Silent Speaker (F) (reread)

67) Steven Brust - Jhegaala (F)

68) Hugh Nissenson - The Days of Awe (F)

69) Rex Stout - In the Best Families (F) (reread)

70) Rex Stout - Before Midnight (F) (reread)

71) Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - Watchmen (GN) (reread)

72) David Green - 101 Reasons to Love the Mets (NF)

73) Primo Levi, trans. William Weaver - The Monkey's Wrench (F)

74) Rex Stout - Gambit (F) (reread)

75) Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States 1492-Present (NF)

76) Omar Khayyam, trans./adapt. Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (P)

77) Georges Simenon, trans. Marc Romano & D. Thin - The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (F)

78) Rex Stout - Plot It Yourself (F) (reread)

79) Rex Stout - The Black Mountain (F) (reread)

80) Rex Stout - Three at Wolfe's Door (F) (reread)

81) Rex Stout - And Four to Go (F) (reread)

82) Dave Eggers, ed. - McSweeney's Issue 27 (F)

83) Georges Simenon, trans. David Watson - The Bar on the Seine (F)

84) Rex Stout - A Right to Die (F) (reread)

85) Georges Simenon, trans. Geoffrey Sainsbury - A Man's Head (F)

86) Allen Ginsberg - Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (P)

87) Rabih Alameddine - The Hakawati (F)

88) A.M. Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life (F)

89) Ryszard Kapuscinski, trans. Klara Glowczewska - Travels with Herodotus (NF)

90) Rex Stout - The Father Hunt (F) (reread)

91) trans. Ciaran Carson - The Tain (F)

92) Georges Simenon, trans. Linda Asher - The Yellow Dog (F)

93) Spain Rodriguez - Che: A Graphic Biography (B/GN)

94) Micheal macLiammoir - The Importance of Being Oscar (PL)

95) Rex Stout - The Rubber Band (F) (reread)

96) Rex Stout - The Mother Hunt (F) (reread)

97) Rex Stout - Might As Well Be Dead (F) (reread)

98) Graham Greene - The Quiet American (F)

99) Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders (F) (reread)

100) Czeslaw Milosz, trans. with Robert Hass - A Treatise on Poetry (P)

101) James Hamilton-Paterson - Cooking with Fernet Branca (F)

102) Rex Stout - Champagne for One (F) (reread)

103) Richard D. Polenberg - The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents (NF)

104) Mike Carey & Leonardo Manco - Hellblazer: All His Engines (GN)

105) Guy Delisle - Albert and the Others (GN)

106) Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March (F)

107) Joseph Moncure March, illus. Art Spiegelman - The Wild Party (P)

108) Honore de Balzac, trans. Richard Howard - The Unknown Masterpiece (F)

109) Georges Simenon, trans. Geoffrey Sainsbury - The Madman of Bergerac (F)

110) Mark Kurlansky - 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (NF)

111) Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger (F)

112) Ryszard Kapuscinski, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones - The Other (NF)

113) Muriel Barbery, trans. Alison Anderson - The Elegance of the Hedgehog (F)

114) Alison Bechdel - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (B/GN)

115) Georges Simenon, trans. Anna Moschovakis - The Engagement (F)

116) George Soros - On Globalization (NF)

117) Harold Pinter - Death Etc. (P, Pl, NF)

118) Euripides, Wole Soyinka - The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (Pl)

119) Howard Zinn, illus. Paul Buhle - A People's History of American Empire (GN)

120) Dave Gibbons with Chip Kidd & Mike Essl - Watching the Watchmen (NF)

121) Sholem Aleichem, trans. Hannah Berman - Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (F)