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2008 Planned Reading List (+ = in progress / bold = completed / * = authors that are new to me)

I plan to read 26 (A-to-Z) new-to-me authors (fiction), plus at least 6 non-fiction books, and 6 classics that I haven't read before.

Completed: 21 of 26 new authors / 6 of 6 non-fiction / 2 of 6 classics

Total read (full-length): 70 / Total read (short & audio): 26

Fiction

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• *Ackroyd, Peter, The Clerkenwell Tales
• Alexander, Robert, Rasputin's Daughter
• *Bacigalupi, Paolo, "Yellow Card Man"
• *Baker, Kevin, Paradise Alley
• *Berman, Judith, "Awakening"
• *Berry, Steve, The Alexandria Link
• *Bramlett, Terry, "Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone"
• Bujold, Lois McMaster, The Sharing Knife: Passage
• *Cain, Chelsea, Heartsick
• Cain, Chelsea, Sweetheart
• Chiang, Ted, "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
• *Childs, Laura, The Jasmine Moon Murder
• *Coben, Harlan, Tell No One
• *Collins, Billy, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
• *Dickinson, Peter, King and Joker
• *DeNoux, O'Neil, "Slimy Things Did Crawl With Legs Upon the Slimy Sea"
• *Dunant, Sarah, Birth of Venus
• *Erickson, Carolly, The Last Wife of Henry VIII
• *Etchemendy, Nancy, "Shore Leave Blacks"
• *Franklin, Ariana, Mistress of the Art of Death
• *Frazer, Margaret, The Clerk's Tale
• *Frederick, Carl, "The Art of Creation"
• Frederick, Carl, "The Ants of Imhotep"
• Freedman, Benedict & Nancy, Mrs. Mike
• *Follett, Ken, Pillars of the Earth
• *Gold, H. L., Inside Man and Other Science Fictions
• *Gunning, Sally, The Widow's War
• Hambly, Barbara, Search the Seven Hills
• *Harris, Thomas, The Silence of the Lambs
• Harrison, Harry, Make Room! Make Room!
• Hill, Joe, 20th Century Ghosts
• *Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns
• *Hughes, Matthew, "The Helper and His Hero"
• *Ironside, Elizabeth, Death in the Garden
• *Jaskunas, Paul, Hidden
• *Koontz, Dean, Lightning
• Kress, Nancy, "Fountain of Age"
• Kress, Nancy, "Safeguard"
• L'amour, Louis, Trail Mix Vol. 2 (audiobook)
• *Latus, Janine, If I Am Missing or Dead
• *Levine, David D., "Titanium Mike Saves the Day"
• *Lippman, Laura, What the Dead Know
• Lovett, Richard A., "Dinosaur Blood"
• *MacDonald, Patricia, Married to a Stranger
• Malzberg, Barry, "In the Stone House"
• +Martin, George R. R., Dreamsongs, Vol. 1
• *Matheson, Richard, What Dreams May Come
• *McAllister, Bruce, "Kin"
• Mosley, Walter, The Wave
• *Nazarian, Vera, "The Story of Love"
• *O'Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried
• *Pelland, Jennifer, "Captive Girl"
• *Piper, H. Beam, Little Fuzzy
• Preston, Douglas, Tyrannosaur Canyon
• Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child, Relic
• Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child, Reliquary
• *Rathbone, Belinda, Living with the Laird
• *Rothfuss, Patrick, The Name of the Wind
• Rosenbaum, Benjamin, "The House Beyond Your Sky"
• Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Retrieval Man's Bargain"
• *Ryman, Geoff, "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter"
• Shatner, William & Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Star Trek: Academy: Collision Course
• Shepard, Lucius, "Stars Seen Through Stone"
• *Shortridge, Jennie, Eating Heaven
• *Shunn, William, "Inclination"
• *Shute, Nevil, On the Beach
• Slaughter, Karin, Fractured
• *Slaughter, Karin, Triptych
• *Smith, Scott, The Ruins
• *Smith, Lee, On Agate Hill
• Sterling, Bruce, "Kiosk"
• *Swann, Leonie, Three Bags Full
• *Swerling, Beverly, Shadowbrook
• *Thayer, Nancy, The Hot Flash Club
• *Turzillo, Mary, "Pride"
• *Unger, Lisa, Beautiful Lies
• Vajra, Rajnar, "Doctor Alien"
• *Vantrease, Brenda Rickman, The Illuminator
• *Vidal, Gore, Lincoln
• Willis, Connie, Bellwether
• *Xingjian, Gao, Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories

Non-Fiction

1. *Benedict, Jeff, No Bone Unturned
2. *Bown, Stephen, Scurvy
3. *Colas, Emily, Just Checking
4. +*Ehrman, Bart, Misquoting Jesus
5. Grandin, Temple, Animals in Translation
6. *Hitchens, Christopher, God Is Not Great
   
7. *Hunt, Linda Lawrence, Bold Spirit
8. *Jager-Hyman, Joie, Fat Envelope Frenzy
9. *Kreamer, Anne, Going Gray
10. *Kendall, Joshua, The Man Who Made Lists
11. *Maguire, Nancy, An Infinity of Little Hours
12. *Mathews, Ellie, The Ungarnished Truth
    
13. *Philbrick, Nathaniel, In the Heart of the Sea
    
14. *Reichl, Ruth, Garlic and Sapphires
15. *Robison, John Elder, Look Me in the Eye
16. +*Rosen, William, Justinian's Flea
17. *Zimmerman, Jean, Made From Scratch
18. Zimmerman, Jean, The Women of the House

Classics

1. *Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo
   
2. *Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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