Books Read in 2008

January
Lottery: A Novel – Patricia Wood – (4/5)
Tess of the d’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy- (5/5)
Leap Days – Katherine Laphner – (3/5)
The Worse Things I Have Done – Ursula Hegi – (3.5/5)
The Rest of Her Life – Laura Moriarty – (4/5)
Astrid & Veronika – Linda Olsson – (4/5)

February
Family Tree – Barbara Delinsky – (4/5)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell – (4.5/5)

March
Budget Time Again – No Time to Read for Fun!

April
Fool’s Puzzle (A Benni Harper Mystery) – Earlene Fowler – (3.5/5)
Black Girl, White Girl – Joyce Carol Oates – (3/5)
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir – Pater Razor – (3/5)

May
Birth Of Venus – Sarah Dunant – (4/5)
Fall on Your Knees – Ann Marie MacDonald – (4/5 )
The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification – Caille Millner – (2.5/5)

June
Case Histories – Kate Atkinson – (4/5)
Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen – (4/5)
Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin – (4.5/5)
A Painted House – John Grisham – (4/5)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie – (4/5)
The Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak – (4.5/5)

July
The Septembers of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer – (4/5)
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields – (3.5/5)
Daughter’s Keeper – Ayelet Waldman – (4/5)

August
Creation in Death – J D Robb – (3/5)

September
Stalked – Brian Freeman -(4/5)
Unaccostumed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri – (3/5)

October
Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism – Jenny McCarthy – (4/5)

November
There If You Need Me – Kate Braestrup – (3.5/5)
More Than it Hurts You – Darin Strauss – (4/5)

December
The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch – (4.5/5)