Books Read in 2008

YA fiction

Dream Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
Aurelia by Anne Osterlund
You are so Undead to me by Stacey Jay
This Book Isn't Fat, It's Fabulous by Nina Beck
Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag
The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
Everything Beautiful in the World by Lisa Levchuk
Moonstone by Marilee Brothers

Chalice by Robin McKinley
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Paper Towns by John Green
Fabulous Terrible by Sophie Talbot
The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
Savvy Girl by Lynn Messina
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Read My Lips by Teri Brown
Black Box by Julie Schumacher
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Like a Thorn by Clara Vidal
Death by Latte by Linda Gerber
Death by Bikini by Linda Gerber
Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design & Violet in Private (series) by Melissa Walker
The Specialists: Native Tongue by Shannon Greenland
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
The Specialists: The Winning Element by Shannon Greenland
Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Specialists: Down to the Wire by Shannon Greenland
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Specialists: Model Spy by Shannon Greenland
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman
Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Feed by MT Anderson
Sweethearts by Sarah Zarr
The Declaration by Gemma Malley
Uglies, Pretties and Specials (Series) by Scott Westerfeld

Middle grade fiction

The Nina, The Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure by Jill Santopolo
Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut by Paul Feig
RuneWarriors by James Jennewein and Tom S. Parker
The Robe of Skulls by Vivian French
Storm: The Ghost Machine by E.L. Young
Creepers by Joanne Dahme
The Emerald Tablet by PJ Hoover
Far World Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
The Big Splash by Jack Ferraiolo
Millicent Min: Girl Genius by Lisa Yee

Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P.J. Bracegirdle
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes


Adult fiction

The Memorist by MJ Rose
The Reincarnationist by MJ Rose
College Girl by Patricia Weitz
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Guernica by Dave Boling
Schooled by Anisha Lakhani
The Grift by Debra Ginsberg
The Likeness by Tana French
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

The Whisky Rebels by David Liss
To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman
The Fire by Katherine Neville
The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Woman of a Thousand Secrets by Barbara Wood
In the Woods by Tana French
The Smart One by Ellen Meister
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
Rules for Saying Goodbye by Katherine Taylor

Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
Down River by John Hart
How the Dead Live by Will Self
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Deliverance by James Dickey
Bed Rest by Sarah Bilston
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan

The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merril Block
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Hey Nostrodamus by Douglas Coupland

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
One Deadly Summer by Sebastian Japrisot

Adult non-fiction
Santa Responds by Santa Claus
Have I Got a Guy for You ed. by Alix Strauss
The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel
The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown