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Jan 13, 2008 12:00:47 PM Archived Entry: "Books read 2008"

Last year I improved on my previous records and read 38 books! It's not a huge jump over the previous year but I think it's heading in the right direction. Right now I'm in the middle of Remembrance of Things Past (still), close to finishing volume four (I think), "Sodom and Gomorrah," but that should be wrapped up in January and I'll be on to great things!

1. Water Witch - Connie Willis
2. Dragonhaven - Robin McKinley
3. Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust (only The Prisoner and the Fugitive and Time Regained left now!)
4. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
5. The Knight of the Swords - Michael Moorcock
6. Drinker of Souls - Jo Clayton
7. Burning Chrome - William Gibson
February
8. Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
9. Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris
10. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
March
11. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
12. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
13. Blue Magic - Jo Clayton
April
14. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
15. Grave Surprise - Charlaine Harris
16. Shakespeare's Trollop - Charlaine Harris
May
17. Popcorn - Ben Elton
18. Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
19. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
20. Real Murders - Charlaine Harris
June
21. The Darwin Awards - Wendy Northcutt
22. Iron Sunrise - Charles Stross
23. A Fire in the Sun - George Alec Effinger
July
24. Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
25. The Prisoner and The Fugitive - Marcel Proust
26. Silverheart - Michael Moorcock & Storm Constantine
27. Saratoga Longshot - Stephen Dobyns
August
28. Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation - Brian Hambling
29. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
30. Snares of Ibex - Jo Clayton
September
31. Saratoga Swimmer - Stephen Dobyns
32. Shakespeare's Champion - Charlaine Harris
33. The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
34. A Bone to Pick - Charlaine Harris
October
35. Exile Kiss - George Alec Effinger
36. Time Regained - Marcel Proust
37. Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
November
38. The Bell at Sealey Head - Patricia McKillip
39. Charles Stross - Halting State
December
40. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
41. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories - Connie Willis
42. Chalice - Robin McKinley
43. Promised Land - Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice

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