I read 81 books in 2008, 71 of them for the first time. Which means narrowing this down to a top 20 was pretty difficult (in fact, there are an additional five books at the end of the list). Anyway, because narrowing things down was hard enough, these are not in order of preference, but rather in order of my having read them...
I was jeans shopping, and I tried on a brand of jeans called People’s Revolution, another pair from Citizens for Humanity and a brand called True Religion. Finally I was like, 'Are these jean brands or Al Qaeda splinter groups?'