I'm posting the list here for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason is that posting it to my blog almost guarantees that I'll never lose or misplace it. Less important reasons include my hope that I'll introduce you to a book or two that you come to love. Maybe if I'm lucky, you'll be able to give me a few recommendations based on my favorites/reading patterns.
A few notes: This list is almost in chronological order. Books in bold indicate favorites - the ones that linger in my mind still for reasons I'm not quite often able to discern. Asterisked books indicate that they are re-reads. Finally, partially unread books (even if I nearly finished the damn thing) make no appearance on this list.
Reading Habits of 2008
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut*
- A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
- Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M. Twenge
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
- Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Nine Stories by JD Salinger
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Film Club by David Gilmour
- Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney
- Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
- The Dice Man by Luke Reinhart
- Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
- For One More Day by Mitch Albom
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- About a Boy by Nick Hornby
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Giver by Lois Lowry*
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- Messenger by Lois Lowry
- Improvise by Mick Napier
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
- Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
- Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
- An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Winkie by Clifford Chase
- Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
- The Mist by Stephen King
- Mr. Monk Goes to Germany by Lee Goldberg
- More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells*
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
- Free Range Chickens by Simon Rich
- Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess