2008 Books

Here is my list of complete books from April – December 2008.  They are sorted by genre, then alphabetically by title, for easy reference.  The books with links are those that I have reviewed or mentioned somewhere else on this site.

Fiction

• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler (science fiction)
• March by Geraldine Brooks
  
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

NonFiction

• Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
• Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson
• Niche Envy by Joseph Turow
• Republic.com 2.0 by Cass Sunstein
• The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
• The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight by Marc Weingarten
• The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
• True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism by Norman Sims
• Water Cooler Diaries by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhrav
• Writing for Story by Jon Franklin

Literary Journalism/Creative Nonfiction

• A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
• Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
• Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
• The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan
• The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
• The Story of Sushi by Trevor Corson
• The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
• Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis

Memoir

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• All the Fishes Come Home to Roost by Rachel Manija Brown
• Into the Land of Invisible Women by Quanta A. Ahmed
• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
• Not Quite What I Was Planning edited by SMITH Magazine
• When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Comic Books

• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Fables I: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• Fables II: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
• Fables III: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Fables IV: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham)
• Fables V: The Mean Seasons, Fables VI: Homelands, and Fables VII: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Plain Janes and Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
• The Walking Dead (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard

Young Adult Fiction

• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
• Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar
• The Book of Nonsense by David Michael Slater
• The View from Saturday by E.L Konigsburg