Post by Bina on Dec 31, 2008 11:43:39 GMT -5
Wow you´re fast over there Happy New Year, Dom!
Nearly 6 hours to go here so I´ll just post my list now.
For 2008:
1.) The best of McSweeney´s Vol 1 (Dave Eggers)
2.) The book thief (Markus Zusak)
3.) Comfort woman (Nora Okja Keller)
4.) The handmaid´s tale (Margaret Atwood)
5.) 31 songs (Nick Hornby)
6.) Niemalsland (Neil Gaiman)
7.) Thursday Next: First of Sequels (Jasper Fforde)
8.) Tintenherz (Cornelia Funke)
9.) Nachricht von einer Entführung (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
10.) Lean Mean Thirteen (Janet Evanovich)
11.) Lost in a good book (Jasper Fforde)
12.) The well of lost plots (Jasper Fforde)
13.) Something rotten (Jasper Fforde)
14.)White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
15.) Kalle Blomquist (Astrid Lindgren)
16.) Emil und die Detektive (Erich Kästner)
17.) The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
18.) Weekend in Paris (Robyn Sisman)
19.) Brave new world (Aldous Huxley)
20.) The beekeeper´s apprentice (Laurie R. King)
21.) Short stories: A window on the universe
22.) The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
23.) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
24.) Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
25.) The world according to Garp (John Irving)
26.) The Plato Papers (Peter Ackroyd)
27.) The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
28.) The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
29.) On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
30.) Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt)
31.) Never let me go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
32.) Matilda (Roald Dahl)
33.) The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde)
34.) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead (Tom Stoppard)
35.) Labels (Evelyn Waugh)
36.) The Poe Shadow (Mathhew Pearl)
37.) Fearless Fourteen (Janet Evanovich)
38.) Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher (Walter Moers)
39.) Special topics in Calamity physics (Marisha Pessl)
40.) Nachtzug nach Lissabon (Paul Mercier)
41.) The Almost Moon (Alice Sebold)
42.) The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall)
43.) Shakespeare (Bill Bryson)
44.) The Anomalies (Joey Goebel)
45.) The Killings at Badger´s Drift (Caroline Graham)
46.) The Wave (Morton Rhue)
47.) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
48.) A Concise Chinese- English Dictionary for Lovers (Xiaolu Guo)
49.) Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
50.) The Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
51.) The Mimic Men (V.S. Naipaul)
52.) Oracle Night (Paul Auster)
53.) Achtung, die Herdmanns sind zurück (Barbara Robinson)
54.) Hilfe, die Herdmanns kommen (Barbara Robinson)
55.) The best school year ever (Barbara Robinson)
56.) The boy in the striped pyjamas (John Boyne)
57.) Mere Anarchy (Woody Allen)
58.) The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
59.) Die fabelhaften Monsterakten der furchtlosen Minerva McFearless (Ahmet Zappa)
60.) Tintenblut (Cornelia Funke)
61.) Das Beste von Woody Allen
62.) Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones)
63.) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
64.) Die Vermessung der Welt (Daniel Kehlmann)
65.) The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
66.) Exit Wounds (Rutu Modan)
Quite a few rereads and a lot of kid´s lit but at least I managed to sqeeze in some German books.
Nearly 6 hours to go here so I´ll just post my list now.
For 2008:
1.) The best of McSweeney´s Vol 1 (Dave Eggers)
2.) The book thief (Markus Zusak)
3.) Comfort woman (Nora Okja Keller)
4.) The handmaid´s tale (Margaret Atwood)
5.) 31 songs (Nick Hornby)
6.) Niemalsland (Neil Gaiman)
7.) Thursday Next: First of Sequels (Jasper Fforde)
8.) Tintenherz (Cornelia Funke)
9.) Nachricht von einer Entführung (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
10.) Lean Mean Thirteen (Janet Evanovich)
11.) Lost in a good book (Jasper Fforde)
12.) The well of lost plots (Jasper Fforde)
13.) Something rotten (Jasper Fforde)
14.)White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
15.) Kalle Blomquist (Astrid Lindgren)
16.) Emil und die Detektive (Erich Kästner)
17.) The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
18.) Weekend in Paris (Robyn Sisman)
19.) Brave new world (Aldous Huxley)
20.) The beekeeper´s apprentice (Laurie R. King)
21.) Short stories: A window on the universe
22.) The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
23.) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
24.) Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
25.) The world according to Garp (John Irving)
26.) The Plato Papers (Peter Ackroyd)
27.) The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
28.) The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
29.) On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
30.) Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt)
31.) Never let me go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
32.) Matilda (Roald Dahl)
33.) The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde)
34.) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead (Tom Stoppard)
35.) Labels (Evelyn Waugh)
36.) The Poe Shadow (Mathhew Pearl)
37.) Fearless Fourteen (Janet Evanovich)
38.) Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher (Walter Moers)
39.) Special topics in Calamity physics (Marisha Pessl)
40.) Nachtzug nach Lissabon (Paul Mercier)
41.) The Almost Moon (Alice Sebold)
42.) The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall)
43.) Shakespeare (Bill Bryson)
44.) The Anomalies (Joey Goebel)
45.) The Killings at Badger´s Drift (Caroline Graham)
46.) The Wave (Morton Rhue)
47.) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
48.) A Concise Chinese- English Dictionary for Lovers (Xiaolu Guo)
49.) Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
50.) The Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
51.) The Mimic Men (V.S. Naipaul)
52.) Oracle Night (Paul Auster)
53.) Achtung, die Herdmanns sind zurück (Barbara Robinson)
54.) Hilfe, die Herdmanns kommen (Barbara Robinson)
55.) The best school year ever (Barbara Robinson)
56.) The boy in the striped pyjamas (John Boyne)
57.) Mere Anarchy (Woody Allen)
58.) The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
59.) Die fabelhaften Monsterakten der furchtlosen Minerva McFearless (Ahmet Zappa)
60.) Tintenblut (Cornelia Funke)
61.) Das Beste von Woody Allen
62.) Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones)
63.) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
64.) Die Vermessung der Welt (Daniel Kehlmann)
65.) The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
66.) Exit Wounds (Rutu Modan)
Quite a few rereads and a lot of kid´s lit but at least I managed to sqeeze in some German books.