2008 Books Read

120 books read this year, 10 more than 2007!

Here's the list, for posterity...

Adult

1. East of Eden
2. Glamour
3. The Devil of Nanking
4. Food and Loathing: a lament
5. The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell
6.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
7. Cocktails for Three
8.Sweet Potato Queens' 1st Big-Ass Novel
9. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
10.Witch Way to Murder
11. Bloodsucking Fiends
12. Mermaids in the Basement
13. Real Vampires Have Curves
14.Gods Behaving Badly
15.Gastroanomalies
16.Remember Me?
17.Uncommon Grounds
18. Deep Dish
19.Agnes and the Hitman
20.Late Nights on Air
21.Enchanted, Inc.
22.Anybody Out There
23.Shakespeare's Landlord
24.Sullivan's Island
25.The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square
26.Bet Your Bottom Dollar
27. Down the Nile
28.The Three Miss Margarets
29.Strawberry Shortcake Murder
30. Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12
31.Dear Sad Goat
32.Cease to Blush
33.Mudbound
34. Till The Cows Come Home
35.Persepolis
36.The Marriage of True Minds
37.Nights of Rain and Stars
38.Love Walked In
39.The Sugar Queen
40.Dead Until Dark
41.Bobbie Faye's (kinda sorta not really) Family Jewels
42.Second Chance
43.Girls in Trucks
44.Miss Julia Takes Over
45.Julie and Julia
46.Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Militant Midwives
47.My Summer of Southern Discomfort
48.Elements of Style
49.Hotel Du Lac
50.Do Not Disturb
51. The Host
52.One Dangerous Lady
53. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
54.The Perfect Mahattan
55. Rat Pack Confidential
56. Over Her Dead Body
57. Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes
58. Your Oasis on Flame Lake
59. Murder With Peacocks
60. Carpe Demon
61. Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
62. The New Yorkers
63. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
64. On Beauty
65. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
66. Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime
67. Piece of my Heart
68. Silk
69. Theft: a love story
70. In Defense of Food
71. The Tea Rose
72. The Art of Undressing
73. The Stupidest Angel
74. Fashionably Late
75. Stop Dressing Your 6-Year-Old Like a Skank
76. 'Tis the Season
77. Water for Elephants

Children's and Young Adult

1. Beastly
2. Blue Bloods
3. The The Poison Apples
4. Twisted
5. Beige
6. A Great and Terrible Beauty
7. Looking for Alaska
8. The Black Sheep
9. Naomi and Ely's No-Kiss List
10.The Luxe
11.Magyk
12. The Tail of Emily Windsnap
13. One of those hideous books where the mother dies
14. Tantalize
15. Stormbreaker
16. Odd Man Out
17. Lock and Key
18. Derby Girl
19.Princess Academy
20. Suite Scarlett
21.21 Proms
22.Marked
23.Mistik Lake
24. Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
25.Stop in the Name of Pants!
26. Rumors: a Luxe novel
27. The Secret of the Mansion
28.Eighth Grade Bites
29. Gregor the Overlander
30.Fairest
31.Indie Girl
32.10 Things to do Before I Die
33. Breaking Dawn
34. Aurelia
35. Artichoke's Heart
36. 13 Reasons Why
37. The Willoughbys
38. Top 10 Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
39. Private Peaceful
40. The Angel Experiment
41. Fancy White Trash
42. Breakfast at Bloomingdale's
43. Star-Crossed