Feast of Books, 2008

My friend Gail asked me how many books I've read since 2008 started, and I really had no idea. I've seen other bloggers keep a list as the year progresses of books they've read, and I thought that might be fun to try this year. I can't figure out a simpler, less obtrusive way to do this, so I'm just going to start a list here with all the books I can remember finishing so far in 2008 (although I'm coming up blank about what I read earlier in January). Lucky for you, it should eventually drop off the radar, but I'll just keep going back and adding to it so I can tally it up at the end of the year. Feel free to comment if you've read any of these and want to say something about one, or if you have any recommendations.

FICTION
Whitethorn Woods/Maeve Binchy
The Yokota Officer's Club/Sarah Bird (Check out The Flamenco Academy, also by her, great books)
Water for Elephants/Sara Gruen
The Memory Keeper's Daughter/Kim Edwards
Breaking the Silence/Diane Chamberlain
The Last Summer (of You and Me)/Ann Brashares (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author)
All the Numbers/Judy Merrill Larsen
How to Be Lost/Amanda Eyre Ward
Of Sound Mind/Jean Ferris (a YA book I read for research, but really good!)
The Feast of Love/Charles Baxter
The Kite Runner/Khaled Hosseini
Bel Canto/Ann Patchett
Orange Mint and Honey/Carleen Brice
Souvenir/Therese Fowler
Flirting with Pete/Barbara Delinsky
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine/Bebe Moore Campbell
The Alchemist/Paolo Coelho
The Mermaid Chair/Sue Monk Kidd
The Things We do for Love/Kristin Hanna
The Awakening/Kate Chopin
Dream When You're Feeling Blue/Elizabeth Berg
Pieces of My Sister's Life/Elizabeth Joy Arnold
Beach Music/Pat Conroy
the girl who stopped swimming/Joshilyn Jackson
Cypress Point/Diane Chamberlain
Salem Falls/Jodi Picoult
Still Summer/Jacquelyn Mitchard
Promise the Moon/Elizabeth Joy Arnold
Before the Storm/Diane Chamberlain
Riding Lessons/Sara Gruen
Family Tree/Barbara Delinsky
Promise Not to Tell/Jennifer McMahon
Tell No One/Harlan Coben
Plain Truth/Jodi Picoult
The Pull of the Moon/Elizabeth Berg
The Year of Fog/Michelle Redmond
Love in the Time of Cholera/Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Peony in Love/Lisa See
The Lace Reader/Brunonia Barry
The Secret Between Us/Barbara Delinsky
Ask Again Later/Jill A. Davis
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and Other Small Acts of Liberation/Elizabeth Berg
Barefoot/Elin Hilderbrand
Catching Genius/Kristy Kiernan
Where the River Runs/Patti Callahan Henry
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase/Joan Aiken (re-read of a childhood favorite!)
Child 44/Tom Rob Smith
Lottery/Patricia Wood
Matters of Faith/Kristy Kiernan
Change of Heart/Jodi Picoult
The Pilot's Wife/Anita Shreve
The Secret Life of Bees/Sue Monk Kidd
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox/Maggie O'Farrell
After You'd Gone/Maggie O'Farrell
The Fields of Fortune/Jessica Stirling
Bride Island/Alexandra Enders
Reunion/Therese Fowler (UK edition bought in England, not out in US until 2009!)
About a Boy/Nick Hornby
The Shack/William P. Young
Flying Changes/Sara Gruen
A Patchwork Planet/Anne Tyler

NONFICTION*
Eat, Pray, Love/Elizabeth Gilbert
The Forest for the Trees/Betsy Lerners
Firstlight/Sue Monk Kidd
Finding Water/Julia Cameron
Story/Robert McKee
The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary/Richard A. Tennant and Marianne Gluszak Brown
American Sign Language: The Easy Way, 2nd ed./Barron's
Finding Your Writer's Voice/Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall
Writing the Breakout Novel/Donald Maass
The Complete Guide to Editing Your Fiction/Michael Seidman
Dynamic Characters/Nancy Kress

* I rarely read nonfiction cover-to-cover, and I feel quite guilty (haha) putting them here if I didn't read every single page. So, here is a disclaimer. If a book appears here, it means I read most of it ... or perhaps half? :-D