Book List 2008

These are the books I read in 2008. Those that I’ve written about I have linked. In no particular order.

1. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
3. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
4. The Borrowers – Mary Norton
5. The Complete Tales – Beatrix Potter
6. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
7. Pipi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
8. Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
9. The Catcher in the Rye – J D Sallinger
10. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
11. The Sea – John Banville
12. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ
13. Five Days in London – John Lukacs
    
14. Absolute Power – Ian Wishart
15. The Handmaid and the Carpenter – Elizabeth Berg
16. Sarah – Orson Scott Card
17. A Voice in the Wind – Francine Rivers
18. The Constant Princess – Philippa Gregory
19. Resistance – Owen Sheers
20. Morgan’s Run – Colleen McCullough
21. Jessica – Bryce Courtenay
22. The Touch – Colleen McCullough
23. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
24. The City of Joy – Dominique Lapierre
25. I am David – Anne Holm
26. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
27. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally
28. Lies That Go Unchallenged – Charles Colson
29. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve
30. Mrs Kimble – Jennifer Haigh
    
31. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt
32. The Well Trained Mind – Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
33. For the Children’s Sake – Susan Schaeffer Macauley
    
34. The Perfect Storm – Sebastion Junger
35. Forest Gump – Winston Groom
36. Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally
37. Corelli’s Mandolin – Loius DeBernieres (didn’t finish)
38. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
39. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
40. Tandia – Bryce Courtenay
41. Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibagiza
42. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier – Ishmael Beah
43. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
44. There is no me without You – Melissa Fay Greene
45. Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
46. Heart of Darfur – Lisa French Blaker
47. Arlington Park – Rachel Cusk
48. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
49. Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds – Tom Davis