Here are the rules:
1. Compile your list of favorites. Please be sure that books you choose actually were published in 2008, or at the very earliest in the winter holiday season of 2007. Sometimes books that come out then are left out.
2. Come back and sign Mr Linky with the url to your top books of 2008 post.
3. If you happen to see any non-WG bloggers making similar lists, please grab the url and come put it in Mr Linky for them. Let them know you’re doing that, please, in case they have some sort of objection; if they do, they can ask me to remove their link. I’ve already seen a couple favorites of 2008 posts, which is another reason I wanted to get started early.
4. Feel free to make changes to your list if you read something new in the next few weeks. After about October 25, I can’t guarantee your changes will be reflected in the master list. We’ll probably start compiling lists around then.
5. Please consider whether you’d like to help me compile lists.
So here's my list (in reverse order of how I read them; all these books are reviewed on this blog; links to them can be found under the title of the blog):
The Glass of Time, by Michael Cox
Girl in a Blue Dress, by Gaynor Arnold (TBP in December)
The Sealed Letter, by Emma Donoghue
Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Black Tower, by Louis Bayard
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, by Andrea Di Robilant
The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte, by Laura Joh Rowland
1. Compile your list of favorites. Please be sure that books you choose actually were published in 2008, or at the very earliest in the winter holiday season of 2007. Sometimes books that come out then are left out.
2. Come back and sign Mr Linky with the url to your top books of 2008 post.
3. If you happen to see any non-WG bloggers making similar lists, please grab the url and come put it in Mr Linky for them. Let them know you’re doing that, please, in case they have some sort of objection; if they do, they can ask me to remove their link. I’ve already seen a couple favorites of 2008 posts, which is another reason I wanted to get started early.
4. Feel free to make changes to your list if you read something new in the next few weeks. After about October 25, I can’t guarantee your changes will be reflected in the master list. We’ll probably start compiling lists around then.
5. Please consider whether you’d like to help me compile lists.
So here's my list (in reverse order of how I read them; all these books are reviewed on this blog; links to them can be found under the title of the blog):
The Glass of Time, by Michael Cox
Girl in a Blue Dress, by Gaynor Arnold (TBP in December)
The Sealed Letter, by Emma Donoghue
Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Black Tower, by Louis Bayard
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, by Andrea Di Robilant
The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte, by Laura Joh Rowland
Comments
Do check my short list
I'm off to finish Landing by Emma Donoghue. I grabbed The House at Riverton in Hong Kong back in spring. It's still sitting on my nightstand.
~SmallWorld Reads, visiting from Weekly Geeks
I want to do Weekly Geeks but feel like there's still to much time left in the year to discover some favorites :)
Hopefully I'll get my act together and make a list.
I just found out about The Sealed Letter last month - I love her books, so much research involved. And the House at Riverton is on my list, too.
I just looked it up and Company of Liars sounds quite extraordinary.