Books Read in 2008
Tuesday December 30, 2008 in books read 2008 | books
Here’s my complete list. Reading has unfortunately taken a backseat in this Singstar heavy seasonal period, although I have an ever growing list to tackle in January…
Fiction
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian)
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Man’s Best Friend)
- The Girl at the Lion d’Or by Sebastian Faulks (Between the Wars)
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Forgetting Cold Mountain)
- Skin Lane by Nigel Bartlett (Living in the Past)
- The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
- Day by A.L. Kennedy
- The Book of Dave by Will Self (Screaming at the Future)
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (The Drowned World)
- Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (Spirited Away)
- The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel
- A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières (Louis Lite)
- Remainder by Tom McCarthy (Remainder)
- Slam by Nick Hornby (Slam)
- The Dream Lover by William Boyd
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Gold by Dan Rhodes (Gold)
- Then we Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (End Game)
- What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (What Was Lost)
- Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Devil May Care)
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (Help, I’m a Fish)
- Born Yesterday by Gordon Burn (Yesterday’s News)
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene (The Quiet American)
- Youth and the End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad (Youth, oh Youth)
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (If on a Summer’s Holiday a Blogger)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Child 44)
- Tell No One by Harlan Coben
- Man in the Dark by Paul Auster (Darkness Falls)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft (Sinister Matters)
- The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday (Sweet White Wine)
- The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill (The Man in the Picture)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Road to Neverwhere)
- Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
- Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Just After Sunset)
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
- The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing (Mother Makes Five)
- Casting the Runes and other Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Non Fiction
- Miracles of Life by J.G.Ballard (God Bless Mr Ballard)
- Essays in Love by Alain de Botton (Love Letters)
- Shakespeare by Bill Bryson (Brushing Up)
- Paul Weller: The Changing Man by Paulo Hewitt (Paul Weller)
- Bit of a Blur by Alex James (Bit of a Blur)
- When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (David Sedaris)
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Whicher’s World)
- John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman (Life With the Lennons, Life With the Onos, Sometime in New York City)
- Have You Seen…? by David Thomson (Have You Seen…?)