Your favourite read from 2008?

[Imogen]

Now I know that this might be difficult, because there's usually a few to choose from. But which book has been your absolute favourite read from 2008?

Mine was John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things

[Oriole]

Okay, I'll play... but don't judge!

Twilight by Meyer and Perfect by McNaught (there, I said it

... of a more substantial matter, I guess I'll never forget reading Rape of Nanking.

oh and of something in between I will definitely remember and reread - then I Am Legend and The Mist were really good.

[BookGoddess]

I have two favorites from the books I read in 2008.

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue.

Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds by Jenny McCarthy.

[carriebft]

Twilight series
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

[Drummer's Wife]

thanks for asking this, I am looking for book ideas right now. (I just started Ocean's Apart last night and so far I am enjoying it)
I really loved Midwives and Friday Night Knitting Club.

[Daffodil]

My favorite grown-up book was probably The Snoring Bird by Bernd Heinrich. But I think my absolute favorite was one I read to DD: Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson.

[alicewyf]

I really enjoyed Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet.

[Imogen]

Originally Posted by BookGoddess

I have two favorites from the books I read in 2008.

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue.

Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds by Jenny McCarthy.

The Stolen Child was a lovely, but sad book. I didn't include that because I read it last year

The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini was another favourite

and

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

I just cannot help myself. It's impossible to stick to just one favourite book

Peace

[Arduinna]

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Wolf and The Raven by Diana Paxson
The Dragons of the Rhine by Diana Paxson
Called out of Darkness by Anne Rice
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

[Drummer's Wife]

ooh, I've been wanting to read The Heroin Diaries but completely forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me, Arduinna. Love me some Nikki Sixx music

[mata]

My absolute, absolute favorite was Beth Helms' Dervishes (dysfunctional Canadian diplomat family in 70s Turkey .)


Honorable mention:

Unaccustomed Earth. More good stuff from Jhumpa Lahiri.

Also-Anya Ulinich's Petropolis (about a Soviet mail-order bride)

[athansor]

Water for Elephants was my favorite read this year. http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephant..._bxgy_b_text_b

[Theoretica]

These didn't necessarily come out this year, but I read and fell in love with them this year...

Three Cups of Tea

Sex Lives of Cannibals (And it's sequel...Getting Stoned With Savages)

Worse Than Watergate

God Is Not Great

A Walk in the Woods

The Know It All

[JessicaS]

Originally Posted by athansor

Water for Elephants was my favorite read this year. http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephant..._bxgy_b_text_b

I also have to pick Water for Elephants.

[Imogen]

Originally Posted by Arduinna

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Wolf and The Raven by Diana Paxson
The Dragons of the Rhine by Diana Paxson
Called out of Darkness by Anne Rice
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I absolutely adored The Historian

Another favourite of mine was What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. This book made me cry one night as I lay on my sons bed with him while he fell asleep. I had to cry silently so I wouldn't wake him

[Kirsten]

Originally Posted by abimommy

I also have to pick Water for Elephants.

Me too.

[Suzannah]

Subbing for ideas....

[holyhelianthus]

The Gemma Doyle trilogy
The Reader
Eat, Pray, Love

[Maeve]

Good Omens It's just a fun book.

[Mrsboyko]

Well, since the only books I have read this year (this sounds really bad, but baby, pregnant and work doesn't leave a lot of time) were the Twilight series, I'm going with that.
But I am looking for 2009 ideas.....