Books Read in 2008
- The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
- Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter – Phoebe Damrosch
- Firegirl – Tony Abbott
- Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food that Loves Me Back . . . And How You Can Too – Shauna James Ahern
- The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School – Kathleen Flinn
- Slam – Nick Hornby
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
- Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman
- A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
- The Boy I Loved Before – Jenny Colgan
- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Kimberly Willis Holt
- The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
- Tantalize – Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
- Missing May – Cynthia Rylant
- Holes – Louis Sachar
- Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher
- Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything in Italy, India, and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Moon, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things – Carolyn Mackler
- P.S. I Love You – Ceclia Ahern
- The Cay – Theodore Taylor
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
- Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale
- The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs – Paula Marantz Cohen
- The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
- The Return of Jonah Gray – Heather Cochran
- The Little Lady Agency and the Prince – Hester Browne
- Click – Ten Authors
- Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
- Beowulf: A New Telling – Robert Nye
- Lawn Boy – Gary Paulson
- One-Handed Catch – M.J. Auch
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party – M.T. Anderson
- The Devil’s Arithmetic – Jane Yolen
- Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
- Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
- A Wind in the Door – Madeleine L’Engle
- Chasing Vermeer – Blue Balliett
- On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God – Louise Rennison
- The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
- Certain Girls – Jennifer Weiner
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
- The Market – J.M. Steele
- The Taker – J.M. Steele
- Nothing But the Truth – Avi
- Just Ella – Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Love, Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
- Up All Night – Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Sarah Weeks, Gene Yang, Patricia McCormick
- The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare
- Shadow of a Bull – Maia Wojciechowska
- Smiles to Go – Jerry Spinelli
- The Slave Dancer – Paula Fox
- Love the One You’re With – Emily Griffin
- 100 Days and 99 Nights – Alan Madison
- The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
- Cicada Summer – Andrea Beaty
- The Host – Stephenie Meyer
- Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder – David Weinberger
- When it Happens – Susan Colasanti
- Kira Kira – Cynthia Kadohata
- Good Enough – Paula Yoo
- The Magic Half – Annie Barrows
- The Redheaded Princess – Ann Rinaldi
- Slipping – Cathleen Davitt Bell
- Caught Between the Pages – Marlene Carvell
- The Juliet Club – Suzanne Harper
- My Dad’s a Birdman – David Almond
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party – Ying Chang Compestine
- The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
- Audrey, Wait! – Robin Benway
- My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park – Steve Kluger
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clark
- Rapunzel’s Revenge – Shannon and Dean Hale
- Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
- Alive and Well in Prague, New York – Daphne Grab
- Planet Pregnancy – Linda Oatman High
- The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love – A. E. Cannon
- Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
- Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday – Garth Nix
- Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
- Monster – Dean Walter Myers
- Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
- The Possibilities of Sainthood – Donna Freitas
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos – R.L. LaFevers
- Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
- Forever – Judy Blume
- Jip, His Story – Katherine Paterson
- Geography Club – Brent Hartinger
- Thoreau at Walden – John Porcellino
- Sweethearts – Sara Zarr
- Story of a Girl – Sara Zarr
- Tex – S. E. Hinton
- The Declaration – Gemma Malley
- How NOT to be Popular – Jennifer Ziegler
- Shakespeare’s Secret – Elise Broach
- High Dive – Tammar Stein
- Crispin, Cross of Lead – Avi
- Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas – Louise Rennison
- Dragon’s Blood – Jane Yolen
- Looking for Alaska – John Green
- Vegan Virgin Valentine – Carolyn Mackler
- American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
- My Mother the Cheerleader – Robert Sharenow
- The Chocolate War – Robert Comier
- Light Years – Tammar Stein
- Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
- Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants – Louise Rennison
- Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt
- Guyaholic: A Story of Finding, Flirting, Forgetting . . .and the Boy Who Changes Everything – Carolyn Mackler
- What I Saw and How I Lied – Judy Blundell
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson
- Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison
- Einstein for Beginners – Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness
- Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison
- An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
- Fly on the Wall – E. Lockhart
- Startled by His Furry Shorts – Louise Rennison
- Paper Towns – John Green
- Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
- Love is a Many Trousered Thing – Louise Rennison
- Stop in the Name of Pants – Louise Rennison
- Frindle – Andrew Clements
- The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own – Nina Garcia
- Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
- Girl 15, Charming But Insane – Sue Limb
- The Spectacular Now – Tim Tharp
- Olive’s Ocean – Kevin Henkes
- Savvy – Ingrid Law
- The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
- Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson
- A Curse Dark as Gold – Elizabeth C. Bunce
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
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Wow Janssen. You are amazing. I can proudly say that I have read 13 books (this year mind you) from your list. I feel a bit pathetic right now… 🙂
Wow! How did you like P.S. I Love You? What are your thoughts on movies based on books? Do you like to see the movie first or read the book first? Does it matter?
There’s a book called Chasing Vermeer? I’m amused, simply because I once read a book by a different author called Chasing Cezanne. Hee.
Impressive list, lady!