books read 2008
* = loved it
~ = maybe loved it, but am hesitant to recommend for one reason or another – but you still might love it
^ = hated it
[nothing] = indifferent
- *Babycakes, by Armistead Maupin
- *Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
- Trans-sister Radio, by Chris Bohjalian
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (reread)
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- Drunk, Divorced, & Covered in Cat Hair, by Laurie Perry
- *The Best American Short Stories of 2007, ed. by Stephen King
- The Smoke Jumper, by Nicholas Evans
- *Night, by Elie Wiesel
- *Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons (re-read)
- *I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb
- *Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
- *Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
- ~The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
- *Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
- ~Things I Want My Daughters to Know, by Elizabeth Noble
- ~New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
- *I Want to Go Home, by Gordon Korman (re-read)
- Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, by Stephanie Klein
- *Of Men and Their Mothers, by Mameve Medwed
- *The House on Fortune Street, by Margot Livesey
- Clinton in Exile, by Carol Felsenthal
- Adopted Jane, by Helen Fern Daringer
- *Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not the Answer, by Jen Lancaster
[I gave up keeping this list in favor of using goodreads instead]
