Books Read in 2008
1. “You’re Not You” by Michelle Wildgen
2. “Paint It Black” by Janet Fitch
3. “Fairest” by Gail Carson Levine (Mother/Daughter Book Club)
4. “Cell” by Stephen King
5. “Embers” by Sandor Marai
6. “Divisadero” by Michael Ondaatje
7. “Her Last Death” by Susanna Sonnenberg
8. “The Ghost of Cutler Creek” by Cynthia DeFelice (Mother/Daughter Book Club)
9. “Bang Crunch” stories by Neil Smith
10. “Rabbit Punches” stories by Jason Ockert
11. “The Soul Thief” by Charles Baxter
12. “What You Have Left” by Will Allison
13. “The Pesthouse” by Jim Crace
14. “Exit Ghost” by Philip Roth
15. “Candy Girl” by Diablo Cody
16. “The Best Day the Worst day” by Donald Hall
17. “My Lost and Found Life” by Medodie Bowsher
18. “The End of the World As We Know It” by Robert Goolrick
19. “Write is a Verb” by Bill O’Hanlon
20. “The Liar’s Diary” by Patry Francis
21. “No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy
22. “Wintering- A Novel of Sylvia Plath” by Kate Moses
23. “The Last Chicken in America” a novel in stories by Ellen Litman
24. “Olive Kitteridge” a novel in stories by Elizabeth Strout
25. “The Fiction Class” a novel by Susan Breen
25. “The Book of Dahlia” a novel by Elisa Albert
26. “World Made By Hand” a novel by James Howard Kunstler
27. “Up High in the Trees” a novel by Kiara Brinkman
28. “The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives your Fiction” by Lisa Lenard-Cook
29. “Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave” edited by Ellen Sussman
30. “Ron Carlson Writes a Story” by Ron Carlson (re-read)
31. “So B. It” young adult novel by Sarah Weeks (Mother/Daughter book club)
32. “Unaccustomed Earth” stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
33. “The Untelling” a novel by Tayari Jones
34. “God is Dead” fiction by Ron Currie, Jr.
35. “Red Ant House” stories by Ann Cummins
36. “The Dead and the Gone” Susan Beth Pfeffer
37. “A Peculiar Grace” a novel by Jeffrey Lent
38. “Dancing After Hours” stories by Andre Dubus
39. “Stop that Girl” fiction by Elizabeth McKenzie
40. “Comfort- A Journey Through Grief” a memoir by Ann Hood
41. “Georgia Under Water” stories by Heather Sellers
42. “How the Light Gets In” a novel by M.J. Hyland
43. “The Doctor’s Daughter” a novel by Hilma Wolitzer
44. “Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper” by Sark
45. “The Diamond of Darkhold” a novel by Jeanne duPrau
46. “Ms. Hempel Chronicles” a novel by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
47. “The Abstinence Teacher” a novel by Tom Perotta
48. “Keeping Score” a young adult novel by Linda Sue Park
49. “The Boat” stories by Nam Lee
50. “The Ten Year Nap” a novel by Meg Wolitzer (her mother wrote #43 on my list)
51. “The Cry of the Dove” a novel by Fadia Faqir
52. “The Story of Forgetting” a novel by Stefan Merrill Block
53. “Man in the Dark” a novel by Paul Auster
54. “Not Buying It- My Year Without Shopping” by Judith Levine
55. “Prescription for a Superior Existence” a novel by Josh Emmons
56. “More Than It Hurts You” a novel by Darin Strauss
57. “Breakfast of Champions” a novel by Kurt Vonnegut
58. “Iodine” a novel by Haven Kimmel
59. “The Sory of Edgar Sawtelle” a novel by David Wroblewski
60. “The Penderwicks on Gardam Street” a YA novel by Jeanne Birdsall
61. “The Year of Fog” a novel by Michelle Richmond
62. “A Better Angel” stories by Chris Adrian
63. “Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him” a novel by Danielle Ganek
