Past Reads

2009
(in which choices are still being made)

  1. This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin [non-fiction]
  2. The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life by Felicia Sullivan
  3. The Essential Bordertown (Borderlands) by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman
  4. Bordertown: A Chronicle of the Borderlands by Terri Windling (Ed.)
  5. Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
  6. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee [non-fiction]
  7. The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco by Cecilia Chiang [non-fiction]
  8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  9. Madeline: After the Fall of Usher by Marie Kiraly
  10. Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June [non-fiction]
  11. The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
  12. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

2008
(in which I get very little reading done)

  1. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean [non-fiction]
  2. Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Samara O’Shea
  3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Managing Your Money by Robert K. Heady and Christy Heady [non-fiction]
  4. The Money Book for the Young Fabulous & Broke by Suze Orman [non-fiction]
  5. The Ghost in the House: Real Mothers Talk About Maternal Depression, Raising Children, and How They Cope by Tracy Thompson [non-fiction]

2007
(in which I find solace in grammar, English outlaws, and zombies)

  1. In The Forest Of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
  2. Tree Girl by T. A. Barron
  3. Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin [non-fiction]
  4. Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev [non-fiction]
  5. Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
  6. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Little, Big by John Crowley
  8. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
  9. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon [non-fiction]
  10. Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
  11. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
  12. Blue Rose by Peter Straub
  13. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  14. Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food by Susan Marks [non-fiction]
  15. Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat by Kimberly Wilson [non-fiction]
  16. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  17. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  18. The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
  19. Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul by Tracey McBride [non-fiction]
  20. Angelica by Arthur Phillips
  21. The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World by Leslie Garrett
  22. The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
  23. Bizarro Comics by Chris Duffy et. al.
  24. Jim: The Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat by Steven Appleby
  25. Blankets by Craig Thompson
  26. Alice’s Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture by Will Brooker
  27. The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton

2006
(in which a better balance is struck)

  1. Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
  2. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  3. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  5. The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken [non-fiction]
  6. Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart [non-fiction]
  7. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman [non-fiction]
  8. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century by Betsy Taylor and Juliet B. Schor (Eds.) [non-fiction]
  9. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade by David Ransom [non-fiction]
  10. Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
  11. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [non-fiction]
  12. The Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente
  13. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
  14. The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
  15. The Cat Whisperer: The Secret of How to Talk to Your Cat by Claire Bessant [non-fiction]
  16. Widdershins by Charles de Lint
  17. You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail [non-fiction]
  18. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
  19. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin [non-fiction]
  20. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes [non-fiction]
  21. The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
  22. Singing Innocence and Experience by Sonya Taaffe
  23. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart by Mark Epstein [non-fiction]
  24. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes [non-fiction]
  25. Power Girl by Geoff Johns, Paul Levitz, et. al. [graphic novel]
  26. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
  27. Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
  28. The World to Come by Dara Horn
  29. Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
  30. Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women by Wendy Kolmar

2005
(in which my selections are trashier than usual)

  1. The Summer Country by James A. Hetley
  2. Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint
  3. Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
  4. Front Row: Anna Wintour, The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor in Chief by Jerry Oppenheimer [non-fiction]
  5. Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi
  6. Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
  7. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  8. The Last Tsar : the Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edward Radzinsky [non-fiction]
  9. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
  10. The Shop on Blossom street by Debbie Macomber
  11. Coma by Alex Garland
  12. Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates
  13. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  14. Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
  15. Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
  16. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororoties by Alexandra Robbins [non-fiction]
  17. Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
  18. A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber
  19. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  20. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
  21. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
  22. Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America by Amy Sutherland [non-fiction]
  23. Alva & Irva by Edward Carey

2004
(in which I almost average a book a week)

  1. The Shining by Stephen King
  2. Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant
  3. The Floating Book by Michelle Lovric
  4. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
  5. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
  6. Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint
  7. Tunnelling by Beth Bosworth
  8. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  9. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  10. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  11. Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
  12. Labyrinths by Jose Luis Borges
  13. Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin
  14. Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
  15. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
  16. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  17. Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
  18. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  19. The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries by Jan Bondeson [non-fiction]
  20. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc [non-fiction]
  21. The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger
  22. The Lost Children of Wilder by Nina Bernstein [non-fiction]
  23. The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
  24. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  25. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
  26. Cities of the Interior by Anais Nin
  27. A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar [non-fiction]
  28. Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America by Myrna Blyth [non-fiction]
  29. White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
  30. The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson
  31. Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
  32. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester [non-fiction]
  33. Transformation Soup: Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect by Sark [non-fiction]
  34. Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott [non-fiction-
  35. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of the Birthday Letters by Erica Wagner [non-fiction]
  36. Knit Lit by Linda Roghaar and Molly Wolf [non-fiction]
  37. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  38. The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan G. Lydon [non-fiction]
  39. The Roundhill by Dick King Smith
  40. Holy Blood, Holy Grail [non-fiction] by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
  41. The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte by James Tully
  42. Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker
  43. Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Caroll
  44. Breaking The Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everybody’s Asking by Darrell L. Bock [non-fiction]