Books read in 2008

Books read from 1st Feb, when I started keeping track, to 31st December.

Books from the 1001 list in blue - 29 this year.
Books from The Big Read highlighted in yellow - 18 this year.

Total read = 141

December: 22
Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker
Far from the madding crowd - Thomas Hardy
The private lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyers
New Moon - Stephenie Meyers
Twilight - Stephenie Meyers
An ice cold grave - Charlaine Harris
The God of small things - Arundhati Roy
Unless - Carol Shields
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Accidental - Ali Smith
I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
Murder must advertise - Dorothy L Sayers
The call of the wild - Jack London
Danny the champion of the world
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Charlie and the chocolate factory - Roald Dahl
Abarat, Days of magic, Nights of war - Clive Barker
Abarat - Clive Barker
Double act - Jacqueline Wilson
Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson
White fang - Jack London

November: 15
Checkmate - Malorie Blackman
Knife edge - Malorie Blackman
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The almost moon - Alice Sebold
One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A lick of Frost - Laurell K Hamilton
The Magic Lands - Mark Hockley
The Maltese falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The blind assassin - Margaret Atwood
James and the giant peach - Roald Dahl
Human croquet - Kate Atkinson
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Shakespeare's Christmas - Charlaine Harris
The turn of the screw - Henry James
Skin privilege - Karin Slaughter

October: 15
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Golden
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Cold comfort farm - Stella Gibbons
Lady Chatterley's lover - D. H. Lawrence
Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
A small part of me - Noelle Harrison
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kiss - Jill Mansell
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The house at Riverton - Kate Morton
Smoke and shadows - Tanya Huff

September: 13
The fall of the house of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
The pit and the pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe
The purloined letter - Edgar Allen Poe
The first assistant - Clare Naylor
Duma Key - Stephen King
Recipes for a perfect marriage - Kate Kerrigan
Bitter sweets - Roopa Farooki
Crazy as chocolate - Elisabeth Hyde
The adultery club - Tess Stimson
Mansfield park - Jane Austen
Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen
The ten thousand - Paul Kearney
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

August: 14
The end of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
First among sequels - Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten (re-read) - Jasper Fforde
The well of lost plots (re-read) - Jasper Fforde
Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
Lost in a good book (re-read) - Jasper Fforde
The Eyre affair (re-read) - Jasper Fforde
The wedding officer - Anthony Capella
Light as a feather - Helen Dunne
Nothing to fear - Karen Rose
Miranda's big mistake - Jill Mansell
Nadia knows best - Jill Mansell
A certain slant of light - Laura Whitcomb
The Sweet Potato Queen's book of love - Jill Connor Browne

July: 10
The last templar - Raymond Khoury
Dead man rising - Lilith Saintcrow
Second chance - Jane Green
Addition - Toni Jordan
Embrace the night - Karen Chance
Final theory - Mark Alpert
Sleeping with the fishes - Mary Janice Davidson
Don't you want me? - India Knight
A tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
No time for goodbye - Linwood Barclay

June: 14
Shakespeare's counselor - Charlaine Harris
Shakespeare's trollop - Charlaine Harris
Shakespeare's champion - Charlaine Harris
Shakespeare's Landlord - Charlaine Harris
The prince and the pauper - Mark Twain
All together dead - Charlaine Harris
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (re-read)
On the edge: My story - Richard Hammond
Blood bank - Tanya Huff
Undead and uneasy - Mary Janice Davidson
Dead heat - Dick Francis
Die for me - Karen Rose
Blind faith - Ben Elton
The steep approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks

May: 9
Dead as a doornail - Charlaine Harris
The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini
Nineteen minutes - Jodi Picoult
Stolen - Kelley Armstrong
Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
Bad luck and trouble - Lee Child
Suffer the little children - Donna Leon
Beneath the bleeding - Val McDermid
The lighthouse - P. D. James

April: 11
Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre
Going Dutch - Katie Fforde
The good guy - Dean Koontz
Mercy - Jodi Picoult
Snow blind - P. J. Tracy
Don't tell mum I work on the rigs - Paul Carter
The chocolate lovers' diet - Carole Matthews
The fourth bear - Jasper Fforde
Shopaholic and baby - Sophie Kinsella
Fatal Revenant: Last chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson
The runes of the earth: Last chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson

March: 6
White gold wielder: Second chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson
The one tree: Second chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson
The wounded land - Second chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson
The power that preserves - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson
Mistral's kiss - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Illearth war: Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson

February: 12
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
Lord Foul's bane: Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (re-read) - Stephen Donaldson
The mathematics of love - Emma Darwin
The ninth circle - Alex Bell
Spies - Michael Frayn
The last sunrise - Robert Ryan
The Pinochio syndrome - David Zeman
Would you? - Deanna Kizis
The flirt - Kathleen Tessaro
Start from here - Sean French
Footprints in the sand - Sarah Challis
Cassandra French's finishing school for boys - Eric Garcia