Owls Count

Here is a list of the books I read for the first time in 2008.

1. Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
2. From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
3. Dr No by Ian Fleming
4. Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
5. The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
6. Breaking Vegas by Ben Mezrich
7. Airman by Eoin Colfer
8. Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
9. Chart Throb by Ben Elton
10. Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson
11. The Sleepwalker by Robert Muchamore
12. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Last Generation – How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change by Fred Pearce
15. The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
16. Small Is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs, Rants and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin
17. Being by Kevin Brooks
18. High Society by Ben Elton
19. Bring on the Apocalypse by George Monbiot
20. Past Mortem by Ben Elton
21. Breakheart Hill by Thomas H. Cook
22. Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation – and Others Don’t by Lynda Gratton
23. Lucas by Kevin Brooks
24. The Dip: The Extraordinary Benefits of Knowing When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
25. The Medici Seal by Theresa Breslin
26. Slam by Nick Hornby
27. Dark Sun by Robert Muchamore
28. Demon of the Air by Simon Levack
29. Upgrading to PHP 5 by A Tractenberg
30. PHP in Action: Objects, Design, Agility: Modern Software Practices for PHP by Dagfinn Reiersol, Marcus Baker, Chris Shiflett
31. Hide by Lisa Gardner
32. Out by Natsuo Kirino
33. Jimmy Coates: Survival by Joe Craig
34. A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
35. Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes
36. Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
37. A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
38. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
39. The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
40. Down River by John Hart
41. First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
42. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
43. No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
44. Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks
45. The Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis
46. Addition by Toni Jordan
47. The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
48. Mister Monday (The Keys to the Kingdom) by Garth Nix
49. Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
50. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
51. The General by Robert Muchamore
52. Ghostheart by R.J. Ellory
53. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
54. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
55. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
56. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
57. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
58. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
59. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
60. Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
61. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
62. Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
63. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
64. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
65. Nation by Terry Pratchett
66. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World by Michael Pollan
67. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
68. Feet in the Clouds: A Story of Fell Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith
69. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
70. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
71. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
72. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
73. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: v. 1 by M.T. Anderson
74. Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
75. Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
76. Earthsea Trilogy: The Tombs of Atuan Ursula Le Guin
77. Earthsea Trilogy: The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
78. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
79. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
80. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
81. Deeper (Tunnels) by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
82. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
83. The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson