Books Read by Month

2008
January
The Overcoat by Gogol
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

February
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Firefly Lane byKristin Hannah

March
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason
The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
The Sister by Poppy Adams
Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Fifteen Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daly

April
Araby by James Joyce
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Bikini Season by Sheila Roberts
Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick
Fifteen Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daly
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

May
Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Interpreter of Maladies by by Jhumpa Lahiri
Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Janeology by Karen Harrington
Stardust by Neil Gaiman

June
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mosim Hamid
Entombed by Linda Fairstein
Sandman: World's End by Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror by Susan Nagel

July
The Absolute Sandman Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Breakout by Paul Fleischman
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

August
The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
Eminent Domain by Dan O' Brien
Mercy Street by Mariah Stewart
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
Farworld: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson

September
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

October
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Philip K. Dick
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

November
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1 by Alan Moore
Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Colony by John Scalzi

December
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horowitz
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

2009
January
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Paper Towns by John Green
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Sandman:Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
Sandman:A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

February
Eclipse One edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Fables:Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
Fables:March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
Sandman:Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman

March
Sandman:Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
Sandman:the Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

April
Heat Lightning by Jason Sanford
Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar
Library: an Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Tigerheart by Peter David
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
Fables: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham
Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days) by Bill Willingham

May
Laika by Nick Abadzis
Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
Vampire Knight Volume I by Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Volume II by Matsuri Hino
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephan Chbosky
The Apprentice's Masterpiece by Melanie Little
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

June
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham
Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
Fables: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham
Emma: Volume I by Kaoru Mori
The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
Emma: Volume II by Kaoru Mori
Emma: Volume III by Kaoru Mori
Emma: Volume IV by Kaoru Mori
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Lucifer Effect by Phillip Zimbardo
A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck
The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman

July
Fables: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Emma: Volume V by Kaoru Mori
The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
Heavier Than Air by Nona Caspers
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Walking Dead: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead: The Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
What Do Muslims Believe? by Ziaddin Sardar
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

August
Scar Night by Alan Campbell
Thessaly: Witch for Hire by Bill Willingham
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi

September
Persepolis II by Marjane Satrapi
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
Emma Volume 6 by Kaoru Mori
Emma Volume 7 by Kaoru Mori
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi

October
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope

November
In the Woods by Tana French
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Under the Banner of Heaven by

December
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The City and The City by China Mieville
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Flora Segunda
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

January
Freakonomics
Superfreakonomics
Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Coraline (graphic novel) by Neil Gaiman
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by
The Help by