Read 2008


01. Shelf Monkey (2007) - Corey Redekop***
02. Theft (2006) - Peter Carey***
03. A Man without a Country (2005) - Kurt Vonnegut
04. The Audacity of Hope (2006) - Barack Obama
--- (abandoned) Printer's Devil, Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution (2006) - Bruce Michelson
05. The Book of Evidence (1989) - John Banville***
--- (abandoned) Twilight of the Superheroes (2006) - Deborah Eisenberg*
06. Gonzo, The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (2007) - Jann Wenner & Corey Seymour
07. Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business (2007) - David Mamet
08. Why Not Catch-21?, The Stories Behind the Titles (2007) - Gary Dexter
---(abandoned) Little (1995) - David Treuer
---(abandoned) Girlfriend in a Coma (1998) - Douglas Coupland
09. All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy****
10. The Broken Estate (1999) - James Wood
11. Creationists, Selected Essays, 1993-2006 (2006) - E. L. Doctorow
12. Chronicles, volume one (2004) - Bob Dylan
13. The Gum Thief (2007) - Douglas Coupland***
14. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Booth Tarkington***
15. In The Cut (1995) - Susanna Moore*
16. On Writing (2000) - Stephen King
17. Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) - Paul Auster**
18. Regeneration (1991) - Pat Barker**
19. Reading Comics (2007) - Douglas Wolk
20. Disgrace (1999) - J.M. Coetzee*
21. Cary Grant (2004) - Marc Eliot
---(abandoned) Money (1984) - Martin Amis*
22. Property (2003) - Valerie Martin**
23. Psychogeography (2007) - Will Self and Ralph Steadman
24. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II (2007)
25. My Bass and Other Animals (2007) - Guy Pratt
26. The Sea (2005) - John Banville**
27. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore****
28. The Solitudes (1987) - John Crowley**
29. Traveling Music, The Soundtrack to My Life and Times (2004) - Neil Peart
30. David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre (2008) - Ira Nadel
---(abandoned) Tree of Smoke (2007) - Denis Johnson*
31. No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) - Miranda July**
32. The City of Falling Angels (2005) - John Berendt
---(abandoned) Scar Lover (1992) - Harry Crews*
33. The Kitchen Readings, Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson (2008) - Michael Cleverly & Bob Braudis
34. The World Without Us (2007) - Alan Weisman
---(abandoned) Oscar and Lucinda (1988) - Peter Carey*
35. Animal Liberation (1975) - Peter Singer
--- (abandoned) The Braindead Megaphone (2007) - George Saunders
36. Amsterdam (1998) - Ian McEwan***
37. The Night in Question (1996) - Tobias Wolff****
38. Papillion (1969) - Henri Charriére
39. When Blanche Met Brando, The Scandalous Story of A Streetcar Named Desire (2005) - Sam Staggs
--- (abandoned) The Moviegoer (1960) - Walker Percy*
40. Death at Intervals (2005) - Josè Saramago****
41. The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) - Grace Paley****
--- (abandoned) To See Every Bird on Earth (2005) - Dan Koeppel
42. Plays: 1 (1994) - David Mamet****
43. Wally's World, The Brilliant Life & Tragic Death of the World's 2nd Best Comic Book Artist (2006) - Steve Starger & J. David Spurlock
44. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006) - Jimmy Carter
45. Paul Newman (2004) - Daniel O'Brien
46. Christopher Walken A to Z (2008) - Robert Schnakenberg
47. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2008) - Haruki Murakami
48. Psycho (1959) - Robert Bloch***
49. Fidelity (2008) - Grace Paley***
50. A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) - Haruki Murakami*****
51. Man in the Dark (2008) - Paul Auster*
52. Once Around the Bloch (1993) - Robert Bloch
53. How Fiction Works (2008) - James Wood
54. Snuff (2008) - Chuck Palahniuk*
55. Philip Glass: A Portrait (2002) - Robert Maycock
56. Dear Boris, The Life of William Pratt aka Boris Karloff (1975) - Cynthia Lindsay
57. Harlan Ellison, The Edge of Forever (2002) - Ellen Weil Gary K. Wolfe
58. Out of My Mind (2006) - Andy Rooney
--- (abandoned) Nights at the Circus (1986) - Angela Carter*
59. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, The Letters of Richard Feynman (2005) - ed. Michelle Feynman
60. Hot Plastic (2004) - Peter Craig***
61. Ascending Peculiarity, Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey (2001) - ed. Karen Wilkin
62. Blue Meridian (1971) - Peter Matthiessen
63. Housekeeping (1980) - Marilynne Robinson*****
64. The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair (2004) - George Plimpton
65. Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) - Oliver Sacks
66. Three to Kill (1976) - Jean-Patrick Manchette***
67. The Pickwick Papers (1837) - Charles Dickens***
68. Willful Creatures (2005) - Aimee Bender****
69. Monster of God (2003) - David Quammen
70. Complete Poems (1983) - Elizabeth Bishop*****
71. Collected Stories, Volume Two (2005) - Richard Matheson***
72. My Name Escapes Me (1996) - Alec Guinness



*=suck
**='yeah-ok'
***=not bad, could have been better.
****=well done, a fine book
*****=excellent (rare)

Titles in italics are non-fiction
Books intended for children also are unrated.
Underlined denotes it as a re-read.
All "suck" books will be taunted with fire but then released with Bookcrossing


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