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Post by bookaddict on Dec 15, 2008 19:04:07 GMT -5
Here is a list of the best books read in 2008
*The Boy in the Striped Pajamas By John Boyne
*The Other Boelyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
*Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
*Waiting by Ha Jin
*Unaccustomed Earth by Jhimpa Lahiri
*Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
*The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Rereads
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*Night
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Dec 15, 2008 21:39:29 GMT -5
I haven't kept track, but some of my favorites were The Catcher in the Rye and Trainspotting.
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Post by Isa on Dec 16, 2008 8:13:38 GMT -5
Great new thread! Here are mine: - A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
- Tit-Coq, by Gratien Gélinas
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- Lignes de faille, by Nancy Huston
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant
- The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold
- Summer of my Amazing Luck, by Miriam Toews
- Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin
Re-read: Persuasion, by Jane Austen |
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Post by Michelle on Dec 16, 2008 8:45:36 GMT -5
* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
* Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (re-read)
* The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevskey
* The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
* Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
* The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
* I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Post by neveralone on Dec 16, 2008 13:54:49 GMT -5
-The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
-Hamlet
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-The Great Gatsby
-Ethan Frome
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neh
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Post by neh on Dec 17, 2008 0:46:45 GMT -5
* I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
* Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
* Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
* The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
* The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield
* Breaking Dawn (for completion's sake)
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Post by bookworm on Dec 17, 2008 9:30:59 GMT -5
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Lords of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Post by Kristie on Dec 17, 2008 13:13:26 GMT -5
Well, I reread some JA books this year, so I loved those. And...
-a collection of Langston Hughes' short stories
-The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
-The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
-The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
-Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
-Aurora Dawn by Herman Wouk
-The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy
I ended up only reading 31 books (so far) this year. That's about 20 down from last year!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 13:27:36 GMT -5
The best of the books I read this year were:
The perfume by Patrick Suskind
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sleep! by Annelies Verbeke
Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally
And re-reads
How I became stupid by Martin Page
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Dec 17, 2008 16:05:01 GMT -5
At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt All of Jane Austen's books  Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama A Great and Terrible Beauty & Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (almost done with the 3rd book too!) |
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Post by annak on Dec 17, 2008 20:28:07 GMT -5
Who Moved My Cheese? Hands down.
Okay seriously though,
Twilight was good.
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Post by Lu on Dec 18, 2008 11:19:42 GMT -5
Great thread! - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (I can't believe that last year I was still waiting for it to come out ).
- The Wicked Pavillion by Dawn Powell
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Re-read: Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Emma, by Jane Austen I don't think The Portable Dorothy Parker counts, because I read most of it in 2007. Anyway, I loved it! |
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Post by Halie on Dec 19, 2008 2:29:57 GMT -5
- Tit-Coq, by Gratien Gélinas
This may just be me with my mind in a gutter, but is this the English name?! |
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Dec 19, 2008 9:06:48 GMT -5
lol, no, it's the French title. I've never been able to figure out whether it's been translated or not...
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Post by Melissa G. on Dec 21, 2008 19:06:33 GMT -5
Great idea!
The Thirteenth Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
All the Twilight books! lol
Full Moon Feast
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