Book List

Book List for 2008

1. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
2. Art of Urban Cycling by Robert Hurst
3. Beer: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing by Charles Bamforth (completed reading 3/30/08)
4. The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
5. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
6. Dishwasher by Pete Jordan
7. Fabric of America: How our borders and boundaries by Andro Linklater
8. Fire on the Prairie by Gary Rivlin
9. A Game of Brawl by Bill Felber (completed reading 5/12/08)
10. Ghost Writer by John Harwood
11. Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
12. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
13. Lee Miller’s War by Anthony Penrose (completed 5/28/08)
14. Making People’s Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records by Peter Goldsmith
15. Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
16. Manhattan ‘45 by Jan Morris
17. March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
18. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (completed reading on 1/9/08)
19. Middlesex by Jefferey Eugenides
20. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (completed 6/19/08)
21. Oxford by Jan Morris
22. The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists, A Novel by Gideon Defoe
23. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K Vaughan (completed reading on 1/12/08)
24. Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
25. Rough Crossing by Simon Schama
26. Slam by Nick Hornby (completed reading on 1/6/08)
27. The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
28. Trawler by Redmond O’Hanlon
29. Where’s My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived by Daniel Wilson
30. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (completed 6/6/08)
31. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (reading online via DailyLit as of 1/1/08)
32. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (completed reading on 1/20/08)
33. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (completed reading on 2/23/08)
34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Around the World for a Good Book

January - Haiti: Danticat Krik? Krak! (completed reading as of 1/25/08)
February - South Africa: Paton Cry, the Beloved Country (completed reading 3/3/08)
March - Palestine: Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (completed reading 4/15/08)
April - Germany: Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll (completed reading 4/30/08)
May - Argentina: Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (completed 5/31/08)
June - Australia: Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally (completed 6/11/08)
July - Peru: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (started 7/18/08)
August - Czech Republic: Kundera The Joke
September - Somalia: Farah Links
October - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Andric The Bridge on the Drina
November - Uganda: Isegawa Abysinnian Chronicles
December - Zimbabwe: Dangarembga Nervous Conditions

W&M Boston alumni book group

January: The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (completed reading on 1/4/08)
February: American Pastoral by Phillip Roth (completed reading on 2/6/08)
March: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (completed reading as of 3/9/08)
April: The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (completed reading 4/2/08)
May: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
June: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
July: Bleak House by Charles Dickens (reading as of 7/9/08)
August:The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (completed 6/19/08)
September:
October:
November:
December:

Book-A-Month Challenge

January: Challenge # 1 - Time. My choice: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (completed reading 1/20/08)
February: Challenge #2 - Heart. My choice: The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (completed reading on 2/23/08)
March: Challenge #3 - Craft. My choice: Beer: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing by Charles Bamforth (completed reading 3/30/08)
April: Challenge #4 - Beauty. My choice: Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook(completed reading 4/18/08).
May: Challenge #5 - Mother. My choice: Lee Miller’s War by Anthony Penrose (completed 5/28/08)
June: Challenge #6 - Knowledge. My choice: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (completed 6/6/08)
July: Challenge #7 - Independence. My choice: The Declaration of Independence: A Global History by David Armitage (completed 7/11/08)
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November:
December:

New Additions (Books discovered since Jan. 08)

The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle (review)
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (website)
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (reviews)
Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneir (review)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1 by M.T. Anderson (website)
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston (interview)
Facing the Lion by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (Unshelved comic) (Kenya)
The Assist by Neil Swidely
Respect: An Exploration by Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot (interview)
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifest by Michael Pollan (review) (review)
God Save the Fan by Will Leitch (”Only A Game” interview)
The Lodger by Charles Nicholl (review)
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappe (website)
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox by Steven Budiansky (interview)
The Dark Side of the Diamond by Roger Abrams (interview)
Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook (Review)
All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka (review)
Early Bird by Rodney Rotham (WPR)
Love is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield (WPR)
Road Trip Pilgrim by Dan Austin (Travel With Rick Steves)
Growing the Game by Alan Klein (Only A Game)
Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment by Harold Schechter (review)
Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War (review)
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon (interview)
Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between by Carol Burns (interview)
A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America–One State Quarter at a Time by Jim Noles (review)
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson (review)
American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent (interview) (review)
Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman (review)
Faithful Dissenters: Stories of Men and Women Who Loved and Changed the Church by Robert McClory
As It Was in the Beginning: The Coming Democratization of the Catholic Church by Robert McClory
How the States Got their Shapes by Mark Stein (Unshelved comic)
How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life by Chris Balish (review)
You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right by Brad Hirschfield (book)
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terrorism by Beverly Gage (article)
The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky (interview)
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (interview)
The Silenced by James Devita (interview)
Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life by J. Harry Wray (review)
Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands by Christopher Kline (publisher)
Where the Wild Things Were By William Stolzenburg (review)
Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife By Marie Winn (review)

Books Read in 2008

1. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (completed reading on 1/4/08)
2. Slam by Nick Hornby (completed reading on 1/6/08)
3. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (completed reading on 1/9/08)
4. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K Vaughan (completed reading on 1/12/08)
5. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (completed reading on 1/20/08)
6. Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (completed reading as of 1/25/08)
7. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth (completed reading on 2/6/08)
8. Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To by Anthony DeStefano (completed reading on 2/9/08)
9. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (completed reading 2/13/08)
10. God’s Library by Joe Paprocki (completed reading 2/12/08)
11. The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes (completed reading on 2/18/08)
12. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (completed reading on 2/23/08)
13. How Big is Your God? by Paul Cutinho (currently reading as of 2/23/08)
14. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (completed reading 3/3/08)
15. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (completed reading as of 3/9/08)
16. Hell’s Abyss, Heaven’s Grace: War and Christian Spirituality by Lawrence D. Hart (completed reading as of 3/12/08)
17. Saints Behaving Badly by Thomas J. Craughwell (completed reading 3/16/08)
18. Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan (completed reading 3/18/08)
19. The Rapture Exposed by Barbara R. Rossing (completed reading 3/20/08)
20. The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine (completed 3/22/08)
21. Googling God by Mike Hayes (completed reading 3/25/08)
22. Beer: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing by Charles Bamforth (completed reading 3/30/08)
23. The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (completed reading 4/2/08)
24. Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook(completed reading 4/18/08)
25. Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (completed reading 4/15/08)
26. Mets by the Numbers by Jon Springer and Matthew Silverman (completed reading 4/29/08)
27. Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll (completed reading 4/30/08)
28. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1 by M.T. Anderson (completed 5/2/08)
29. The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle (completed reading 5/6/08)
30. A Game of Brawl by Bill Felber (completed reading 5/12/08)
31. The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox by Steven Budiansky (completed reading 5/14/08)
32. All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka (completed reading 5/19/08)
33. Lee Miller’s War by Anthony Penrose (completed 5/28/08)
34. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (completed 5/31/08)
35. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (completed 6/6/08)
36. Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally (completed 6/11/08)
37. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (completed 6/19/08)
38. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (completed 6/28/08)
39. The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe (completed 7/6/08)
40. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (completed 7/9/08)
41. The Declaration of Independence: A Global History by David Armitage (completed 7/11/08)
42. This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (reading as of 7/15/08)
43. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (started 7/18/08)