"2008"

* Awaiting Orders (Wolff) ~ 3/5

1. Shopaholic & Baby (Kinsella) ~ 4.5/5

^ 2. Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne) ~ 4.5/5

3. A Child Called "It" (Pelzer) ~ 5/5

4. The Bluest Eye (Morrison) ~ 2.75/5

5. The Other Side of the Bridge (Lawson) ~ 4.75/5

6. The Monkey's Raincoat (Crais) ~ 3.5/5

7. Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) ~ 4/5

8. Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher) ~ 4/5

9. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Gilman) ~ 3.75/5

10. My Life as a Furry Red Monster (Clash) ~ 3/5

^ 11. Call It Courage (Sperry) ~ 2.25/5

12. Still Life (Penny) ~ 4/5

^ 13. Ginger Pye (Estes) ~ 2.25/5

14. A Thousand Bones (Parrish) ~ 4/5

15. Coraline (Gaiman) ~ 3/5

16. The Year of Fog (Richmond) ~ 2/5

17. An Absolute Gentleman (Kinder) ~ 4.5/5

18. Black and Blue (Quindlen) ~ 3.25/5

~ My Mama Says . . . (Viorst) ~ 4/5

19. The God of Small Things (Roy) ~ 2/5

20. Twisted (Anderson) ~ 3.75/5

21. The Appeal (Grisham) ~ 3.5/5

22. The Quilter's Apprentice (Chiaverini) ~ 4/5

23. New Moon (Meyer) ~ 2.75/5

* The Tuesday Night Club (Christie) ~ 3.75/5

24. A Northern Light (Donnelly) ~ 3.5/5

25. Birds of a Feather (Winspear) ~ 4.25/5

26. Half Broken Things (Joss) ~ 4/5

27. Violet on the Runway (Walker) ~ 4.25/5

^ 28. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznick) ~ 4.25/5

29. Elsewhere (Zevin) ~ 2/5

~Koala Lou (Fox) ~ 3.75/5

30. The Wednesday Letters (Wright) ~ 3/5

31. If I Am Missing or Dead (Latus) ~ 3.75/5

32. Immoral (Freeman) ~ 4.5/5

33. The Arrival (Tan) ~ 4.5/5

34. Obedience (Lavender) ~ 2.75/5

* The Idol House of Astarte (Christie) ~ 3.75/5

* The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe) ~ 4/5

35. Life As We Knew It (Pfeffer) ~ 4.5/5

36. The Nazi Officer's Wife (Beer) ~ 4.75/5

37. Naked in Death (Robb) ~ 4.25/5

38. The Gathering (Enright) ~ 1/5

39. Looking for Alaska (Green) ~ 3.5/5

40. Morality for Beautiful Girls (Smith) ~ 3/5

41. 16 Lighthouse Road (Macomber) ~ 2.5/5

42. Speak (Anderson) ~ 3/5

43. Still Summer (Mitchard) ~ 3.75/5

44. A Garden of Vipers (Kerley) ~ 3.75/5

45. American Born Chinese (Yang) ~ 2.25/5

* Ingots of Gold (Christie) ~ 3/5

46. When the Bough Breaks (Kellerman) ~ 3.75/5

47. And Then There Were None (Christie) ~ 4.5/5

^ 48. The X'ed-Out X-Ray (Roy) ~ 4/5

49. Atonement (McEwan) ~ 2.5/5

^ 50. Pollyanna (Porter) ~ 4.5/5

51. Flipped (Van Draanen) ~ 4/5

52. Deception (Mina) ~ 3.5/5

53. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Beaton) ~ 4/5

54. The BirthdayParty (Alpert) ~ 3.75/5

55. Just Listen (Dessen) ~ 4/5

56. Power Play (Finder) ~ 3.75/5

57. Blankets (Thompson) ~ 4.25/5

58. Acceleration (McNamee) ~ 4.5/5

^ The Truth (Holstein) ~ 3.5/5

59. Murder on the Orient Express (Christie) ~ 4.25/5

60. Kisscut (Slaughter) ~ 4/5

61. First Degree (Rosenfelt) ~ 4/5

62. The Tea House on Mulberry Street (Owens) ~ 3/5

63. A Fatal Grace (Penny) ~ 4/5

64. Kira-Kira (Kodohata) ~ 2.75/5

65. The House at Riverton (Morton) ~ 3.5/5

66. The Borden Tragedy (Geary) ~ 4.5/5

~ Puff the Magic Dragon (Yarrow) ~ 2/5

67. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale (Spiegelman) ~ 4.25/5

68. Murder on a Bad Hair Day (George) ~ 4.25/5

69. Book of a Thousand Days (Hale) ~ 3/5

70. A Walk in the Woods (Bryson) ~ 4.25/5

71. Reconstruction (Herron) ~ 2/5

72. The Lost Boy (Pelzer) ~ 4.5/5

^ 73. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney) ~ 3/5

74. Pardonable Lies (Winspear)~ 3.5/5

75. Thyme of Death (Albert) ~ 3.75/5

76. Stripped (Freeman) ~ 2.5/5

^ 77. Clementine (Pennypacker) ~ 3.5/5

78. Eleven on Top (Evanovich) ~ 3.5/5

79. Booked to Die (Dunning) ~ 4.5/5

80. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ~ 4/5

81. The Well and the Mine (Phillips) ~ 4.25/5

82. So Brave, Young and Handsome (Enger) ~ 3/5

^ 83. The House at Pooh Corner (Milne) ~ 2/5

84. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (Beaton) ~ 3/5

85. Drop Shot (Coben) ~ 3.5/5

86. Mudbound (Jordan) ~ 4.5/5

87. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale (Spiegelman) ~ 5/5

~ Zathura (Van Allsburg) ~ 3.75/5

88. The Widow (Neggers) ~ 2/5

89. Sold (McCormick) ~ 4.5/5

~ Thank You, Mr. Falker (Polacco) ~ 4/5

90. Anne of Avonlea (Montgomery) ~ 3.75/5

91. The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro) ~ 4/5

92. Charley's Web (Fielding) ~ 3.5/5

93. Sky Burial (Xinran) ~ 3.75/5

94. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) ~ 4.75/5

95. Emotional Blackmail (Forward) ~ 4.5/5

96. Beautiful Lies (Unger) ~ 2.5/5

97. Something Borrowed (Giffin) ~ 4/5

98. Purple Hibiscus (Adichie) ~ 3.25/5

99. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie) ~ 3/5

100. The Apprentice (Gerritsen) ~ 4/5

101. Spellman Files (Lutz) ~ 3/5

102. The Walkers of Dembley (Beaton) ~ 3.5/5

103. Carved in Bone (Bass) ~ 4/5

104. The Bell Jar (Plath) ~ 4/5

105. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Satrapi) ~ 4.25/5

106. B is for Burglar (Grafton) ~ 3.75/5

107. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer & Barrows) ~ 4.5/5

108. The Penelopiad (Atwood) ~ 1.5/5

109. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) ~ 4/5

110. Travels with Charley (Steinbeck) ~ 3/5

111. Projection (Ablow) ~ 2/5

112. Twelve Sharp (Evanovich) ~ 3/5

113. In Odd We Trust (Koontz) ~ 2.75/5

114. Messenger of Truth (Winspear) ~ 4/5

115. Love Walked In (de los Santos) ~ 2/5

116. Gallows View (Robinson) ~ 4/5

117. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Satrapi) ~ 4/5

118. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Gilman) ~ 3.25/5

~ Choo Choo (Burton) ~ 4/5

~ Big Anthony and the Magic Ring (de Paola) ~ 2.75/5

~ Russell's Secret (Hurwitz) ~ 4.25/5

~ Arthur Meets the President (Brown) ~ 4/5

~ My Red Balloon (Bunting) ~ 4/5

119. Last Days of Summer (Kluger) ~ 4.75/5

120. The Truth About Forever (Dessen) ~ 3.5/5

121. Murphy's Law (Bowen) ~ 4.25/5

* Runaway (Munro) ~ 4/5

* Chance (Munro) ~ 3.5/5

* The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman) ~ 4.25/5

* He (Porter) ~ 4/5

* A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (Hemingway) ~ 3.5/5

122. Year of Wonders (Brooks) ~ 3.25/5

123. The Chatham School Affair (Cook) ~ 3.5/5

124. The God of Animals (Kyle) ~ 3/5

125. Runaway (Munro) ~ 3.5/5

126. Moral Disorder (Atwood) ~ 3/5

127. Odd Hours (Koontz) ~ 2.5/5

* Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes (Rash) ~ 4/5

128. The Cruelest Month (Penny) ~ 4.25/5

129. The Translator (Hari) ~ 4/5

* Chemistry (Rash) ~ 4/5

130. Lean Mean Thirteen (Evanovich) ~ 2.25/5

131. Against Medical Advice (Patterson) ~ 4.25/5

132. Hate You (NcNamee) ~ 2/5

133. An Incomplete Revenge (Winspear) ~ 3/5

* Last Rite (Rash) ~ 3.5/5

* Blackberries in June (Rash) ~ 4/5

134. A Man Named Dave (Pelzer) ~ 4.25/5

135. Upstate (Buckhanon) ~ 3.75/5

136. Forty Words for Sorrow (Blunt) ~ 4/5

137. Remember Me? (Kinsella) ~ 3.25/5

138. Testimony (Shreve) ~ 4/5

139. Down River (Hart) ~ 4.25/5

140. Big City Bad Blood (Chercover) ~ 4/5

141. Griffin & Sabine (Bantock) ~ 3/5

142. Sabine's Notebook (Bantock) ~ 3/5

143. The Golden Mean (Bantock) ~ 3/5

* The Bloodstained Pavement (Christie) ~ 3/5

* Motive V. Opportunity (Christie) ~ 3/5

* The Thumbmark of Saint Peter (Christie) ~ 3/5

* The Blue Geranium (Christie) ~ 3/5

* The Companion (Christie) ~ 3/5

144. The Sinner (Gerritsen) ~ 3.25/5

145. The Privilege of Youth (Pelzer) ~ 2.75/5

146. Beat the Reaper (Bazell) ~ 2.5/5

147. Grace (Evans) ~ 3/5

148. Isolation (Thrasher) ~ 2.75/5

149. Simple Little Words (Cox & Perrodin) ~ 4.25/5

150. I Am the Messenger (Zusak) ~ 3.75/5

151. Fearless Fourteen (Evanovich) ~ 2.75/5

152. Stalking the Angel (Crais) ~ 2.75/5

153. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Smith) ~ 4/5

154. The Graveyard Book (Gaiman) ~ 4/5

155. Weedflower (Kadohata) ~ 4/5

156. The Christmas Pearl (Frank) ~ 2.5/5

157. Matrimony (Henkin) ~ 3.5/5

158. Blue Christmas (Andrews) ~ 3/5

159. 'Tis the Season! (Landvik) ~ 4/5

160. The American Journey of Barack Obama (Editors of LIFE Magazine) ~ 4.5/5

161. Skeletons at the Feast (Bohjalian) ~ 4/5

162. Cat O'Nine Tales (Archer) ~ 2.75/5

163. Brother (Fredericks) ~ 4.25/5

164. 84, Charing Cross Road (Hanff) ~ 3.5/5

165. Outliers (Gladwell) ~ 4.25/5

166. The Pearl (Steinbeck) ~ 3.5/5

* Not Waving But Drowning (Rash) ~ 3.75/5

167. The Scream (Mistry) ~ 3.25/5

^ Children's Book
* Short Story (not counted)

~ Young Reader (not counted)