2008 Reads

1. A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash. Sylvia Nasar
2. A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens
3. A Mercy. Toni Morrison
4. A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley
5. All the King's Men. Robert Penn Warren
6. Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy
7. Emma. Jane Austen
8. Empire Falls. Richard Russo
9. Falconer. John Cheever
10. Goodbye, Columbus. Philip Roth
11. Housekeeping. Marilynne Robinson
12. Howards End. E.M. Forster
13. Independence Day. Richard Ford
14. Ironweed. Jack Kennedy
15. Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte
16. Jazz. Toni Morrison
17. Jesus' Son. Denis Johnson
18. Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
19. Martha Quest. Doris Lessing
20. Memories of the Ford Administration. John Updike
21. Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka
22. Middlesex. Jeffrey Euginedes
23. Native Son. Richard Wright
24. Portnoy's Complaint. Philip Roth
25. Rabbit at Rest. John Updike
26. Rabbit Redux. John Updike
27. Rabbit, Run. John Updike
28. Run River. Joan Didion
29. Sabbath's Theater. Philip Roth
30. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Laura Hillenbrand
31. Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen
32. Tar Baby. Toni Morrison
33. The Awakening. Kate Chopin
34. The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen
35. The Day of the Locust. Nathanael West
36. The Dying Animal. Philip Roth
37. The Good Soldier. Ford Maddox Ford
38. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Bobby Anderson
39. The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. The Great Train Robbery. Michael Crichton
41. The House of Mirth. Edith Wharton
42. The Human Stain. Philip Roth
43. The Plot Against America. Philip Roth
44. The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane
45. The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner
46. The Sportswriter. Richard Ford
47. The Trial. Franz Kafka
48. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston
49. Tortilla Flat. John Steinbeck
50. Under the Tuscan Sun. Frances Mayes
51. Underworld. Don De Lillo
52. USA Volume 3: The Big Money. John Dos Passos
53. White Noise. Don De Lillo
54. Women in Love. D.H. Lawrence
55. Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte