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2008 Book List

January

1.  Children of God - Mary Doria Russell

2.  Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult

3.  Fat is a Feminist Issue - Susie Orbach

4.  A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

5.  Left To Tell:  Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust - Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin

6.  Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

7.  Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

8.  Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult

February

9.  The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold

10.  Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy - John Bowe

11.  Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

12.  Female Chauvinist Pigs:  Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy

13.  Cane River - Lalita Tademy

14.  Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

15.  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman

16.  Number the Stars - Lois Lowry

17.  The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

March

18.  An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

19.  Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel

20.  Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

21.  In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

22.  Such A Pretty Girl - Laura Weiss

23.  Sarah - Marek Halter

24. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

25. Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti

26. Blood Orange - Druscilla Campbell

27. Gap Creek - Robert Morgan

April

28. The Garden - Elsie V. Aidinoff

29. Shopgirl - Steve Martin

30. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

31. Love Walked In - Marisa de los Santos

32. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer

33.  What We Keep - Elizabeth Berg

34.  The Pearl - John Steinbeck

35.  Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos

36. Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

37. For One More Day - Mitch Albom

May

38. Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult

39. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

40. ‘Tis - Frank McCourt

41.  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie

42.  Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

43.  Matrimony - Joshua Henkin

44.  The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan

45.  Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

46.  The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan

47.  He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know - Jessica Valenti

48.  High Heels to Hormones: A Woman’s Guide to Spine Care - Christina Lasich, M.D.

49.  Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer

June

50.  Second Glance - Jodi Picoult

51.  Did I Expect Angels? - Kathryn Maughan

52.  Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

53.  Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

54.  Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival - Anderson Cooper

55.  Madras on Rainy Days - Samina Ali

56.  We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists - edited by Melody Berger

57.  Atonement - Ian McEwan

July

58.  The Overachievers - Alexandra Robbins

59.  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane

60.  The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

61.  We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

62.  The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer

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