I've been meaning to post this list for the past month and a half, but I've been busy starting on the 2009 list! Without further ado, here are the books I read in 2008. The titles in bold are the ones I liked the most, for whatever reason. Just about all of these are first-time reads.
1. The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories - Alberto Manguel, ed.
2. The Gathering - Anne Enright
3. Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey through Hell and Back - Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
5. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
6. Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe - Sam Walker
7. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
8. Coraline - Neil Gaiman9. The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller
10. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
11. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
12. The Namesake - Jumpala Lahiri
13. The Whole World Over - Julia Glass
14. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
15. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
16. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
17. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
18. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
19. Specials – Scott Westerfeld
20. The Looking Glass Wars – Frank Beddor
21. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman22. Just in Case – Meg Rosoff
23. Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gaiman
24. The Post-Birthday World – Lionel Shriver
25. Replay – Ken Grimwood26. The Speed of Light – Elizabeth Rosner
27. The Host – Stephenie Meyer
28. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda – Philip Gourevitch
29. In His Sights: A True Story of Love and Obsession – Kate Brennan
30. What Happened to Anna K: A Novel – Irina Reyn
31. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties: A Novel – Jessica Anya Blau
32. We Need to Talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver33. The Three of Us: A Family Story – Julia Blackburn
34. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card35. Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Story – Abbe Smith
36. Playing for Pizza – John Grisham
37. Run – Ann Patchett38. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman – Nora Ephron
39. Everyman – Philip Roth
40. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time – Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
41. Blindness – Jose Saramago
42. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
43. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
44. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates45. Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories – Steven Millhauser
46. The Secret History – Donna Tartt47. I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley
48. Netherland – Joseph O’Neill