Book List 2008

Here are my selections which I am at liberty of changing at any given point and time. I will be checking them off my list one by one and maybe commenting on them as the year progresses.

Oprah Book Club List
1/ A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
2/ Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
3/ The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
4/ The Road, Cormac McCarthy
5/ House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
6/ The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
7/ Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
8/ The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

First in a Series
1/ A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
2/ The Bone Collector, Jeffrey Deaver
3/ The Dark Tower, Stephen King
4/ Heaven's Wager, Ted Dekker
5/ The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, Lilian Jackson Braun
6/ Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
7/ Pretties, Scott Westerfield (2nd of series)
8/ Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfield

Childhood Favorites
1/ "Oz" Series, L. Frank Baum
2/ Peppermints in the Parlor, Barbara Brooks Wallace
3/ The Peril of Peppermints, Barbara Brooks Wallace
4/ Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
5/ A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
6/ Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
7/ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
8/ Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

Fiction
1/ Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
2/ The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
3/ A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4/ The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
5/ The Sky People, S.M. Stirling
6/ Why Moms Are Weird, Pamela Ribon
7/ The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
8/ The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks

Personal Need Books
1/ YOU: The Owner's Manual, Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz
2/ Skinny Bitch, Kim Barnouin
3/ Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook
4/ The Lucky Shopping Manual, Andrea Linett
5/ Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morgenstern
6/ Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs
7/ Parenting with Love and Logic, Foster W. Cline
8/ The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word, Joyce Meyer

Books which have inspired movies
1/ The Cider House Rules, John Irving
2/ Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
3/ Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
4/ P.S. I Love You, Cecilia Ahearn
5/ I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
6/ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
7/ Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
8/ The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger

Parenting
1/ Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Jane Ed.D. Nelsen
2/ How to Raise a Brighter Child, Joan Beck
3/ Born to Learn, Carole S. Rhodes
4/ American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition
5/ Baby Sing and Sign, Anne Meeker-Miller
6/ 1,2,3, Cook For Me, Karin Knight
7/ The Five Love Languages of Children, Gary Chapman
8/ Toddler 411, Denise Fields

Biographies & Memoirs
1/ The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
2/ Marley & Me, John Grogan
3/ Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
4/ A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
5/ Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Peggy Vincent
6/ The Year of Living Biblically, A. J. Jacobs
7/ 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life, Don Piper
8/ Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis