Books Read in 2008

I keep trying for 50 books read in a year and I top out in the 30s during a good year. I'll keep this post as just the master list. Click on the titles to read short blurbs on what I thought of them.

1. (01/04) The Wedding -by Nicholas Sparks 263pp
   
2. (01/23) Museums and Women -by John Updike 278pp
   
3. (02/08) Three Cups of Tea -by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 331pp
   
4. (02/25) Saving Fish From Drowning -by Amy Tan 472pp
   
5. (03/06) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference -by Malcolm Gladwell 280pp
   
6. (03/09) The Promise -by Chaim Potok 368pp
   
7. (04/11) Omnivore's Dilemma -by Michael Pollan 411pp
   
8. (04/21) Heat -by Bill Buford 315pp
   
9. (04/22) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -by Philip K. Dick 244pp
   
10. (04/23) A Box of Matches -by Nicholson Baker 178pp
    
11. (04/27) A Long Way Down -by Nick Hornby 352pp
    
12. (06/18) Dead Souls -by Nikolai Gogol 278pp
    
13. (06/27) Taft -by Ann Patchett 305pp
    
14. (07/07) Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human -by Elizabeth Hess 322 pp
    
15. (07/12) The Magician's Assistant -by Ann Patchett 307pp
    
16. (07/22) How Proust Can Change Your Life -by Alain Botton 197pp
    
17. (07/23) Rule of the Bone -by Russell Banks 390pp
    
18. (07/29) Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Want -by Gregory Karp 191pp
    
19. (08/01) Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance -by Atul Gawande 257pp
    
20. (08/16) Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment -by Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. 268pp
    
21. (08/18) Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health -by Gina Kolata 267pp
    
22. (08/23) A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel -by Xiaolu Guo 283pp
    
23. (09/09) Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss -- and the Myths and Realities of Dieting -by Gina Kolata 223pp
    
24. (10/12) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: a memoir -by Haruki Murakami 180pp
    
25. (10/12) Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline -by Lisa Margonelli 288pp
    
26. (10/15) American Nerd: The Story of My People -by Benjamin Nugent 224pp
    
27. (10/15) Children of the Great Depression -by Russell Freedman 101pp
    
28. (10/20) When You Are Engulfed in Flames -by David Sedaris 323pp
    (10/24) Brokeback Mountain -by Annie Proulx 53pp (short story)
    (10/24) Morning Girl -by Michael Dorris 74pp
    
29. (11/22) Epilogue: A Memoir -by Anne Roiphe 214pp
    
30. (12/08) Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex -by Mary Roach 303pp
    
31. (12/12) Darkly Dreaming Dexter -by Jeff Lindsay 288pp
    

Lists of Books Read
2009 (16 books)
2008 (31 books)
2007 (36 books)
2006 (30 books)
2005 (13 books)
2004 (35 books)
1998 to 2003 (113 books over 6 years)

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