Thursday, October 08, 2009

Books Read 2008

It's official: I am a failure as a blogger. I've managed to come to terms with it and even accepted the fact that I'll most likely never blog in any consistent manner.

Having written that, I've decided that I would like to at least keep track of my reading here. I do keep a record in my little notebook, but things happen--fires, floods, theft, amnesia--and I'd really like to not permanently lose the list. So here are the books I read in 2008--much less than 2007 for several reasons: new job and a little baby being the most time consuming. Total books read was 33, exactly half the total of last year. Once again, in rough chronological order:

January
Old Man's War, John Scalzi
The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
Snake Agent, Liz Williams
The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
The Digging Leviathan, James Blaylock

February
Fiasco, Stanislaw Lem
The Last Colony, John Scalzi

March
Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Charlie Huston
Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow
Caught Stealing, Charlie Huston
Six Bad Things, Charlie Huston
A Dangerous Man, Charlie Huston

April
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne Valente
A Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia

May

June

July
Accelerando, Charles Stross

August
The Girl in the Glass, Jeffrey Ford
Iron Council, China Mieville
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Resurrectionist, Jack O'Connell

September
Heart Shaped Box, Joe Hill

October
Anathem, Neal Stephenson
When You are Engulfed in Flame, David Sedaris
Hidden Talents, David Lubar
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Ghost in Love, Jonathan Carroll
Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis

November
The Somnambulist, Jonathan Barnes
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Minister Faust
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell

December
The Last Coin, James Blaylock
The Paper Grail, James Blaylock