Reading
+ means I loved the book with all my heart (and you might love it, too!).
My favorite novelists: Jose Saramago, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick, Doris Lessing, Tracy Chevalier
Reading Now (or soon):
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
September 2010
+Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
August 2010
+Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
+The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The City and The City by China Mieville
+Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
July 2010
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Solar by Ian McEwan
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
May-June 2010
Kid vs. squid by Greg van Eekhout
+Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
April 2010
+Alcestis by Katherine Beutner
March 2010
Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
The Babysitter’s Code by Laura Lippman
February 2010
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This Song is You by Arthur Phillips
+The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau
January 2010
People of the Sparks by Jeanne Duprau
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
+The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
December 2009
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
November 2009
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
+South of Broad by Pat Conroy
+The Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay
October 2009
+The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
+The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
September 2009
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
August 2009
Ben in the World by Doris Lessing
+Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
July 2009
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
+Shikasta by Doris Lessing
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
June 2009
+The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago
+The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
+The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
+The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
May 2009
+Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
One For Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick
+The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Peeps by Scott Westerfield
+On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
April 2009
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Watchman by Alan Moore
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread)
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Fast Times at Fairmont High by Verner Vinge
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
+Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
March 2009
+Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
+American Rust by Philipp Meyer
+A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Animal Farm by George Orwell
February 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz
+The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
+The Double by Jose Saramago
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
+Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
January 2009
The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
+Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
+The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Boat by Nam Le
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
All Saints by Liam Callanan
December 2008
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
+The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Motherless Brooklyn by Johathan Lethem
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
+Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
November 2008
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
+Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
+Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
+A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
+The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
+Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
October 2008
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
+All the Names by Jose Saramago
+Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
+The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Beaufort by Evan Fallenberg and Ron Lesham
The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
September 2008
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
The Warriors: Moonrise by Erin Hunter
+Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
+After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
Fury by Salman Rushdie
August 2008
Ten Sigmas by Paul Melko
+The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
+The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
+The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Garden of Evil by David Hewson
The Margarets by Sherri Tepper
July 2008
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
+Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
Escape by Laura Palmer
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
The Warriors: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter
+The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
June 2008
(This is when I bought a Kindle!)
+Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Warriors: Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter
April – May 2008
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Soloist by Scott Lopez
The Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
February – March 2008
+The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
November 2007-January 2008
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
+In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Atonement by Ian McEwan
September – October 2007
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice
The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine
July – August 2007
Violin by Anne Rice
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
May – June 2007
Various Blue Heaven manuscripts
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
+Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
March – April 2007
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
+Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
January – February 2007
The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
Rasputin’s Daughter by Robert Alexander
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
November – December 2006
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
+Reiffen’s Choice by S.C. Butler
+The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
+Snow by Orhan Pamuk
September – October 2006
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
+The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
+1984 by George Orwell
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
July – August 2006
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Silk by Caitlin Kiernan
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
May – June 2006
Lament of the Lamb by Kei Toume (manga)
King of Torts by John Grisham
+Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
March – April 2006
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
+To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Cobain Journals by Kurt Cobain
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
January – February 2006
Whisper of Death by Christopher Pike
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
Barely There* by Lila Schow
November-December 2005
+A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
+The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
October 2005
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
+Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
The Prodigal Troll by Charles Coleman Finlay
+Fudoki by Kij Johnson
August-September 2005
+The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
+Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
+The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
June-July 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
+Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April-May 2005
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
+Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
+Beach Music by Pat Conroy
February-March 2005
+The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
+Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
December 2004 – January 2005
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Four Blondes by Candece Bushnell
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite