2008 Booklist

1. Hard-to-Answer Questions About Japan by Uchiike Hisataka and Michael Brase


2. Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, ed. Douglas A. Anderson


3. Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland


4. Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement by Kenneth Christian


5. The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, annotated by Douglas A. Anderson


6. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler


7. Islam: Art & Architecture, ed. Marcus Hattstein and Peter Delius (unfinished)


8. Next by Michael Crichton


9. The World's Greatest Art : Asian Art by Michael Kerrigan (re-read)


10. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins


11. What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin


12. Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey


13. The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai


14. Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje


15. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky


16. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks


17. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky


18. Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller


19. You Grow, Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening by Gayla Trail


20. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky


21. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence


22. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini


23. Les Enquêtes de Vipérine Maltais: Mortels Noëls by Sylvie Brien


24. First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea by Paul Woodruff


25. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel


26. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat


27. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan


28. The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter


29. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick


30. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester


31. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan


32. Butterfly Mind: Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China by Patrick Brown


33. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman


34. 20,000 lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne


35. What Just Happened by James Gleick


36. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway


37. Discoveries: Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye by Pascal Bonafoux


38. Van Gogh by Keith Wheldon


39. Guide: Van Gogh Museum from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam