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What are your top books of 2008?

I've only kept a record from September and I haven't read much this year, but from what I can remember my favourites were:

The Crimson Petal and the White -- Michel Faber
Ghostwritten -- David Mitchell
London: the biography -- Peter Ackroyd
A Game of Thrones -- George R R Martin
 
Not having started reading literature again until September, my list is a short one:

Crime & Punishment-- Fyodor Doestoyevsky
The Red and the Black-- Stendahl (a re-read)
Murphy-- Samuel Beckett
Dubliners-- James Joyce (re-read)

As good as these were one was "Above category" (and possibly one of the best novels I have ever read):

Dreams of My Russian Summers-- Andrei Makine


Worst Book- (could not finish) :

Moon Palace-- Paul Auster (four or five wierd impossible plot "events" wrenched me out of the narrative repeatedly and the author has obviously never set foot in Utah)
 
A Writer At War-Vassily Grossman

Christine Falls- Benjamin Black

The Joys of Motherhood-Buchi Emecheta

Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans-Daniel Reveles

The True Diaries of a Part-Time Indian-Sherman Alexie
 
Leon Marcus Uris Exodus and A God in Ruins.

The second book (published in 1999) about the fictional Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidency, his family, and the life of his opponent. A God in Ruins climaxes with the election campaign and its results. It is a time to read this book in 2008.
 
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
4. Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick
5. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
6. Baa Baa Black Sheep by Gregory Boyington
7. All Quiet On The Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque
8. The Day We Bombed Utah by John G. Fuller
9. Oil! by Upton Sinclair
10. Masters of Doom by David Kushner
 
1) Speaks The Nightbird by Robert McCammon
2) Replay by Ken Grimwood
3) Black Sun Rising by Celia Friedman
4) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5) The Heart Of The Valley by Nigel Hinton
 
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Everyman by Philip Roth
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Mountain (Translation by John E Woods) by Thomas Mann
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
 
No trying to side track, but Stewart, your World Lit & Blog links have been down for awhile...

Keep it coming, great thread!
 
cirque said:
No trying to side track, but Stewart, your World Lit & Blog links have been down for awhile...
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Thanks, I thought it was just me, because I can view them fine from my phone, via 3G, but can't get to them from Firefox on the home computer. I'll look into it, but I can see right now, that there's five members on the World Lit, and people have been posting all afternoon. As it happens, I'm writing up something on the blog just now. It's slow, but working. Strange.
 
  • Dennis Lehane - The Given Day
  • Anita Shreve - Testimony
  • Cody McFadyen - Shadow Man
  • Cody McFadyen - The Face of Death
  • James Rollins - The Judas Strain
 
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