Books are great, 2008

I've started keeping track of books I read in a simple .txt format. I recommend it. I can look at the list and see, obviously a list of books and authors I crushed on, but there's also an entire year, 2008 divided into 31 personal book length segments. Here's what I read, good/bad/ugly, in chronorder:

1. Fresh – Mark McNay

2. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

3. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, A Memoir – Bill Bryson

4. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

5. Nothing's Sacred - Lewis Black (Winner, Biggest Disappointment '08)

6. Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allan (favourite cover '08)

7. A Good and Happy Child - Justin Evans

8. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami

9. The Futurist - James P. Othmer

10. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Cormac is the oh-wowowowow-why-didn't-I-know-this-author-existed-sooner author of the year)

11. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (read this book)

12. 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments - Bob McCown

13. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

14. Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson

15. Your Whole Family is Made of Meat - Ryan North

16. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon (<3 Mark Haddon)

17. Bang Crunch Stories - Neil Smith (pleasant surprise '08)

18. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

19. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

20. Barney's Version - Mordechai Richler

21. Everyman - Philip Roth

22. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

23. Logorrhea - (Ed. John Klima)

24. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

25. Areas of my Expertise - John Hodgeman

26. Zoology - Ben Dolnick

27. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

28. Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut

29. Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon

30. The Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman

31. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk