List 2008

Here's most of the List from 2008, as it appeared then.  No descriptions or reviews, just titles, etc.  Steph's contributions to follow.

Books:

The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Fall on Your Knees, Anne Marie Macdonald
Driving Mr. Albert, Michael Paterniti
Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
Run, Patchett
Bel Canto, Patchett
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
The Mapmaker's Wife, Robert Whitaker
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
Wind in the Door, L'Engle
Swiftly Tilting Planet, L'Engle
Many Waters, L'Engle
His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
Much Obliged Jeeves, Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Offing, Wodehouse
Carry on Jeeves, Wodehouse
101 Days, Asne Seierstad
Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Chevalier
Blind Assasin, Atwood
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace

Movies:

Juno
Be Kind, Rewind
Lars and the Real Girl
Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)

Music

Juno soundtrack
Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, and Muswell Hillbillies, The Kinks
Shangri-la and Kill to Get Crimson, Mark Knopfler
Tigermilk, Belle & Sebastian