My Year in Books
Trending backwards again, I completed 42 books in 2008 – only 4 in the last two months, and two of those completed in the last 3 days of the year.
Anyway, here are my top 5, in reading order, not most best to least best or least best to most best:
A Prayer For Owen Meaney – John Irving
This is the sort of book where when I finished it, I couldn’t stop thinking about the characters. Simply fantastic!
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto – Michael Pollan
This is a really interesting book about eating, and the American Edible Product industry (note I didn’t say food!)
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
I really liked this book, although I can see how some people have a hard time with it. It’s pretty strange, but hey, it’s a novel about logic and semiotics set in a medieval monastery, written by an Italian.
Blindsight – Peter Watts
I fucking love this book. So much that I read it two years in a row, and twice this year. I probably put it on top last year too! So good!
Watchmen – Alan Moore
Great novel with pictures. Need I say more?