2008 Reading List

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Mainly for my own curiosity, but we shall see how many books I manage to crank through in 2008...

1. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde
2. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
3. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief by Francis S. Collins
4. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead by Max Brooks
5. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
7. Wildside by Steven Gould
8. The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
9. Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
10. Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney translated by Hermann Palsson & Paul Edwards
11. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
12. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
13. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
14. Longitude by Dava Sobel
15. Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke
16. The Planets by Dava Sobel
17. Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
18. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
19. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire Book 1) by Naomi Novik
20. The Throne of Jade (Temeraire Book 2) by Naomi Novik
21. Black Powder War (Temeraire Book 3) by Naomi Novik
22. Empire of Ivory (Temeraire Book 4) by Noami Novik
23. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
24. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
25. Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time by Tom Siegfried
26. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
27. The Dead Father's Club by Matt Haig
28. Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson
29. Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony
30. The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
31. Marley and Me by John Grogan
32. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
33. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
34. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
35. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
36. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
37. Grayson by Lynne Cox
38. Roughing It by Mark Twain
39. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
40. Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish by Mark Levin
41. The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
42. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
43. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
44. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
45. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
46. Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1) by Charlaine Harris
47. Living Dead in Dallas (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
48. Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
49. Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
50. Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) by Charlaine Harris
51. Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) by Charlaine Harris
52. All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
53. From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris
54. A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
55. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
56. Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman
57. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly