Books read in 2008
- A Widow for One Year (1998) – John Irving (second half)
- Bleachers (2003) – John Grisham
- The Glass Castle (2005) – Jeannette Walls
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) – C.S. Lewis
- Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) – Mitch Albom
- Die Weisse Massai (2000) – Corrine Hofmann (de)
- The Kite Runner (2003) – Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) – Khaled Hosseini
- The Book of Saladin (1998) – Tariq Ali
- The Great Gatsby (1926) – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- More Tales of the City (1980) – Armistead Maupin
- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963) – P.G. Wodehouse
- Le Livre Noir (1990) – Orhan Pamuk (fr) (first half)
- The Pianoplayers (1986) – Anthony Burgess
- Failed States (2006) – Noam Chomsky
- Lisey’s Story (2007) – Stephen King
- Snow (2004) – Orhan Pamuk
- On Globalization (2002) – George Soros
- Good Omens (1990) – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- A Farewell to Arms (1929) – Ernest Hemingway
- The Human Stain (2000) – Philip Roth
- The Gift of Fear (1997) – Gavin de Becker
- Die neue Herscher der Welt (2002) – Jean Ziegler (de)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) – James Joyce
- Virtual Light (1993) – William Gibson
- The Great War of Civilization (2005) – Robert Fisk (partial)