2008 Book Log

My first year blogging was quite an experience! I really did not have a goal for this year as I was still just trying to figure things out.

Key

* denotes re-read

/ denotes duel title

“” denotes short story/play

^ denotes required reading

` denotes abandoned

January

• Me and Mr. Darcy (Alexandra Potter)
• Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride (Helen Halstead)
• Odd Mom Out (Jane Porter)
• Tooth and Nail (Charles Harrington Elster and Joseph Elliot)

February

• Colleges That Change Lives (Loren Pope)
• The Girls Who Went Away (Ann Fessler)
• The Starter Wife (Gigi Levangie Grazer)

March

• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
• Blind Submission (Debra Ginsberg)
• Consequences (Penelope Lively)
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)^
• Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
• Keeper and Kid (Edward Hardy)
• Mercy (Jodi Picoult)*
• A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)
• Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult)
• Perfect Match (Jodi Picoult)
• Pledged (Alexandra Robbins)
• The Pregnancy Test (Erin McCarthy)*
• The Saturday Wife (Naomi Ragen)
• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
• Whiteout (Ken Follett)
• You Don’t Know Jack (Erin McCarthy)

April

• Breaking Her Fall (Stephen Goodwin)
• Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult)
• The Choice (Nicholas Sparks)
• Forgive Me (Amanda Eyre Ward)
• Letters from Pemberley (Jane Dawkins)
• Never On These Shores (Stephen R. Pastore)
• Not Buying It (Judith Levine)
• Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella)
• Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)^

May

• After Dachau (Daniel Quinn)
• Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)^
• The Canal House (Mark Lee)
• Family Tree (Barbara Delinsky)
• Picture Perfect (Jodi Picoult)
• The River (Tricia Wastvedt)
• Sun Kissed (Catherine Anderson)*

June

• Amelia and the Outlaw (Lorraine Heath)*
• Busted (Emma Harrison)
• Can You Keep a Secret? (Sophie Kinsella)*
• Darcy and Elizabeth (Linda Berdoll)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
• Did I Expect Angels? (Kathryn Maughan)
• Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)*
• The Guardian (Nicholas Sparks)*
• A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
• Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (Linda Berdoll)*
• My Louisiana Sky (Kimberly Willis Holt)*
• Sun-Kissed (Belinda Ray)
• Sweetgrass (Mary Alice Monroe)*
• The Virgin’s Lover (Philippa Gregory)
• White Lilacs (Carolyn Meyers)*

July

• Eyes of the Storm (The Dallas Morning News photographers)
• The Make-Up Girl (Andrea Semple)
• P.S. I Love You (Cecilia Ahern)
• These Three Remain (Pamela Aidan)*
• Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)

August

• Doomed Queen Anne (Carolyn Meyers)
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster)^
• Matrimony (Joshua Henkin)
• Mr. Darcy’s Diary (Amanda Grange)
• Sophie’s World (Jostein Gaarder)^

September

• The Hidden Staircase (Carolyn Keene)*
• The Secret of the Old Clock (Carolyn Keene)*
• Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)

October

• 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover (Linda Wisdom)
• “Macbeth” (William Shakespeare)^
• “Oedipus Rex” (Sophocles)^
• Skyward (Mary Alice Monroe)

November

• America (The Book) (Jon Stewart)*
• The Awakening (Kate Chopin)^
• The Beach House (Mary Alice Monroe)
• “Death of a Salesman” (Arthur Miller)^
• Head Over Heels (Ryan Nerz)
• Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)^
• New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
• Night (Elie Wiesel)
• The Pemberley Chronicles (Rebecca Ann Collins)`
• Something That Lasts (James David Jordan)
• Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

December

• The Birth House (Ami McKay)
• The Bungalow Mystery (Carolyn Keene)*
• The College Hook (Pam Proctor)
• Competitive Colleges (Fern A. Oram)
• Cool Colleges (Donald Asher)
• Deadly Little Secret (Laurie Faria Stolarz)
• Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer)
• “Hamlet” (William Shakespeare)^
• The Hidden Ivies (Howard Greene and Matthew Greene)
• The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
• Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
• Marie Antoinette (Bernardine Kietly)
• “Murder in the Cathedral” (T. S. Elliot)
• The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Beverly Keene)
• Obasan (Joy Kogawa)^
• Up High in the Trees (Kiara Brinkman)