britbrit 2008 books....

Read thus far:

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Atonement
Orlando
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
And the Band Played On
What is the What
Bikram Yoga
The Corrections
Ham on Rye: A Novel
In Cold Blood
Killing Pablo
The Little Friend
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Crime and Punishment
The Second Sex
Naked Lunch
The Idiot

I loved Crime and Punishment. I haven't seen many people posting it recently. A great read and very thought provoking! Good luck!

I really enjoyed it - my first Dostoevsky - led me to The Idiot, which I liked even more!

#18 - The Awakening

I love The Awakening as well! So good. Good choice of books!

Well, I don't know whether to recommend this or not since I loved The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but hate (I'm not exaggerating) The Awakening. Still, just in case, have you read anything by Kazuo Ishiguro? Based on the book choices you've got up there that I've read, I'd strongly recommend his Remains of the Day...I think lol. Let me know if you try it, and good reading...

I though The Awakening was a little better than mediocre...quite short and nothing seemed to materialize correctly. I don't like the way she half-heartedly committed suicide in the end. It needed more time for development.
I read The Unconsoled by Ishiguro, which I did like. I will definitely put Remains of the Day on my list...thanks!

#19 - Home Girl (Judith Matloff) - Early Reviewer book

#20 - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)

#21 - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)

#22 - The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet)

#23 - Snuff (Chuck Palahniuk)

Did you like Snuff? I love Chuck Palahniuk and have this on my wishlist.

Snuff is incredible - if you like Chuck Palahniuk's style, this is the epitome...it's quite twisted and perverted and has the usual cast of characters that seem quite demented but in reality very everday. I loved it. Although, I felt odd reading about a pornstar's quest to be with 600 men while at work.

#24 - Jacob's Room (Virginia Woolf)

#25 - Mortified (David Nadelberg)

# 26 - The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)

# 27 - The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet (Daniel J. Solove)

#28 - After Hours at the Almost Home (Tara Yellen)

#29 - Law School Confidential (Robert H. Miller)

#30 - Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World (Bob and Jenna Torres)

#31 - Making Your Case (Antonin Scalia)

# 32 - All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)

#33 - Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

#34 - Working (Studs Terkel)

#35 - Careers in International Law (Salli Swartz)

#36 - Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

I just watched him give a speech on C-SPAN at a conference of judges. Some very funny stuff. Did you find the book humorous?

Do you mean Studs Terkel?? He is amazing - this is the first book I read by him and I loved it. VERy funny, very emotional, so well put together.

#37 - Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)

#38 - The Faces of Justice: A Traveller's Report (Sybille Bedford)

#39 - Blonde: A Novel (Joyce Carol Oates)

#40 - Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)

#41 - How to be alone: Essays (Jonathon Franzen)

#42 - Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Short Stories (Truman Capote)

#43 - Queen of the Road (Doreen Orion)

#44 - Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination (Steve Molo and James Figliulo)

#45 - A Civil Action (Jonathon Harr)

#46 - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Chuck Palahniuk)

#47 - Marley and Me (John Grogan)

#48 - Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (Geoffrey Robertson)

#49 - Civil Procedure (Stephen Yeazell)

#50 - Cases and Materials on Torts (William Lloyd Prosser)

#51 - Property (Valerie Martin)