Books read in 2008:
56. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
55. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
54. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice Weaver Flaherty
53. The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
52. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
51. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
50. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
49. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
48. No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty
47. Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun by Professor Happycat
45. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
44. The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
43. Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth by David Browne
42. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoureau
41. The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins
40. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool
39. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
38. Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
37. Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
36. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
35. A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories by Paul Bowles
34. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
33. Emma by Jane Austen
32. Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery
31. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
30. The Faber Plath: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
29. X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking by Jeff Gordinier
28. What Happened Later : A Novel by Ray Robertson
27. Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson
26. Four Plays: Summer and Smoke; Orpheus Descending; Suddenly Last Summer; Period of Adjustment by Tennesse Williams
25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
24. The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys by Chris Fuhrman
23. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
22. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
21. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
20. Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
19. Mercy by Jodi Picoult
18. Persuasion by Jane Austen
17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16. The Trial by Franz Kafka
15. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
14. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
13. Diaries of Franz Kafka
12. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
11. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
10. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
9. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. Essays in Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
7. Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
6. I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan
5. Queer by William S. Burroughs
4. Junky by William S. Burroughs
3. Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
2. Allen Ginsberg in America by Jane Kramer
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez