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
