I’ve completed the challenge by reading eight ‘08 books, but I’ll keep adding more to the end of this list as I read them throughout the year. If you’re interested in joining the challenge but haven’t already, click on the button.
The books I read:
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (previously published in the UK and Australia, but first published in the US in 2008)
- The Translator by Daoud Hari
- Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
- The Sister by Poppy Adams
- Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
- Detective Story by Kertesz
- The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
- The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
- Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
- The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton
- What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
- Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (officially, this one doesn’t count as it’s YA/children’s; unofficially, it should!)
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Goldengrove by Francine Prose
