2008 Book List

January

• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

March

• Adventure Capitalist – Jim Rogers
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
• 1984 – George Orwell

April

• Transmission – Hari Kunzru
• Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
• The Second World War, Book I – Winston Churchill
• jPod – Douglas Coupland
• The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings about Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom – Daniel Jones, editor

May

• The Second World War, Book II – Winston Churchill
• Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
• Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
• Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
• The Quiet American – Graham Greene
• Hey Nostradamus! – Douglas Coupland
• The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall

June

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
• Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
• Sea of Glory – Nathaniel Philbrick

July

• Bookmark Now – Kevin Smokler (editor)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

August

• My Life as a Fake – Peter Carey
• Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
• About a Boy – Nick Hornby
• The Geographer’s Library – Jon Fasman
• Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
• Of Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham

September

• The Second World War, Book III – Winston Churchill

October

• Ten Little Indians – Sherman Alexie
• Continental Drift – Russell Banks
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

November

• A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
• Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

December

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
• 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams