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Books read in 2008

99. “Club Dead” by Charlaine Harris

98. “Terry Pratchett: The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld” by Stephen Briggs

97. “Tis the Season” by Lorna Landvik

96. “Dissolution” by C.J. Sansom

95. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home” by Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty

94. “Mostly People” by Robert Whitman

93. “Sadanset” by Viggo Mortensen

92. “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” by Terry Pratchett

91. “South From Rome: Il Mezzogiorno” by Jean Feraca

90. “Spirits of Tangier” by Tessa Codrington

89. “Crossing the Great Divide” by Jean Feraca

88. “Annie Leibovitz at Work” by Annie Leibovitz

87. “Winter Ink” by Bryan Thao Worra

86. “I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio” by Jean Feraca

85. “Swine Not? A Novel Pig Tale” by Jimmy Buffett

84. “Annie Montague Alexander: Naturalist and Fossil Hunter (Women Explorers)” by Louise Chipley Slavicek

83. “Dead Until Dark” Charlaine Harris

82. “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling

81. “Star Wars: the Clone Wars: Ship Yards of Doom” by Henry Gilroy and illustrated by Matt Fillbach and Shawn Fillbach 

80. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: A Photographic Chronicle” by David James

79. “Kenya: A Country in the Making 1880-1940” by Nigel Pavitt

78. “Snow” by Cynthia Rylant and Illustrated by Lauren Stringer

77. “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization” by Jonathan Lyons

76. “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou

75. “The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away” by Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge

74. “The Fire” by Katherine Neville

73. “Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient” by Barbara Hodgson

72. “The End of the Alphabet” by C.S. Richardson

71. “Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect with your Whole Community” by Sophie Brookover and Elizabeth Burns

70. “Gertrude Bell: Explorer of the Middle East (Women Explorers)” by Heather Lehr Wagner

69. “The Graveyard Book” Neil Gaiman

68. “Sue Hendrickson: Explorer of Land and See (Women Explorers)” by Ann Gaines

67. “Lila the Werewolf” Peter S. Beagle

66. “Owl in Love” by Patrice Kindl

65. “Love at First Flight: One Woman’s Experience as a WASP in World War II” by Elizabeth Strohfus and Cheryl J. Young

64. “Darwin’s Origin of Species, A Biography” by Janet Browne

63. “Travels with Herodotus” by Ryszard Kapuscinski

62. “North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk and Tuscarara Traditional Arts” by Kathleen Mundell

61. “Mosques” by Razia Grover

60. “Aces: Curse of the Red Baron” by Shannon Eric Denton, G. Willow Wilson, & Curtis Square Briggs

59. “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy Land” by Nina Burleigh

58. “The Laughter of Dead Kings” by Elizabeth Peters

57. “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

56. “Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines” by William Cleveland

55. “Curves and Angles: Poems” by Brad Leithauser

54. “Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey” edited by Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Gokmen

53. “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer

52. “The Library at Night” by Alberto Manguel

51. “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer

50. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer

49. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer

48. “Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body” Edited by Barbara Thompson

47. “What’s the Alternative? Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros” by Rachel Singer Gordon

46. “Helen Keller: Women Who Dare” by Aimee Hess

45. “The Rabbi’s Cat 2” by Joann Sfar

44. “Temples and Mosques: An Illustrated Study of East Indian Places of Worship in Guyana” by Karna Bahadun Singh

43. “Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story” by Howard Mansfield and Barry Moser

42. “Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos” by Joann Faung Jean Lee

41. “City of Thieves” by David Benioff

40. “Cairo” by G. Willow Wilson

39. “Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Readings for Every Mood, Moment and Interest” by Nancy Pearl

38. “Art From Fort Marion: the Silberman Collection” by Joyce Szabo

37. “Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Museum” by Edna Rassmann, Nigel Strudwick, & T.G.H. James

36. “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks

35. “Marketing Strategy” by O.C. Ferrell and Michael Hartline

34. “India Before Europe” by Catherine Asher and Cynthia Talbot

33. “The City of Heavenly Tranquility: Peking in the History of China” by Jasper Becker

32. “The Serpent’s Tale” by Ariana Franklin

31. “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns” by John C Bogle

30. “Marian Anderson: Women Who Dare” by Howard S. Kaplan

29. “Just Who Will You Be? Big Questions, Little Book, Answer Within” by Maria Shriver

28. “Women of the Suffrage Movement: Women Who Dare” by Janice Ruth and Evelyn Sinclair

27. “The Silencing” by Alix Lambert

26. “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortensen

25. “Special Assignment” by Boris Akunin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

24. “Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950” By Christel Mouchard and Alexandra Lapierre

23. “Women for Change: Women Who Dare” by Sara Day

22. “Eleanor Roosevelt: Women Who Dare” by Anjelina Michelle Keating

21. “The Most Magnificent Mosque” by Ann Jungman and Shelley Fowles

20. “Ballad of the Breathless” by Emily Graves

19. “Margaret Mead: Women Who Dare” by Aimee Hess

18. “Women of the Civil War: Women Who Dare” by Michelle Krowl

17. “Corridor” by Sarnath Banerjee

16. “Amelia Earhart: Women Who Dare” by Susan Reyburn

15. “Women Explorers: Women Who Dare” by Sharon Hannon

14. “The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up” by Liao Yiwu, translated by Wen Huang

13. “Newspapers of the World Online: US and International Perspectives” edited by Hartmut Walravens

12. “Randa Shaath: Under the Same Sky, Cairo” by Randa Shaath

11. “International Newspaper Librarianship for the 21st Century” edited by Hartmut Walravens

10. “Lalla Essaydi, Converging Territories” edited by Amanda Carlson

9. “Mistress of the Art of Death” by Ariana Franklin

8. “Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art” Edited by Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius

7. “Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat” by Nicholas A. Basbanes

6. “Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges, and Choices” by Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick, editors

5. “Top 10 Dubai & Abu Dhabi” by Lara Dunston and Sarah Monaghan

4. “Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past” by Julie M. Schablitsky, editor

3. “The Last American Man” by Elizabeth Gilbert

2. “Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour” by Wing Young Huie

1. “Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell” by Adrienne L. Childs