so it's super late, but here's my book list for 2008. obviously my plan of writing reviews didn't quite work, so i'm thinking of a way to revise my blog some. i think i'll start by just giving select reviews. oh! and the award winners are coming soon! yay!
1. Cursor’s Fury – Jim Butcher
2. Strawberry Girl – Lois Lenski
3. A Walk to Remember – Nicholas Sparks
4. Kira-Kira – Cynthia Kadohata
5. Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
6. Gentlemen of the Road – Michael Chabon
7. Criss Cross – Lynne Rae Perkins
8. Maus I – Art Spiegelman
9. The Earth Giant – Melvin Burgess
10. Beloved – Toni Morrison
11. Princess on the Brink – Meg Cabot
12. The Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander
13. Young Zorro: The Iron Brand – Jan Adkins
14. Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
15. The Black Cauldron – Lloyd Alexander
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
17. Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
18. Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
19. Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler – Wade Rouse
20. A Visit to William Blake’s Inn – Nancy Willard
21. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
22. The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
23. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
24. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
25. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray
26. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
28. Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
29. The High King – Lloyd Alexander
30. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices – Paul Fleischman
31. The Mark of Zorro – Johnston McCulley
32. Prep- Curtis Sittenfeld
33. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread – Kate DiCamillo
34. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
35. The Panama Hat Trail – Tom Miller
36. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
37. Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah
38. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32 – Joan W. Blos
39. American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
40. Shakespeare: The World as Stage – Bill Bryson
41. A Handful of Herbs – Barbara Segall
42. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King
43. Physik – Angie Sage
44. MC Higgins, the Great – Virginia Hamilton
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
46. Subterranean – James Rollins
47. No Talking – Andrew Clements
48. New Book of Herbs – Jekka McVicar
49. The Doll in the Garden – Mary Downing Hahn
50. The Subterraneans – Jack Kerouac
51. Warriors: Into the wild – Erin Hunter
52. Within Reach: My Everest Story – Mark Pfetzer
53. A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
54. A Monstrous Regiment of Women – Laurie R. King
55. The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan
56. Crispin: At the Edge of the World – Avi
57. Rules – Cynthia Lord
58. The Lost Boy – Dave Pelzer
59. Spud – John van de Ruit
60. A Brother’s Journey – Richard Pelzer
61. Roller Skates – Ruth Sawyer
62. Peony in Love – Lisa See
63. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party – MT Anderson
64. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village – Laura Amy Schlitz
65. A Man Named Dave – Dave Pelzer
66. Dairy Queen – Catherine Gilbert Murdock
67. …and Now Miguel – Joseph Krumgold
68. It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: and Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs – John O’Hurley
69.The Torrents of Spring – Ernest Hemingway
70. Sold – Patricia McCormick
71. Barrrel Fever- David Sedaris
72. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver
73. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
74. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
75. Igraine the Brave – Cornelia Funke
76. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
77. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
78. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian – Sherman Alexie
79. Cave of the Dark Wind – Dave Barry
80. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan – Sophie Kinsella
81. Small Favor – Jim Butcher
82. Shopaholic Ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella
83. The Off Season – Catherine Gilbert Murdock
84. Zorro Unmasked – Sandra Curtis
85. A Letter of Mary – Laurie R. King
86. The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
87. The Giver – Lois Lowry
88. P.S. Longer Letter Later – Paula Danziger & Ann M. Martin
89. Shopaholic and Sister – Sophie Kinsella
90. They Cage the Animals at Night – Jennings Michael Burch
91. Snail Mail No More – Paula Danziger & Ann M. Martin
92. Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
93. Messenger – Lois Lowry
94. Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
95. Finding Manana – Mirta Ojito
96. Shopaholic and Baby – Sophie Kinsella
97. Captain’s Fury – Jim Butcher
98.Veil of Roses – Laura Fitzgerald
99. The Sweet Far Thing – Libba Bray
100. When I Crossed No-Bob – Margaret McMullan
101. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishmael Beah
102. The Young Merlin Trilogy – Jane Yolen
103. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
104. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
105. The Execution of Sherlock Holmes – Donald Thomas
106. The Star of Kazan – Eva Ibbotson
107. The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
108. Ticket to Ride – Larry Kane
109. Possible Side Effects – Augusten Burroughs
110. Beyond the Deepwoods – Paul Stewart
111. Bitter Sweets – Roopa Farooki
112. How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale – Cressida Cowell
113. The Moor – Laurie R. King
114. The Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson
115. This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall – Gordon Korman
116. Go Jump in the Pool! – Gordon Korman
117. Beware the Fish! – Gordon Korman
118. The War with Mr. Wizzle – Gordon Korman
119. The Zucchini Warriors – Gordon Korman
120. Something Fishy at Macdonald High – Gordon Korman
121. Macdonald High Goes Hollywood – Gordon Korman
122. What is the What – Dave Eggers
123. Steve and Me – Terri Irwin
124. Purity of Blood – Arturo Perez-Reverte
125. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
126. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
127. O Jerusalem – Laurie R. King
128. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
129. Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton
130. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists – Gideon Defoe
131. Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
132. On Subbing – Dave Roche
133. Peter and the Shadow Thieves – Dave Barry
134. Maus II – Art Spiegelman
135. A Shadow in Summer – Daniel Abraham
136. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
137. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
138. Sweet Thursday – John Steinbeck
139. Charlie Bone and the Beast – Jenny Nimmo
140. The Complete 35mm Sourcebook – Michael Busselle
141. The Hedge Knight – George R. R. Martin
142. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
143. Justice Hall – Laurie R. King
144. Not Without My Daughter – Betty Mahmoody
145. I’m Emma, I’m a Quint – Stella Pevsner
146. The Au Pairs – Melissa de la Cruz
147. The Luxe – Anna Godbersen
148. 100 Cupboards – ND Wilson
149. Spud- the Madness Continues – John van de Ruit
150. Eiger Dreams – Jon Krakauer
151. The Jellyfish Season – Mary Downing Hahn
152. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle – High Lofting
153. Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
154. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
155. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
156. Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl – Susan McCorkindale
157. Daphne’s Book – Mary Downing Hahn
158. The Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling
159. The Game – Laurie R. King
160. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
161. Following My Own Footsteps – Mary Downing Hahn
162. Polgara the Sorceress – David and Leigh Eddings
163. Princeps’ Fury – Jim Butcher
164. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
165. Iceland: Land of the Sagas – David Roberts
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