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 |