Books 2008

53. The Custom of the Country by Edith Warton

52. The New Earth by Eckhardt Tolle

51. The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown

50. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg

49. The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates

48. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

47. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

46. Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger

45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

44. The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

43. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

42. The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower

41. The Private Patient by PD James

40. Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel

39. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

38. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

37. Consider the Lily by Elizabeth Buchan

36. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

35. The Life & Soul of the Party by Mike Gayle

34. The Innocent Man by John Grisham

33. The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend

32. Still Thinking of You by Adele Parks

31. The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy

30. Wideacres by Phillipa Gregory

29. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

28. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

27. Neris and India’s Idiot-Proof Diet by India Knight and Neris Thompson

26. The March by E.L. Doctorow

25. Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson

24. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

23. The Chameleon’s Shadow by Minette Walters

22. Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

21. A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

20. Watching the English by Kate Fox

19. No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July

18. A Quiet Flame by Phillip Kerr

17. Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

16. Botswana Time by Will Randall

15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

14. Witness to AIDS by Edwin Cameron

13. Sizwe’s Test by Jonny Steinberg

12. War Child by Juliet Lac

11. Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson

10. Burned Alive by Souad

9. May You Be The Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among The Women of India by Elisabeth Bumiller

8. March by Geraldine Brooks

7. My Life in France by Julia Child

6. Straight Man by Richard Russo

5. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

4. The Delivery Room by Sylvia Brownrigg

3. Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro

2. The Gathering by Anne Enright

1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie