Lists of Bests: jillelvish's "Books I Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59464 Unlike my 2006 and 2007 lists, which only have my favorites read from those years, this list is comprehensive--my entire reading for the year 2008. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:15:30 GMT en-us 0 50 132 50 0 Interesting Times (Methuen Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274746 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274746"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413772195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Pratchett</div> East Is East (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2646 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140131671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> Enslaved by Ducks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91690 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91690"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565124502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128032606_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Tarte</div> Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44260 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44260"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316926221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056432052_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Personal History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9015 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katharine Graham</div> Eric http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2572396 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Pratchett</div> The Trials of Rumpole http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996138 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Mortimer</div> What We Do For Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3026935 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3026935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/1117E7210KL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ilene Beckerman</div> THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, by Thomas Merton (1949; Harcourt, 1999) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4906548 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Losing Battles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/646705 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/646705"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679728821.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eudora Welty</div> An Unsuitable Job for a Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4951434 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Opening Our Hearts to Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/380704 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/380704"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449905136.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067918264_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Jeffers</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4856601 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> The Driveway Diaries: A Dirt Road Almanac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288001 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288001"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1885586337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139968044_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Brookes</div> Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2568982 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4391861 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4391861"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21zuqtELVWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Practise of the Presence of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769619 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brother Lawrence</div> Monstrous Regiment (Discworld) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2810342 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Pratchett</div> A Year in Provence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18732 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18732"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731148.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Mayle</div> The Loved One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7163 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134651548_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths, The) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356248 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841957984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2615939 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Girl Seeks Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56137 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56137"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452285771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicole Beland</div> Talk Talk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3799181 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3799181"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/212x0kpMrJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932216 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> The Daughter of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3965942 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3965942"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WXPT24R7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josephine Tey</div> The Miracle at Speedy Motors: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2932952 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> Confessions of a Carb Queen: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3357736 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3357736"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GRLmwwXOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Blech</div> Going Solo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2434390 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2434390"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141311428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roald Dahl</div> Reaper Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4411985 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Lords and Ladies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476545 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476545"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055215315X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Pratchett</div> Pigs in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82996 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82996"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060922532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Once and Future King. The Complete Edition. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170622 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Umbrella Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4537554 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Princess Bride http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1900222 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Goldman</div> The Willoughbys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3055888 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> Watership Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1603876 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258704 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528535.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony E. Wolf</div> Why Can't You Shut Up?: How We Ruin Relationships--How Not To http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3382100 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3382100"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/113NKSZNX3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Wolf</div> The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4413300 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4413300"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511LYLbLvGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Last Continent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4444447 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Prachett</div> Bluebeard's Egg: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10319 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10319"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539472 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Love Over Scotland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2278103 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22634 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/076790382X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> Rumpole and the Golden Thread http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5146600 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5146600"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PWRMS7R1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Mortimer</div> Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272468 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54827797_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> Atonement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534318 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115951817_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div>