Remember that time we pretended it was still 2008 so I could put my list up?

In the end, this blog - similar to my life - is all about me. Now, it is true that lots of people ask me for book recs and so this list is there for them, but...it is also because it is now 2009 and I need to archive my 2008 books I have read list and this is just really the easiest way...so you see, it all comes back to me.

Without further ado, the amazing and surprisingly helpful 2008 categorized book list:

Must Reads
Breakable You - Brian Morton
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story - Rachel Kadish
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Quiet Girl - Peter Hoeg

Don't Bother
Whatever Makes You Happy - Lisa Grunwald
Love Warps the Mind a Little - John Dufresne
The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty

Feel Happy and Laugh
Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
How to Be Single - Liz Tuccillo
A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Wallow and Cry
I See You Everywhere - Julia Glass
Breakable You - Brian Morton
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

Great Story
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro (short stories)
The Clock Winder - Anne Tyler
Blessings - Anna Quindlen
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Habit of Loving - Doris Lessing (short stories)
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx

Makes you Think
The Diary of Anais Nin
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story - Rachel Kadish
I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
1984 - George Orwell
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama

Silly Fluff
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Elegance - Kathleen Tessaro
The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger
The Woman and The Ape - Peter Hoeg
TailSpin - Catherine Coulter
Love Warps the Mind a Little - John Dufresne
Whatever Makes You Happy - Lisa Grunwald

Page Turner
The Devil in The White City - Erik Larson
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
The Widow of The South - Robert Hicks
Blind Fall - Christopher Rice
The Quiet Girl - Peter Hoeg
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
Literacy and Longing in L.A. - J. Kaufman and K. Mack

"For the last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."
T.S. Eliot