Reading List
+ means I loved the book with all my heart (and you might love it, too).
* means the book was unpublished when I read it.
Currently Reading
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
September 2008
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
Threefold Blight* by Jodi Meadows
+Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
Escape by Laura Palmer
Through the Portal* by Kelly Swails
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
The Warriors: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
June 2008
+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
Atonement by Ian McEwan
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
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
November 2007-January 2008
+In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Mariele at Midnight* by Jodi Meadows
Height of Sky* by Laurel Amberdine
September - October 2007
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Red Sunset* by Jodi Meadows
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice
The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine
July - August 2007
The Isis Knot* by Heather Marshall
Violin by Anne Rice
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
Majestico’s Pocket Circus* by Francesca Forrest
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
May - June 2007
The Loyal Sword* (reread) by Jodi Meadows
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
The Loyal Sword* by Jodi Meadows
The Dragon and the Butterfly* by Laurel Amberdine
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
Paranoid Psychic* by Jodi Meadows
+The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
+1984 by George Orwell
Unnatural* by Jill Myles
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
July - August 2006
Toil for the Wind* by Jodi Meadows
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
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
March - April 2006
+To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Shivery Bones* by Pamela Thompson
Kurt Cobain Journals by Kurt Cobain
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Whisper of Death by Christopher Pike
January - February 2006
Sex Starved* by Jill Myles
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
Barely There* by Lila Schow
November-December 2005
Elisa’s Belly* by Rae Dawn Carson
+A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
+The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Apprentice* by Joanne Anderton
October 2005
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
+Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
Glicia* by Jodi Meadows
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
Shadow of Vengeance by Jodi Meadows
+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