BookList 2008

I've been meaning, for quite a while now, to post the list of books I've been reading. For some reason at the start of the year I decided to keep a list of all the book I read this year, by month. So- now that we're nearly at the halfway point of the year and I have a bit of spare time- here goes:

January

***Mammoth, John Varley
****Lucky You, Carl Hiaasen
*****The Android’s Dream, Jon Scalzi
****Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure, Dave Gorman
****A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
***The Alphabet of Manliness, Maddox
*****Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
***Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
****Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
****Sabriel, Garth Nix
*****The Used World, Haven Kimmel
****Boogers Are My Beat, Dave Barry

February

****Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
****Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
***Boomsday, Christopher Buckley
***Piece of Work, Laura Zigman
****N-Space, Larry Niven
*****Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
****No Way to Treat a First Lady, Christopher Buckley
***Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Macguire
****Wickett’s Remedy, Myla Goldberg
***Ten Thousand Islands, Randy Wayne White

March

****Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
***Out To Pasture, Effie Leland Wilder
****Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells
****Quite a Year for Plums, Bailey White
*****The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, Lauren Willig
***The Children, Edith Wharton
*****Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew
***The Top 10 Myths About Evolution, Cameron M. Smith & Charles Sullivan
**What We Don’t Know About Children, Simona Vinci
***Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood
***Plainsong, Kent Haruf
*****The Sweet Potato Queens’ 1st Big-Ass Novel, Jill Conner Browne
***The Hawks of Delamere, Edwards Marston
*****Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
*****Elantris, Brendon Sanderson

April

***Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
*****The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth, Paul Hoffman
****Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norell, Susanna Clarke
*****Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

May

*****The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Yann Martel
*****King Dork, Frank Portman
****Beka Cooper: Terrier, Tamora Pierce
***After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away, Joyce Carol Oates
***The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
****Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, Phyllis Diller
***Insanity, Illinois, Mark Sumner
*****CancerVixen, Marisa Acocella Marchetto

I'm really happy with the diversity this list shows, and while I've gotten busy with work a couple of times and let my reading lapse, I nonetheless am enojoying the leisure time that it takes to read something like Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norell, now that I have graduated.