BookList 2008

And it’s 2008. Here we go.

Summaries (sometimes) follow each title along with a BookMark — a rating system to let you know if a book on this list is worth your while. A title with just 1 BookMark is at the bottom of the pile; 5 BookMarks is an awesome read. Of course, keep in mind that these summaries and BookMark awards are completely subjective and in actuality just my opinion.

November

• “Salem’s Lot” by Stephen King — Did not finish.
• “Brisinger” by Christopher Paolini — 3 BookMarks.
• “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — 4 BookMarks.
• “The Little Book” by Selden Edwards — 4 BookMarks.

October

• “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer — 3 BookMarks.
• “The Other Queen” by Philippa Gregory — Did not finish.
• “Night of Thunder” by Stephen Hunter — 2.5 BookMarks.

September

• “The Thin Place” by Kathryn Davis — 2.5 BookMarks.
• “Silks” by Dick Francis and Felix Francis – Nostalgia runs too thick here. Read at your discretion. Though I will say I was a bit disappointed. 
• “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood — 2.5 BookMarks. 
• “How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook” edited by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida — 3 BookMarks.
• “The Gargoyle” by Andrew Davidson — 4.5 BookMarks.
• “Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne” by David Starkey — 4 BookMarks.

August

• “The Lace Reader” by Brunonia Berry — 3 BookMarks.
• “Metzger’s Dog” by Thomas Perry — Did not finish.
• “Winter Study” by Nevada Barr — 2.5 BookMarks.
• “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer — 3.5 BookMarks.
• “Next” by Michael Crichton — 3 BookMarks.
• “Sunshine” by Robin McKinley — 3 BookMarks.

July

• “The Arrival” by Shaun Tan — 4 BookMarks.
• “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer — 3 BookMarks.
• “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer — 3.5 BookMarks.
• “Forever” by Pete Hamill — 2 BookMarks.
• “Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet” by Joanne Proulx — 2.5 BookMarks.
• “Devil May Care” by Sebastian Faulks — 3 BookMarks.
• “The Plague of Doves” by Louise Erdrich — 4 BookMarks.
• “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer — 3.5 BookMarks.

June

• “All the Sad Young Literary Men” by Keith Gessen — 3 BookMarks.
• “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer — 5 BookMarks.
• “The Bright Forever” by Lee Martin — 2 BookMarks.

May

• “Shakespeare’s Wife” by Germaine Greer — 3.5 BookMarks.
• “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe” by Bill Bryson — 4 BookMarks.
• “Tishomingo Blues” by Elmore Leonard — 4 BookMarks.
• “Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess” by Lea Jacobson — 1.5 BookMarks.
• “The Outlander” by Gil Adamson — 2.5 BookMarks.
• “Hold Tight” by Harlan Coben — 2.5 BookMarks.
• “The Mercy Rule” by John Lescroart — 2.5 BookMarks.

April

• “Island of Ghosts” by Gillian Bradshaw — 3 BookMarks.
• “You’ve Been Warned” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan — 1 BookMark.
• “The Bird Artist” by Howard Norman — 3 BookMarks.
• “World Without End” by Ken Follett — 3.5 BookMarks.

March

• “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt — 5 BookMarks. 
• “City of the Sun” by David Levien — 3 BookMarks.
• “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson — 3 BookMarks.
• “One False Move” by Harlan Coben — 3 BookMarks.
• “Book of the Dead” by Patricia Cornwell — 2 BookMarks.
• “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon — 4 BookMarks.

February

• “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger — 5 BookMarks.
• “The Conquest” by Yxta Maya Murray — 2.5 BookMarks.

January

• “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert – 2.5 BookMarks.
• “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny” by Suze Orman – On hiatus.
• “Shoot Him If He Runs” by Stuart Woods — 1.5 BookMarks.
• “Run” by Ann Patchett — 4 BookMarks.
• “Away” by Amy Bloom — 4 BookMarks.
• “T is for Trespass” by Sue Grafton — 4 BookMarks.