Reese's Official 2008 Reading List

1. Digging To America by Anne Tyler
2. From The Bible: John, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Collosians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1, 2 and 3 John, Jude
3. Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
4. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Mr Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
7. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
8. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
9. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
10. Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
12. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
13. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
15. Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
16. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
17. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
18. The Prayer Chest by August Gold & Joel Fotinos
19. Saddam's Secrets by Georges Sada
20. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
21. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
22. Angela & Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
23. It's Not About Me by Max Lucado
24. I, Richard by Elizabeth George
25. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
26. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
27. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (audio book)
28. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
29. Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter
30. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
31. Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
32. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
33. Red Letters: Living A Faith That Bleeds by Tom Davis
34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
35. Sense and Sensuality: Jesus Talks to Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure by Ravi Zacharias
36. Bankruptcy by David Limbaugh
37. Ribbon of Years by Robin Lee Hatcher
38. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
39. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
40. My Grandfather's Son; A Memoir by Clarence Thomas (audio book)

My goal was 50, which I reached if I count each book of the Bible separately. I had planned to count the entire New Testament as one book, so it feels like cheating to count any of it at all!

On to 2009's list...

(BTW, yes, I'm back home now! More on that after I've completed the things irking me most over the past few days: needing to update the blog's reading lists, and the need to pluck my eyebrows. Somethings just need to be done pronto!)

(Oh, and also: I think I'm going to choose my "book of the year" from my reading list, and hope Heather will too. It might be a challenge to pick just one, but don't you think the choice would be a nice clue into a person's mind?!)