Reading List of 2008
Submitted by listology47 on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 22:33
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- 1. The True Believer- Eric Hoffer
- 2. This Year You Write Your Novel- Walter Mosley
- 3. Queen Camilla – Sue Townsend
- 4. Writing to Change the World- Mary Pipher
- 5. Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Aboard- Edited by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow
- 6. How To Get Suspended and Influence People – Adam Selzer
- 7. My Last Supper 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals: Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes – Melanie Dunea
- 8. The Uncommon Reader –Alan Bennett
- 9. Life’s Little Deconstruction Book: Self-help for the Post-Hip- Andrew Boyd
- 10. The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are- Andrew Cohen
- 11. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman- Nora Ephron
- 12. How to Build a Better Book Club- Peter O’Brien & Harry Heft
- 13. Me Funny- compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
- 14. Insecure At Last: Losing It In Our Security Obsessed World- Eve Ensler
- 15. Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections – edited and photographed by Danielle Schaub
- 16. Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket- Trevor White
- 17. Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction- edited by Joy Gugeler
- 18. Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions – Eds. Linda Hutcheon & Marion Richmond
- 19. Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer’s Life –Bret Lott
- 20. Essential English Idioms: An Up-To-Date Guide To the Idioms Of British English- Richard A. Spears Ph. D. & Betty Kirkpatrick
- 21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: a novel in cartoons – Jeff Kinney
- 22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules = Jeff Kinney
- 23. The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
- 24. Camel Club- David Baldacci
- 25. The Kitchen Diaries- Nigel Slater
- 26. Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously- Julie Powell
- 27. Blackouts: Stories- Chris Boyko
- 28. The End of America: Letters of Warning to a Young Patriot- Naomi Wolf
- 29. The Flying Troutmans- Miriam Toews
- 30. How to Be Idle- Tom Hodgkinson
- 31. The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories- ed. Jane Urquart
26, 31, 23 and 10 were superb. I have recommended 23 to many folks. No one was disappointed.