the Scott Stein

I didn't do as good a job tracking the books I read this year as I did last year, but I think the below covers it. I hope your 2008 in books was a good one. This list is cross-posted at When Falls the Coliseum, where you can comment and discuss the books if you'd like.

1. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, stories by Susanna Clarke

2. I, The Jury, a novel by Mickey Spillane

3. Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

4. Boomsday, a novel by Christopher Buckley

5. The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini

7. The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang

8. The Thirteenth Tale, a novel by Diane Setterfield

9. The Godwulf Manuscript, a novel by Robert B. Parker

10. How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker

11. The Tyranny of Good Intentions, by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton

12. Everything Bad is Good for You, by Steven Johnson

13. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler

14. Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories, by P.G. Wodehouse

15. Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words, by John Man

16. Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku

17. The Time Machine, a novel by H.G. Wells

18. Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace

19. V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore

20. Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett

21. The Misanthrope, by Moliere

22. The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum