Dyrfinna's 2008 Reading

1. Shopgirl - Steve Martin (130)
2. The Camera My Mother Gave Me - Susanna Kaysen (157)
3. Don't Get Too Comfortable – David Rakoff (240)
4. The Gift of Nothing - Patrick McDonnell (56)
5. Money Can Buy Happiness - MP Dunleavy (212)
6. The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket (256)
7. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (255)
8. Mr. Pip - Lloyd Jones (256)
9. His Excellency - Joseph J. Ellis (352)
10. An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison (223)
11. Wild Ducks Flying Backward - Tom Robbins (272)
12. Augusta, Gone - Martha Tod Dudman (255)
13. Stick Figure - Lori Gottlieb (240)
14. Forever – Judy Blume (199)
15. Walking a Literary Labyrinth – Nancy M. Malone (208)
16. The Magic of Oz - L. Frank Baum (269)
17. Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther (205)
18. Being Dead - Jim Crace (193)
19. Prozac Diary - Lauren Slater (203)
20. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket (255)
21. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolph Erich Raspe (138)
22. A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen (50)
23. The Zen of Oz - Joey Green (140)
24. Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman (162)
25. The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing (133)
26. The Secret – Rhonda Byrne (198)
27. John Adams: Party of One - James Grant (544)
28. Caught in the Act – Toinette Lippe (175)
29. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (219)
30. Glinda of Oz - L. Frank Baum (255)
31. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young (340)
32. Here Be Monsters!- Alan Snow (529)
33. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo (198)
34. The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman (488)
35. The Weight of It - Amy Wilensky (203)
36. The Women’s Wheel of Life - Elizabeth Davis (240)
37. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt (388)
38. The Stardust Lounge - Deborah Digges (240)
39. The House With a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs (179)
40. My Friend is Sad - Mo Willems (57)
41. Duma Key - Steven King (611)
42. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold (291)
43. When Katie Wakes - Connie May Fowler (288)
44. Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book – Terry Jones (64)
45. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby (131)
46. The Prayer of Jabez - Bruce H. Wilkinson (93)
47. Jefferson’s Secrets – Andrew Burstein (351)
48. Execution – Warren Adler (288)
49. The Right Questions – Debbie Ford (184)
50. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison (247)
51. Night Falls Fast - Kay Redfield Jamison (448)
52. How to Sell, Then Write, Your Non-Fiction Book - Blythe Camenson (213)
53. Bald in the Land of Big Hair - Joni Rodgers (272)
54. The Eleventh Hour - Graeme Base (32)
55. Thinking Like Your Editor - Susan Rabiner (284)
56. What On Earth Have I Done? - Robert Fulghum (308)
57. Be Generous - David Marell (117)
58. Darkmans - Nicola Barker (838)
59. Nobody’s Fool- Richard Russo (549)
60. The Trap - Daniel Brook (274)
61. Why I Jumped - Tina Zahn (239)
62. Don’t Kiss Them Goodbye - Allison DuBois (224)
63. James Madison - Garry Wills (184)
64. Moloka’i - Allan Brennert (389)
65. Straw Dogs - John N. Gray (246)
66. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne (215)
67. Radical Hope - Jonathan Lear (187)
68. The Shotgun Rule - Charlie Huston (248)
69. The Hidden Power of the Bible - Ernest Holmes (213)
70. Finding Joy - Charlotte Davis Kasl (195)
71. When Misery is Company - Anne Katherine (287)
72. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (317)
73. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich (221)
74. 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill (316)
75. The Biology of Belief - Bruce H. Lipton (224)
76. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England – Brock Clarke (303)
77. James Monroe - Gary Hart (170)
78. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (374)
79. The Secret of the Secret - Karen Kelly (212)
80. The Field - Lynne McTaggart (268)
81. The Paranoia Switch - Martha Stout (226)
82. The Principles of Uncertainty - Maira Kalman (336)
83. The No Asshole Rule - Robert I. Sutton (210)
84. Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky (137)
85. A Piece of Cake - Cupcake Brown (480)
86. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (628)
87. An Absolute Gentleman - R. M. Kinder (288)
88. What Should I Do With My Life? - Po Bronson (370)
89. The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket (286)
90. My Lobotomy - Howard Dully (272)
91. A Year Without Made in China - Sara Bongiorni (235)
92. Faking It - collegehumor.com (288)
93. The Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner (302)
94. The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle (305)
95. Dress Your Children in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris (257)
96. The Intention Experiment - Lynne McTaggart (289)
97. Emergence - Barbara Marx Hubbard (200)
98. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama (375)
99. Perishable - Dirk Jamison (212)
100. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read - Pierre Bayard (185)
101. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn (224)
102. My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru (280)
103. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (576)
104. Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely (280)
105. Richistan - Robert Frank (277)
106. The Not So Big Life - Sarah Susanka (281)
107. When Ghosts Speak - Mary Ann Winkowski (238)
108. Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me - Ben Karlin (223)
109. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert (230)
110. Red Eye, Black Eye - K. Thor Jensen (304)
111. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong (438)
112. Seeing Good at Work - Edward Viljoen (116)
113. In the Woods - Tana French (429)
114. For the Love of God - Richard Carlson (199)
115. A Mighty Heart - Mariane Pearl (288)
116. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (601)
117. Beautiful Boy - David Sheff (326)
118. No Logo - Naomi Klein (490)
119. All My Life for Sale - John Freyer (224)
120. Falling Behind - Robert Frank (148)
121. Religious Literacy - Stephen Prothero (296)
122. The Big Year - Mark Obamscik (288)
123. Not That You Asked - Steve Almond (288)
124. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (339)
125. Easy Money - Liz Pulliam Weston (198)
126. The Life of the Skies - Jonathan Rosen (324)
127. Into the Wild - John Krakauer (207)
128. Women with Attention Deficit Disorder - Sari Solden (304)
129. House Lust - Dan McGinn (264)
130. Dishwasher - Pete Jordan (358)
131. The Thing about Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead - David Shields (225)
132. The Gathering - Anne Enright (260)
133. Disarming the Narcissist - Wendy T. Behary (156)
134. The Perfect $100,000 House - Karrie Jacobs (291)
135. White Teeth - Zadie Smith (448)
136. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (315)
137. Free For All - Don Borchert (223)
138. How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill (265)
139. It’s All Too Much - Peter Walsh (230)
140. Starbucked - Taylor Clark (297)
141. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (335)
142. God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens (307)
143. Why Women Should Rule the World - Dee Dee Myers (280)
144. Does this Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? - Peter Walsh (240)
145. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (258)
146. Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine (108)
147. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson (614)
148. The Gospel According to Larry - Janet Tashjian (227)
149. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin (209)
150. Slam - Nick Hornby (309)
151. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman (399)
152. Twinkie, Deconstructed - Steve Ettlinger (282)
153. All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well - Tod Wodicka (266)
154. Shopping for God - James B. Twitchell (336)
155. The Life Audit - Caroline Righton (183)
156. Steering By Starlight - Marth Beck (232)
157. The Cure for Modern Life - Lisa Tucker (326)
158. So Brave, Young, and Handsome - Leif Enger (285)
159. The Reapers - John Connolly (404)
160. Heartburn - Nora Ephron (153)
161. Helping Me Help Myself - Beth Lisick (264)
162. The Liar’s Club – Mary Karr (320)
163. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman (244)
164. The Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner (329)
165. The Book of Dead Birds - Gayle Brandeis (256)
166. Children of the Self-Absorbed - Nina W. Brown (250)
167. Some of Your Blood - Theodore Sturgeon (192)
168. The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs (386)
169. Never Be Late Again - Diana Delonzor (177)
170. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton (473)
171. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett (120)
172. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs (388)
173. Marjorie Fleming - L. MacBean (64)
174. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz (358)
175. Getting Things Done - David Allen (267)
176. The Commoner - John Burnham Schwartz (351)
177. The Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan (450)
178. Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell - Bruce Eric Kaplan (114)
179. The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff (364)
180. Need More Love - Aline Kominsky Crumb (383)
181. The Turmoil - Booth Tarkington (348)
182. Bottlemania - Elizabeth Royte (248)
183. The New Yorkers - Cathleen Schine (290)
184. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (206)
185. The Declaration - Gemma Malley (300)
186. Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh (302)
187. Remainder - Tom McCarthy (320)
188. Patterns of the Earth - Bernhard Edmaier (240)
189. Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen (240)
190. The Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants - Joseph Minton Amann (256)
191. In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan (244)
192. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman (324)
193. The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs - Jack Gantos (185)
194. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris (387)
195. Stealing Lincoln’s Body - Thomas J. Craughwell (288)
196. The Invention of Hugo Cabret -Brian Selznick (533)
197. Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City - Anne Thomas Soffee (256)
198. The Late Bloomer’s Revolution - Amy Cohen (304)
199. The Meaning of Sunglasses - Hadley Freeman (256)
200. Living Like Ed - Ed Begley, Jr. (240)
201. When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris (323)
202. ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life - Judith Kolberg (280)
203. The Book of General Ignorance - John Mitchinson and John Lloyd (288)
204. The Other - David Guterson (255)
205. The Zookeeper’s Wife - Diane Ackerman (368)
206. The Meat and Spirit Plan - Selah Saterstrom (240)
207. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (203)
208. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody (212)
209. Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks (284)
210. Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz (409)
211. It Happened in Boston? - Russell H. Greenan (304)
212. The Maytrees - Annie Dillard (216)
213. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer (242)
214. A Life at Work - Thomas Moore (188)
215. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk (197)
216. 100 Days of Monsters - Stefan Bucher (224)
217. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster (416)
218. A Life of One’s Own - Ilana Simons (224)
219. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks (381)
220. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin (275)
221. Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey (501)
222. My Name is Will - Jess Winfield (291)
223. Bonk - Mary Roach (319)
224. Overheard in the Office (240)
225. The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria (292)
226. Books: A Memoir - Larry McMurtry (259)
227. The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich (313)
228. Manic - Terri Cheney (245)
229. Against Happiness - Eric G. Wilson (166)
230. A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs (242)
231. What Now? - Ann Patchett (97)
232. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers (375)
233. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (288)
234. Millie-Christine - Joanne Martell (284)
235. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster (314)
236. The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith (256)
237. Montana 1948 - Larry Watson (186)
238. Dear American Airlines - Jonathan Miles (180)
239. My Sister, My Love - Joyce Carol Oates (562)
240. It’s Not About the Money - Brent Kessel (299)
241. The Hidden Writer - Alexandra Johnson (288)
242. What Happened to Anna K - Irina Reyn (244)
243. If Everybody Did - Jo Ann Stover (48)
244. In the Mind’s Eye- Thomas G. West (397)
245. I Was Told There’d Be Cake - Sloane Crosley (230)
246. The Lazarus Project - Aleksandar Hemon (294)
247. I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle (255)
248. Tweak - Nic Sheff (325)
249. Nudge - Richard T. Thaler/Cass R. Sunstein (293)
250. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie (355)
251. The Lucky Shopping Manual (320)
252. Traffic - Tom Vanderbilt (402)
253. African Grey Parrots- Paul Paradise (93)
254. How Fiction Works - James Wood (265)
255. The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi (322)
256. Indexed - Jessica Hagy (96)
257. Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander (224)
258. Green With Envy - Shira Boss (224)
259. ADHD & Me - Blake E. S. Taylor (176)
260. The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley (266)
261. It’s in the Bag - Winifred Gallagher (128)
262. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (518)
263. Queen Zixi of Ix - L. Frank Baum (108)
264. Who’s Your City? - Richard Florida (374)
265. The Likeness - Tana French (466)
266. Mortified - David Nadelberg (416)
267. Look at My Striped Shirt - Broadway Books (192)
268. Sway - Ori & Rom Brafman (206)
269. Spectacular Happiness - Peter D. Kramer (313)
270. Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee (224)
271. The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby (356)
272. Style Statement - Danielle LaPorte (256)
273. The Nine - Jeffrey Toobin (369)
274. The Black Tower - Louis Bayard (352)
275. The Answer is Always Yes - Monica Ferrell (382)
276. The Host - Stephenie Meyer (619)
277. Mortified: Love is a Battlefield - David Nadelberg (304)
278. Supreme Courtship - Christopher Buckley (285)
279. HeartSick - Chelsea Cain (326)
280. Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain (328)
281. The Film Club - David Gilmour (225)
282. Where’s My Jetpack? - Daniel H. Wilson & Richard Horne (192)
283. Nine Parts of Desire - Geraldine Brooks (255)
284. A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif (323)
285. Stolen Innocence - Elissa Wall (438)
286. Bear V. Shark - Chris Bachelder (256)
287. The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry (390)
288. Insomniac - Gayle Greene (503)
289. The Ten-Cent Plague - David Hajdu (434)
290. The Night of the Gun - David Carr (389)
291. Madness - Marya Hornbacher (299)
292. Collections of Nothing - William Davies King (160)
293. Not Quite What I Was Planning- Larry Smith & Rachel Ferschleiser (225)
294. My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler (213)
295. The Wishing Year - Noelle Oxenhandler (282)
296. The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga (384)
297. Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker (566)
298. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles - Jennifer 8. Lee (307)
299. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski (566)
300. Lush Life - Richard Price (455)
301. Lost on Planet China - J. Maarten Troost (382)
302. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer (498)
303. The List - Mary Corbett and Sheila Corbett Kihne (256)
304. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein (321)
305. All the Sundays Yet to Come - Kathryn Bertine (272)
306. Goldengrove - Francine Prose (275)
307. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer (563)
308. Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith (439)
309. Welcome to Shirley - Kelly McMasters (304)
310. The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry (300)
311. Indignation - Philip Roth (233)
312. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - Vincent Bugliosi (352)
313. Hurry Down Sunshine - Michael Greenberg (233)
314. Reading the OED - Ammon Shea (223)
315. Snoop - Sam Gosling, PhD (263)
316. This Land is Their Land - Barbara Ehrenreich (235)
317. The Clothes They Stood Up In - Alan Bennett (223)
318. Someone Not Really Her Mother - Harriet Scott Chessman (160)
319. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 1 - Terry Moore (344)
320. The Woman Who Lives in the Earth - Swain Wolfe (171)
321. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 2 - Terry Moore (344)
322. Goodnight Bush - Erich Origen and Gan Golan (48)
323. Debt is Slavery - Michael Mihalik (128)
324. White Like Me - Tim Wise (155)
325. Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish (290)
326. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (184)
327. Devil in the Details - Jennifer Traig (242)
328. Titanic’s Last Secrets - Brad Matsen (325)
329. Put Your Life on a Diet - Gregory Paul Johnson (176)
330. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 3 - Terry Moore (372)
331. The Drunkard’s Walk - Leonard Mlodinow (272)
332. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (190)
333. The Solitary Vice: Against Reading - Mikita Brottman (224)
334. A Good and Happy Child - Justin Evans (336)
335. A La Cart - Hillary Carlip (128)
336. Blue Suburbia - Laurie Albanese (224)
337. Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill (376)
338. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (480)
339. Well Enough Alone - Jennifer Traig (272)
340. Off the Deep End - W. Hodding Carter (209)
341. The Logic of Sufficiency - Thomas Princen (417)
342. Half Assed - Jennette Fulda (250)
343. Too Late to Say Goodbye - Ann Rule (456)
344. Five Wishes - Gay Hendricks (128)
345. Whatever Happened to Thrift? - Ronald T. Wilcox (176)
346. Atheist Manifesto - Michel Onfray (264)
347. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 4 - Terry Moore (360)
348. Netherland - Joseph O'Neill (272)
349. X Saves the World - Jeff Gordinier (224)
350. The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi (269)
351. The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket (352)
352. Blessed Unrest - Paul Hawken (352)
353. Hyper-Chondriac - Brian Frazer (240)
354. On Being Certain - Robert Burton (272)
355. Bar Flower - Lea Jacobson (352)
356. Sex and Sensibility – Liza Donnelly (272)
357. Just After Sunset – Stephen King (384)
358. Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Lee Israel (144)
359. Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters (300)
360. New Day Revolution - Sam Davidson and Stephen Moseley (141)

361. A Mercy - Toni Morrison (176)

362. Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl (165)
363. Spy Wars - Tennent H. Bagley (336)

364. Of Parrots and People - Mira Tweti (368)
365. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 5 - Terry Moore (376)
366. The Dumbest Generation - Mark Bauerlein (272)
367. Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman (288)

368. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 6 - Terry Moore (272)

369. When Organizing Isn't Enough - Julie Morgenstern (272)
370. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland (384)
371. Alex and Me - Irene Pepperberg (240)

372. Nobodies - John Bowe (336)
373. Every Person on the Planet - Bruce Eric Kaplan (128)

374. The Irregulars - Jennet Conant (416)
375. How to Tell When You're Tired - Reg Theriault (192)

376. Bad Money - Kevin Phillips (256)
377. Punching In - Alex Frankel (240)
378. Hairstyles of the Damned - Joe Meno (290)

379. Luck and the Irish - R. F. Foster (240)
380. Parrot Tricks - Tani Robar
381. Billy Hazelnuts - Tony Millionaire
382. Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock
383. Cock and Bull - Will Self
384. Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far - Stefan Sagmeister (248)

385. Fake Liar Cheat - Tod Goldberg (176)
386. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer (640)
387. The Three Trillion Dollar War - Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes (336)

388. Without Conscience - Robert D. Hare (236)

389. The Bodies Left Behind - Jeffery Deaver (368)
390. The Resistance - Gemma Malley (336)
391. Deer Hunting With Jesus - Joe Bageant (288)

392. 20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes (112)
393. The Social Atom - Mark Buchanan (256)

394. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (320)

395. Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica (320)

396. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (256)
397. The Whistleblower - Peter Rost (256)
398. Bright Lights, Big Ass - Jen Lancaster (400)
399. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July (224)

One more to go! Do you have a page count for the year?

400. The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgman (256)
401. Just How Stupid are We? - Rick Shenkman (224)

Yearly page count: 112,641.

Congratulations on an epic achievement. You're a solid 70 books and 20,000 pages ahead of me... do you think you could take a month off next year so I at least have a fighting chance ;)

Is this a record year for you or par for the course?

Why, thank you! :-) This is indeed a record. I normally read about 150 books a year. In fact I did take a month off in 2007, but it was so depressing that I've vowed never to repeat the experience.

Rather, would *you* consider taking a month off so I can catch up to some of your titles? :-D

402. Sugarplum Surprises - Elisabeth Fairchild (272)
403. Paper Towns - John Green (352)

404. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer (768)

405. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington (316)

406. Bottomless Belly Button - Dash Shaw (720)
407. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman (304)

408. Passive Aggressive Notes - Kerry Miller (176)
409. You are Here - Thomas M. Kostigen (272)

Total page count for 2008: 116,045