Belatedly, here is the list of what I read (outside of school books) for 2008. I wish I'd gotten to more books, and I have a long backlist that I'm starting on during this period of time off. I've bolded my favorites from this list.
- House Rules - Rachel Sontag
- Free Food for Millionaires - Min Jin Lee
- The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It - M. Gigi Durham
- Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - Deborah Rodriguez
- Bound: A Novel - Sally Gunning
- The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
- When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase
- My Lobotomy - Howard Dully
- Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti
- Cheer!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders - Kate Torgovnick
- Her Turn: Why It's Time for Women to Lead in America - Vicki Donlan
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
- How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work - Megan Hustad
- The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream - Christina Lamb
- Isadora: A Sensational Life - Peter Kurth
- Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success - Sheila Wellington and Catalyst
- Sold - Patricia McCormick
- An Empire of Women - Karen Shepard
- New Girl On the Job: Advice from the Trenches - Hannah Seligson
- Twilight Sleep - Edith Wharton
- Return to Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
- Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
- The Quiet Girl - Peter Hoeg
- Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers - Cris Beam
- The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear - Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio
- The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service - Laura Kaplan
- Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - Courtney E. Martin
- The Sky Isn't Visible from Here - Felicia C. Sullivan
- Sin in the Second City - Karen Abbott
- This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor - Susan Wicklund
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
- Napoleon's Women - Christopher Hibbert
- Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
1 responses:
Thanks for posting this list, Kate. I just finished reading How to Be Useful and I've learned a lot from it, including how to change my perspective on what I'm doing in my job. Also read New Girl on the Job, which had it's high points but wasn't as helpful in my opinion.
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