So, here is a list of the books I read in 2008 that (for various reasons) made the greatest impression on me. I've abandoned last year's system of listing EVERYTHING and marking my favorites with an asterisk, because I got a couple emails from authors who seemed mopey that their books didn't get starred. I don't want that on my head. I have enough writerly angst of my own without creating it in others. So, I'm only listing the ones I liked BEST. I'm all about the love, baby! This way there are only good feelings all around! As time allows, I may expound on what made some of them special or you may just have to find out for yourself.
P.s. Cookbooks are in blue
1. Deborah Wood, A New Owner's Guide to Papillons
2. A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically
3. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
4. Alanna Knight, An Orkney Murder
5. Lauren Weedman, A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body
6. Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil
7. Phillip DePoy, A Widow's Curse
8. Daniel Handler, Adverbs
9. Steve Almond, Not That You Asked
10. Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
11. Joan Sfar, Vampire Loves
12. Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead
13. Fritz Leiber, The Conjure Wife
14. Steve and Melanie Tem, The Man on the Ceiling
15. Marc Acito, Attack of the Theater People
16. Ariel Gore, The Travelling Death and Resurrection Show
17. Rebecca Stott, Ghostwalk
18. Anthony Bourke, A Lion Called Christian
19. Chelsea Handler, Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea
20. Molly Katzen, Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home
21. Tessa Kiros, Apples for Jam
22. Poppy Z. Brite, The Devil You Know
23. Chris Abani, A Song For Night
24. William Goldman, Marathon Man
25. ETA Hoffman, Der Sandmann
26. Gustavo Arellano, Orange County: I've Been Taking Notes
27. Laurie Notaro, There is a Slight Chance I Might Be Going to Hell
28. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
29. Elie Wiesel, Night
30. Phillip DePoy, The Drifter's Wheel
31. Deborah Grabien, The Weaver and the Factory Maid
32. May Bsisu, The Arab Table
33. Williams Sonoma's Savoring... Cookbook Series (so far I have savored Italy, Portugal/Spain, Mexico, and am currently savoring China and Southeast Asia)
2 comments:
Hooray for E.T.A.!
I wish you could have come to our bookclub meeting for the St. Lucy's book-
I'm considering getting rid of some books without having read them- it is kind of shocking, but some are "good for me" books I picked up in grad school and I'm not sure what was good for me then is good for me now.
Oh, man! I have a whole theory shelf of that kind of thing. I'm working toward purging some of those things. I mean do I REALLY need a 13 year old copy of "Epistomolgy of the Closet" that I have never read (not even when it was ASSIGNED reading)?
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