Reading done in 2008

I managed to read around 32 books this year, pitifully short of my secret goal of reading 52 books, but still not that bad. 

Best book: Family matters by Rohinton Mistry

Worst book: Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The list:

1. In high places by Arthur Hailey
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. ‘Tis by Frank McCourt
5. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
6. Saving Faith by David Baldacci
7. Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
9. Doctors by Erich Segal
10. The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
11. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
12. Next by Michael Crichton
13. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
14. Sweet Valley High 125 : Camp killer by Kate William
15. Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
16. Doctor on the job by Richard Gordon
17. The mimic men by V. S. Naipaul
18. Bech, A book by John Updike
19. The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger
20. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
21. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
22. A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
23. Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
24. Two lives by Vikram Seth
25. Reader’s Digest Select Editions (basically abridged novels)
    1. Jacquot and the angel by Martin O’Brien
    2. The hard way by Lee Child
    3. The undomestic goddess by Sophie Kinsella
26. Let me hear your voice by Catherine Maurice
27. Thinking in pictures by Temple Grandin
28. The testament by John Grisham
29. After dark by Haruki Murakami
30. The Stand by Stephen King
31. Nothing lasts forever by Sidney Sheldon (predictable but still enjoyable)
32. Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler