2008 book log
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
{previous logs :: 2007 :: 2006}
:: 2008 :: 69 bks : 18353 pgs ::
(R) = reread
(N) = nonfiction
1001 books
* = favorite
:: jan . 2 bks . 629 pgs ::
: 06 . Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . J.K. Rowling . 320 pgs (R) *
: 30 . Lolita . Vladimir Nabokov . 309 pgs (review)
:: feb . 11 bks . 2681 pgs ::
: 09 . Where Angels Fear to Tread . E.M. Forster . 135 pgs * (review)
: 12 . Giovanni's Room . James Baldwin . 150 pgs * (review)
: 16 . Silas Marner . George Eliot . 221 pgs (review)
: 18 . On Beauty . Zadie Smith . 442 pgs (review)
: 21 . Imposture . Benjamin Markovits . 200 pgs (review)
: 22 . Wide Sargasso Sea . Jean Rhys . 156 pgs * (review)
: 22 . We . Yevgeny Zamyatin . 225 pgs * (review)
: 23 . People of the Book . Geraldine Brooks . 372 pgs * (review)
: 24 . The Yacoubian Building . Alaa Al Aswany . 246 pgs * (review)
: 25 . A Tale of Two Cities . Charles Dickens . 390 pgs * (review)
: 28 . Sexing the Cherry . Jeanette Winterson . 144 pgs * (review)
:: mar . 14 bks . 3763 pgs ::
: 02 . The Diving Bell and the Butterfly . Jean-Dominique Bauby . 139 pgs * (review)
: 04 . Slaughterhouse 5 . Kurt Vonnegut . 157 pgs (review)
: 08 . Thank You, Jeeves . P.G. Wodehouse . 229 pgs * (review)
: 12 . Water for Elephants . Sara Gruen . 335 pgs * (review)
: 13 . Cold Comfort Farm . Stella Gibbons . 233 pgs * (review)
: 17 . Maus: A Survivor's Tale . Art Spiegelman . 295 pgs * (review)
: 20 . The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri . 291 pgs (review)
: 22 . Bee Season . Myla Goldberg . 274 pgs * (review)
: 24 . A Passage to India . E.M. Forster . 306 pgs * (review)
: 27 . Crash . J.G. Ballard . 185 pgs (review)
: 29 . Middlemarch . George Eliot . 838 pgs * (review)
: 29 . The Ladies of Grace Adieu . Susanna Clarke . 235 pgs * (review)
: 31 . The Diary of a Nobody . George & Weedon Grossmith . 210 pgs * (review)
: 31 . The Yellow Wallpaper . Charlotte Perkins Gilman . 36 pgs (review)
:: apr . 18 bks . 5503 pgs ::
: 01 . The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Muriel Spark . 128 pgs * (review)
: 05 . Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . Winifred Watson . 234 pgs * (review)
: 06 . The Voyage Out . Virginia Woolf . 398 pgs (review)
: 06 . The First Century After Beatrice . Amin Maalouf . 192 pgs * (review)
: 07 . The Female Quixote . Charlotte Lennox . 383 pgs * (review)
: 09 . Saturday . Ian McEwan . 279 pgs (review)
: 11 . The Plot Against America . Philip Roth . 362 pgs (review)
: 15 . The Outsider . Albert Camus . 117 pgs (review)
: 16 . The Uncommon Reader . Alan Bennett . 124 pgs * (review)
: 17 . The Miracle at Speedy Motors . Alexander McCall Smith . 249 pgs * (review)
: 17 . Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . Lisa See . 333 pgs *
: 19 . The Reader . Bernhard Schlink . 216 pgs
: 20 . She . H. Rider Haggard . 384 pgs *
: 20 . The Sorrows of Young Werther . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . 114 pgs
: 26 . Les Misérables . Victor Hugo . 1463 pgs *
: 27 . The Lonely Londoners . Sam Selvon . 139 pgs
: 27 . A Room With a View . E.M. Forster . 196 pgs *
: 28 . The Postman Always Rings Twice . James M. Cain . 192 pgs
:: may . 9 bks . 2712 pgs ::
: 01 . One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . 143 pgs
: 03 . One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel García Márquez . 422 pgs
: 03 . The Thirty-Nine Steps . John Buchan . 103 pgs
: 03 . The Princess de Clèves . Madame de Lafayette . 156 pgs *
: 04 . The Blood of Flowers . Anita Amirrezvani . 369 pgs *
: 05 . Northern Lights . Philip Pullman . 399 pgs *
: 12 . The Enchantress of Florence . Salman Rushdie . 349 pgs *
: 13 . The Passion . Jeanette Winterson . 160 pgs
: 18 . Howard's End . E.M. Forster . 293 pgs *
: 31 . Robinson Crusoe . Daniel Defoe . 298 pgs
:: jun : 13 bks : 2819 pgs ::
: 04 . The Bell . Iris Murdoch . 316 pgs *
: 07 . The Pursuit of Love . Nancy Mitford . 212 pgs *
: 08 . Timbuktu . Paul Auster . 186 pgs *
: 14 . Fanny Hill . John Cleland . 187 pgs
: 15 . I, Robot . Isaac Asimov . 249 pgs
: 15 . A Boy's Own Story . Edmund White . 218 pgs
: 17 . Love in a Cold Climate . Nancy Mitford . 244 pgs *
: 18 . Never Let Me Go . Kazuo Ishiguro . 282 pgs *
: 26 . The Driver's Seat . Muriel Spark . 107 pgs
: 26 . The Subtle Knife . Philip Pullman . 325 pgs *
: 27 . No One Writes to the Colonel . Gabriel García Márquez . 69 pgs
: 29 . The Bell Jar . Sylvia Plath . 234 pgs *
: 30 . Written on the Body . Jeanette Winterson . 190 pgs
:: jul : 1 bks : 246 pgs ::
: 02 . Falling Man . Don DeLillo . 246 pgs
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