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The following table gives a link to each web page that contains a commentary on a book that I have read this year.
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| January 10 | The Essence of Buddhism | Jo Durden Smith | 2004 |
non-fiction: religion |
| January 10 | Feynman's Rainbow | Leonard Mlodinow | 2003 |
memoir: science |
| January 11 | The Cathedral and the Bazaar | Eric S. Raymond | 1999 |
non-fiction: technology |
| January 13 | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1862 |
novel: France |
| January 13 | Seven Types of Ambiguity | Elliot Perlman | 2003 |
novel: Australia |
| January 17 | Wikinomics | Don Tapscott | 2006 |
non-fiction: technology |
| January 28 | The World of Zen | Stephen Hodge | 2000 |
non-fiction: religion |
| February 1 | A Year With Rumi | Coleman Barks | 2006 |
poetry |
| February 6 | The Ripening Sun | Patricia Atkinson | 2003 |
autobiography |
| February 6 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1962 |
novel: England |
| February 23 | Snow | Orhan Pamuk | 2004 |
novel: Turkey |
| March 1 | A Short History of Progress | Ronald Wright | 2004 |
non-fiction: history |
| March 1 | The Other Side of the Bridge | Mary Lawson | 2006 |
novel: Canada |
| March 5 | Swing Low: A Life | Miriam Toews | 2005 |
novel: Canada |
| March 12 | Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | 2001 |
novel: USA |
| March 15 | The Boys in the Trees | Mary Swan | 2008 |
novel: Canada |
| March 17 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 |
novel: Afghanistan |
| March 19 | Difficult Loves | Italo Calvino | 1983 |
short stories: Italy |
| March 28 | The Way the Crow Flies | Ann-Marie MacDonald | 2003 |
novel: Canada |
| March 29 | Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed | Jim Al-Khalili | 2003 |
non-fiction: science |
| March 31 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | 1998 |
novel: Japan |
| April 5 | Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time. vol. 6 | Marcel Proust | 1927 |
novel: France |
| April 9 | The Wisdom of Donkeys | Andy Merrifield | 2008 |
travel: France |
| April 17 | Bad Land | Jonathan Rabin | 2003 |
non-fiction: history |
| April 24 | Wolf Totem | Jiang Rong | 2008 |
novel: China |
| April 25 | Proust was a Neuroscientist | Jonah Lehrer | 2007 |
non-fiction: psychology |
| April 30 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 2005 |
poetry: England |
| May 2 | The City of Djinns | William Dalrymple | 1993 |
travel: India |
| May 9 | The Interpretation of Murder | Jed Rubenfeld | 2006 |
novel: USA |
| May 18 | Symmetry | Marcus du Sautoy | 2008 |
non-fiction: mathematics |
| May 18 | Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay | 2007 |
novel: Canada |
| May 19 | The Tao of Writing | Ralph L. Wahlstrom | 2006 |
non-fiction: philosophy |
| May 22 | And God Created Manyberries | Ron Wood | 2007 |
short stories: Canada |
| May 25 | Symmetry and the Monster | Mark Ronan | 2006 |
non-fiction: mathematics |
| May 27 | The Temptations of Big Bear | Rudy Wiebe | 1973 |
novel: Canada |
| Jun 3 | Indian Fall | D'Arcy Jenish | 1999 |
non-fiction: history |
| Jun 9 | The Age of Shiva | Manil Suri | 2007 |
novel: India |
| Jun 14 | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | Jon McGregor | 2002 |
novel: England |
| Jun 17 | A Scientific Romance | Ronald Wright | 1997 |
novel: Canada |
| Jun 18 | The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | 2008 |
non-fiction: psychology |
| Jun 28 | Ahtahkakoop | Deanna Christensen | 2000 |
non-fiction: history |
| Jul 6 | State of Fear | Michael Crichton | 2004 |
novel: USA |
| Jul 7 | Candide | Voltaire | 1759 |
novel: France |
| Jul 17 | Moments in Between | David Kundtz | 2006 |
non-fiction: psychology |
| Jul 20 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 1922 |
novel: USA |
| Jul 24 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 |
novel: USA |
| Aug 5 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 |
novel: USA |
| Aug 24 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 |
novel: USA |
| Aug 25 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1952 |
novel: USA |
| Sep 6 | The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek | Sid Marty | 2008 |
non-fiction: Canada |
| Sep 28 | I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven | 1973 |
novel: Canada |
| Oct 16 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 |
novel: England |
| Oct 21 | Prey | Michael Crichton | 2002 |
novel: USA |
| The Fair Country | John Ralston Saul | 2008 |
non-fiction: history | |
| Nov 16 | Through Black Spruce | Joseph Boyden | 2008 |
novel: Canada |
| Nov 21 | The Flying Troutmans | Miriam Toews | 2008 |
novel: Canada |
| Nov 28 | The Outlander | Gil Adamson | 2007 |
novel: Canada |
| Dec 5 | The Peoples Railway | Donald MacKay | 1992 |
non-fiction: history |
| Dec 8 | Proust and the Squid | Maryanne Wolf | 2007 |
non-fiction: psychology |
| Dec 11 | A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings | Coleman Barks | 2006 |
poetry |
| Dec 11 | Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes | Robert Kull | 2008 |
non-fiction: psychology |
| Dec 19 | The Falls | Joyce Carol Oates | 2004 |
novel: USA |
| Dec 22 | Born Digital | John Palfrey & Urs Gasser | 2008 |
non-fiction: technology |
| Dec 22 | The Middle Way | Lou Marinoff | 2007 |
non-fiction: philosophy |
| Dec 24 | Stat-Spotting | Joel Best | 2008 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Dec 26 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | novel: England |
| Dec 28 | The Curve of Time | M. Wylie Blanchet | 1968 | novel: Canada |