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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Booking Through Thursday: The Best?



This week's Booking Through Thursday question:
It’s a week or two later than you’d expect, and it may be almost a trite question, but … what were your favorite books from 2008?

I thought this would be tough to narrow down, but my list came quite naturally. Here were my five favorites:














What were your top five?

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12 comments:

  1. SandraJanuary 8, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    I agree about Tomato Girl, Iv'e just posted my review of it this week. The other three fiction you mention look good too. I will investigate. My Booking Through Thursday is up.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2009 at 9:34 AM

    I loved Tomato Girl and Loving Frank. I hope to get Trail of Crumbs soon.

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  3. Dawn @ sheIsTooFondOfBooksJanuary 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    I'm right with you with *Tomato Girl* and *Olive Kitteridge*. *Loving Frank* is waiting for me on the bookshelf ...

    Looks like we have very similar taste; I'll have to add the other two titles to my wish list!

    Dawn
    She is Too Fond of Books

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  4. Jenny GJanuary 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    Jill, you are keeping me busy, now I have to read what you consider the 5 best of the year! When Chris starts complaining about me never spending any time with him, I'm blaming you!

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  5. S. KrishnaJanuary 8, 2009 at 3:47 PM

    I haven't read any of these but Loving Frank is on my TBR shelf!

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM

    I loved Olive Kitteridge too, I just didn't put it on my list...I had a fun theme going, and Olive didn't seem like she fit with the rest of the crowd.

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  7. Lisa (Southern Girl Reads)January 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM

    Tomato Girl is my favorite for 2008. I've heard you talk about 'Loving Frank' and how much you loved it. I'm adding it to my list.

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  8. Gayle WeiswasserJanuary 8, 2009 at 11:18 PM

    We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver), Tomato Girl (Jayne Pupek), The Condition (Jennifer Haigh), The Post-Birthday World (Lionel Shriver) and Trespass (Valerie Martin).

    Will check out the two on your list I've never heard of before!

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  9. J.C.January 9, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    I'm looking forward to reading Trail of Crumbs. I purchased it when I was in LA over Christmas at a wonderful used book store for $2.

    I think I might start it next week; it sounds very promising.

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  10. Marie CloutierJanuary 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM

    I thought Loving Frank was excellent. I enjoyed getting to know Mamah Cheney- such an interesting character!

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  11. melanieJanuary 26, 2009 at 6:48 AM

    Ooh, I don't know how you narrow down to five. Tomato & Olive were both on my top list too. Frank is on my tbr pile. I would add White Mary by Kira Salak and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.

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  12. The Book ExplorerJune 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    Your pick sounds good.

    Here's the link to mine!

    http://thebookexplorer.blogspot.com/2009/06/waiting-on-wednesday-2.html

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