tamaranth | 2008 in review: Books Read

What I read last year (with links to reviews)
Titles in bold are those I especially liked.
26 books by women, 22 books by men, 1 book by the mysterious K J Parker.
40 fiction, 9 non-fiction
7 review books (some reviews still outstanding!)
5 titles I tagged as sf, 13 I tagged as fantasy, 6 I tagged as historical, 9 contemporary. (Some overlap).

The Importance of Music to Girls Lavinia Greenlaw review
The Custom of the Sea: The True Story That Changed British Law Neil Hanson review
Arthur and George Julian Barnes review
The Middle Kingdom Andrea Barrett review
Fortress of Ice C. J. Cherryh review
Sarah Canary Karen Joy Fowler review
Incantation Alice Hoffman review
The Howling Miller Arto Paasilinna review
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates Des Ekin review
Anything Goes: The Autobiography John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman review
Debatable Space Philip Palmer review
The River King Alice Hoffman review
Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age Elizabeth Bear review
Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone review
Frangipani (Materena Mahi Trilogy 1) Celestine Hitiura Vaite review
Where Three Roads Meet (Canongate Myths) Salley Vickers review
The Court of the Air Stephen Hunt review
The Lady Tree Christie Dickason review
Notes from an Exhibition Patrick Gale review
Selected Tales and Sketches (Classics) Nathaniel Hawthorne review
Search for Senna (Everworld) Katherine Applegate review
The Book Thief Markus Zusak review
The Cleft Doris Lessing review
The Ninth Circle Alex Bell review
Tourniquet: Tales from the Renegade City Kim Lakin-Smith review
Incendiary Chris Cleave review
The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks review
Darkmans Nicola Barker review
The Margarets (Gollancz S.F.) Sheri S. Tepper review
The Road to Samarcand Patrick O'Brian review
Storm Front (The Dresden Files) Jim Butcher review
The Host Stephenie Meyer review
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) Kerry Greenwood review
Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter Ashley Hames review
Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill review
Gods Behaving Badly Marie Phillips review
Vacant Possession Hilary Mantel review
The Servants M.M. Smith review
Unwelcome Bodies Jennifer Pelland review
Othona: Much ado about something : a history of the Othona Community Norman Motley review
Austerity Britain: A World to Build David Kynaston review
Under an English Heaven Robert Radcliffe review
The Way We Are Margaret Visser review
Harpist in the Wind Patricia McKillip review
Heir of Sea and Fire Patricia McKillip review
The Riddle-master of Hed Patricia McKillip review
The Company K.J. Parker review
The Book of Atrix Wolfe Patrick McKillip review
Jhegaala (Vlad Taltos) Steven Brust review