Books I have known and read in 2008
To follow is a very long list of books I read in 2008. One thing about this Headache, I have much more time for reading than I used to — probably more time than most folks. I’m still not a *huge* reader, but I am sure enjoying it more than I used to! By making this list, I figure I can get a sense of what I tend towards, what I should read more of. Some of these books I wrote short reviews of on GoodReads. All in all, though, if I could recommend only a few books from this year, they would be The Life of Pi, The Secret Life of Bees, and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
If you want to read my opinion on these and many other books, why not add me as a friend on GoodReads? If I know you from the blog, or even if I don’t, introduce yourself and I’d love to see what you’re reading. 
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- The Problem of Pain
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- The Other Queen
- The Book Thief
- A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)
- Everything is Illuminated
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Cat’s Cradle
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- All in my Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, And Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
- LIfe Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties
- The Last Great Dance on Earth
- Daughter of Fortune
- Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
- Notwithstanding My Weakness
- The Plague of Doves
- A Love for Larkspur
- Islands in the Stream
- Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell you… That You Need to Know.
- The Host
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
- The Widow of the South
- Whom the Lord Loveth: The Journey of Discipleship
- The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
- Middlesex
- My Name is Asher Lev
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- New Moon
- Myst: The Book of Ti’Ana
- The Book of Atrus
- Twilight
- Snow Falling on Cedars (reread)
- Nurse Matilda Goes to Town
- The Poisonwood Bible
- The Other Boelyn Girl
- The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine
- The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- The Constant Princess
- Wideacre
- The Favored Child
- Mistress of the Sun
- Earthly Joys
- Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
- Breaking Dawn
- The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
- I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers
- The Girl of His Dreams
- The Book of D’ni
- The Diagnosis
- Meridon
- Shoe Addicts Anonymous
- Eclipse
- Never Let Me Go
- Judge Me Dear Reader
- Water for Elephants
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Nurse Matilda
- The Kite Runner
- Life of Pi
- The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journals Book 2)
There it is, my friends — what have you read that you like this year?
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Wow, not that much, though a lot for my last semester in school….
1. Jane Eyre
2. Middlemarch
3. Jude the Obscure (don’t read it unless you desire depression)
4. Wuthering Heights
5. poetry from all the Brontes
6. Eragon
7. Eldest
8. Brisngr
9. All Harry Potter books multiple times (the books i read when i need a break)
10. Mansfield Park
11. Villette
12. A Passage to India
13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14. Great Expectations
15. Fablehaven
16. My Antonia
17. Where Angels Fear to Tread
18. The Turn of the Screw
19. Persuasion
20. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
21. Agnes Grey
i also like LIfe of Pi. It was a book that really made me think
wow o wow. I’ll check out your reviews! were you up at 6 am, or did you just set this to post then?
i set it to post at 6 am.
i finished it last night but i thought it was better to post it on the LAST day of the year.
Hi. Jane Eyre is one of my all time favorite books. 2nd is The Shipping News.
I did very much enjoy Rereading Lolita in Tehran and the Kite Runner, plus the Secret Life of Bees.
I just finished The Center Cannot Hold about living with mental illness and it reminded me very much of living with chronic migraines (my situation). Madness, another memoir, was along the same lines and also quite good.
Happy New Year. Carolyn
You guys are great! Carolyn, I love your suggestions! Thanks
I have often thought about joining goodreads- might just have to! I have read sooo many, and on of the most surprising was the Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Loved it!
That’s IT? That’s ALL!!?? That’s like one book every 5 or 6 days all year! I used to be able to read like that, and I miss it so much. I finally took advice from my brother and got an ipod and now I listen to audiobooks when I am cleaning or running errands. With three small kids I gave up reading actual books.
Right now I am listening to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I also recommend Pillars of the Earth, McCarthy’s The Road, and Three Cups of Tea.
I loved Reading Lolita In Tehran…
I must check out GoodReads, everyone has been telling me it’s such a great site…
I’ve read a lot of those same books. Therefore I must recommend Peace like a River by Leif Enger (one of my favorite books EVER), Moloka’i by Alan Brennert, and the Shopaholic series.
I would think with migraines you wouldn’t want to read as much, but maybe you can still read with a headache.
Wow, you made it through a lot of books last year! I have yet to post my book list for last year (partly because I didn’t keep track well and have forgotten half of what I read).
LIfe of Pi, Asher Lev and The Five People You Meet In Heaven are all on my to-read list for this year.
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