Not counting floppy comic books, I read the following books last year.
- The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel – Sheridan Hay
- Opening Atlantis – Harry Turtledove
- The Accidental Time Machine – Joe Haldeman
- The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book – Frank Warren
- Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, Book #1) – Patricia Briggs
- Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
- Re-Gifters – Mike Carey, Marc Hempel, Sonny Liew
- Halting State – Charles Stross
- I Love You, Beth Cooper – Larry Doyle
- Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) – Stephenie Meyer
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World – Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness – Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Scott Pilgrim Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together – Bryan Lee O’Malley
- New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) – Stephenie Meyer
- Life Sucks – Jessica Abel, Warren Pleece, Gabe Soria
- The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar
- Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) – Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) – Stephenie Meyer
- Podkayne of Mars – Robert A. Heinlein
- Soon I Will Be Invincible – Austin Grossman
- Rolling Thunder – John Varley
- Flashforward – Robert J. Sawyer
- Anathem – Neal Stephenson
- Random Acts of Senseless Violence – Jack Womack
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World – Steven Johnson
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Bryan Lee O’Malley
To be honest, I can’t remember if I read The Ghost Map in 2008 or 2007, but let’s go ahead and count it.
The Twilight series kind of dominated my reading list this year. They were fun to read and talk about but much more fun to complain about. And man, that Book 4 is all kinds of messed up. Also with the fun were the Bryan Lee O’Malley Scott Pilgrim graphic novels.
Anathem would not really be called a “fun” book but it was probably my top book for 2008. It took me about 100 pages to really get into it but by then it was pretty hard to put down. It was one of the rare times that I had no idea what the book was even about when I started reading it and I was surprised several times at the direction it took.
Work calls. More about stuff later.
