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2008 Books

Currently Reading

Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001), Don Felder

Read This Year (most recent first)

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow

Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

After Dachau, Daniel Quinn

The Man Who Turned Into Himself, David Ambrose

Serve the People!, Yan Lianke

Youth Without Youth, Mircea Eliade

Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolaño

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, Anthony Lewis

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, John Joseph Adams (ed.)

Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker

One Soldier’s War, Arkady Babchenko

Postcards from the Boys, Ringo Starr

His Illegal Self, Peter Carey

Jackson Browne: His Life and Music, Mark Bego

A Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On the Tracks, Andy Gill

Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Ice, Vladimir Sorokin

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, Eric Weiner

The Painter of Battles, Arturo Perez-Reverte

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi

Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers, Gary Kowalski

The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World, Lonely Planet

Firstborn, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Guantanamo: A Novel, Dorothea Dieckmann

Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson

The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya

The Story of a Nobody, Anton Chekhov