booklists
2010
1. Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness: Stories
2. Kelly Cutrone - If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
3. Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
4. Chelsea Handler - Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
5. Chelsea Handler - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
6. Chelsea Handler - Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea
7. Tom Rachman - The Imperfectionists
8. Matthew Stokoe - Empty Mile
9. Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
10. Sloane Crosley - How Did You Get This Number
2009
1. Fisher, Carrie - Wishful Drinking (1/31)
2. Adams, Ryan - Infinity Blues
3. Le Clézio, J.M.G. - The Interrogation
4. Niven, John - Kill Your Friends
5. Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road
6. Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper
7. Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd - When Skateboards Will Be Free
8. Rossi, Melissa - What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
9. Armstrong, Heather - Things I Learned About My Dad (In Therapy)
10. Phillips, Arthur - The Song Is You: A Novel
11. Fitten, Marc - Valeria’s Last Stand
12. Hare, Mimi & Claire Naylor - The Second Assistant
13. Hare, Mimi & Claire Naylor - The First Assistant
14. Kot, Mark - Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (7/19)
15. Harris, Charlaine - Dead Until Dark
16. Harris, Charlaine - Living Dead In Dallas
17. Harris, Charlaine - Club Dead
18. Harris, Charlaine - Dead To the World
19. Harris, Charlaine - Dead As a Doornail
20. Harris, Charlaine - Definitely Dead
21. Moore, Lorrie - A Gate at the Stairs
22. Niffenegger, Audrey - Her Perfect Symmetry
23. Ferris, Joshua - Then We Came to the End
24. Müller, Herta - The Passport
25. Kinsella, Sophie - Confessions of a Shopaholic
2008
1. Smith, Zadie (ED) - The Book of Other People (1/16)
2. Follett, Ken - The Pillars of the Earth (1/23)
3. Curtis, Rebecca - 20 Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (Feb)
4. Danticat, Edwidge - Brother, I’m Dying (2/29)
5. Wasserstein, Wendy - Elements of Style (3/15)
6. Crosley, Sloane - I Was Told There’d Be Cake (4/1)
7. Lahiri, Jhumpa - Unaccustomed Earth (4/15)
8. Carson, Rachel - Under the Sea-Wind (May)
9. Burroughs, Augusten - A Wolf at the Table (May)
10. Sedaris, David - When You Are Engulfed By Flames (June)
11. Kurutz, Steven - Like a Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of a Tribute Band (June)
12. Camus, Albert - The Stranger (July)
13. O’Flynn, Catherine - What Was Lost (7/23)
14. Baker, Nicholson - Human Smoke (7/27)
15. Diaz, Junot - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (August)
16. Klosterman, Chuck - Downtown Owl (September)
17. Meyer, Stephenie - Twilight(September)
18. Meyer, Stephanie - New Moon(September)
19. Meyer, Stephenie - Eclipse (September)
20. Meyer, Stephenie - Breaking Dawn
21. Friedman, Thomas - Hot, Flat & Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How It Can Renew America
22. Lamb, Wally - The Hour I First Believed
23. Perrotta, Tom - The Abstinence Teacher
24. LeVine, Mark - Heavy Metal Islam
25. Freedman, Rory & Kim Barnouin - Skinny Bitch
26. Unferth, Deb Olin - Vacation
2007
1. McLaughlin, Emma and Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries (1/03)
2. Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (1/31)
3. Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler’s Wife (2/20)
4. Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees (2/25)
5. Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking (2/27)
6. Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner (3/7)
7. Burroughs, Augusten - Magical Thinking (3/15)
8. Heller, Zoe - Notes on a Scandal (3/19)
9. Tyler, Anne - The Amateur Marriage (3/20)
10. McCourt, Frank - ‘Tis (3/26)
11. Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love (3/31)
12. Didion, Joan - A Book of Common Prayer (4/2)
13. Burroughs, Augusten - Running With Scissors (4/3)
14. Sedaris, David - Naked (4/8)
15. Burroughs, Augusten - Dry (4/10)
16. Franzen, Jonathan - The Discomfort Zone (4/15)
17. Sedaris, David - Barrel Fever (4/17)
18. Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things (4/23)
19. Daum, Meghan - The Quality of Life Report (4/28) [Review]
20. McCarthy, Cormac - The Road (5/6)
21. Burroughs, Augusten - Possible Side Effects (5/13)
22. Spiegelman, Art - Maus (5/13)[Review]
23. Spiegelman, Art - Maus II (5/15)
24. Daum, Meghan - My Misspent Youth (5/17)
25. LeRoy, JT (Editor) - Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 (5/26)
26. Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Terabithia (6/5) (reread)
27. Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces (6/19)
28. Krauss, Nicole - Man Walks Into A Room (6/21)
29. Eggers, Dave - How We Are Hungry (6/28)
30. Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (6/29) [Review]
31. Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love (7/4)
32. Smith, Zadie - White Teeth (7/10)
33. Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go (7/16)
34. Mitchell, David - Black Swan Green (7/28)
35. Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (8/7)
36. Miele, Matthew (ED) - Lit Riffs (September)
37. Glass, Ira (ED) - The New Kings of Nonfiction (10/7) [Review]
38. Wilsey, Sean - Oh The Glory of It All (10/12)
39. Clapton, Eric - Clapton: The Autobiography (11/8) [Review]
40. Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon (11/15)
41. Vowell, Sarah - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (11/26)
42. Rakoff, David - Fraud (12/15)
43. Englander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special Cases (12/30)
2006
1. Trump, Donald J. - Think Like a Billionaire (1/04)
2. Leland, John. - Hip: The History (1/31)
3. Hornbacher, Marya - Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (2/25)
4. Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code (3/14)
5. Nathan, John - SONY (3/19)
6. Levenkron, Steven - Anatomy of Anorexia (4/06)
7. Wiesel, Elie - Night (4/16)
8. Friedman, Thomas L. - The Lexus & the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (5/31)
9. Klosterman, Chuck - Sex, Drugs & Cocoapuffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (6/09)
10. Dr. Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese?
11. Klosterman, Chuck - Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (7/04)
12. Klosterman, Chuck - Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (7/31)
13. Weisberger, Lauren - The Devil Wears Prada (8/5)
14. Isaacs, Susan - Any Place I Hang My Hat (8/14)
15. Weisberger, Lauren - Everyone Worth Knowing (8/18)
16. Sittenfeld, Curtis - Prep (8/22)
17. Didion, Joan - The White Album (8/28)
18. Di Prima, Diane - Memoirs of a Beatnik (8/30)
19. Friedman, Thomas L. - The World Is Flat (9/7)
20. Didion, Joan - Play It As It Lays (9/10)
21. Klosterman, Chuck - IV: A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas (9/15)
22. Kidd, Sue Monk - The Mermaid Chair (9/18)
23. Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (9/23)
24. Franzen, Jonathan - How To Be Alone (9/26)
25. Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections (10/1)
26. Franzen, Jonathan - The Twenty-Seventh City (10/10)
27. Didion, Joan - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (10/16)
28. Van Der Kwast, Jennifer - Pounding the Pavement (11/11)
29. Mlynowski, Sarah - Me Vs. Me (11/19)
30. Smith, Zadie - On Beauty (11/28)
31. Desai, Kiran - The Inheritance of Loss (12/6) [Review]
32. Kostova, Elizabeth - The Historian (12/22)
33. McLaughlin, Emma and Nicola Kraus, Citizen Girl (12/25)
34. Perrotta, Tom - Little Children (12/28)
2005
01. Fisher, Carrie - The Best Awful (June)
02. Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
03. Friedman, Thomas L. - From Beirut to Jerusalem
04. Danticat, Edwidge - The Dew Breaker(June)
05. Ray, Blaine - Fama va a Californie (April)
06. Fisher, Carrie - Postcards from the Edge (June)
07. Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex (March)
08. Fisher, Carrie - Delusions of Grandma (June, re-read)
09. Fisher, Carrie - Surrender the Pink (July, re-read)
10. Wurtzel, Elizabeth - Prozac Nation (July, re-read)
11. Walls, Jeanette - Dish (April)
12. Al-Radi, Nuha - Baghdad Diaries: A Woman’s Chronicle of War and Exile (July)
13. Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (August)
14. Gilman, Susan Jane - Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress (August)
15. Vonnegut, Kurt - Bagombo Snuff Box (August)
16. Friedman, Thomas L. - Longitudes & Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism (August)
17. Dannen, Fredric - Hitmen: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (December)
18. Frascogna, Xavier M. Jr., and H. Lee Hetherington - This Business of Artist Management (December)
19. Fisher, Carrie - The Best Awful (December, re-read)
20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Beautiful & The Damned (December, re-read)
2004
01. Rowling, JK - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Jan. 1, 2004)
02. Rowling, JK - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Jan. 27, 2004)
03. Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence (Feb. 28, 2004)
04. Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran (Feb. 29, 2004)
05. O’Brien, Lucy - She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (April 3, 2004)
06. Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (April 16, 2004)
07. Kerouac, Jack - On the Road (April 24, 2004)
08. Block, Francesca Lia - Violet & Claire (April 25, 2004)
09. Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar (May 13, 2004) Re-read
10. Sebold, Alice - Lucky (June 9, 2004)
11. Karr, Mary - The Liars Club (June 16, 2004)
12. Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones (June 19, 2004)
13. Davis, Miles - Miles (July 3, 2004)
14. Fong-Torres, Ben - Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll (July 20, 2004)
15. Burroughs, William S. - Junky (July 21, 2004)
16. Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca (July 27, 2004)
17. Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (August 23, 2004)
18. Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (September 16, 2004) [Re-read]
19. Levin, Ira - Deathtrap [Play] (September 21, 2004)
20. Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway (October 14, 2004)
21. Morrison, Toni - Sula (November 02, 2004)
22. Winterson, Jeanette - Written on the Body (November 09, 2004)
23. Shaffer, Peter - Equus [Play] (November 09, 2004)
24. Molière - Tartuffe [Play] (November 11, 2004)
25. Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun [Play] (November 16, 2004)
26. O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night [Play] (Dec. 01, 2004)
27. Ginsberg, Debra - Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress (Dec. 21, 2004)
28. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Beautiful and the Damned (December 31, 2004)
2003
1. Hajdu, David - Positively 4th Street
2. Pirsig, Robert M. - Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence
3. Rowling, JK - Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone
4. Rowling, JK - Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
5. Rowling, JK - Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Nanda, Serena - The Hijras of India
7. Kerouac, Jack - Dharma Bums
8. Irwin, John. P - Another River, Another Town
9. Wolf, Christa - Cassandra
10. Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea
11. Plato - The Republic
12. Euripides - The Bacchae
13. Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
14. Leader, Mary - Triad (repeat)
15. Dylan, Bob - Tarantula (repeat)
16. Basso, Keith - Wisdom Sits in Places
2001
Plath, Sylvia - Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams (2/5)
Gaines, Ernest - A Lesson Before Dying
Holding, William - Lord of the Flies
Salinger, JD - Franny and Zooey
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby (3/5)
Lahiri, Jhumpa - Interpreter of Maladies
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front (4/11)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter (4/17)
Palahniuk, Chuck - Fight Club (4/22)
Salinger, JD - The Catcher in the Rye (4/28)
2000
Twain, Mark - Huckleberry Finn (August)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - This Side of Paradise (September)
Lebert, Benjamin - Crazy (7/6)
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible (7/29)
Plath, Sylvia - The Colossus and Other Poems
Burns, Olive Ann - Cold Sassy Tree
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead (6/6)
Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence (May)
Woll, Peter - American Government: Readings and Cases (Jan)
Walker, Alexander - Vivien
Greene, Hannah - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Filipovic, Zlata - Zlata’s Diary
Eugenides, Jeffery - The Virgin Suicides
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird