Book List 2008

Because I don't have anywhere else to post it, and most of the books I read in 2008 were for school anyway, I am presenting my list of everything read in 2008 here. It's marginally school related. The goal was 80, not so much just to have that number, but to push myself to read more. In short, it didn't happen. I was on pace through May, but read very little throughout the rest of the year. Most of my classes in the fall only used parts of books, so I couldn't add them to the list by my standards (must finish the entire book, no re-reads).

1) Postcards from Ed: Dispatches And Salvos from an American Iconoclast – Edward Abbey

2) Everest: Summit of Achievement – Stephen Venables

3) Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

4) Amulet – Roberto Bolano

5) Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl

6) Ship of Fools – Katherine Anne Porter

7) The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

8) The Age of Reason – Thomas Paine

9) Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York – Kathy Peiss

10) The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

11) The Book of Daniel – E. L. Doctorow

12) The Plague – Albert Camus

13) The Buddha in the Robot: A Robot Engineer’s Thoughts on Science and Religion – Masahiro Mori

14) Good as Gold – Joseph Heller

15) The Embezzler – Louis Auchincloss

16) When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold S. Kushner

17) Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

18) Goodbye, Columbus – Philip Roth

19) The Future of an Illusion – Sigmund Freud

20) Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut

21) Herzog – Saul Bellow

22) A Rumor of War – Philip Caputo

23) Lamb – Christopher Moore

24) The Stranger – Albert Camus

25) Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories – Saul Bellow

26) Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

27) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan

28) Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise – Willa Appel

29) Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture – Taylor Clark

30) The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells

31) Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

32) Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations… One School at a Time – Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

33) The Serpent and the Rainbow – Wade Davis

34) Coffee: A Dark History – Antony Wild

35) Best Evidence – Michael Schmicker

36) Word Freak – Stefan Fastis

37) Ramayana - retold by William Buck

38) The Life of God (As Told by Himself) – Franco Ferrucci

39) Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior – Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

40) Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther

41) Bhagavad-Gita – translated by Barbara Stoler Miller

42) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian – Kurt Vonnegut

43) The Know-It-All – A. J. Jacobs

44) Numbers in the Dark – Italo Calvino