plain text denotes a finished book; italics denote reading in progress; asterisk denotes re-reading. (year total to-date: 38 books)

the "to be read" pile

• accordion crimes* (annie proulx)
• the deptford trilogy (2/3) (robertson davies)
• a confederacy of dunces (john kennedy toole) rec: david d

january (11 items read)

• the golden compass* (philip pullman)
• the subtle knife* (philip pullman)
• the amber spyglass (philip pullman)
• the poison eaters (holly black)
• the house of tomorrow (peter bognanni)
• tickling the english (dara o'briain)
• close range: brokeback mountain and other stories* (annie proulx)
• heart songs* (annie proulx)
• the fifth business (robertson davies) (1/3 of deptford)
• two plays by edward albee: the zoo story & the american dream
• story house (timothy taylor)

february (10 read)

• liquor (poppy z brite)
• sandman: endless nights (neil gaiman)*
• sandman: preludes and nocturnes (neil gaiman)*
• grendel (john gardner)
• the private lives of pippa lee (rebecca miller)
• blues lessons (robert hellenga)
• pretty little mistakes (heather mcelhatton)
• microfiction (ed. jerome stern)
• interworld (neil gaiman & someone else)
• then again (elyse friedman)

march (13 items read)

• the ability to forget (norman levine)
• life before man (margaret atwood)
• from a seaside town (norman levine)
• greenwitch* (susan cooper)
• the woman who walked into doors (roddy doyle)
• the accidental (ali smith)
• jimi hendrix turns eighty (tim sandlin)
• clockwork (philip pullman)
• the hunger games (suzanne collins)
• catching fire (suzanne collins)
• mockingjay (suzanne collins)
• apropos of nothing* (peter david)
• the woad to wuin* (peter david)

april

• switch bitch (roald dahl)
• neverwhere* (neil gaiman)
• the year of living biblically* (aj jacobs)
• prime (poppy z. brite)
• this is where i leave you (jonathan tropper)
• the wicked day (mary stewart)
• the cellist of sarajevo (stephen galloway)
• slam (nick hornby)
• the history of love (nicole krauss)

may

• clash of kings* (george rr martin)
• the penelopiad (margaret atwood)
• paddy clarke ha ha ha (roddy doyle)
• the penultimate peril (lemony snicket)
• my present age (guy vanderhaage) - disappointing last page and a half
• a star called henry (roddy doyle)
• god on the rocks (jane gardam)
• fall on your knees (ann-marie mcdonald)
• the romantic (barbara gowdy)
• everything is illuminated* (jonathan safran foer)
• who's afraid of virginia woolf (edward albee)
• the visible man (chuck klosterman)
• norwegian wood (haruki murikami)