2008 Reads

• My life, by Bill Clinton (audio)


• It itches: a stash of knitting cartoons, by Franklin Habit


• Medieval Europe and the world: from late antiquity to modernity, 400-1500, by Robin W. Winks and Teofilo F. Ruiz


• Rome, by M. Rostovtzeff


• The consolation of philosophy, by Ancius Boethius


• The lucky one, by Nicholas Sparks


• Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life, by Barbara Kingsolver (audio) [!]


• The first urban Christians: the social world of the apostle Paul, by Wayne A. Meeks


• Selected Works, by Cicero


• Free-Range Knitter: the Yarn Harlot writes again, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


• Plato's Republic, translated by C. D. C. Reeve


• Rome, by M. Rostovtzeff


• Ancient Greece: from prehistoric to Hellenistic times, by Thomas R. Martin


• Chasing windmills, by Catherine Ryan Hyde [#]


• Body Surfing : a novel, by Anita Shreve


• The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta (audio) [!]


• Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" [!]


• The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, by David H. Richter


• Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


• On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill


• Origins of the First World War, by James Joll


• Michelin Must Sees : Montreal


• Germany, 1866-1944 - by Gordon A. Craig


• The Declaration of Independence and other great documents of American history, 1775-1864 - edited by John Grafton


• Grounding of the metaphysics of morals, by Immanuel Kant


• Ornamentalism: how the British saw their empire - by David Cannadine


• 1848 : the revolutionary tide in Europe - by Peter N. Stearns


• A concise history of France, by Roger Price


• Meditations on first philosophy, by René Descartes


• The scientific revolution : aspirations and achievements, 1500-1700 - by James R. Jacob


• The foundations of early modern Europe, 1460-1559 - by Rice and Grafton


• Rewind, by Laura Dower [!]

* KEY: [!] = Highly recommend and [#] = Disappointing