Non-fiction
This includes Teaching Company audio lecture series, since they're about book-length.

1. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato
2. Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) by Paul Carter
3. The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
4. London's Docks by John Pudney
5. Age of Pericles by Jeremy McInerney
6. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age by Jeremy McInerney
7. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
8. Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective by Barbara J. King
9. The Year of the Jouncer by Simon Gray
10. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Famous Authors and Rare Books by R.A. Gekoski
11. Modern British Drama by Peter Saccio
12. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes
13. The Islamist by Ed Husain
14. Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
15. Sociolinguistics by Peter Trudgill
16. Panic Nation by Stanley Feldman
17. A History of Negro Revolt by C. L. R. James
18. Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism by Gary M. Hamburg
19. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
20. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
21. Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
22. Philosophy and Religion in the West by Phillip Cary
23. Explaining Social Deviance by Paul Root Wolpe
24. Squaddie by Steven McLaughlin
25. Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies by Peter Saccio
26. The Pirate Wars by Peter Earle
27. Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living by Arnold Weinstein
28. The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb by Jeff Hughes
29. War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500-2000 by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
30. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line by Sudhir Venkatesh
31. Great Battles of the Ancient World by Garrett G. Fagan
32. Legacies of Great Economists by Timothy Taylor
33. How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie
34. Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality by Robert Sapolsky
35. Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain by Ferdinand Mount
36. Conquest of the Americas by Marshall C. Eakin
37. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
38. Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst
39. Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications by David Sadava
40. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
41. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
42. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
43. The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton
44. America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies by George Friedman
45. Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver
46. Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders
47. Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions by Robert C. Solomon
48. Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition by Teofilo F. Ruiz
49. Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes and Make-believe Violence by Gerard Jones
50. The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy by Howard Davies
51. History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts by Robert Bucholz
52. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
53. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
54. Never Eat Your Heart Out by Judith Moore
55. Rome and the Barbarians by Kenneth W. Harl
56. Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft by Brooks Landon
57. Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
58. The Myth of Mars and Venus by Deborah Cameron
59. Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World's Religions by Mark W. Muesse
60. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
61. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
62. NHS plc by Allyson M Pollock,
63. Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism by Shaun Nichols

1. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
2. The Line of Polity by Neal Asher
3. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
4. Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
5. The Green Millenium by Fritz Leiber
6. The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
7. The Book of Dave by Will Self
8. Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker
9. The Merchants' War by Charles Stross
10. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
11. Evil for Evil by K.J. Parker
12. The Escapement by K.J. Parker
13. The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
14. The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
15. Dead Brigade by James Lovegrove
16. Matter by Iain M. Banks
17. World War Z by Max Brooks
18. Shadow by K.J. Parker
19. Pattern by K.J. Parker
20. Memory by K.J. Parker
21. Halting State by Charles Stross
22. Small Favour by Jim Butcher
23. Colours in the Steel by K.J. Parker
24. The Belly of the Bow by K.J. Parker
25. The Proof House by K.J. Parker
26. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
27. Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
28. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
29. Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
30. Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
31. Incandescence by Greg Egan
32. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
33. Land of the Headless by Adam Roberts
34. The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
35. Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
36. Old Man's War by John Scalzi

1. I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
2. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
3. The King's Last Song by Geoff Ryman
4. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
5. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
6. The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
7. The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
8. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
9. Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
10. True Grit by Charles Portis
11. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
12. Hide And Seek by Ian Rankin
13. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
14. A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
15. Warlock by Oakley Hall
16. Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
17. Fallon by Louis L'Amour
18. Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
19. The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
20. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe
21. The Black Book by Ian Rankin
22. Rivers West by Louis L'Amour
23. The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
24. Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin
25. Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin
26. The Thirteen-gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
27. Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
28. Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes
29. The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
30. The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
31. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
32. Clarissa Oakes by Patrick O'Brian
33. Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
34. The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian
35. Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin
36. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian
37. The Falls by Ian Rankin
38. Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
39. A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin
40. Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin

1. Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
2. Catwoman: It's Only a Movie by Will Pfeifer
3. The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
4. NYC Mech: Let's Electrify by Ivan Brandon and Miles Gunter
5. Terra Obscura by Alan Moore and Peter Hogan
6. Tom Strong Book Seven by Michael Moorcock
7. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight by Brian Augustyn, Mike Mignola
8. The Plot: The Secret Story of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' by Will Eisner
9. Shooting War by Anthony Lappe, Dan Goldman

By type:

Numbers are up again. Not sure why: probably because of audiobooks, some long but light series, and I didn't do much re-reading.

I could potentially split out Teaching Company courses apart from non-fiction, but I suspect I won't keep on with many of them in the long term.

Highlights
Non-fiction
Lots of good stuff this year Playwright Simon Gray's diaries "The Smoking Diaries" and "The Year of the Jouncer": shame he died this year. "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line" by Sudhir Venkatesh took a fascinating look inside the gang culture of Chicago. The Teaching Company course "Great Battles of the Ancient World" by Garrett G. Fagan was great stuff. "The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900" by David Edgerton took a nicely counterintuitive look at the creeping process of technological change. And "The Myth of Mars and Venus" Deborah Cameron deftly punctured some popular myths.

SF
A lacklustre performance from the science fiction guys left the fantasy crew to pick up the slack. "The Engineer Trilogy" by K.J. Parker was a superb, grittier and more realistic kind of fantasy. Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" trilogy was fun too. And Stephen R. Donaldson kicked the new Thomas Covenant series into high gear with "Fatal Revenant".

Charles Stross and Greg Egan: try harder next time.

Other fiction
"True Grit" by Charles Portis was both funny and brilliantly observed character study: definitely a classic.

"Tales From Ovid" by Ted Hughes isn't just a translation, but a wonderful original work of poetry in its own right.

Also trundled through a lot of the high quality "Rebus" detective novels by Ian Rankin, and got a lot further through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books.

Enoyed "I Married a Communist" by Philip Roth but ran out of love for his other books. "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing is a tough read but a deserved classic.

Comics
Read very few this year. The seventh "Tom Strong" book rounded off the series nicely, but read nothing really great in 2008.

That's all for now. See you in 2009!