Reading Record 2008

Yes, this entry shall be a list of books I've read this year, in the style of previous reading record posts that I have known and loved, such as the mighty 2006 one and the sturdy, sterling 2007 one. Wholly uninteresting to anyone but me.

So let me begin:

Mort / Terry Pratchett - re-read
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
Night Watch / Sarah Waters
Blue Shoes & Happiness / Alexander McCall Smith
Oryx & Crake / Margaret Atwood
The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus / Harry Harrison
Moll Flanders / Daniel DeFoe

November
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone / JK Rowling (to children)
Flat Earth News / Nick Davies
A Life Stripped Bare: my year trying to live ethically / Leo Hickman
War & Peace / Leo Tolstoy

October
Bad Science /Ben Goldacre
Kissing Christmas Goodbye (Agatha Raisin) /MC Beaton
Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Bill Bryson
The Rottweiler / Ruth Rendell (abandoned)
Six Feet Over / Mary Roach

September
The Parasites / Daphne Du Maurier
Loamhedge / Brian Jacques - abandoned
Nation / Terry Pratchett
Trace / Patricia Cornwell
Maskerade / Terry Pratchett - re-read
The Scapegoat / Daphne Du Maurier

August
Stig of the Dump / Clive King (to children)
Sex Drugs and DNA / Michael Stebbins
Labyrinth / Kate Mosse - abandoned
Affluenza / Oliver James - first half
The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Boy A / Jonathan Trigell
The Minotaur / Barbara Vine

July
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Missing Pieces / Joy Fielding
Eagle Strike / Anthony Horowitz
Witches Druids and King Arthur / Ronald Hutton
City of Darkness, City of Light / Marge Piercy

June
A Treasury of Mark Twain / Mark Twain
First Meetings: In the Enderverse / Orson Scott Card
Rebecca / Daphne Du Maurier (re-read)

April
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen (re-read)
Around the World in 80 Days / Jules Verne
Mansfield Park / Jane Austen
Letter to A Christian Nation / Sam Harris
Why People Believe Weird Things / Michael Shermer
A Bad Beginning / Lemony Snickett (to children)

March
Skeleton Key / Anthony Horowitz
Stormbreaker / Anthony Horowitz
A Year of Living Biblically / AJ Jacobs
Small Gods / Terry Pratchett (re-read)
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
Matilda / Roald Dahl (to children)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov

February
The Penelopiad / Margaret Atwood
Stranger in a Strange Land / Robert A Heinlein
Tersias / GP Taylor
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive / Alexander McCall Smith
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies / Alexander McCall Smith
Carpe Jugulum / Terry Pratchett re-read

January
Meridian / Alice Walker
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory / Roald Dahl (to children)
Dark Room / Minette Walters
Blood and Honour / Simon Green
Wise Woman / Philippa Gregory
Just So Stories / Rudyard Kipling (to children, somewhat amended by me) re-read
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Bronte