Books Read 2008
January 2008
- Twilight—Stephanie Meyer
- New Moon— Stephanie Meyer
- Eclipse—Stephanie Meyer
- Everything I Need to Learn About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume—-Jennifer O’Connell, ed.
- The Egypt Game—Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Witch Child—Celia Rees
- Speak—Laurie Halse Anderson
February 2008
- The Book Thief—Markus Zusak
- Fever 1793—Laurie Halse Anderson
- I Am the Messenger—Markus Zusak
- Prom—Laurie Halse Anderson
- Cataylst—Laurie Halse Anderson
- Blackbird House—Alice Hoffman
- Twisted—Laurie Halse Anderson
- Pirates!—Celia Rees
March 2008
- A Northern Light—Jennifer Donnelly
- Sorceress—Celia Rees
- A Certain Slant of Light—Laura Whitcomb
- Fighting Ruben Wolfe—Markus Zusak
- Out of the Dust—Karen Hesse
- Gathering Blue—Lois Lowry
- One for the Money—Janet Evanovich
- Getting the Girl—Markus Zusak
- Austenland—Shannon Hale
- Two for the Dough—Janet Evanovich
April 2008
- Three to Get Deadly—Janet Evanovich
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town—Kimberly Willis Holt
- Four to Score—Janet Evanovich
- Hattie Big Sky—Kirby Larson
- High Five—Janet Evanovich
- The Truth About Forever—Sarah Dessen
- Hot Six—Janet Evanovich
- Seven Up—Janet Evanovich
- Al Capone Does My Shirts—Gennifer Choldenko
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower—Stephen Chbosky
- Hard Eight—Janet Evanovich
- To the Nines–Janet Evanovich
- Ten Big Ones—Janet Evanovich
May 2008
- Eleven On Top—Janet Evanovich
- Twelve Sharp—Janet Evanovich
- Visions of Sugar Plums—Janet Evanovich
- Plum Lovin’ —Janet Evanovich
- Just Listen—Sarah Dessen
- Lean Mean Thirteen—Janet Evanovich
- Plum Lucky—Janet Evanovich
- Dreamland—Sarah Dessen
- This Lullaby—Sarah Dessen
- A Great and Terrible Beauty—Libba Bray
- Keeping the Moon—Sarah Dessen
- Rebel Angels—Libba Bray
June 2008
- The Sweet Far Thing—Libba Bray
- Going Solo—Roald Dahl
- Stardust—Neil Gaiman
- The Luxe—Anna Godberson
- Life as We Knew It—Susan Beth Pfeffer
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret—Brian Selznick
July 2008
- Doubt: A Play —John Patrick Shanley
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes—Maureen Johnson
- Shutter Island—Dennis Lehane
- Ophelia—Lisa Klien
- Crocodile on the Sandbank—Elizabeth Peter
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle—Shirley Jackson
- Girl at Sea—Maureen Johnson
- Lock and Key—Sarah Dessen
August 2008
- The Winter Rose—Jennifer Donnelly
- Breaking Dawn—Stephenie Meyer
- Matilda—Roald Dahl
- The Tea Rose—Jennifer Donnelly
- The Bloody Chamber—Angela Carter
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!—Laura Amy Schlitz
September 2008
- Harriet the Spy—Louise Fitzhugh
- Coraline—Neil Gaiman
- Dead Until Dark—Charlaine Harris
October 2008
- Fearless Fourteen—Janet Evanovich
- The Ruby in the Smoke—Philip Pullman
- Living Dead in Dallas—Charlaine Harris
- The Season of Passage—Christopher Pike
- Story of a Girl—Sara Zarr
November 2008
- Sweethearts—Sara Zarr
- The Minister’s Daughter—Julie Hern
- Saints and Strangers—Angela Carter
December 2008
- Forever Amber—Kathleen Winsor
- The Robber Bridegroom—Eudora Welty
- Imagined London—Anna Quindlen
- Asylum—Patrick McGrath
- These Old Shades—Georgette Heyer
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What do you think of the Sookie Stackhouse books?
Wendy: I liked the first one, Dead Until Dark. Southern Vampires seemed a new spin on a familiar genre. I was not too keen on the second book (Living Dead in Dallas) and that’s about as far as I went with the Sookie Stackhouse series. Usually judging from experience (see the Stephanine Plum series), a series that long has a tendency to jump the shark.