2008 in Review - My Lists (Part 1)

Working a lot (I just managed to finish a massive effort at comic book translation - there´s still more work to do, though), I will be publishing until the 31st my lists with the best of 2008.

The first one is maybe the simpler: taking the cue of my friend Larry Nolen, I´ll list below all the books I´ve read in 2008 (I´m only listing the books I´ve read cover-to-cover; if I didn´t read a book until the end, it is not here).

I wasn´t nearly as dedicated as Larry: my list (less than 200 books) pales in comparison to his 366 books). Never mind: 2009 will be a better year. The list below doesn´t feature any specific order, neither chronological nor alphabetical. The links go straight to the reviews I wrote, both here and in other blogs/websites:

1. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (re-read)

2. William Gibson, Spook Country

3. Roman Jakobson, A geração que desperdiçou seus poetas (in Portuguese)

4. Stephen King, The Waste Lands

5. Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

6. Leon Trotski, A Revolução de Outubro (in Portuguese)

7. Joseph Roth, Berlim (in Portuguese)

8. Arkadi Vaksberg, O Laboratório dos Venenos (in Portuguese)

9. Stephen King, The Wolves of the Calla

10. Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

11. Flávio Medeiros, Quintessência (in Portuguese)

12. Maiakovski, Poemas (in Portuguese)

13. SF´s Best 11 (ed. David G. Hartwell e Kathryn Cramer)

14. Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

15. Stephen King, Bag of Bones

16. Alexandre Barbosa, Cuidado, a Internet está Viva! (in Portuguese)

17. The New Weird (ed. Ann e Jeff Vandermeer)

18. Stephen King, Song of Susannah

19. Stephen King, The Dark Tower

20. Stephen King, Salem´s Lot

21. Ian McDonald, Brasyl

22. Ekaterina Sedia, The Secret History of Moscow

23. Octavio Aragão, Quadrophenia (in Portuguese)

24. Isaac Asimov, Foundation (re-read for translation)

25. Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (re-read for translation)

26. Jeff Vandermeer, The Situation

27. The New Space Opera (ed. Jonathan Strahan e Gardner Dozois)

28. Charles Stross, Accelerando

29. David Gerrold, The Martian Child

30 Matthew Hughes, Template

31. Cormac McCarthy, The Road

32. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

33. Jeffrey Thomas, Blue War

34. Adam Roberts, Splinter

35. Eric Brown, Helix

36. Paper Cities (ed. Ekaterina Sedia) - reviewed by Jacques Barcia

37. Joe Haldeman, The Accidental Time Machine

38. Steven Gould, Jumper

39. Steven Gould, Reflex

40. Steven Gould, Jumper - Griffin´s Story

41. Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

42. Eric Brown, Kéthani

43. Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

44. Tobias Buckell, Crystal Rain

45. Otis Adelbert Kline, The Swordsman of Mars

46. Stephen King, The Mist

47. Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

48. Thomas M. Disch, The Word of God

49. Heather Ingemar, A Slip of Wormwood

50. Robert T, Jeschonek, Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal

51. The Solaris Book of New SF Vol. 2 (ed. George Mann)

52. SF´s Best 13 (ed. David G. Hartwell e Kathryn Cramer)

53. Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen´s Union

54. Robert J. Sawyer, Rollback

55. Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love

56. Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

57. Steampunk (ed. Ann e Jeff Vandermeer)

58. Fast Ships, Black Sails (ed. Ann e Jeff Vandermeer)

59. Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration

60. John Scalzi, Old Man´s War

64. John Scalzi, Zoe´s Tale

65. Asimov´s SF Magazine - 30th Year Edition (ed. Sheila Williams)

66. Vladimir Nabokov, A Defesa Lujin (in Portuguese)

67. José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (releitura) (in Portuguese)

68. Ficção de Polpa 2 (ed. Samir Machado de Machado) (in Portuguese)

69. Antonio Xerxenesky, Areia nos Dentes (in Portuguese)

70. William S. Burroughs, The Job

71. Chris Roberson, The Dragon´s Nine Sons

72. Algys Budrys, Rogue Moon

73. David Louis Edelman, Infoquake

74, David Louis Edelman, Multireal

75, Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

76. Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone

77. Monteiro Lobato, O Presidente Negro (re-read) (in Portuguese)

78. Erich Maria Remarque, Nada de Novo no Front (re-read) (in Portuguese)

79. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

80. Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

81, Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

82. Jeff Carlson, Plague Year

83. Jeff Carlson, Plague War

84. Alan Pauls, O Passado (in Portuguese)

85. Clinton Davisson, Hegemonia (in Portuguese)

86. Christie Lasaitis, Fábulas do Tempo e da Eternidade (in Portuguese)

87. Tibor Moricz, Síndrome de Cérbero (in Portuguese)

88. Tibor Moricz, Fome (in Portuguese)

89. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (re-read)

90. China Miéville, Looking for Jake

91. Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix Plus (releitura)

92. Anna Funder, Stasilândia (in Portuguese)

93. Ivonete Lucirio, Você Pode Viver 100 Anos (in Portuguese)

94. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (re-read)

95. Futures From Nature (ed. Henry Gee)

96. Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery

97. Stephen King, Just After Sunset

98. Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

99. Brian Herbert e Kevin J. Anderson, The Road to Dune

100. Brian Herbert e Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune

101. Caleb Carr, The Italian Secretary

102. Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (re-read)

103. Kevin J. Anderson, The Last Days of Krypton

104. Vanessa Bárbara, O Livro Amarelo do Terminal (in Portuguese)

105. Solaris (revista) (ed. Nelson de Oliveira) (in Portuguese)

106. Neuromancer (revista) (ed. Nelson de Oliveira) (in Portuguese)

107. Thomas M. Disch, 334

108. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (re-read)

109. Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man

110. China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (re-read)

111. Tobias Buckell, Ragamuffin

112. Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn

113. David M. Friedman, The Immortalists

114. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

115. Richard Brautigan, An Unfortunate Woman

116. Brian Herbert e Kevin J. Anderson, Hunters of Dune

117. Tara Dixon-Engel e Mike Jackson, The Wright Brothers

118. Edmund Couchot, Des Images, du temps et des machines (in French)

119. Jeff Vandermeer, Predator: South China Sea

120. Ficção de Polpa 1 (ed. Samir Machado de Machado) (in Portuguese)

121. Martin Heidegger, The Concept of Time

122. George R. R. Martin, Dying of the Light

123. Santo Agostinho, Sobre a Potencialidade da Alma (in Portuguese)

124. John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

125. Joachim Fest, Hitler (Vol. 1) (in Portuguese)

126. Slavoj Zizek, Arriscar o Impossível (in Portuguese)

127. Zeljko Loparic, Ética e Finitude (in Portuguese)

128. Emmanuel Levinas, Ética e Infinito (in Portuguese)

129. Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction

130. Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Black Dossier

131. Michael Crichton, Prey

132. Bruce Sterling, Tempo Fechado

133. Michael Crichton, State of Fear

134. David Thorpe, Híbridos (in Portuguese)

135. João de Fernandes Teixeira, Como Ler a Filosofia da Mente (in Portuguese)

136. Marcelo Leite, Promessas do Genoma (in Portuguese)

137. Liam Sharp, God Killers

138. Dostoiévski, Os Irmãos Karamázov (in Portuguese)

139. Fate Fantastic (ed. Martin Greenberg e Daniel M. Hoyt)

140. Michael Crichton, Sphere

141. Thomas Merton, Book of Hours

142. Thomas Merton, A Vida Silenciosa (in Portuguese)

143. Norbert Elias, A Solidão dos Moribundos (in Portuguese)

144. Joe Haldeman, A Separate War and Other Stories

145. Something Magic This Way Comes (ed. Martin Greenberg e Sarah A. Hoyt)

146. Angela Mendes de Almeida, A República de Weimar (in Portuguese)

147. Michael Crichton, The Lost World

148. Batman e a Filosofia (in Portuguese)

149. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (re-read)

150. John Updike, The Widows of Eastwick

151. William Gibson, Neuromancer (re-read for translation)

152. Chris Roberson, End of The Century

153. China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

154. Sideways in Crime - (ed. Lou Anders)

155. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

155 books read so far (I´m finishing a couple more, but I don´t want to count them in just yet). In the next few days, I´ll be posting another lists as well (best short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels I´ve read in 2008).

And you? What did you read in 2008?