Since a number of friends have done this lately, I figured I’d add my own humble list to the bunch. The following are all the books I finished in the year 2008. I won’t bother ranking favorites this time, because there are so few of them and they’re so different from one another that it’s very difficult to judge one against another. I’m listing them in the order in which I read them, and I hope the number I read in 2009 is at least twice as large.
1. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon [began in fall 2007, finished in winter 2008]
2. The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie [the very first Hercule Poirot mystery]
3. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
4. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
5. A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L’Engle
6. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
7. Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days And Party Nights Of The Dallas Cowboys Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman
