This is my (incomplete, sorry) book list for 2008. I also fill in the gaps with the New Yorker, Artforum, Mothering, Martha Stewart Living , Dwell, KoreAm, and Vogue – as far as print goes. Damn, I get a lot of magazines… To view my cyber reading habits, look under my Links page. You can see my Books Read 2007 list here.
- The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life by Geshe Michael Roach.
- The Secret Life of the Unborn Child by Thomas Verny, M.D., with John Kelly
- Getting Things Done by David Allen (just finished it for a second time)
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin (excellent inspirational reading for expecting mothers)
- Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs (fast, fun read)
- Away by Amy Bloom
- Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (abandoned this one because I didn’t want to read about somebody killing her mother while I was pregnant)
- And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Human Wishes by Robert Hass (poetry)
- Birthing from Within by Pam England and Rob Horowitz
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (on audio)
- And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- The Golden Spruce by John Valliant
- A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
- Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
- Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell and the Clean Team
- Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene by Ingrid Bauer
- The Host by Stephanie Meyer
- All’s Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Nellcott is my Darling by Golda Fried
- In Revere, In Those Days by Roland Merullo
- Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
- Louder Than Words by Jenny McCarthy
I used to meet with a bookclub once a month in Palm Desert, California – we were mostly teachers and one school psychologist. I read with them for only a year, but they have been meeting for several years. You can see their complete book list here.
Other Book Lists
Caryn is a French-speaking, tree-hugging, yoga-teaching brainiac who happens to reside in Joshua Tree. She also writes poetry and crusades against insensitivity around the world. If you are curious as to what she’s feeding her brain, you can check out her current reading list here.
And here you can find a Best 100 Novels list by Random House. There are actually two lists: one by the board and one by readers.
Literary Blogs
The Elegant Variation – a blog written by LA-based writer Mark Sarvas. He has the reputation of being a jerk, but I don’t know yet if that rap is merited. His blog looks interesting and smart, and he covers substantial literary ground. His blog also been noticed and awarded things on both sides of the Atlantic.
