Final largely complete 2008 Reading List

The Deadly Percheron -- John Franklin Bardin
The Big Lebowski (BFI Film Classics) -- J.M. Tyree & Ben Walters
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America -- Brian Francis Slattery
Always A Body To Trade -- K.C. Constantine
Cutter and Bone -- Newton Thornberg
Best American Comics 2008
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound Of The Baskervilles -- Pierre Bayard
Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera -- Francois Ricard
52 McGs -- Robert McG. Thomas, Jr
Batman: Year 100 -- Paul Pope
The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
In The Woods -- Tana French
Memoir of the Hawk: Poems -- James Tate
The Lost Dog -- Michelle de Kretser
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph -- Edgar Johnson
Rhubarb - H. Allen Smith
How Fiction Works -- James Wood
Let Me Finish -- Roger Angell
Blonde Faith -- Walter Mosley
The Heckler -- Ed McBain
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States -- George R. Stewart
Netherland: A Novel -- Joseph O'Neill
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes -- Jim Holt
The Summer Book -- Tove Jansson
Elective Affinities -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cop Hater -- Ed McBain
Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex -- Ellen Sussman (ed.)
The Commodore -- Patrick O'Brian
Almayer's Folly -- Joseph Conrad
Nazi Literature in the Americas -- Roberto Bolano
The Widow -- Georges Simenon
Blood And Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West -- Hampton Sides
Darker Than Amber -- John D. MacDonald
The Man In The High Castle -- Philip Dick
Girl Factory -- Jim Krusoe
Bonk -- Mary Roach
Updike in Cincinnati -- James Schiff (ed.)
Out Stealing Horses -- Per Petterson
The Poetry of War -- James Anderson Winn
Cakes and Ale -- W. Somerset Maugham
Into The Canyon: Seven Years In Navaho Country -- Lucy Moore
The Invention of Morel -- Adolfo Bioy Casares
What The Dead Know -- Laura Lippman
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox -- Stephen Budiansky
The Curse of The Spellmans -- Lisa Lutz
The Big Clock -- Kenneth Fearing
Clark Gifford's Body -- Kenneth Fearing
The Counterlife -- Philip Roth
The Man Who Smiled -- Henning Mankell
All About H. Hatterr -- G.V. Desani
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This -- Bob Newhart
Christine Falls -- Benjamin Black
Born Standing Up -- Steve Martin
The Savage Detectives -- Roberto Bolano
The Barbarous Coast -- Ross Macdonald
Diary of A Bad Year -- J.M.Coetzee
The Long Suit - Philip Davison
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Best American Comics 2007