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Deirdre's Reading List
(or, What I've Been Doing Lately)

I started to keep a list of the books I read in August of 2001. That month, being isolated from television, I completed nine books. Certainly not a record, but a lot for me. After a while data takes on a life of its own and just the fact that I had the list influenced what I read. I started to read more of the "classics" and found they're great books.

I hope you find something on this list that interests you.

Title links go to www.leftbooks.com where you can purchase the book.
For my thoughts on certain books click the "review" link.
A few of my formal reviews are here. For my up-to-the-second thougths on the books I read subscribe to my Blog: Reading Writing and Living.

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Non-Fiction

  1. Shrinking the Cat, by Sue Hubble, 7/2001
  2. Assata, by Assata Shakour, 8/01
  3. Biko, by Donald Woods, 8/01
  4. The Catskills a Geological Guide, by Robert Titus, 8/01
  5. Taliban, by Ahmed Rashid, 11/01
  6. Power Politics, by Arundhati Roy, 11/27/01
  7. A History of Iraq, by Charles Tripp, 1/10/02
  8. The Lessons of Terror, by Caleb Carr, 3/2/02
  9. The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet, by Kenneth Conboy & James Morrison, 3/18/02
  10. The Monkey in the Mirror, by Ian Tattersall, 4/4/02
  11. 21 Dog Years, by Mike Daisey, 6/6/02
  12. Barbed Wire: A Political History, by Olivier Razac, 6/30/02
  13. Inside the Cuban Revolution, by Julia E. Sweig, 6/30/02
  14. Chile: the Other September 11, 7/14/02
  15. Politics on Trial: Five famous trials of the 20th century, By William Kunstler 8/12/02
  16. The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury, 8/20/02 [referenced in review]
  17. War on Iraq: What team Bush doesn’t want you to know, by William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter, 2/4/03
  18. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers, 6/1/03
  19. The Genesis of Capital, by Karl Marx. 6/14/03
  20. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, L.L.D., 6/18/03
  21. The Iron Triangle: Inside the secret world of the Carlyle Group, by Dan Briody, 7/7/03
  22. The Art of War, by Sun-Tzu, 7/13.03
  23. The Cult of Revolutionary Tradition: The Blanquists in French Politics, 1864-1893, by Patrick H. Hutton, 08/03
  24. Chile 1970-1973: From Allende’s Election to the Fascist takeover, From the pages of Workers World Newspaper, 9/14/03
  25. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss, 5/04
  26. We Want Freedom, by Mumia Abu-Jamal, 6/03/04
  27. The Merry Recluse, by Caroline Knapp, 07/13/04
  28. The Color of Water, by James McBride, 08/28/04
  29. Around the Bloc, by Stephanie Elizando Griest, 10/10/04
  30. Because I Remember Terror Father I Remember You, by Sue William Silverman 11/11/04
  31. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs, 12/03/04
  32. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, By Frederick Engels 1/3/05
  33. Dry, by Augusten Burroughs, 1/31/05
  34. Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self, by Frances Kuffel, 2/18/05
  35. Lucky, by Alice Sebold 2/20/05
  36. The Great Game: Memoirs of the Spy Hitler Couldn’t Silence, by Leopold Trepper, 3/4/05
  37. The Royal Navy and the Slavers: The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by W.E.F. Ward, 3/15/05
  38. Iraq Inc., A Profitable Occupation, by Pratap Chatterjee, 3/24/05
  39. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, by Koren Zailckas 4/7/05
  40. Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python, 7/2/05
  41. My Life in the Middle Ages, by James Atlas, 9/4/05
  42. Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction—and Get it Published, by Susan Rabiner & Alfred Fortunato, 9/11/05
  43. Writing the Memoir, Judith Barrington, 9/16/05
  44. Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington, by George Galloway, 10/5/05
  45. 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never be Published & 14 Why it Just Might, by Pat Walsh, 10/8/05
  46. We Won't Go! The truth on military recruiters & the draft: A guide to resistance, Edited by LeiLani Dowell, Sara Flounders, Dustin Langley & Walter Williams, 10/9/05
  47. Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, 10/17/05
  48. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, 11/20/05
  49. With Napoleon in Russia, the Extraordinary Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Aide and Confidant to the Emperor, 12/5/05
  50. Thieves of Baghdad, by Matthew Bogdanos, 12/10/05
  51. Bronx Primitive, By Kate Simon, 12/13/05
  52. Hannibal Crosses the Alps, by John Prevas, 12/30/05
  53. Chain of Command: The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh, 1/3/06
  54. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, 1/8/06
  55. American Hostage: A memoir of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq and the remarkable battle to win his release, by Micah Garen & Marie-Hélène Carleton, 1/11/06
  56. An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard, 1/24/06
  57. Beating Diabetes, by David M. Nathan M.D. & Linda M. Delahanty, M.S., R.D., 1/28/06
  58. Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, by Eva Hoffman, 2/14/06
  59. American Daughter: Discovering My Mother, by Elizabeth Kendall, 3/20/06
  60. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, 3/28/06 [referenced in review]
  61. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America, by Barnet Schecter, 4/12/06 [read review]
  62. Road Song: A Memoir, by Natalie Kusz, 4/18/06 [read review]
  63. The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeannette Walls, 5/10/06 [read review]
  64. Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, by Anthony Arnove, 5/29/06 [read review]
  65. When All the World Was Young, by Barbara Holland, 6/6/06 [read review]
  66. Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back, by Moazzam Begg, 6/29/06 [read review]
  67. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke, 7/27/06 [referenced in review]
  68. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11, by Ron Suskind, 8/4/06 [read review]
  69. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Eric Foner, 9/17/06 [read full review] Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Columbia history professor Eric Foner, is a critical contribution to the understanding of the much maligned period following the Civil War known as Reconstruction. Foner has created an accessible history that carefully exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the period, as well as dispels the racist notions used to discredit the accomplishments of the freed people and their allies in the Republican Party.

  70. Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress — The Debate at Punta del Este,
    Speeches and interviews by Ernesto Che Guevara, 9/19/06     [read full review] Three speeches delivered by Che Guevara in at the founding meeting for the Alliance for Progress, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, August 1961, have been reprinted by Ocean Press in a new book, “Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress — The Debate at Punta del Este.” Also included is a never before published transcript of a press conference held in Cuba upon Che’s return. Guevara’s speeches exposed a process that continues to this day, that of offering U.S. financial aid to Latin America and extracting mega-profits and economic control in return.

  71. Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America, by Lori Rotskoff, 9/24/06 [read full review] Alcoholism can become a blurry mess. Throw in the repeal of prohibition, stereotypical gender roles, and a mass culture that promotes the wonders of drinking and you have a recipe for oppression. Lori Rotskoff's book, “Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America,” provides in-depth analysis of the both the phenomena of alcohol and gender roles as they interact at the bottom of a martini glass.

  72. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, by Frank Rich, 9/29/06 [read full review] Frank Rich, cultural historian extraordinaire and New York Times columnist, picks at the bones of the Bush administration’s self-created reality in his new book, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold.” Rich is one of the best thermometers of the U.S. mood and he’s gathered most all the shocking highlights of the last five years for mass consumption. Whether writing about the subservient press or a cynically dishonest White House he keeps focused on his topic — how truth has been jettisoned in favor of convenience.

  73. My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir, by Betty Fussell, 10/23/06
  74. How I Became Hettie Jones, by Hettie Jones, 11/13/06
  75. Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change, by Scott Ritter, 11/19/06 [read full review] Former United Nations (UN) weapons inspector Scott Ritter has written a book that proposes to educate the general public on the intricacies of the controversy. “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change” is a detailed recounting of the history of both the Iranian nuclear energy program and its interaction with the IAEA, the UN’s agency in charge of monitoring and inspecting both civilian and military nuclear programs for countries party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or NPT. Ritter’s theory, that the U.S. goal of overthrowing the Iranian leadership has exacerbated hostilities in the Middle East and has the potential, if carried through to a military confrontation, of creating a global conflict and economic collapse, is compelling.
  76. Green Thoughts, by Eleanor Perenyi, 12/7/06
  77. Zami A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography by Audre Lorde, 12/17/06
  78. Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, Vol 1, by Constant: Premier Valet de Chambre, 12/28/06
  79. Napoleon Banished: The Journeys to Elba and to St. Helena Recorded in the Letters and Journal of two British Naval Officers, Captain Thomas Ussher and Lieutenant Nelson Mills, 12/28/06
  80. The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, by Ann Gibbons, 12/30/06
  81. The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward -- A New Approach, 12/31/06
  82. The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade, by William St. Clair, 1/7/07 [read full review]
  83. Untitled Memoir, by Emily Mikulewicz, 1/14/07, Mansuscript
  84. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, 1/16/07 [mentioned in blog]
  85. Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet, by Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S., 2/5/07 [mentioned in blog]
  86. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright, 2/8/07 [mentioned in blog]
  87. North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, by Milton C. Sernett, 2/11/07 [mentioned in blog]
  88. The Mother Knot: A Memoir, by Kathryn Harrison, 2/23/07 [mentioned in blog]
  89. The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, by Thomas Larson, 3/9/07 [read full review]
  90. Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey, by William J. Switala, 3/18/07 [mentioned in blog]
  91. Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, by Louise Erdrich, 3/23/07
  92. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, 4/1/07 [mentioned in blog]
  93. Life is Ridiculous, by Valerie Fausone, 4/7/07 [mentioned in blog]
  94. The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War, by Gerald Horne, 4/8/07, [read full review]
  95. An Unconventional Family, by Sandra Lipsitz Bem, 4/15/07
  96. My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson -- His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, by Susan Cheever, 4/22/07 [mentioned in blog]
  97. In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson, by Nat Brandt with Yanna Kroyt Brant, 4/29/07 [read full review]
  98. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, 5/15/07 [mentioned in blog]
  99. Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy, 5/20/07 [mentioned in blog]
  100. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, by Ann Patchett, 6/3/07 [mentioned in blog]
  101. Fall Scaping: Extending Your Garden Season Into Autumn, by Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen, photos by Rob Cardillo, 6/8/07 [read full review]
  102. Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, by Dr. Robert W. Kellemen and Karole A. Edwards, 6/17/07 [read full review]
  103. Fat Girl, by Judith Moore, 7/25/07 [mentioned in blog]
  104. The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointment Process, by Christopher L. Eisgruber, 8/6/07, [read full review]
  105. The Judge: William P. Clark Ronald Reagan's Top Hand, by Paul Kengor & Patricia Clark Doerner, 8/12/07, [read full review]
  106. god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens, 9/9/07 [mentioned in blog]
  107. Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood, by Julie Gregory, 9/12/07 [mentioned in blog]
  108. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer, 9/22/07, [mentioned in blog]
  109. The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World, by Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger, 10/5/07, [mentioned in blog]
  110. Untitled Manuscript, by Albert Ramos, 10/8/07
  111. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, 10/15/07 [mentioned in blog]
  112. They Come Back Singing: Finding God with the Refugees, by Gary Smith, SJ, 10/19/07, [read full review]
  113. Appetites: Why Women Want, by Caroline Knapp, 10/24/07, [mentioned in blog]
  114. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam, 11/18/07 [mentioned in blog]
  115. The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York, by Mat Jonson, 11/24/07 [mentioned in blog]
  116. The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman, 12/9/07 [mentioned in blog]
  117. Endangered Pleasures, by Barbara Holland, 12/12/07
  118. A Life in Smoke: A Memoir, by Julia Hansen, 12/16/07
  119. Flashbacks of Abuse: How a Machine Gun Toting Sociopath Freed Me from the Chains of my Childhood, by Mark Douglass, 12/21/07 [mentioned in blog]
  120. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death & The World it Made, by Norman F. Cantor, 12/27/07
  121. Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq, by Barbara Nimri Aziz, 12/31/07 [mentioned in blog]
  122. Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, by John Gray, 1/7/08
  123. Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by Gerda Lerner, 1/21/08 [mentioned in blog]
  124. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan, 2/1/08 [mentioned in blog]
  125. The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events that Shaped Modern North Carolina, by Rob Christensen, 2/10/08, [read full review]
  126. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405, by John Darwin, 2/17/08, [mentioned in blog]
  127. Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2/20/08, [mentioned in blog]
  128. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, by James Risen, 2/26/08, [mentioned in blog]
  129. Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, by Nina Burleigh, 3/4/08, [mentioned in blog]
  130. Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy, by Tamara Cofman Wittes, 3/15/08, [read full review]
  131. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by James J. Sheehan, 3/23/08, [mentioned in blog]
  132. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, 3/31/08, [mentioned in blog]
  133. A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry, by Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger, 4/20/08, [read full review]
  134. Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, 4/24/08 [mentioned in blog]
  135. In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India, by Edward Luce, 5/3/08, [mentioned in blog]
  136. Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, by Gary Marcus, 5/10/08, [mentioned in blog]
  137. Them: A Memoir of Parents, by Francine du Plessix Gray, 6/5/08
  138. It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life, by Keith Stewart, 6/9/08, [mentioned in blog]
  139. Fountain of Marvelous, by Valerie Fausone, 6/13/08, [mentioned in blog]
  140. Once a Marine: An Iraq Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery, by Nick Popaditch with Mike Steere, 7/2/08, [read full review]
  141. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine, by Charles Petzold, 7/10/08, [mentioned in blog]
  142. The Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard, 7/16/08
  143. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, 7/26/08
  144. How to Fish, by Chris Yates, 7/29/08
  145. Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends, Mike Sager, 8/18/08, [read full review]
  146. Mexican Enough: My Live Between the Borderlines, by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, 8/31/08, [mentioned in blog]
  147. The Way of The World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind, 10/02/08, [mentioned in blog]
  148. Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, 10/11/08, [read full review]
  149. The Liars' Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr, 10/22/08
  150. Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States, by Seyom Brown, 10/27/08, [read full review]
  151. The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again, by Sven Birkerts, 11/2/08
  152. Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Pierre Bayard, 11/05/08, [mentioned in blog]
  153. Church of Lies, by Flora Jessop and Paul T. Brown, 11/12/08, [read full review]
  154. Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still, by Dan Diner, 11/20/08, [read full review]
  155. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan, 12/1/08
  156. The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, by Helen Benedict, 12/9/08, [read full review]
  157. Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List, by Avid Kleinberg, 12/28/08
  158. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir, by Lillian Faderman, 12/30/08, [mentioned in blog]
  159. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, by Niall Ferguson. 1/1/09, [mentioned in blog]
  160. Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food, by Jan Chozen Bays, MD, 1/3/09
  161. Bread Body Spirit: Finding the Sacred in Food, Edited by Alice Peck, 1/11/09, [read full review]
  162. Foods Jesus Ate and How to Grow Them, by Allan A. Swenson, 1/23/09, [read full review]
  163. Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy Land, by Nina Burleigh, 1/25/09, [mentioned in blog]
  164. House of Happy Endings: A Memoir, by Leslie Garis, 2/5/09, [mentioned in blog]
  165. I Never Thought Addiction Could Happen to Me, by Loree Taylor Jordan, 2/6/09, [mentioned in blog]
  166. Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America, by William Graebner, 2/6/09, [mentioned in blog]
  167. The Kiss: A Memoir, by Kathryn Harrison, 2/7/09, [mentioned in blog]
  168. Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu, by Philip Alcabes, 2/21/09, [read full review]
  169. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, by Haven Kimmel, 3/1/09, [mentioned in blog]
  170. An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River, by Steven M. Wisw, 3/9/09, [read full review]
  171. Love Junkie: A Memoir of Love and Sex Addiction, by Rachel Resnick, 3/12/09, [mentioned in blog]
  172. Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher, 3/21/09, [mentioned in blog]
  173. This Boy's Life, by Tobais Wolff, 3/28/09, [mentioned in blog]
  174. Normal Eating for Normal Weight: The Path to Freedom from Weight Obsession and Food Cravings, by Sheryl Canter, M.A., 3/29/09, [mentioned in blog]
  175. Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, by Helene Stapinski, 4/11/09, [mentioned in blog]
  176. Brother I'm Dying, by Edwidge Danticat, 5/3/09, [mentioned in blog]
  177. Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found, by Marie Brenner, 6/7/09
  178. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, by Vivian Gornick, 6/12/09
  179. The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton, by Vivian Gornick, 6/15/09
  180. Women In Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities, by Carol A. Kolmerten, 6/21/09, [mentioned in blog]
  181. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, by Vivian Gornick, 6/30/09
  182. Born in the Wrong Country, by Milton Lee Norris, 7/3/09
  183. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham, 7/26/09, [mentioned in blog]
  184. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, by Chelsea Handler, 8/12/09
  185. Man Versus Nature: The Field & Stream Guide to How to Stay Alive in the Outdoors, by Howard Earl & Frederic T. Jung, 8/14/09
  186. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler, 9/11/09
  187. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, by Kerry Cohen, 10/1/09
  188. Welfare Brat: A Memoir, by Mary Childers, 10/15/09
  189. Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir, by Rosemary L. Bray, 11/17/09
  190. Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid, 11/21/09
  191. Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, by Carolyn Kay Steedman, 12/16/09
  192. Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi, 12/30/09
  193. New York City in 3D: A Look Back in Time, 1/2/2010
  194. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, Greg Grandin, 1/16/2010
  195. When I was Puerto Rican, by Esmeralda Santiago, 1/18/2010
  196. Memior: A History, by Ben Yagoda, 1/24/2010
  197. Messages of Life from Death Row, by Pierre Pradervand, 1/31/2010
  198. Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov, 2/19/2010
  199. In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, by Kim Barnes, 2/22/2010

 

 

Fiction & Literature

  1. White Noise, by Don DeLillo, 08/01
  2. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories Vol I, by Arthur Conan Doyle, 08/01
  3. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 08/01
  4. Out on the Cutting Edge, by Lawrence Block, 08/01
  5. Time to Murder and Create, by Lawrence Block, 08/01
  6. David Boring, by Daniel Clowes, 10/01
  7. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, 10/01
  8. The Fig Eater, by Jody Shields, 11/21/01
  9. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, 12/8/01
  10. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, 1/1/02
  11. The Archivist, by Martha Cooley, 1/19/02
  12. A Darker Place, by Laurie R King, 2/9/02
  13. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories Vol II, by Arthur Conan Doyle, 3/6/02
  14. Pandora, by Anne Rice, 3/18/02
  15. Quite Ugly One Morning, by Christopher Brookmyre, 4/13/02
  16. Night Work, by Laurie R King, 4/28/02
  17. When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes, by Lawrence Block, 5/1/02
  18. Stalingrad, by Theodor Plievier, 5/12/02
  19. Justice Hall, by Laurie R King, 5/21/02
  20. The Wind Done Gone, by Alice Randall, 5/27/02
  21. The First Eagle, by Tony Hillerman, 7/3/02
  22. The Burglar Who Thought he was Bogart, by Lawrence Block, 7/5/02
  23. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks, 7/7/02
  24. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, 8/4/02
  25. The Transformations of Lucius: Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass, by Apuleius, translated from Latin by Robert Graves, 8/5/02
  26. Skinwalkers, by Tony Hillerman, 8/7/02
  27. A Breach of Promise, by Anne Perry, 8/15/02
  28. Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman, 8/23/02
  29. Vittorio, The Vampire, by Anne Rice, 8/25/02
  30. Everybody Dies, by Lawrence Block, 8/28/02
  31. A Long Line of Dead Men, by Lawrence Block, 9/1/02
  32. Moby Dick or, The Wale, by Herman Melville, 10/3/02
  33. Paradise Alley, by Kevin Baker, 10/18/02 [referenced in review]
  34. Death of a Stranger, by Anne Perry, 10/27/02
  35. Dreamland, by Kevin Baker, 11/2/02
  36. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler, 11/11/02
  37. The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, 12/9/02
  38. Odyssey, by Homer, 01/01/03
  39. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith, 1/06/03
  40. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, 4/5/03
  41. Confessions of a Pagan Nun, by Kate Horsley, 4/14,03
  42. No Great Mischief, by Alistair Macleod, 5/2/03
  43. Hope to Die, by Lawrence Block, 5/25/03
  44. The Marx Sisters, by Barry Maitland, 6/14/03
  45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon, 6/22/03
  46. The Portable Dorothy Parker, 7/11/03
  47. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, 7/12/03
  48. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, 7/13/03
  49. The Coffee Trader, by David Liss, 08/03
  50. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling, 08/03
  51. The Chinese Orange Mystery, by Ellery Queen, 08/03
  52. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, 08/03
  53. The Great Stone Face and other Tales of the White Mountains, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 08/03
  54. The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 08/03
  55. The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 9/3/03
  56. Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk, 9/7/03
  57. Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth, 10/12/03
  58. The History of Mr. Polly, by H.G. Wells, 11/22/03
  59. Pompeii, by Robert Harris, 1/2/04
  60. The Game, by Laurie R. King, 4/1/04
  61. A Stab in the Dark, by Lawrence Block, 5/3/04
  62. The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin, 6/13/04
  63. The Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries, 6/28/04
  64. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, 6/30/04
  65. Sacred Clowns, by Tony Hillerman, 7/12/04
  66. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen, 7/22/04
  67. Goodnight, Irene, by Jan Burke, 7/28/04
  68. Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk 9/7/04
  69. Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver, 10/14/04
  70. No Graves as Yet, by Anne Perry, 10/30/04
  71. Rosanna, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 10/31/04
  72. Drag King Dreams, by Leslie Feinberg, 12/14/04
  73. A Spectacle of Corruption, by David Liss, 1/1/05
  74. Coyote Waits, by Tony Hillerman, 1/6/05
  75. Double Whammy, by Carl Hiaasen, 1/12/05
  76. Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison, 1/24/05
  77. You Shall Know Our Velocity!, by Dave Eggers, 2/11/05
  78. Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do, by James Thurber & E.B.White, 3/20/05
  79. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, 4/23/05
  80. The Italian Secretary, by Caleb Carr, 6/20/05
  81. Property, by Valerie Martin, 7/8/05
  82. The Man on the Balcony, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 7/13/05
  83. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling, 7/28/05
  84. Lives of the Circus Animals, by Christopher Bram, 8/22/05
  85. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart, 8/26/05
  86. The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler, 9/13/05
  87. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, 9/21/05
  88. Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King, 10/1/05
  89. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, 10/12/05
  90. Northanger Abby, by Jane Austen, 10/31/05
  91. The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, 11/16/05
  92. The Coma, by Alex Garland, 12/16/05
  93. Wickett's Remedy, by Myla Goldberg, 12/18/05
  94. The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall, 12/22/05
  95. Candide or Optimism, by Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe, 12/27/05
  96. Looking Backward, 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy, 2/6/06
  97. Pride of Carthage, by David Anthony Durham, 3/1/06
  98. Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, 3/15/06 [mentioned in blog]
  99. Hunting Badger, by Tony Hillerman, 4/1/06
  100. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, 5/21/06
  101. Folly, by Laurie R. King, 6/14/06
  102. Beloved, by Toni Morrison, 6/21/06
  103. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, by Mark Twain, 7/12/06
  104. Persuasion, by Jane Austen, 7/23/06
  105. The Man Who Went Up In Smoke, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 7/29/06
  106. In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, 8/9/06
  107. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, 8/27/06
  108. The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead, 11/3/06
  109. Ashes to Ashes, by Tami Hoag, 11/29/06
  110. Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden, by Reginald Arkell, 12/2/06
  111. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams, by Lawrence Block, 12/11/06
  112. Odd Girl Out, by Ann Brannon, 12/21/06
  113. Apex Hides the Hurt, by Colson Whitehead, 1/21/07, [mentioned in blog]
  114. Tell Me Another Morning, by Zdena Berger, 1/26/07 [read full review]
  115. Hit Man, by Lawrence Block, 2/14/07 [mentioned in blog]
  116. Not Just a Personal Ad, by Vittoria Repetto, 3/17/07 [mentioned in blog]
  117. Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart, 6/28/07 [mentioned in blog]
  118. Heyday, Kurt Anderson, 7/20/2007 [mentioned in blog]
  119. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling, 7/28/07
  120. Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley, 8/24/2007 [mentioned in blog]
  121. The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold, 11/3/07 [mentioned in blog]
  122. Adam and Cain, by Michael Graves, 11/19/07 [mentioned in blog]
  123. On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan, 11/28/07
  124. The Fire Engine That Disappeared, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 1/12/08
  125. Emma, by Jane Austen, 4/13/08, [mentioned in blog]
  126. Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris, 6/11/08, [mentioned in blog]
  127. Murder at The Savoy, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 6/18/08
  128. Personal Days, by Ed Park, 7/15/08
  129. Keeping Watch, by Laurie R. King, 8/5/08
  130. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer, 9/4/08
  131. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain, 10/25/08
  132. Nothing is Ever Lost, by Argyris Calbaris, 11/24/08
  133. The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot, 12/4/08
  134. Exposure, by Kathryn Harrison, 12/12/08
  135. Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland, 1/31/09, [mentioned in blog]
  136. No one belongs here more than you: Stories, by Miranda July, 2/22/09
  137. Dooms Day Book, by Connie Willis, 3/20/09, [mentioned in blog]
  138. John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead, 4/30/09, [mentioned in blog]
  139. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin, 7/12/09
  140. The Fallen Man, by Tony Hillerman, 8/9/09
  141. The Locked Room, by by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 8/20/09
  142. Killing Castro, by Lawrence Block, 10/26/09
  143. Silas Marner, by George Eliot, 11/29/09
  144. It's All About You: A Daily Comic Strip, by Tony Murphy, 12/2/09, [mentioned in blog]
  145. Cousin Henry, by Anthony Trollope, 12/3/09
  146. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, 12/27/09
  147. The Education of Black Dickey, Kenneth Wayne Bownes, 1/6/2010, [read full review]
  148. Point Omega, by Don DeLillo, 1/31/2010

 

 

Audio Books

  1. Jeeves and the Mating Season, by P.G. Wodehouse, 8/03
  2. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 8/03
  3. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, 8/03
  4. Shopgirl, by Steve Martin, 2/04
  5. Murders on the Rue Morgue and other stories, by Edgar Allen Poe 3/04
  6. Fear Itself, by Walter Mosley, 3/04
  7. The Pleasure of My Company, by Steve Martin 3/04
  8. Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, 04/04
  9. No Way to Treat a First Lady, by Christopher Buckley, 04/04
  10. Remembrances of Things Past, by Marcel Proust, Summer 2004
  11. Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris 10/04
  12. The Green Mile, by Steven King, 11/04
  13. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, 11/04
  14. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, 4/05
  15. Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 5/8/05
  16. The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett, 5/15/05
  17. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, 5/22/05
  18. Billy Budd, Sailor, by Herman Melville, 5/26/05
  19. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, Edited by David Sedaris 6/5/05
  20. Fictions for Our Times: Symphony Space Short Story Celebrations, 6/23/05
  21. Getting There From Here: Symphony Space Short Story Celebrations, 7/1/05
  22. Atonement, by Ian McEwan, 8/6/05
  23. Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, Vol. 18, 8/7/05
  24. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austin, 8/24/05
  25. War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, 9/15/05
  26. Cinnamon Kiss, by Walter Mosley, 10/7/05
  27. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 10/31/05
  28. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, 12/15/05
  29. The March, by E.L. Doctorow, 1/1/06
  30. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, 5/21/06
  31. Strivers Row, by Kevin Baker, 7/3/06
  32. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, 8/6/06
  33. All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, 8/28/06
  34. On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt, 8/28/06
  35. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf, 9/25/06
  36. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemmingway, 12/5/06
  37. Hit Parade, by Lawrence Block, 1/1/07
  38. Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics, 3/23/07
  39. Nature Girl, by Carl Hiaasen, 6/20/07
  40. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, by Natalie Angier, 12/25/07
  41. When You are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris, 9/24/08
  42. Lisey's Story, by Stephen King, 11/28/08
  43. Just After Sunset: Stories, by Stephen King, 1/3/09, [mentioned in blog]
  44. Middlemarch, by George Eliot, 5/14/09
  45. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, 6/26/09
  46. Underworld, by Don DeLillo, 9/6/09
  47. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, 9/27/09
  48. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, 11/8/09
  49. Madam Bovery, by Gustave Flaubert, 12/13/09
  50. The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy, 1/30/2010

 

 

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