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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: 20 of 26 new authors / 6 of 6 non-fiction / 1 of 6 classics

Total read (full-length): 52 / Total read (short & audio): 13

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
• *Bacigalupi, Paolo, "Yellow Card Man"
• *Baker, Kevin, Paradise Alley
• Bujold, Lois McMaster, The Sharing Knife: Passage
• *Cain, Chelsea, HeartSick
• 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
• *Estleman, Loren, Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
• *Etchemendy, Nancy, "Shore Leave Blacks"
• *Franklin, Ariana, Mistress of the Art of Death
• *Frederick, Carl, "The Art of Creation"
• Frederick, Carl, "The Ants of Imhotep"
• *Follett, Ken, Pillars of the Earth
• *Gold, H. L., Inside Man and Other Science Fictions
• *Gunning, Sally, The Widow's War
• *Hamill, Pete, North River
• *Harris, Joanne, Gentlemen and Players
• *Harris, Thomas, The Silence of the Lambs
• Hill, Joe, 20th Century Ghosts
• *Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns
• *Ironside, Elizabeth, Death in the Garden
• *Jaskunas, Paul, Hidden
• *Koontz, Dean, Lightning
• *Koontz, Dean, Whispers
• +L'amour, Louis, Trail Mix Vol. 2 (audiobook)
• *Latus, Janine, If I Am Missing or Dead
• *Lippman, Laura, What the Dead Know
• Lovett, Richard A., "Dinosaur Blood"
• *MacDonald, Patricia, Married to a Stranger
• Malzberg, Barry, "In the Stone House"
• *Manfredi, Valerio Massimo, The Last Legion
• *Matheson, Richard, What Dreams May Come
• *McAllister, Bruce, "Kin"
• *Nazarian, Vera, "The Story of Love"
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• *O'Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried
• *Piper, H. Beam, Little Fuzzy
• Q
• *Rathbone, Belinda, Living with the Laird
• *Rothfuss, Patrick, The Name of the Wind
• Rosenbaum, Benjamin, "The House Beyond Your Sky"
• *Ryman, Geoff, "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter"
• Shatner, William & Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Star Trek: Academy: Collision Course
• *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
• *Swerling, Beverly, Shadowbrook
• *Thayer, Nancy, The Hot Flash Club
• *Unger, Lisa, Beautiful Lies
• *Vantrease, Brenda Rickman, The Illuminator
• *Vidal, Gore, Lincoln
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• *Xingjian, Gao, Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories
• Y
• Z

Non-Fiction

1. *Benedict, Jeff, No Bone Unturned
2. *Bown, Stephen, Scurvy
3. *Colas, Emily, Just Checking
4. +*Ehrman, Bart, Misquoting Jesus
5. *Hitchens, Christopher, God Is Not Great
6. *Huler, Scott, Defining the Wind
7. *Hunt, Linda Lawrence, Bold Spirit
8. *Kreamer, Anne, Going Gray
9. *Levitt, S. & S. Dubner, Freakonomics
10. *Kendall, Joshua, The Man Who Made Lists
11. *Maguire, Nancy, An Infinity of Little Hours
12. *Mathews, Ellie, The Ungarnished Truth
13. McCullough, David, Path Between the Seas
14. *Philbrick, Nathaniel, In the Heart of the Sea
15. *Phillips, Julie, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
16. *Reichl, Ruth, Garlic and Sapphires
17. *Robison, John Elder, Look Me in the Eye
18. +*Weisman, Alan, The World Without Us
19. *Zimmerman, Jean, Made From Scratch
20. Zimmerman, Jean, The Women of the House

Classics

1. Dickens, Charles, The Pickwick Papers
2. +Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Steinbeck, John, East of Eden
4. *Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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