December
Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace *
Gods Behaving Badly. Marie Phillips

November
Uneasy Money. P.G. Wodehouse
The Drunkard's Walk. Leonard Mlodinow (abandoned)
The Portable Dorothy Parker. Dorothy Parker
Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell (abandoned)
Why Read Marx Today? Jonathan Wolff
Save the World on Your Own Time. Stanley Fish (abandoned)
Girl Factory. Jim Krusoe
Blue Heaven. Joe Keenan (abandoned)
Rough Weather. Robert Parker
Crooked River Burning. Mark Winegardner *

October
The Age of Reagan. Sean Wilentz (abandoned)
The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity. Richard Todd *
Bill the Conqueror. P.G. Wodehouse
Dear American Airlines. Jonathan Miles *
Something Fishy. P. G. Wodehouse

September
The Girl on the Boat. P.G. Wodehouse
Zen Heart. Ezra Bayda

August
Dancing With Life. Phillip Moffitt
Jill the Reckless. P.G. Wodehouse

July
War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators) *
Blandings Castle. P.G. Wodehouse
Heavy Weather. P.G. Wodehouse

June
Pro Football Prospectus 2008. Aaron Schatz
Hot Water. P.G. Wodehouse
Authenticity: Clearing the Junk. Venerable Yifa
Summer Lightning. P.G. Wodehouse
Biography of the Dollar. Craig Karmin
My Stroke of Insight. Jill Bolte Taylor (skimmed)
Uncle Dynamite. P.G. Wodehouse

May
Then We Came to the End. Joshua Ferris
Wake Up Now. Stephan Bodian
Happiness is an Inside Job. Sylvia Boorstein
War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy *
Piccadilly Jim. P.G. Wodehouse
Laughing Gas. P.G. Wodehouse
Big Money. P.G. Wodehouse
Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke. Rusell Peterson.
Sixty Poems. Charles Simic
Beautiful Children. Charles Bock
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Farhad Manjoo

April
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. Amy Hempel
Sixty Poems. Charles Simic
The End of the Affair. Graham Greene *
Ambivalent Zen. Lawrence Shainberg
Consumed. Benjamin Barber (abandoned)
Wittgenstein's Poker. David Edmonds and John Eidinow (abandoned)
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness. Barry Magid
What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank
Pigs Have Wings. P.G. Wodehouse
Mulliner Nights. P.G. Wodehouse
Who's Your City? Richard Florida
The Really Hard Problem. Owen Flanagan (abandoned)

March
Knockemstiff. Donald Ray Pollock *
Psmith in the City. P.G. Wodehouse
The Courtier and the Heretic. Matthew Stewart
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. Andre Comte-Sponville *
A Fraction of the Whole. Steve Toltz *
The Political Brain. Drew Westen
Supercalitalism. Robert Reich *

February
Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life. Sakyong Mipham
Wake Up Now. Stephan Bodian
Mediated. Thomas De Zengotita
Jitterbug Perfume. Tom Robbins *
The Benchley Roundup. Robert Benchley

January
The Road. Cormac McCarthy *
The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Michael Chabon
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon. Garrison Keillor
The Abstinence Teacher. Tom Perrotta
Matrimony: A Novel. Joshua Henkin
Benchley Lost and Found. Robert Benchley *
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald