Past Reads
2009
(in which choices are still being made)
- This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin [non-fiction]
- The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life by Felicia Sullivan
- The Essential Bordertown (Borderlands) by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman
- Bordertown: A Chronicle of the Borderlands by Terri Windling (Ed.)
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee [non-fiction]
- The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco by Cecilia Chiang [non-fiction]
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Madeline: After the Fall of Usher by Marie Kiraly
- Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June [non-fiction]
- The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2008
(in which I get very little reading done)
- The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean [non-fiction]
- Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Samara O’Shea
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Managing Your Money by Robert K. Heady and Christy Heady [non-fiction]
- The Money Book for the Young Fabulous & Broke by Suze Orman [non-fiction]
- 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)
- In The Forest Of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
- Tree Girl by T. A. Barron
- Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin [non-fiction]
- Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev [non-fiction]
- Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
- The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon [non-fiction]
- Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Blue Rose by Peter Straub
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food by Susan Marks [non-fiction]
- Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat by Kimberly Wilson [non-fiction]
- The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
- The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul by Tracey McBride [non-fiction]
- Angelica by Arthur Phillips
- The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World by Leslie Garrett
- The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
- Bizarro Comics by Chris Duffy et. al.
- Jim: The Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat by Steven Appleby
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- Alice’s Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture by Will Brooker
- The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton
2006
(in which a better balance is struck)
- Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken [non-fiction]
- Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart [non-fiction]
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman [non-fiction]
- Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century by Betsy Taylor and Juliet B. Schor (Eds.) [non-fiction]
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade by David Ransom [non-fiction]
- Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [non-fiction]
- The Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
- The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
- The Cat Whisperer: The Secret of How to Talk to Your Cat by Claire Bessant [non-fiction]
- Widdershins by Charles de Lint
- You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail [non-fiction]
- Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
- Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin [non-fiction]
- Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes [non-fiction]
- The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
- Singing Innocence and Experience by Sonya Taaffe
- Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart by Mark Epstein [non-fiction]
- Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes [non-fiction]
- Power Girl by Geoff Johns, Paul Levitz, et. al. [graphic novel]
- As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
- Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
- The World to Come by Dara Horn
- Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
- 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)
- The Summer Country by James A. Hetley
- Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint
- Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Front Row: Anna Wintour, The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor in Chief by Jerry Oppenheimer [non-fiction]
- Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi
- Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- The Last Tsar : the Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edward Radzinsky [non-fiction]
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- The Shop on Blossom street by Debbie Macomber
- Coma by Alex Garland
- Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
- Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
- Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororoties by Alexandra Robbins [non-fiction]
- Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
- A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
- Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
- Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America by Amy Sutherland [non-fiction]
- Alva & Irva by Edward Carey
2004
(in which I almost average a book a week)
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant
- The Floating Book by Michelle Lovric
- Oracle Night by Paul Auster
- Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
- Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint
- Tunnelling by Beth Bosworth
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
- Labyrinths by Jose Luis Borges
- Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin
- Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
- The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
- She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries by Jan Bondeson [non-fiction]
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc [non-fiction]
- The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger
- The Lost Children of Wilder by Nina Bernstein [non-fiction]
- The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
- Cities of the Interior by Anais Nin
- A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar [non-fiction]
- Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America by Myrna Blyth [non-fiction]
- White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
- The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester [non-fiction]
- Transformation Soup: Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect by Sark [non-fiction]
- Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott [non-fiction-
- Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of the Birthday Letters by Erica Wagner [non-fiction]
- Knit Lit by Linda Roghaar and Molly Wolf [non-fiction]
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan G. Lydon [non-fiction]
- The Roundhill by Dick King Smith
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail [non-fiction] by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
- The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte by James Tully
- Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker
- Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Caroll
- Breaking The Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everybody’s Asking by Darrell L. Bock [non-fiction]