Favorite Books 2008

TITLE	AUTHOR
Half of a Yellow Sun	Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Purple Hibiscus	Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Hakawati, The	Alameddine, Rabih
Lost City Radio	Alarcon, Daniel
Poisoned Season, A	Alexander, Tasha
Downstage Dead	Amberhill, Bevan
Blood of Flowers, The	Amirrezvani, Anita
Babylon’s Ark	Anthony, Lawrence
Prisoner of Birth, A	Archer, Jeffrey
Summoning, The	Armstrong, Kelley
Thirteen Reasons Why	Asher, Jay
Persuasion	Austin, Jane
Sharp Teeth	Barlow, Toby
Arthur and George	Barnes, Julian
Squashed	Bauer, Joan
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read	Bayard, Pierre
Long Way Gone, A	Beah, Ishmael
City of Thieves	Benioff, David
Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The	Birdsall, Jeanne
Skeletons at the Feast	Bohjalian, Chris
Sacrifice	Bolton, S.J.
Nancy Book, The	Brainard, Joe
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature	Brande, Robin
March	Brooks, Geraldine
People of the Book	Brooks, Geraldine
Kings English, The	Burton, Betsy
Small Favor	Butcher, Jim
Graceling	Cashore, Kristen
Last Campaign, The	Clarke, Thurston
Waiting for Normal	Connor, Leslie
Diamonds in the Shadow	Cooney, Caroline B
Publicity’s Secret	Dean, Jodi
Great Joy	Di Camillo, Kate
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The	Di Camillo, Kate
Red Tent, The	Diamant, Anita
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The	Diaz, Junot
Little Brother	Doctorow, Cory
Four Seasons in Rome	Doerr, Anthony
Cornbread Gospels, The	Dragonwagon, Crescent
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters	Dunn, Mark
Blue Star, The	Earley, Tony
19th Wife, The	Eberhoff, David
This Republic of Suffering	Faust, Gilpin
Wrath of a Mad God	Feist, Raymond E
Between the Bridge and the River	Ferguson, Craig
Finding Nouf	Ferraris, Zoe
Forever War, The	Filkins, Dexter
Ruins of Gorlan, The	Flanagan, John
Wrecking Crew	Frank, Thomas
Mistress of the Art of Death	Franklin, Ariana
In the Woods	French, Tana
Inkdeath	Funke, Cornelia
Graveyard Book, The	Gaiman, Neil
Interworld	Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere	Gaiman, Neil
Careless in Red	George, Elizabeth
Life in a Medieval {Castle, City, Village} collection	Gies, Frances and Joseph
Eat, Pray, Love	Gilbert, Elizabeth
Primal Leadership	Goleman, Daniel
Confessor	Goodkind, Terry
Rock and Roll Never Forgets	Grabien, Deborah
Map of Ireland: A Novel	Grant, Stephanie
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel	Grass, Gunter
Water for Elephants	Gruen, Sara
Accidental Time Machine, The	Haldeman, Joe
Camel Bookmobile	Hamilton, Masha
Shug	Han, Jenny
Oblivion Society, The	Hart, Marcus Alexander
Plainsong	Haruf, Kent
Third Angel, The	Hoffman, Alice
Loving Frank	Horan, Nancy
Sorrows of an American, The	Hustvedt, Siri
Parasyte vol. 1	Iwaaki, Hitoshi
Year of Living Biblically, The	Jacobs, A.J.
Age of American Unreason	Jacoby, Susan
Mudbound	Jordan, Hillary
Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation	Judson, Olivia
Heretic’s Daughter	Kent, Kathleen
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle	Kingsolver, Barbara
Gert Garibaldi’s Rants and Raves	Kizer, Amber
My Most Excellent Year	Kluger, Steve
Crisis of Islam, The	Lewis, Bernard
Forget Me Not: A Memoir	Lowe-Anker, Jennifer
Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures In Japan	Major-Steinberger, Aimee
Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter	Manseau, Peter
Lone Star Stories Reader, The	Marin, Eric T.
Tomorrow series	Marsden, John
Blood Meridian	McCarthy, Cormac
Group, The	McCarthy, Mary
On Chesil Beach	McEwan, Ian
Darker Side	McFadyen, Cody
Birth House, The	McKay, Ami
Red Land, Black Land	Mertz, Dr. Barbara
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs	Mertz, Dr. Barbara
Dark Reflections Trilogy	Meyer, Kai
Breaking Dawn	Meyer, Stephanie
Host, The	Meyer, Stephanie
Three Cups of Tea	Mortenson, Greg
Labyrinth	Mosse, Kate
Dewey	Myron, Vicki
Audacity of Hope, The	Obama, Barack
Harriet and Isabella	O’Brien, Patricia
City Dog	Pace, Alison
Higher Power of Lucky	Patron, Susan
Last Lecture, The	Pausch, Randy
Life As We Knew It	Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Gods Behaving Badly	Philips, Marie
City of Refuge	Piazza, Tom
In Defense of Food	Pollan, Michael
America, 1908	Rasenberger, Jim
Unthinkable, The	Ripley, Amanda
Devil’s Cape	Rogers, Rob
Wolf Totem	Rong, Jiang
Name of the Wind, The	Rothfuss, Patrick
El Juego del Angel	Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
Shadow of the Wind, The	Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
Cast in Fury	Sagara, Michelle
Hunter’s Prayer	Saintcrow, Lilith
Night Shift	Saintcrow, Lilith
White Mary, The	Salak, Kira
Ghost Brigades, The	Scalzi, John
Old Man’s War	Scalzi, John
Wednesday Wars, The	Schmidt, Gary D.
When You Are Engulfed In Flames	Sedaris, David
Thirteenth Tale, The	Setterfield, Diane
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , The	Shaffer, Mary Ann
Girl from Foreign, The	Shepard, Sadia
Pretty Little Liars (Book 1)	Shepard, Sara
Accidental Goddess, An	Sinclair, Linnea
Child 44	Smith, Tom Rob
On Beauty	Smith, Zadie
All Mortal Flesh	Spencer-Fleming, Julia
Art of Racing in the Rain, The	Stein, Garth
Dies the Fire (and sequels)	Stirling, S.M.
Perfect Waiter, A	Sulzer, Alain Claude
Good Thief, The	Tinti, Hannah
Fatal Forecast	Tougias, Michael
Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick	Uglow, Jenny
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History	Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster series	Urasawa, Naoki
Traffic	Vanderbilt, Tom
Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned	Vaughan, Brian K
Speed and Politics	Virilio, Paul
Book of the Dun Cow, The	Wangerin, Walter
Certain Girls	Weiner, Jennifer
Uglies series	Westerfeld, Scott
Librarian of Basra, The	Winter, Jeannette
Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The	Wroblewski, David
Millicent Min, Girl Genius	Yee, Lisa
Story of a Girl	Zarr, Sara
Book Thief, The	Zusak, Markus