reading 2008...

Here's my annual list of books I read for pleasure this past year:

Books Read in 2008

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  J. K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition
  12/08; fiction

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  Martin Millar: Lonely Werewolf Girl
  12/9/08; fiction

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  Cornelia Funke: Inkspell
  11/30/08; fiction

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  Hannah Tinti: The Good Thief
  11/23/08; fiction

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  Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
  11-20-08; fiction

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  Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford
  11/5/08; fiction

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  Bonny Wolf: Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories
  10/29/08; nonfiction

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  Kate Dicamillo: The Tale of Despereaux
  10/29/08; fiction (children's)

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  Jane Brocket: The Gentle Art of Domesticity
  10/16/08; nonfiction

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  Jill Pitkeathley: Cassandra and Jane: A Jane Austen Novel
  10/6/08; fiction

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  Jane Johnson: The Tenth Gift: A Novel
  9/7/08; fiction

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  Stephenie Meyer: The Host: A Novel
  7/31/08; fiction

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  Cornelia Funke: Inkheart
  7/22/08; fiction

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  ALICE HOFFMAN: The Probable Future
  7/9/08; fiction

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  Francie Lin: The Foreigner: A Novel
  7/2/08; fiction

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  Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
  6/27/08; fiction

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  Winifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)
  6/24/08; fiction

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  Ken Albala: Beans: A History
  6/23/08; nonfiction

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  Nina Planck: Real Food: What to Eat and Why
  6/15/08; nonfiction

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  Marlena De Blasi: That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story
  6/12/08; nonfiction

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  Stephenie Meyer: New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)
  6/5/08; fiction

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  Stephenie Meyer: Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
  5/28/08; fiction

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  Jasper Fforde: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
  5/26/08; fiction

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  Charles de Lint: Memory and Dream (Newford)
  5/16/08; fiction

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  Linda Cockburn: Living the Good Life: How One Family Changed Their World from Their Own Backyard
  5/12/08; nonfiction

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  Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles (Boxed Set): The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgrath
  5/5/08-5/7/08; fiction

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  Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth
  5/5/08; fiction

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  Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  4/23/08; nonfiction

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  Charles de Lint: The Onion Girl (Newford)
  4/7/08; fiction

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  Emile Zola: The Belly of Paris
  fiction; 4/4/06

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  Leonie Swann: Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
  fiction; 3/4/08

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  Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
  nonfiction; 3/2/08

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  John Marks: Fangland
  2/19/08; fiction

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  Shauna James Ahern: Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too
  2/15/08; nonfiction

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  Victoria Hislop: The Island
  2/5/08; fiction

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  Banana Yoshimoto: Hardboiled and Hard Luck
  1/28/08; fiction

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  Charles Dickens: Bleak House
  1/24/08; fiction

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  KnitLit the Third: We Spin More Yarns
  1/19/08; nonfiction