a month late, but here's the list of books i read in 2008. i don't feel like posting reviews of each that most probably won't read. comment if you want feedback about any of them.

2008 Book List
01. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
02. PJ Harvey: Siren Rising - James R. Blandford
03. Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America - Jason Goodwin
04. Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
05. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan
06. The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
07. The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers - Amy Hollingsworth
08. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - Simon Winchester
09. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
10. Tales of Watership Down by Richard Adams
11. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
12. Guns, Germs, & Steel by Jared Diamond
13. 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
14. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
15. Spice: The History of Temptation by Jack Turner
16. Helen of Troy by Margaret George

Here's my booklist for the year. Only made it halfway to 50, but that is due to the additions of a DS and creative zen player to my work bag.

01. Orphans Preferred - Christopher Corbett
02. The Good, the Bad, and the Mad - E. Randall Floyd
03. The True History of Chocolate - Sophie Coe and Michael Coe
04. Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
05. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry
06. Garbage Land - Elizabeth Royte
07. When Worlds Collide - Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer
08. After Worlds Collide - Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer
09. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
10. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon 1851-1852 - William Lewis Herndon
11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
12. Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle
13. Electric Universe: The Shockingly True Story of Electricity - David Bodanis
14. A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing - Michael Farquhar
15. The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery - Michelle Stacey
16. Logan's Run - William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
17. The Ezekiel Option - Joel C. Rosenberg
18. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
19. The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco - Charles F. Adams
20. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - Simon Winchester
21. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
22. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The US Exploring Expedition - Nathaniel Philbrick
23. The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version - Peter S. Beagle
24. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time - John Kelly
25. Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush - Lael Morgan

ones rated higher than "just okay" are bolded.

so far this year i've read Farenheit 451. i can definitely see why it's a classic.