On the Bedside Table…

Through all my blog trolling I have found that one of the things I enjoy the most is seeing what other people are reading. So here’s my list for 2008:

Finished:

• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
• The Alchemist

• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Wild Swans
• Single Mom Seeking
• Three Cups of Tea
• The Inheritance of Loss
• The Russian Concubine
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

 

In Progress:

• What is the What
• there is no me without you (thanks, Amy!)

In the Queue:

• Peace Like a River
• Suite Francaise
• An Eye at the Top of the World
• Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
• A Golden Age
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
• The Maytrees
• Up High in the Trees
• Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish
• Lost Horizon
• Peony in Love
• The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
• Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
• The Madonnas of Leningrad
• The Omnivores Dilemma

I have also decided to list the unabridged audiobooks that I listen to in 2008: 

(In February and March alone, I’ll make 3 round trips from Virginia to Rhode Island, generating hours and hours in the car.  My commute to work is at least 45 minutes each way, sometimes more like 90 minutes each way.  So I have a lot of time to listen to audiobooks.  I am slightly less picky about what I listen to vs. what I read, so bear that in mind as you look at this list.)

• We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
• Panic
• The Saffron Kitchen
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Secret Hunters
• Prayers for the Assassin
• The Last Empress
• End in Tears
• The Secret Servant

 I’m always looking for new, great reading so feel free to send suggestions this way!