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1 January 2003: Books
2002 was a slow year. But I think Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, and
damn it, Invisible Man should count as at least two apiece.
And it was right after Midnight's Children that I wasted a
whole week rereading Harry Potter.
Adult Fiction
- A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- David Czuchlewski, Muse Asylum
- Pamela Dean, Tam Lin
- Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Diana Freund, Four Corners
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Arist of the Floating World
- Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
- Ursula LeGuin, Unlocking the Air
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight
- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
- Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
- Richard Russo, Empire Falls
- José Saramago, All the Names
- José Saramago, Blindness
- José Saramago, Baltazar and Blimunda
- Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
- Jane Smiley, Greenlanders
- Wallace Stegner, Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Audio Books
- Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Adult Nonfiction
- Andres Duany et al., Suburban Nation
- Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak
- Claudia L. Johnson, Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel
- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
- Leah Hager Cohen, Train Go Sorry
- Jeffrey Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere
- Eric Scholsser, Fast
Food Nation
- Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter
- Alison Weir, Henry VIII, the King and his Court
Children's Books
- Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down
- Kate Dicamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
- Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant
- Diana Wynne Jones, The Magicians of Caprona
- Louis Sachar, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
- Lemony Snickett, The Austere Academy
- Lemony Snickett, The Ersatz Elevator
- Lemony Snickett, The Vile Village
- Lemony Snickett, The Carnivorous Carnival
- Lemony Snickett, The Hostile Hospital
- Mary Jo Stephens, Zoë's Zodiac
- Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes
- Noel Streatfeild, Dancing Shoes
- Noel Streatfeild, Theatre Shoes
Trash
- V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina
- Jean Auel, Shelters of Stone
- Rosamund Pilcher, Winter Solstice
Rereads
- Mary Anderson, Step on a Crack
- John Christopher, Empty World
- Jean Slaughter Doty, Can I Get There by Candlelight?
- Eric Houghton, Steps out of Time
- Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
- Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
- J.K. Rowling, HP and the Sorcerer's Stone
- J.K. Rowling, HP and Chamber of Secrets
- J.K. Rowling, HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- J.K. Rowling, HP and the Goblet of Fire
- Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Also reading to RDC takes up reading-in-bed time.
- The Yearling
- The View from Saturday
- Walk Two
Moons
- The Westing Game
- Mrs. Frisby and
the Rats of NIMH
- Bridge to Terabithia
Only 30 novels. Ten non-fiction. I suck.
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