Outside A Dog

I managed to polish off 87 books in 2008 — more than twice as many as I did in 2007, when I started keeping track.

December

Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross

November

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

October

Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Beside A Burning Sea by John Shors
The Grift: A Novel by Debra Ginsberg
The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

September

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
The Woman In Red by Eileen Goudge
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore
We Might As Well Win by Johan Bruyneel
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Matters of Faith by Kristy Kiernan

August

Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France by Floyd Landis
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
Whacked by Jules Asner

July

The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
A Dog Among Diplomats by J.F. Englert
Sheer Abandon: A Novel by Penny Vincenzi
The Host by Stephanie Meyer
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France by David Walsh

June

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz

May

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Atonement by Ian Mcewan
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

April

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
One in a Million by Kimberla Lawson Roby
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon by Nick Trout
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Lost and Found: A Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst

March

Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag by Michael Tonello
Howards End by E.M. Forster

February

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

January

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall