My Year in Books 2008
Once again, a list of books I read, and mostly remembered. Links go to LibraryThing (Social bookmarking! Get it?!)
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Douglas Adams: Life, the Universe and Everything (reread)
Alan Moore: V for Vendetta
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
Ben Mezrich: 21: Bringing Down the House
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Janna Levin: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Malcom Gladwell: Blink
John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
Okakura Kakuzo: The Book of Tea
H.G. Wells: The Time machine
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest and Other Plays
Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris: The Book of Liz
David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross
Ursula K Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Roald Dahl: Tales of the Unexptected
Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locusts
Eugene Ionesco: Rhinoceros (reread)
Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (reread)
Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
Steve Martin: Born Standing Up
Michael Lewis: The Blind Side
Tony Kushner: Angels in America
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Roald Dahl: The BFG
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, ... Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out
Matthew Reinhart: Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy
C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew
C.S. Lewis: The Horse and His Boy
C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian
