A summary of the year in lists of notable experiences/events/things: 

Books – Fiction

– The Reader (Berhnard Schlink)
– The Book of Other People (edited by Zadie Smith)
– Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh)
– The Enchantress of Florence (Salman Rushdie)
– The White Tiger (Arvinda Adiga)
– Thank you, Jeeves (P.G.Wodehouse)
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
– Buddha – part 1 (Osamu Tezuka)

Books – Non-fiction

– The shadow of the sun (Richard Kapuscinski)
– The Halo effect (Phil Rosenzweig)
– Fixing Climate (Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig)
– Cultural Amnesia (Clive James)
– A Little History of the World (E.H.Gombrich)
– Antiquity (Norman Cantor)
– Essays in Love (Alain De Botton)
– Edward Hopper (Lloyd Goodrich) Continue reading “2008 in lists” →