June 2009
Books Purchased:
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Literary New York by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino
77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor
American Eve by Paula Uruburu
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Books Read:
The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott (library)
American Eve by Paula Uruburu
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi (library)
May 2009
Books Purchased:
Alice, Let's Eat by Calvin Trillin
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
A Big Storm Knocked it Over by Laurie Colwin
The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Dairies and Letters by Barbara Pym
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Food Writing edited by Molly O'Neill
Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg
Food With the Famous by Jane Grigson
The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002 edited by Dave Eggers
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross
Books Read:
Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Lucky by Gabrielle Bell (library)
Escape from "Special" by Miss Lasko-Gross (library)
When I'm Old and Other Stories by Gabrielle Bell (library)
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
April 2009
Books Purchased:
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
P. G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words by P. G. Wodehouse, Barry Day & Tony Ring
The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse
Ring for Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
America Eats! by Pat Willard
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
The Long Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker by Maeve Brennan
Beard on Bread by James Beard
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Books Read:
Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin (library)
March 2009
Books Purchased:
Comfort me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre le Faye
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Love As Always, Kurt Vonnegut as I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw
A Little History of the World by E. H. Combrich
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Books Read:
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (library)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres (library)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Love as Always, Kurt Vonnegut as I Kne4w Him by Loree Rackstraw
The Rose Variations by Marisha Chamberlain (library)
French Milk by Lucy Knisley (library)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
February 2009
Books Purchased:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
The Best American Comics 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar
The Way It Wasn't by James Laughlin
Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Trust Me by John Updike
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Rosie by Anne Lamott
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
This I Believe II edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
Books Read:
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (library)
Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl (library)
Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
January 2009
Books Purchased:
The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron
Meet Mr. Mulliner by P. G. Wodehouse
Lord Emsworth and Others by P. G. Wodehouse
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Books Read:
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (library)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (library)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (library)
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
December 2008
Books Purchased:
Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
The Best American Short Stories edited by Stephen King
Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947 - 1963 by Susan Sontag
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Love Letters of Great Men edited by Ursula Doyle (gift)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry selected by Billy Collins
Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 1 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (gift)
The Time of Their Lives by Al Silverman (gift)
Shakespeare Wrote for the Money by Nick Hornby (gift)
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (gift)
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties edited by Shannon Ravenel
With Love and Squalor edited by Kip Kotzen and Thomas Beller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Books Read:
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (library)
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (library)
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (library)
November 2008
Books Purchased:
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Ukridge by P. G. Wodehouse
Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse
Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
The Gold Bat and Other School Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
Books Read:
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (re-read)
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
October 2008
Books Purchased:
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn
The Assistant by Robert Walser
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
George, Being George edited by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.
Secret Lives of Great Authors by Robert Schnakenberg
Bachelors Anonymous by P. G. Wodehouse
Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse
The Paris Review Interviews Vol. III edited by Philip Gourevitch
The Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid
Books Read:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (re-read)
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (re-read)
The Annotated Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen & David M. Shapard (re-read)
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (re-read)
September 2008
Books Purchased:
Too Cool to be Forgotten by Alex Robinson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Drown by Junot Diaz
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Something to Declare by Julian Barnes
P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson
Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Journal of Jules Renard
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Ballistics by Bill Collins
La Bella Figura by Beppe Severgnini
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
The Color of Water by James McBride
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008 edited by Dave Eggers
The Best American Comics 2008 edited by Linda Barry
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Books Read:
Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse
Too Cool to be Forgotten by Alex Robinson
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
August 2008
Books Purchased:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard S. Marcus
Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay
Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
How Beautiful it is and How Easily it Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P. G. Wodehouse
Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
Liberty by Garrison Keillor
Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor
Biblioholism by Tom Raabe
Books Read:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P. G. Wodehouse
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (library)
July 2008
Books Purchased:
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Lanterns and Lances by James Thurber
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
From Time to Time by Jack Finney
The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P. G. Wodehouse
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Inn at Lake Divine by Elinor Lipman
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
A Taxonomy of Barnacles by Galt Niederhoffer
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins
Novel Destinations by Shannon McKenna Schmidt & Joni Rendon
A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin
Shelf Life by Suzanne Strempek Shea
Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara? by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Books Read:
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
June 2008
Books Purchased:
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
March by Geraldine Brooks
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
Truman Capote Conversations edited by M. Thomas Inge
The Stories of Mary Gordon
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse
Books Read:
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
The Solitary Vice Against Reading by Mikita Brottman
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
May 2008
Books Purchased:
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Snobbery by Joseph Epstein
Night by Elie Wiesel
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Letters of the Century edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Books Read:
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (library)
Night by Elie Wiesel
April 2008
Books Purchased:
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
The Solitary Vice Against Reading by Mikita Brottman
Not Quite What I Was Planning edited by Smith Magazine
Patience and Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut edited by William Rodney Allen
The Best American Short Stories 1998 edited by Garrison Keillor
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Stories by T. C. Boyle
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Books Read:
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Simply Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (library)
Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
Patiently Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (library)
Including Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (library)
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
I am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Alice on Her Way by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (library)
March 2008
Books Purchased:
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
The Best American Non-required Reading 2004 edited by Dave Eggers
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M. M. Blume
Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Books Read:
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker
February 2008
Books Purchased:
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Letters of E. B. White edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth
Books Read:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (library)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (library)
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (library)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (library)
Persuasion by Jane Austen
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (library)
January 2008
Books Purchased:
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2003 edited by Dave Eggers
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Best American Essays 2003 edited by Anne Fadiman
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
The Fun of It - Stories from The Talk of the Town edited by Lillian Ross
Books Read:
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (library)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
Beginner's Greek by James Collins (library)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (library)
December 2007
Books Purchased:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (gift)
Penguin by Design by Phil Baines (gift)
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood(gift)
Portraits and Observatios: The Essays of Truman Capote (gift)
At Large and At Small Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman (gift)
A Good Man is Hard to Find, and other stories by Flannery O'Connor (gift)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (gift)
I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek (gift)
Books Read:
Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky (library)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (library)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (library)
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis (library)
Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi (library)
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
November 2007
Books Purchased:
Home From the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories by Stuart McLean
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
The Letters of Marcel Proust translated by Mina Curtiss
Books Read:
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
October 2007
Books Purchased:
I am America (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
The Writer's Desk by Jill Krementz
How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July
Slam by Nick Hornby
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel
Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition by Yann Martel
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers edited by Vendela Vida
The Paris Review Interviews vol. II edited by Philip Gourevitch
The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Books Read:
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs (re-read)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (library)
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (re-read)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (library)
September 2007
Books Purchased:
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium by Dave Barry
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976 by E. B. White
Forever by Judy Blume
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Boogers Are My Beat by Dave Barry
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 Edited by Dave Eggers
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (gift)
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
Legends of Literature Edited by Phillip Sexton (gift card)
Zoology by Ben Dolnick
The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (gift)
Forgotten New York by Kevin Walsh (gift)
Ulysses by James Joyce (gift)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
How to Travel with a Salmon by Umberto Eco
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Books Read:
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Forever by Judy Blume
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
August 2007
Books Purchased:
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
The Sunny Side by A.A. Milne
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Books Read:
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Like Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford (library)
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (library)
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (library)
Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe (library)
July 2007
Books Purchased:
Truman Capote by George Plimpton
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
Chip Kidd - Book One by Chip Kidd
A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
Books Read:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
June 2007
Books Purchased:
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists by the editors of McSweeney's
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Marquise of O- by Heinrich Von Kleist
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories by George Eliot
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter by David Colbert
Books Read:
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (library)
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber (library)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling (re-read)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (re-read)
May 2007
Books Purchased:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Nine Stories by JD Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction by JD Salinger
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Leave the Building Quickly by Cynthia Kaplan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Books Read:
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (re-read)
Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
April 2007
Books Purchased:
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Reading New York by John Tytell
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice edited by David M. Shapard
Like Shaking Hands With God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Insatiable by Gael Green
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L'engle
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'engle
Books Read:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (library)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (library)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Remainder by Tom McCarthy (library)
Insatiable by Gael Greene (library)
March 2007
Books Purchased:
Paradise Fields by Katie Fforde
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
The Second Tree from the Corner by E.B. White
Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White
Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey
A Model World by Michael Chabon
Books Read:
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (library)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (library)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair by George Plimpton
February 2007
Books Purchased:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
A Short History of Nearly Everything (special illustrated edition) by Bill Bryson
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley (gift card)
Water for Elephant by Sara Gruen (gift card)
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair by George Plimpton
Books Read:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (library)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (audio book)
Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
January 2007
Books Purchased:
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
'Tis by Frank McCourt
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (gift)
What is the What by Dave Eggers (gift)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
George & Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism by Charlotte Moore
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations and Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (free)
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Books Read:
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger (library)
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (re-read)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (library)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (library)