Books Read 2008

Here’s the full list of books read in 2008.  You can find details of the Best of 2008 here.

102 Sorbonne Confidential – Lauren Zuckermann ***
101 Castle In The Clouds - Monica Janssens ***
100 One Step Behind - Henning Mankell ***
99 I’m Not Scared - Niccolo Amanniti ****
98 The Sinister Side - James Hall ****
97 The Grasshopper - Anton Chekhov ****
96 One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey (Unabridged Audio) *****
95 The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams ***
94 Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig **
93 Exit Music - Ian Rankin (Unabridged Audio) ***
92 The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde ***1/2
91 The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry ****1/2
90 The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe *****
89 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James ***
88 Binu and The Great Wall - Su Tong ***1/2
87 North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ***
86 The Woods - Harlan Coben (Unabridged Audio) **
85 Typhoon - Charles Cumming ** 1/2
84 Glenfarron - Jonathan Falla ****
83 Catholics - Brian Moore *** 1/2
82 The Bachelors - Adalbert Stifter **1/2
81 The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga ***
80 Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig ****
79 Amok and Other Stories - Stefan Zweig ***
78 Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin ****
77 The Lesson of the Master - Henry James ***
76 The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith ***

75 Short Story September
- The £1,000,000 Banknote - Mark Twain ***
- The Other Two - Edith Wharton ****
- The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman *****
- A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin ***
- The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol *****

74 This is Not About Me - Janice Galloway *****
73 Helpless - Barbara Gowdy ****
72 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro *****
71 Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Soderberg ****
70 Author, Author! - David Lodge (Unabridged Audio) ***1/2
69 Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay ***
68 The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier *****
67 The Book of Chameleons - Jose Agualusa ***
66 The Road of Bones - Anne Fine ****
65 A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif ****
64 Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig ***1/2
63 Cleave - Edited by Sharon Blackie ****
62 The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth ***
61 Lorraine Connection – Dominque Manotti ***1/2
60 Country of the Grand – Gerard Donovan ***
59 Glister – John Burnside ***
58 The Good Life - Jay McInerny **
57 The Ice Princess – Camilla Läckberg *** 1/2
56 Being Emily - Anne Donovan ***
55 The Death of Dalziel - Reginald Hill (Unabridged Audio) *** 1/2
54 Where Three Roads Meet – Salley Vickers *** 1/2
53 The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham ****
52 The Story of A Marriage – Andrew Sean Greer *****
51 Engleby – Sebastian Faulks *** 1/2
50 The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets – Eva Rice ***
49 The Colour of Blood - Brian Moore ***
48 The Fifth Woman - Henning Mankell ****
47 The Naming of the Dead - Ian Rankin ***
46 Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist ***
45 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boell *****
44 First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
43 The Artificial Silk-Girl – Irmgard Keun **
42 The Falconer - Alice Thompson ****
41 Planet Germany - Cathy Dobson ****
40 A Small Weeping - Alex Gray (Unabridged Audio) ***
39 The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald ***
38 The Oxford Murders - Guillermo Martinez **
37 The Man In the Window - K O Dahl ***
36 Trauma - Patrick McGrath *****
35 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman ***** (Review pending)
34 Pandora In The Congo - Albert Sánchez Piñol ****
33 Pack of Lies – Geraldine McCaughrean ***
32 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy **1/2
31 Fault Lines – Nancy Huston *** 1/2
30 I, Robot – Isaac Asimov ***
29 Death In Rome - Wolfgang Koeppen *** 1/2
28 Ghost Town - Patrick McGrath *** 1/2 (Review pending)
27 The One from The Other - Phillip Kerr *** 1/2
26 Peripheral Vision – Patricia Ferguson *** 1/2
25 Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir (Unabridged Audio) ****
24 Bartleby The Scrivener – Herman Melville ***
23 A Partisan’s Daughter - Louis De Bernieres **
22 The Great Victorian Collection - Brian Moore ***
21 The Secret River – Kate Grenville ***
20 The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Unabridged Audio) ****
19 Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald *****
18 The Cry of the Owl - Patricia Highsmith ****
17 Down to a Sunless Sea – Matthias B Freese ** – ***** (Review Pending)
16 Never Somewhere Else - Alex Gray (Unabridged Audio) ***
15 Certainty - Madeleine Thien **1/2
14 The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields ****
13 The Book of Words - Jenny Erpenbeck ***
12 The Touchstone / Souls Belated - Edith Wharton ****
11 The Invisible Man - H G Wells (Unabridged Audio) ***
10 I Am Mary Dunne - Brian Moore *** 1/2
09 Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai *** 1/2
08 The Long Delirious Burning Blue - Sharon Blackie ***
07 A Vengeful Longing - R N Morris ***
06 The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Gaskell ****
05 Cousin Phyllis - Elizabeth Gaskell (Unabridged Audio) ***
04 A Gentle Axe - R N Morris ***
03 The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene ****
02 The Bower Bird – Ann Kelley ****
01 Lies of Silence - Brian Moore ****