Books
• Alissa’s GoodReads
• 2008 Reading List
• 2007 Book List
January
• The Bell Jar
• Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
• On the Road
• River Grace - Makoto Fujimura
• Crowded Skies: Letters to Manhattan - Tara Leigh Cobble
• Chasing Francis
February
• Exiles
• The End of Reason
• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
• Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices
March
• Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste - Herbert Gans
• Love, Work, Children: A Novel - Cheryl Mendelson
• Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading - Eugene Peterson
• Slow Food: The Case for Taste - Carlo Petrini
April
• All the Sad Young Literary Men - Keith Gessen
• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling - Andy Crouch
• Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture - Heather Hendershot
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
May
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and “Women’s Work” - Kathleen Norris
• Saturday - Ian McEwan
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
June
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• Home - Marilynne Robinson
• It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music - Amanda Petrusich
• Howards End - E.M. Forster
July
• The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
• Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
• Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
• The Collector - John Fowles
• The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
August
• The Twenty-Seventh City - Jonathan Franzen
September
• Amazing Grace - Kathleen Norris
October
• Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman