2008 Reading List

(Year End Reading List)

1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson January 7, 2008

2. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman January 9, 2008 (audiobook)
3. The Last Card by Hans Hellmut Kirst January 22, 2008
4. Osugi Sakae: Anarchist in Taisho Japan by Thomas Stanley January 23, 2008
5. The Last Shogun by Ryotaro Shiba January 24, 2008
6. Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough January 26, 2008
7. Samurai William by Giles Milton February 6, 2008
8. The Plum-Rain Scroll by Ruth Manley February 12, 2008
9. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman March 13, 2008 (audiobook)
10. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie March 18, 2008
11. The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson April 1, 2008 (audiobook)
12. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson June 20, 2008 (audiobook)
13. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett July 29, 2008 (audiobook)
14. Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan by Thomas Havens  August 13, 2008
15. Shogun by James Clavell August 18, 2008
16. Learning from Shogun, edited by Henry Smith August 20, 2008
17. The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore August 24, 2008
18. Robespierre by S.L. Carson August 29, 2008
19. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy August 31, 2008
20. Danton by Frank Dwyer September 2, 2008
21. Napoleon by Leslie McGuire September 8, 2008
22. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett September 17, 2008 (audiobook)
23. Bakunin, An Invention by Horst Bienek September 19, 2008
24. Paine by John Vail September 23, 2008
25. Clemenceau by Ted Gottfried October 3, 2008
26. Talleyrand by Robin Harris October 12, 2008
27. Lenin by John Haney October 22, 2008

28. The Judgment of Paris by Ross King October 31, 2008 (audiobook)

29. A People's History of the World by Chris Harman November 8, 2008

30. Queen Victoria by Deirdre Sherman December 1, 2008

31. The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik December 13, 2008

For an explanation of why I'm posting this now, see HERE.  

I'm continuing to label the books I did as audiobooks, but I'm no longer going to make a distinction between which ones I listened to only once, and which ones I did multiple times, because by 2008 I believe I had developed my policy of listening to all audiobooks multiple times.

Playlist HERE: