Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Books Read and Heard: 2008 Edition

I am also including audio books as well this year just cos they're also books. List may not be in chronological order (which I probably should've, but whatever lah).

As usual, re-reads are not on the list.

  1. Ben Elton - Popcorn, Blind Faith
  2. Stephen Fry - Paperweight, The Hippopotamus, The Liar
  3. Philippa Gregory - The Boleyn Inheritance, The Constant Princess, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover
  4. Bill Maher - New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
  5. Skip Yowell - The Hippie's Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder and Other Mountains: How JanSport Makes it Happen
  6. Stephen King - The Green Mile
  7. Roald Dahl - Collected Short Stories
  8. Elen Lewis - Great Ikea! A Brand for all the People
  9. John Simmons - My Sister's A Barista: How They Made Starbucks a Home Away from Home
  10. Scott Adams - Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice (audio)
  11. Paul Reiser - Babyhood
  12. Judith Levine - Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
  13. Ryan Nerz - Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
  14. Stephen Colbert - I Am America (and So Can You!) - print and audio
  15. Anita Roddick - Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey - Profits with Principles
  16. Michael Ruhlman - Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
  17. Chelsea Handler - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
  18. Chuck Palahniuk - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, Snuff
  19. Jason Leong - The Twisted Stethoscope
  20. Bill Cosby - Love and Marriage
  21. James D. Scurlock - Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
  22. Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  23. Jon Stewart - Naked Pictures of Famous People
  24. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  25. Lewis Black - Me of Little Faith (audio)
  26. Russell Lee - True Singapore Ghost Stories #18
  27. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
  28. Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt - It's Just a Date: How to Get 'em, How to Read 'em, and How to Rock 'em
  29. Michael Moore - Mike's Election Guide 2008
  30. Belle de Jour - The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
  31. Dan Savage - The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family; Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist
  32. Frank Warren - A Lifetime of Secrets
  33. Bob Newhart - I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny
  34. James McGee - Resurrectionist
  35. Patrick Süskind - The Pigeon
  36. Jeff Foxworthy - Those People: Humorous Drawings, You're Not a Kid Anymore When...
  37. J.K. Rowling - Tales of Beedle the Bard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  38. Eric Schlosser - Reefer Madness...and Other Tales from the American Underground
  39. Matt Groening - Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe
  40. Jay Rayner - The Apologist
  41. Francine Maroukan - Chef's Secrets: Insider Techniques from Today's Culinary Masters
  42. Ee Lin See - My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore
  43. Rowan Coleman - Woman Walks into a Bar
Book count = 50, give or take a few that I might've missed.

I've books that I've bought that I admittedly haven't started on yet - but those might be my CNY reading....

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