This list is incomplete as from August to December I did not keep track and therefore had to go by memory. This wouldn't be such a difficult task except that I tend to read as many old books as new, and it becomes difficult to remember whether I read them this summer, or last summer, or both. (I had all seven of the Harry Potter books on this year's list until I remembered that that was LAST year's list.) This is the least amount of books I've ever read in one year, and I'm chalking it up to moving and starting a new job and getting Tivo. On the other hand, maybe I've read 20 more books and just don't remember. Yeah, let's go with that one.
Number of Agatha Christies read in 2008: 11 (6 of them I'd read before, but I did read three that I've been meaning to read for YEARS: The Pale Horse, Toward Zero, and The Mystery of the Blue Train)
Number of nonfiction books (a new record for me. At least, since college): 5 (If These Walls Could Laugh, Don't Kiss Them Good-bye, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Home, and Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad. Plus, the next book I've got on my list is Wishful Drinking by Princess Leia. Er, Carrie Fisher)
Number of historicals: 9
January:
1. And Only to Deceive
2. Silent in the Grave
3. Birds of a Feather
4. Persuasion
5. Under the Mistletoe
6. The Cliffhouse Strangler
February:
7. Silent in the Sanctuary
8. Something Borrowed
9. Something Blue
10. A Poisoned Season
March:
11. The Tea Rose (yikes! Took me nearly an entire month to get through!)
12. This Pen For Hire
April:
13. Plum Lucky
14. If These Walls Could Laugh
15. The Little Lady Agency
16. Don't Kiss Them Good-bye
17. The Learning Curve
May:
17. Little Lady, Big Apple
18. Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day
19. Airhead
20. The Giver
21. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
22. The Man in the Brown Suit
June:
23. The Secret of Chimneys
24. The Seven Dials Mystery
25. Little Lady and the Prince
26. They Came to Baghdad
27. Destination Unknown
28. A Fatal Waltz
29. Remember Me?
July:
30. Little Shop of Murders
31. Fearless Fourteen
33. Where Are You Now?
August:
34. A Consequence of Sin
35. Three Men and a Body
September:
36. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
37. The Edge of Midnight
38. Home: The Julie Andrews Story
October:
39. Towards Zero
40. The Mystery of the Blue Train
41. Mirror Image
42. Cat Among the Pigeons
43. The Crucible
44. Night
November:
45. The Pale Horse
46. Princess on the Brink
47. Princess Mia
December:
48. Boy Meets Girl
49. The Boy Next Door
50. A Raisin in the Sun
51. Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
52. Big Boned
53. Ordeal by Innocence
54. Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad
55. The Tales of Beedle Bard
