Thursday, January 01, 2009

2008 in Books

These are the new books I read cover-to-cover this year. I'm sad the list doesn't even add up to a book a week! But I console myself that it might, if I added all the re-read favorites... :)

I've included links to the books I reviewed here on the blog.

  1. Every Living Thing by James Herriot
  2. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
  3. The Boomerang Clue by Agatha Christie
  4. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
  5. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  6. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
  7. Eternity in Our Hearts by R.C. Sproul Jr.
  8. The 3AM Epiphany: Uncommon Story Writing Exercises by Brian Kitely
  9. The One-Minute Organizer by Donna Smallin
  10. Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  11. Two Are Better Than One by Carol Ryrie Brink
  12. Hidden In Plain Sight (pre-publication draft) by Martin Selbrede
  13. The World’s Greatest Horse Stories
  14. Son of a Wanted Man by Louis L’Amour
  15. Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
  16. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
  17. A portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil
  18. Magic for Marigold by L.M. Montgomery
  19. Nothing to Wear? By Joe Rupo
  20. For Kirk and Covenant, The Stalwart Courage of John Knox by Douglas Wilson
  21. The Old Reliable by P.G. Wodehouse
  22. P.G. Wodehouse: An Illustrated Biography by Joseph Connolly
  23. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle
  24. The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
  25. Alone With God by John MacArthur
  26. Latin for Dummies by Clifford A. Hull
  27. Decorating With Books by Proeller Huston
  28. Power Through Prayer by E. M. Bounds
  29. A Thousand Days of Magic by Oleg Cassini
  30. Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help It Happen by Candice Watters
  31. Never Dies the Dream by Margaret Landon
  32. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez
  33. The Annotated Hobbit , annotations by Douglas A. Anderson
  34. The Golden Age of Couture, Paris and London 1947-1957, by Claire Wilcox (V/A Museum)
  35. Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
  36. The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery
  37. Eloise by Kay Thompson
  38. Eloise in Moscow by Kay Thompson
Here's to a more productive reading year in 2009!