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2008 Books (almost)
In which a retail worker butts in on what everyone's doing and makes them feel bad. Or like they have real lives and short commutes!
This is according to WeRead on Facebook so may still not be comprehensive.

Nonfiction:
Victoria Finlay - A Natural History of Color (meh)
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma (at least I think I read it this year), The Botany of Desire (full of delightful factoids)
David Sedaris - When You Are Engulfed in Flames (he's running out of life to fabricate)
Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (fun!)
Slavoj ˆZiˆzek - In Defense of Lost Causes (dense. Slovakian Lacanian cultural academic on politics must be constantly writing at all times. I imagine he's fun at parties. I can't believe I read the whole thing.)
Benjamin Nugent - American Nerd: The Story of My People (I liked it because I actually know some of the people he interviews. He's a hipster traitor, though)
Steven Johnson - Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (kinda superficial)
Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee (good but he does it better in the last two)
Betty Friedan - the Feminine Mystique (a lot of this we now take for granted, and it goes a lot deeper than just 50s suburban women's psychai)
Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern (this sort of felt like gibberish when I first read it and then later I notice it's totally brainwashed me. He's got a stick up his ass about the post-structuralist assumptions that he still totally goes with. wanker.)
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (one of the most thorough indictments of Bush & Co. that everyone must read and be made angry by)
Barbara Ehrenreich - This Land is Their Land (it's a bunch of blog posts)
Elaine Scarry - On Beauty and Being Just (in the conflict about representation I am siding with her)
Colin McGinn - Mindfucking (failed to mindfuck me or examine its positive side)
Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus (so I didn't read every single chapter. Now THAT's mindfucking.)
Melissa Plaut - Hack: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Started Driving A Yellow Cab (made me want to drive a cab, actually. Except that I've developed car sickness in the last few years)
Simon Ing - A Natural History of Seeing (not fully read, mostly for thesis paper, but informative!)
Lewis Hyde - The Gift (way too fluffy, sees only two markets despite itself. More for poets. ophblekuwufu might like it.)

Fiction:
Nick Mamatas - Under My Roof (terrific!)
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Samuel Delany - Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Dhalgren (AMAZING)
Charles Stross - Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, Halting State, Accelerando (Love it! post-singularity neo-cyberpunk! Imagine if Stephenson had kept going with stuff like the Diamond Age. There you go.)
Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End
Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X (a male take on the feminist utopia)
Melissa Scott - Trouble and her Friends (lesbian cyberpunk, bought it years ago because my favorite professor did the cover)
Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebas, Player of Games, State of the Art, Use of Weapons, Feersum Endjinn (and stopped at Against A Dark Background because he was getting too, well, dark. If I wanted that shit I'd read Donaldson.)
James Tiptree - 10,000 Light Years From Home (her first short story collection, from before he came out.)
Barry Malzberg - Galaxies (hyper-reflexive SF comedy)
A.E. Van Vogt - Slan (WWII-era weirdness)
Jon Lethem - Men and Cartoons
Robert Charles Wilson - Axis (pretty quick read, not as good as Spin)
Max Barry - Jennifer Government (writes about as well as Josh)
Haruki Murakami - Norweigan Wood (nice love story but way more mundane than his other stuff, bleh)
Kurt Vonnegut - Armageddon in Retrospect (dregs of unpublished earlier war stories and essays)
Chuck Palaniuk - Snuff (short read, makes me feel filthy like all his stuff, but pornier)
Joanna Russ - The Female Man (feels dated like a lot of feminist classics but it was very much my sort of thing)
Walter M. Miller - A Canticle For Leibowitz (post-Apocalypic semi-theologic cyclic-history classic)
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother (it's a subversion how-to for teens!)
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union (literary writer snatches genre award)
Neal Stephenson - Anathem (this is really something else, his most meta ever)
Dave Eggers - What is the What (cried)
David Foster Wallace - Oblivion (most predictable suicide evar), The Broom of the System (under-appreciated! Maybe women like it better?)
Nick Harkaway - The Gone Away World (this is INCREDIBLE. what a tweest!)
Brian Francis Slattery - Liberation: On the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America (post-apocalyptic musical magical realism, smart and so fucking fun)