Best of 2008

Below is my list of Books Read in 2008. It was a very unusual year for me. Usually a strict fiction lover, this year I read 23 non-fiction books and 37 fiction books for a total of 60 books. So why are there still 108 books on my To Be Read pile??? Most of my non-fictions were spiritual/yoga related. I opened a yoga studio this year and am running the book club, which requires that I read the books to screen them beforehand. A good job, if you ask me. Here are some of my dubious "awards" for 2008

Best Fiction Read: Tie between "Zoli" and "The Commoner"
Best Non-Fiction Read: "The Zen of Eating"
Weirdest Book, not just of 2008, but of ALL TIME: "The Raw Shark Texts"
Best Book I got for free through Library Thing: "The Foreigner"
Book highly reviewed that I read and now can't remember one single detail of: "Case Histories"
Best Guilty Pleasure: "The Twilight Series"

BOOKS READ IN 2008

• DECEMBER
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Run by Ann Patchett
• The Zen of Eating by Ronna Kabatznick
• Dharma Punx by Noah Levine
• NOVEMBER
• Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
• The Shack by William Young
• Rocket Man by William Hazelgrove
• Grace Unfolding by Johanson & Kurtz
• Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
• OCTOBER
• Trespass by Valerie Martin
• Trauma by Patrick McGrath
• SEPTEMBER
• The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
• Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
• Yoga and the Quest of the Urban Mystic by Darren Main
• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• These is My Words by Nancy Turner
• AUGUST
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• On Call in Hell by Richard Jadick
• Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
• Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
• JULY
• Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward
• The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
• The Foreigner by Francie Lin
• The People's Act of Love by James Meek
• Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
• Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
• JUNE
• A Gradual Awakening by Stephen Levine
• The Secret Power of Yoga by Nischala Joy Devi
• The Forgotten Body by Elissa Cobb
• Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? ed. by Stephen Cope
• The Interloper by Antoine Wilson
• MAY
• House of Meetings by Martin Amis
• APRIL
• Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
• End of Story by Peter Abrahams
• Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
• The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
• The Murder Notebook by Jonathan Santlofer
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Mindful Therapy by Dr. Thomas Bien
• Loving What Is by Byron Katie
• MARCH
• Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
• The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• Zoli by Colum McCann
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
• FEBRUARY
• The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner
• Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
• Western Limit of the World by David Masiel
• No Visible Horizon by Joshua Cooper Ramo
• Taming Your Gremlin by Rick Carson
• Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
• Grief by Andrew Holleran
• JANUARY
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
• The Last Disciple by Hank Hanegraaff
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Deadly Advice by Roberta Isleib

Books I Gave Up On in 2008

• The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
• How to Practice by The Dalai Lama
• Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson