Books I Read in 2008

So, it is my new goal, after having done this the past two years, to read an average of 12 books a year--or essentially a book a month. Last year's reads are in one of my earlier blogs, and this year's are as follows:

1) The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
3) The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
4) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
5) The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
6) Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
7) Rebellion by Nora Roberts
8) Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
9) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
10) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
11) Holes by Louis Sachar
12) Capturing Paris by Katharine Davis
13) Equus by Peter Shaffer
14) The Best American Poetry 2007
15) The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

These books range from the positively prolific to the simplistic, but they were wonderful to fill my head with. The Journals of Sylvia Plath were amazing, as she is one of my favorite poets and people. And in fact, two of my now all-time favorite books are two that I read this year: The Time-Traveler's Wife and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It just goes to show that you can never stop finding beauty as long as you keep looking for it.

Happy New Year,
Clare