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2008 reading list
Erm, haven't been around IJ much recently. Crossposting from
50bookchallenge, a list of books read in 2008. I can barely type today, let alone say anything pithy, so the list will have to do.
1. Ernest Bramah – Max Carrados Anthology
2. R. L. Stevenson – The Weir of Hermiston and other stories
3. Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age
4. H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds
5. Balzac – An Historical Mystery
6. José Saramago – All The Names
7. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
8. Virginia Woolf – The Common Reader: First Series
9. Balzac – Lost Illusions
10. Robert Barr – The triumphs of Eugéne Valmont
11. Gertrude Atherton – What dreams may come
12. Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto
13. Balzac – A Harlot High and Low
14. William Gibson – Virtual Light
15. Richard Jefferies – After London
16. Henry James – What Maisie Knew
17. Michael Dibdin – Vendetta
18. Penelope Evans – The Last Girl
19. John Crowley – Little, Big
20. Henry James – Daisy Miller & other stories
21. Henry James – The ghostly tales of Henry James
22. Gustave le Bon – The Crowd
23. Georges Simenon – Monsieur Monde Vanishes
24. Virginia Woolf – Orlando
25. Maria Edgeworth – Belinda
26. Martin Millar – The Good Fairies of New York
27. Erskine Childers – The Riddle of the Sands
28. Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys
29. Thomas M. Disch – On Wings of Song
30. Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
31. Knut Hamsun – Hunger
32. Charles Dickens – Bleak House
33. Wilkie Collins – The Law and the Lady
34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
35. Gwyneth Jones – Phoenix Café
36. Wilkie Collins – Armadale
37. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
38. Peter Lovesey – The Reaper
39. Mary Braddon – Aurora Floyd
40. Michael Bishop – Brittle Innings
41. Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors & other stories
42. Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
43. Terry Pratchett – Witches Abroad
44. Philip Roth – The Plot Against America
45. James Stephens – The Charwoman’s Daughter
46. Walter Pater – Marius the Epicurean
47. George Eliot – Brother Jacob & The Lifted Veil
48. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
49. Samuel R. Delaney – Babel-17/Empire Star
50. Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
51. David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus
52. Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Mars
53. J.M. Coetzee – Foe
54. Michael Dibdin – Dark Specter
55. Kim Stanley Robinson – Green Mars
56. George Viereck – The house of the vampire
57. William Gibson – All Tomorrow’s Parties
58. R.L. Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
59. Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio
60. S.J. Rozan – Winter and Night
61. Donna Tartt – The Secret History
62. Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
63. David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
64. Mary E. Wilkins – The Copy-Cat & other stories
65. Haruki Murakami – The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
66. Maria Edgeworth – Castle Rackrent & Ennui
67. Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
68. Robert Coover – Pricksongs and Descants
69. Zadie Smith – On Beauty
70. Gérard de Nerval – Aurélia
71. Elizabeth Bowen – Eva Trout
72. Edith Birkhead – The Tale of Terror
73. David Gemmell – Quest for Lost Heroes
74. Guy Boothby – Dr. Nikola’s Experiment
75. Michael Moorcock – Mother London
76. Jo Walton – Farthing
77. Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey