- à la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers by Hillary Carlip
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- A Short Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum (Elgin Collection) by the Trustees of the British Museum
- All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists by Terry Gross
- American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting by Stephen Biel
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Everything you always wanted to know about Nixon, but were afraid to ask by Gerald Gardner
- The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Ingraham
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Life with Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin by Susan Nagel
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Persepolis 1 by Marjane Satrapi
- Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
- Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
- Savannah Comes Undone by Denise Hildreth
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Savannah from Savannah by Denise Hildreth
- Shadow of Magnitude: The Acquistion of the Elgin Marbles by Theodore Vrettos.
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice In Paradise by Sally Cline
- Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
- Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
- Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
- A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body by Lauren Weedman
- Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child by Nancy Barr
- Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson
- Meat: A Love Story by Susan Bourette
- This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
- J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary
- Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer
- Framing the Debate by Jeffrey Feldman
- Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson
- Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
- The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Grandmaster Flash with David Ritz
- A TV Guide to Life by Jeff Alexander
- The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley Jr.
- Julia Child by Laura Shapiro
- Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light by Gregor Dallas
- Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Free Expression in Arts Funding by the Public Policy Project
- The Man Who Ate the World: In search of the perfect dinner by Jay Rayner
- The Eighteen Carot Kid and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse
- Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
- The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
- Dawn Dusk or Night: A Year in the Life of Nicolas Sarkozy by Yasmina Reza
- Jeeves and the Ties that Bind by P.G. Wodehouse
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- When the Guillotine Fell by Jeremy Mercer
- The Rhetorical Presidency by Jeffrey Tulis
- Quantitative Research Methods by Joseph Maxwell
- Jefferson's Call for Nationhood by Stephen Browne
- Out of Tune: Listening to the First Amendment by John Frohnmayer
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- The Appeal by John Grisholm
- The United States of Argula by David Kamp
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform by Donald Moynihan
- Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay
- American Creation by Joseph Ellis
Monday, September 15, 2008
Books Read in 2008
My favorites from 2008 are in bold.
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I'm staying as far away as possible from the Twilight series. I've read a ton of reviews, and it sounds like the author made the lead female character empty and dumb. That just isn't cool.
But, I also think that Harry Potter seems over-rated, so what do I know.
Have you ever read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay?
It's awesome.
If you haven't read Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, you must. And I always return to Richard Bach's Illusions for a metaphysical pick-me-up.
And given your extensive stint in the academic world, you might get a kick out of Neal Stephenson's The Big U.
I know those are a lot of suggestions, but you still shame me when it comes to reading!
If you do get into Twilight for cultural literacy's sake, the only reason to read past the first one would be pure masochism.
Hmm...I am going to recommend Alison Wearing's Honeymoon in Purdah to you.
"Confederacy of Dunces" is a favorite, I also loved "A Girls Guide to hunting and fishing". I will read anything Zadie Smith writes and always be jealous. For a chick lit-... I was really actually quite surprised at how much I enjoyed reading "the friday night knitting club". I'm reading "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld right now and am really liking it.
Also? I haven't gotten into the Twilight series either. I'm afraid. My friends who HAVE gotten into the series get this crazed look on their face when they talk about those books. It's like a literary cult.
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