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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Best of 2008- the big list.

ADULT FICTION
Death of a Cosy Writer, by G.M. Maillet
Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O’Nan
Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O’Nan
The We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris

Real World, by Natsuo Kirino
The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, by Mil Millington

ADULT NON FICTION
Freakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Flower Confidential, by Amy Stewart
Lost on Planet China, by J. Maartin Troost
The Dumbest Generation, by Mark Bauerlein
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
Bottlemania, by Elizabeth Royte
Parenting, Inc. , by Pamela Paul
Rock On, by Dan Kennedy
The Men Who Stare At Goats, by Jon Ronson
Six Degrees, by Mark Lynas

Devil in the Details, by Jennifer Traig
House Lust, by Daniel McGinn


YA
The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary Pearson
The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
The Mother Daughter Book Club, by Heather Fredericks Vogel
The Gospel According to Larry, by Janet Tashjian
Enthusiasm, by Polly Shulman

So Yesterday, by Scott Westerfeld
Exodus, by Julie Bertagna
Kitty Kitty, by Michelle Jaffe
Rash, by Pete Hauptman

CHILDREN’S
Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild
Millions, by Frank Cottrell
Catherine Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
The King of Mulberry Street, by Donna Jo Napoli
The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit

Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright


MOVIE
High Society
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Atonement
Across the Universe
Children of Men
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Paradise Now

DOCUMENTARY
Rivers and Tides
No End in Sight
A Crude Awakening
Maxed Out
Why We Fight
The Corporation
Koyaanisqatsi
Spellbound
Sicko
Winged Migration

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