Here are the books released in 2008 that caught my interest. As I read them, I will link to my notes. Where I can, or where I remember, I will provide links to how I heard about them. For the non-fiction, the interview often gives you the gist of the whole book.
Fiction of various flavors:
| Read so far | ||
| Anathem, by Neal Stephenson | Hugo Nominee, Locus Award winner | |
| Alchemy of Stone, by Ekaterina Sedia | Locus Recommended Reading | |
| The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman | Hugo Nominee, Locus Award winner | |
| author’s website | Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow | Hugo and Nebula Nominee, Locus Recommended Reading |
| Merchant’s War, by Charles Stross | ||
| All the Windwracked Stars, by Elizabeth Bear | ||
| author’s website | Sly Mongoose, by Tobias S. Buckell | |
| Matter, by Iain M. Banks | Locus Recommended Reading | |
| Incandescence, by Greg Egan | Locus Recommended Reading | |
| Won’t be read | ||
| Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone, by Carol Berg | Mythopoetic Nominee | |
| Pandemonium, by Daryl Gregory | Mythopoetic Nominee | |
| Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin | Mythopoetic Nominee | |
| The Bell at Sealey Head, by Patricia A. McKillip | Mythopoetic Nominee | |
| An Evil Guest, by Gene Wolfe | Mythopoetic Nominee | |
| excerpt | Once Upon A Time In The North, by Philip Pullman | Locus Recommended Reading |
| Saturn’s Children, by Charles Stross | Hugo Nominee, Locus Recommended Reading | |
| Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi | Hugo Nominee, Locus Recommended Reading |
Non-Fiction:
| Read so far | |
| HarperCollins First Look | Alex and Me, by Dr. Irene Pepperberg |
| interview on Science Friday | The Age of Wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science, by Richard Holmes |
| interview on The Brain Science Podcast | Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain, by David Bainbridge |
| interview on Quirks and Quarks | Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin |
| The Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang | |
| segment on All Things Considered | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely |
| sepment on The Splendid Table | 660 Curries: The Gateway to Indian Cooking, by Raghavan Iyer |
| Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper, by Fuschia Dunlop | |
| segment on All Things Considered | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein |
| interview on Fresh Air | God’s Problem : how the Bible fails to answer our most important question–why we suffer, by Bart Ehrman |
| two excerpts on Morning Edition | Falling For Science, edited by Sherry Turkle |
| segment on All Things Considered | Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach |
| segment on Good Food | The Shameless Carnivore by Scott Gold |
| interview on On Point | The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, by Brian Fagan |
| Won’t be read | |
| segment on To The Best of Our Knowledge | A Crime So Monstrous, by Benjamin Skinner |
| interview on Science Friday | In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan |
| interview on Fresh Air | Banana: The Fate of a Fruit, by Dan Koepel |
| interview on Quirks and Quarks | Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of The Human Mind, by Dr. Gary Marcus |
| interview on On Point and paper | “National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life”, by Alan B. Krueger et al |
| segment on All Things Considered | Recovering America’s Food Traditions, by Gary Nabhan |
| interview on All Things Considered | Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden |
| interview on Morning Edition | The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins |
| interview on All Things Considered | The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by E. O. Wilson |
| interview on KUOW Weekday | Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages, by Derek Bickerton |
| interview on Science Friday | Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science, by Richard Preston |
| interview on Talk of The Nation | Who’s Your City?, by Richard Florida |
| interview on Fresh Air | Your Government Failed You, by Richard Clarke |
| interviews on Good Food and KUOW Weekday | Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, by Taras Grescoe |
