Read in 2008

Submitted by bravereader on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:21
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  • [*****]Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • [***]The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
  • [*****]Andersonville by McKinley Kantor
  • [***]The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  • [*]The Mist by Stephen King
  • [*****]The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
  • [*]Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
  • [**]Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
  • [***]The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
  • [*****]re-read The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • [*****]Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Lewis
  • [***]Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King
  • [***]The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • [***]The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
  • [****]The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
  • [****]Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • [****]Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • [*****]re-read Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • [**]The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijeulos
  • [*****]The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  • [*****]Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller
  • [***]Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
  • [**]Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  • [***]re-read Disappointment With God by Philip Yancey
  • [****]Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
  • [***]The Reason for God by Timothy Keller
  • [**]The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  • [**]Revelations of a Single Woman by Connally Gilliam
  • [*****]re-read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
  • [***]My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  • [****]Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs
  • [*]Good Grief by Lolly Winston
  • [*****]The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • [*****]A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • [*****]So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
  • [***]The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • [***]Where is God When it Hurts? by Philip Yancey
  • [***]The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  • [*****]To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller
  • [****]Manic by Terri Cheney
  • [**]The Secret Things of God by Henry Cloud
  • [**] House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
  • [*****] Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
  • [***] Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
  • [re-read] Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
  • [****] The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • [*****] Plan B: More Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
  • [*****] Bird by Bird: Some Thoughts on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
  • [***]So Big by Edna Ferber
  • [*] How Starbuck's Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
  • [**}Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  • [****] The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
  • [***] One of Ours by Willa Cather
  • [****] Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • [**] Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
  • [****] The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Author Comments: 

Many of the books are Pulitzer Prize winners since I have started as a pet project to read every Pulitzer winner. Stars are on a five-star rating.

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