Books Read in 2008

(Cross-posted from the book blog - deal with it)

102 this year, including some very long stuff and some very short stuff so there you go. For me this goes down as the year of A Dance to the Music of Time - sublime stuff and well worth the investment of time and valuable thinkiness.

Best Books: A Dance to the Music of Time, The Moonstone, Arthur and George, I Claudius, The Power and the Glory, On Chesil Beach, Oliver Twist, Brideshead Revisited, The Secret River

Worst Book: The Subterraneans

Longest Book: Les Miserables

Shortest Book: Ruth

Non-Fiction Books: 29

Australian Authors: 5

Female Authors: 15

Resolution for 2009: See the next post. Eek!

1 Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
2 Piccadilly Jim - P.G. Wodehouse
3 The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
4 Park and Ride - Miranda Sawyer
5 Author, Author - David Lodge
6 Continent - Jim Crace
7 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
8 State of the Nation - Michael Billington
9 England Made Me - Graham Greene
10 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
11 What’s The Matter With America? - Thomas Frank
12 In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
13 Fireworks - Angela Carter
14 A Buyer’s Market - Anthony Powell
15 Rip It Up And Start Again - Simon Reynolds
16 The Damned United - David Peace
17 The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
18 Miami - Joan Didion
19 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
20 Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
21 Towards The End Of The Morning - Michael Frayn
22 Jilla and Me - Diane Cameron
23 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
24 Joshua
25 The Fall of Troy - Peter Ackroyd
26 Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction - Mike Mignola
27 The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
28 The Second Plane - Martin Amis
29 Hellboy: Wake the Devil - Mike Mignola
30 The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
31 The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
32 The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens
33 Judges
34 Ruth
35 Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
36 Last Chance To See… - Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
37 Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
38 I, Claudius - Robert Graves
39 Frost On My Moustache - Tim Moore
40 Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
41 Lady Susan - Jane Austen
42 Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
43 The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
44 Against Nature - J.K. Huysmans
45 Bone: Out from Boneville - Jeff Smith
46 The Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark
47 The Wisdom of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
48 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey
49 On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
50 The Beggar’s Opera - John Gay
51 London Voices, London Lives - Peter Hall
52 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
53 At Lady Molly’s - Anthony Powell
54 She - H. Rider Haggard
55 Swearing - Geoffrey Hughes
56 Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
57 From Russia With Love - Ian Fleming
58 The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
59 Me - Katharine Hepburn
60 The Tin Men - Michael Frayn
61 The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell
62 Maigret and the Ghost - Georges Simenon
63 The Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
64 Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
65 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
66 Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
67 The Gathering - Anne Enright
68 The Porn Report - Alan McKee, Katherine Albury & Catharine Lumby
69 My Friend Maigret - Georges Simenon
70 Mimi and Toutou Go Forth - Giles Foden
71 The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell
72 Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
73 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
74 House of Meetings - Martin Amis
75 The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
76 The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac
77 The Soldier’s Art - Anthony Powell
78 Bone: The Great Cow Race - Jeff Smith
79 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
80 The Secret River - Kate Grenville
81 The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
82 Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
83 Newton - Peter Ackroyd
84 Books Do Furnish A Room - Anthony Powell
85 Stranger in a Strange Land - Gary Younge
86 Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
87 Hearing Secret Harmonies - Anthony Powell
88 The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
89 Stranded - Clinton Walker
90 Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
91 Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants To Do This, and Other Lies from a Life in the Screen Trade - Bruce Beresford
92 Thames; Sacred River - Peter Ackroyd
93 The Abbess of Crewe - Muriel Spark
94 Notorious; The Life of Ingrid Bergman - Donald Spoto
95 The Elephant Man and other reminiscences - Frederick Treves
96 Angel - Elizabeth Taylor
97 The Incredulity of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
98 Gilgamesh - Joan London
99 Making Movies - Sidney Lumet
100 The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
101 Classics, a very short introduction - Mary Beard and John Henderson
102 The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow