Favourite Books – 2008

2008 was a better year for reading because I spent a month cycling through part of Africa with the Tour d’Afrique. Long plane flights and little to do at night but read boosted my finished books to a total of 43.

Here are my favourite reads in 2008.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Why Don’t You Fly: Back Door to Beijing by Bicycle by Christopher Smith
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
Run by Ann Patchett
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Silence of the Songbirds by Bridget Stutchbury
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia’s Great Southern Desert by Bruce Kirkby
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah
Kinship with Animals edited by Michael Tobias and Kate Solisti-Mattelon
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier by Diana Preston and Michael Preston
Adrift by Stephen Callahan
Rowboat in a Hurricane by Julie Angus
Mr. Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
What the Physic Told the Pilgrim by Jane Christmas