2008 in review: books read

Taken from my LiveJournal...

I was going to somehow mark those books that would be considered juvenile fiction, or YA, or under a certain number of pages, but that makes this far more complicated than I really need it to be. In addition to the full-length books listed, I read a slew of short stories and poems for school, plus a reader full of academic articles compiled by one of my professors; I'll probably enter the syllabus for each class at some point to complete the year's reading.

Here is... The List.

HP= Harry Potter
* = Re-read

*HP1
*HP2
*HP3
*HP4
*HP5
*HP6
*HP7
War of Gifts
*Stone Butch Blues
Good Omens
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
*Little House in the Big Woods
*Little House on the Prairie
*Remember Me to Harold Square
Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them
Battle Royale
*The Importance of Being Earnest
*The Westing Game
*The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
*The Witches
George's Marvelous Medicine
*A Wrinkle in Time
The Twits
*A Wind in the Door
*A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Nineteen Minutes
*Many Waters
Firefly Lane
*Anastasia Krupnik
Judy Moody
*Magic's Pawn
*Magic's Promise
*Magic's Price
*Arrows of the Queen
*Arrow's Flight
*Arrow's Fall
The Devil Wears Prada
Twilight
New Moon
Phule's Company
Eclipse
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Amulet of Samarkand
*This Place has No Atmosphere
Breaking Dawn
The Golem's Eye
Ptolemy's Gate
*The Reluctant God
Emma
Winds of Fate
Winds of Change
Winds of Fury
Sula
Fablehaven
To the Lighthouse
The Mysterious Benedict Society
*Twilight
*New Moon
*Eclipse
*Breaking Dawn
Ender in Exile
Beedle the Bard
*Anastasia Again
*HP1
*HP2

Hmm, not sure why some of the touchstones aren't working, but anyway...

Anyone else have a list to share? Cuz yanno, my TBR list of about 300 titles isn't quite daunting enough...

I didn't keep track of all of the book I read but here is what I can pull off the top of my head:

Blue Bloods
Masquerade
Revelations
It
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
Extras
1st to die
2nd chance
3rd degree
4th of july
5th horseman
6th target
7th heaven
Postmortem
Body of Evidence
All that Remains
Cruel and Unusual
The Body Farm
From Potter's Field
Cause of Death
Unnatural Exposure
Point Of Origin
Black Notice
The Last Precinct
Blow Fly
Trace
Predator
The Book of the Dead
Scarpetta
The Amulet of Samarkand
The Golem's Eye
Lightening
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
The Host
Harry Potter 1-7
Wicked Lovely
Ink Exchange
Dreamland
This Lullaby
Midnighter's Series By Scott Westerfeld
Thats all I can pull out right now.. if I discover more, I will add on.

This is what I read in 2008.

Holly Black: Ironside
Caprice Crane: Forget About It
Patrick Carman: The Dark Hills Divide, Beyond the Valley of Thorns, and The Tenth City
Melissa de la Cruz: Blue Bloods and Masquerade
Louise Rennison: Georgia Nicholson books 1-4
Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters
Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess and The Secret Garden
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart
Phillipa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies, Pretties, and Specials
Rachel Caine: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls' Dance, and Midnight Alley
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight (read twice), New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Host
C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian
Michael Middleditch: The New York Mapguide (5th edition)
Ginny Rorby: Hurt Go Happy
Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle
Ellen Wittlinger: Hard Love
Sean Stewart: Cathy's Book
Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity
Jane Elliot: The Little Prisoner
PC and Kristen Cast: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, and Untamed
Cinda Williams Chima: The Warrior Heir, The Wizard Heir, and The Dragon Heir
Christopher Paolini: Eragon and Eldest
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black: The Field Guide
Wendy Mass: A Mango-Shaped Space
Ibi Kaslik: Skinny
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele: The Enneagram Made Easy
J.K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Vicki Myron: Dewey
Lewis Carrol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Ms. Bella, did you get to Ptolemy's Gate? I struggled with The Golem's Eye but was so glad I made it through when I got to the last book; it was by far my favorite of the three. I plan to re-read them this year, if I ever get the first one back from the friend who borrowed it!

Kerian, I have so many of the books you read in '08 on my TBR list for '09! The Marked series, the Cinda Williams Chima books, Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr... I also own several other Philippa Gregory books I really need to read eventually; I've had them for ages.

Thanks! Now I only fear I read too many great series in 2008 that I won't have as many fantastic series for 2009. I like standalones and some of them are absolutely incredible but I always fall for books in a series. Series suggestions are always appreciated. :)

I really need to read some other books by Philippa Gregory, too. I have books one and three in my TBR pile. I would have read The Constant Princess first had I known sooner that that it takes place first.

Same here re: The Constant Princess, K.

Let's see... Series recommendations. Have you read any Mercedes Lackey? I can't guarantee that you'll like them, but I got hooked with Arrows of the Queen and have read a slew of her series since (nearly all trilogies, with a few standalone novels about pertinent supporting characters). The Magic Kingdom of Landover series was a lot of fun, too - Mare introduced me to that one last year. There's also this one about a boy wizard... Henry? Harold? Something... Will have to come back to it when I can think of the name...

:-P

I haven't read anything by her yet. I saw you read a lot by her this year! I'll have to look for those two. I have BM points just sitting there. Thanks! :)

The Arrows series and the Magic's Pawn series are my go-to books when I'm sick or feeling down. They get read at least every other year :)

Laia, no I didn't get to Ptolemy's gate, I am going to reread the series this year and get to it. After The Golem's eye I just had to take a break and I never got to it.

K, You should definately read the Vampire Academy Series. I loved it. I also recommend L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries Series. Yes, I am really into Vampires... and No lol... not just because of Twilight.

I have a whole list of books to get done this year. I am hoping to also get a few rereads in there. It Includes the Inkheart series, Eragon,Eldest, and Brisinger and I plan on going to the library tomorrow after my interview to pick up a few newer ones, that way I can get started on my Support your local library challenge, I will list those when I come home tomorrow.

I agree with the fact that no matter how huge my tbr pile is it isn't huge enough, I love adding new books.

The list is incomplete, but it's what I could remember. It's really fun to see what everyone has read, by the way! Great way to add to the ever-growing-always-too-tall TBR piles.

* = reread
*HP 1-7
*Twilight
*New Moon
*Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
(I think I read the first 3 twice this year, actually)
*Curse of the Bane
Night of the Soul-Stealer
*Revenge of the Witch
Attack of the Fiend
Tales of Beedle the Bard
Nicholas in Trouble
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan's Curse
The Witches
Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Ender's Game
The Host
The Warrior Heir
The Wizard Heir
The Dragon Heir
The Serpent Gift
The Shamer's War
The Shamer's Signet
Coraline
Half-Magic
The Eyre Affair
The Changeling by Delia Sherman
Brisingr
The Jumping-Off Place
Dewey
Inkdeath
*The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
A Curse as Dark as Gold
Guilty by Reason of Stupidity
Keturah and Lord Death
Victory of Eagles
My Name is Number Four
The Robe of Skulls
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
The Giver
*Winnie-the-Pooh
Song of the Giraffe
Early Bird
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Black Wave
Tell Me Where it Hurts
*The Bad Beginning
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
*Beauty by Bill Wallace
*Beast by Peter Benchley
*Trumpet of the Swan
*All Creatures Great and Small
*The Looking Glass Wars
Seeing Redd
*Nicholas by Rene Goscinny
*The Amulet of Samarkand

Maybe I reread too much ... nah!

Okay . . . I'm going to do this a little differently.

Here are the books I read in 2008 that I own.

Here are the books that I read in 2008 that I don't own.

The total comes to 227.

Of those 227, many were juvenile or YA novels, which partially explains how I could read so many. I did not count the picture books that I read -- since I do weekly story times, and read many of the new picture books as they come in, adding picture books to my count would have increased it by at least a couple hundred, I imagine.

Oddly enough, though not all of the books in my main catalog were rereads, and not all of the ones in my foggireads catalog were new reads, the proportions stay the same: 169 new reads, 58 rereads.

* Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard - J.K. Rowling
Three Minutes On Love - Roccie Hill
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
* A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
The Crimson Petal And The White - Michael Faber
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany - Bill Buford
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Lords & Ladies - Terry Pratchett
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
An Anthropologist On Mars - Oliver Sacks
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
* Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth - Grant Morrison
The Knife Thrower And Other Stories - Steven Millhauser
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Viriconium - M. John Harrison
20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
Sandman, Volume 5: A Game Of You - Neil Gaiman
Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed Of Destruction - Mike Mignola
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
* The Stand - Stephen King
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The Boys #9 - Garth Ennis
The Boys #8 - Garth Ennis
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The Book Of Lost Things - John Connolly
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
Needful Things - Stephen King
Invincible Iron Man #2 - Matt Fraction
The Cat With The Really Big Head And One Other Story That Isn't As Good - Roman Dirge
American Splendor: Our Movie Year - Harvey Pekar
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Mort - Terry Pratchett
The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell - William Blake
SPX 2003 Anthology - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Peace In Every Bite: A Vegan Cookbook - Two Moons
Neuromancer - William Gibson
* Watchmen - Alan Moore
Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
Iron Man Volume 1: Extremis - Warren Ellis
Invincible Iron Man #1 - Matt Fraction
Sweet And Low - Rich Cohen
Iron Man: Demon In A Bottle - David Michelinie
An Arsonist's Guide To Writer's Homes In New England - Brock Clarke
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Schwa Was Here - Neal Shusterman
The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
The Sandman, Volume 4: Season Of Mists - Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Hellblazer: Fear And Loathing - Garth Ennis
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
The Sandman, Volume 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
Vegan Express - Nava Atlas
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders - Neil Gaiman
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Gentlemen Of The Road - Michael Chabon

Okay, this is taken from my challenge thread. I deleted some repeats and this is actually all the books that I read from April onward. I'm sure I read books Jan.-Mar., but I was also busy getting fired and moving across country, so I'm not sure what they were.

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone on audio
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on audio
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club
Alive and Well in Prague, New York
The Other Boleyn Girl
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (audio)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
New Moon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (HE re-read)
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Sense and Sensibility (ebook)
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Dracula (ebook)
Jane Eyre (ebook)
The Boleyn Inheritance
Vanity Fair (ebook)
The Book Thief
Agnes Grey (ebook)
The Eyre Affair
Lean Mean Thirteen
Summer Blowout
Queen's Fool
Virgin's Lover
Breaking Dawn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Wuthering Heights (ebook)
Henry VIII: The King and his Court
British History for Dummies
Midnight Sun
Broad Street
People of the Book
The Blood of Flowers
America
The Poe Shadow
The Last Cato
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
A Rose by Any Other Name
Harry, A History

I read all those I tagged @2008 and I don't think I forgot to tag many, totals 130 so I'm not listing them all here! Some authors new to me many re-reads of old favourites, plus Curse of the Mistwraith read twice during the year, so I could have the details fresh when I aquire the sequel.

My list is here All the books I read, though the books I listened to from the library are not listed.

Wislist overkill. ;)

#9 Bella:
The Vampire Academy series is definitely on my wishlist. I read all of L.J. Smith's books when I was a teen, though. I used to have them, too, if it weren't for the stupid storage locker sell I didn't know about. I plan to reread Inkheart this year, too. I want to after I see the movie.

#10 lefty:
One LTer’s rereads become another LTer’s wishlist books. :) (I love that – I have to write it down somewhere. ;) I didn’t realize how many books Joseph Delaney has written! Revenge of the Witch is the one that’s in my TBR pile. Which series is your favorite? You’ve added to my wishlist, by the way!

#11 foggi:
I only got to 169 when I counted them. ;) Your first link isn’t showing anything for us. Is there a tag we could look for? I would love to see the list of books you read this last year that you own. :) My sister is going to be so happy! Looking through the books you read and don’t own has shown me Gathering Blue. My twenty-year old sister has been crazy about The Giver for the last ten years or so. She had six copies at one point and has always tried to get others to read it. (I read it six years ago.) Thanks for helping me find this for her! She has no idea there is more to it. Three books! *hugs*

#14 readingfox:
Your link also doesn’t list any books.

#16 re: #11 -- Odd. Well, if you search my catalog for books tagged 2008 you should get there. Otherwise, I guess you'll have to take my word for it! ;-)

I think there's a special way to link books in our libraries or else only the person whose library it is may view it. I can't remember what the trick to it is, though.

If y'all want to know what I read in 2008, I have a 2008 tag. It was 52 books total. I also wrote reviews of all of them.

I don't think I'll be tagging all my books this year. It was fun to do for a year, but I like to just read with no agenda. I found myself writing reviews in my head before I'd even finished the book.

#16 re #10 K, That's a great quote! You should write it down ... oh wait, it is written. Well remember that you said it then. ;) I've only read Delaney's The Last Apprentice series, which I love, love, love. There are currently 5 books in the series. Though I think there's another coming. And the series is called "The Spook's..." in the British editions (i.e. The Spook's Apprentice), so don't get confused if you start buying them.

#19 LG, I can understand wanting to go back to the basic joy of reading. I like to keep track, but it can make one go a little stat crazy sometimes.

I don't use LT tags to track my annual reading. Instead, I keep a reading journal by my bed. Bit old fashioned, I know, but I enjoy it! Here's my 2008 list, in order of books' start date.

Rebecca
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Captivating: Unveiling the Mysteries of a Woman's Soul
Healing Invisible Wounds
Doctored Evidence
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread
Parables and Passion
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
The Poisonwood Bible
Sacred Stacks
Emma
Strong Women, Soft Hearts
The Food of Love
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Life Together
The Geographer's Library
Take This Bread
Raney
Three Cups of Tea
Pompeii
What is the What
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (reread)
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith*
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
Garden Spells
The Girl With No Shadow
The Enchantress of Florence
Fahrenheit 451
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Sugar Queen
Run (touchstone to wrong book but I can't correct right now...one by Ann Patchett)
Twilight
Best Food Writing 2001*
The Historian
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Watch for the Light*
Crocodile on the Sandbank
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Silent in the Grave
The Lace Reader
Dewey (touchstone to wrong book but I can't correct right now...one about the library cat)
The Cellist of Saravejo

ETA: Starred books are ones either still in progress or unfinished because my max renewals at the library were met.

I can't remember all of them, but here's a general list (I'll keep updating as I remember):
*= reread
Breaking Dawn
Harry, A History
Tales of Beedle the Bard
Wicked
*Les Miserables
Notre-Dame de Paris
Alice in Wonderland
Twlight
Frostbite
New Moon
Eclipse
Audacity of Hope
Letter to a Christian Nation
*God Delusion
Charlie Bone and the Shadow
*Da Vinci Code (audio version)
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone( both audio version and 10 year anniversary edition)
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (audio)
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (audio)
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (audio)
*Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (audio)
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (audio)
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (audio)
Before You Leap
Everything You Know about God is Wrong
textbooks
and more to come

#20 lefty:
I'll have to remember, won't I? ;) Thanks for straightening that out! Now I'm thinking of Philosopher's Stone. :)