- Red = An All-Time Favorite
Fisher-Wirth, Ann – Five Terraces
Fisher-Wirth, Ann – Blue Window
Levy, David M. – Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
Battles, Matthew – Library: An Unquiet History
Oates, Joyce Carol – The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Burroughs, Augusten – Running with Scissors
Enright, Ann – The Gathering
Waldman, Ayelet – Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
Cohen, Amy – The Late-Bloomer’s Revolution
Nicholson, William – The Trial of True Love
Christopher, Nicholas – The Bestiary
Saterstrom, Selah – The Meat and Spirit Plan
Abbott, Karen – Sin in the Second City
Atkinson, Ray – The Black Tea Experiments
Susanne Dunlap – Liszt’s Kiss: A Novel
Wilson, Antoine – The InterloperOyeyemi, Helen – The Opposite House
Rendell, Ruth – End in Tears
Englert, J.F. – A Dog About Town
Cannell, Dorothy – Withering Heights
Harris, Wendy K. – Blue Slipper Bay
Griffith, Michael – Bibliophilia: A Novella and Stories
Philips, Arthur – Angelica
Flaubert, Gustave – Bibliomania: A Tale
Hellenga, Robert – Philosophy Made Simple
Egan, Jennifer – The Keep
Horwood, William – Dark Hearts of Chicago
McMahon, Jennifer – Promise Not to Tell
Humes, Edward – Monkey Girl
Cibrario, Dominic – The Pomelo Tree
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren – Ve
rtigoGetze, Jack – Big Numbers
Russell, Renee – Kate’s Pride
Zane, Peder, ed. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
Bechdel, Alison – Fun Home: A Tragicomic
Savage, Sam – Firmin
Cavanagh, Mary – The Crowded Bed
Knox, Tyler – Kockroach
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Laski, Marghanita – The Victorian Chaise-Longue
Moorcroft, Sue – Uphill All the Way
Clinch, Jon – Finn
Buchwald, Art – Too Soon To Say Goodbye
Corrigan, Maureen – Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading
Sessums, Kevin – Mississippi Sissy
Gaiman, Neil – Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
Hawksley, Lucinda – Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites
Vereker, Susie – An Old-Fashioned Arrangement
Lethem, Jonathan – Motherless Brooklyn
Collins, Wilkie – Poor Miss Finch
Dines, Adrienne – The Jigsaw Maker
- Books Read 2008
Vowell, Sarah – The Wordy Shipmates
(Work in Progress)
Books Read 2007
Solove, Daniel – The Digital Person…
Heinz, Marjorie – Not in Front of the Children…
Sheldrick, Catherine – Conducting the Reference Interview…
Rosoff, Meg – How I Live Now
Anderson, M.T. – Feed
Yang, Gene Luen – American Born Chinese
Gratz, Alan M. – Samurai Shortstop
Meyer, Stephenie – Twilight
Kinney, Jeff – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Frost, Helen – Keesha’s House
Myers, Walter Dean – Monster
Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Cormier, Robert – The Chocolate War
Blume, Judy – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Block, Francesa Lia – Weetzie Bat
Hinton, S.E. – The Outsiders
Daley, Maureen – Seventeenth Summer
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Barry, Sebastian – The Secret Scripture
Barry, Brunonia – The Lace Reader
Haig, Matt – The Dead Fathers Club
Gray, Claudia – Evernight
Lansdale, Joe R. – The Leather Maiden
Buzby, Lewis – Steinbeck’s Ghost
Canin, Ethan – America America
Dahme, Joanne – Creepers
McMurtry, Larry – Books: A Memoir
Siegel, Lee – Against the Machine
Dashner, James – The Journal of Curious Letters (Vol. 1)
Greer, Germaine – Shakespeare’s Wife
Jackson, Maggie – Distraction: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Summerscale, Kate – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Rose, Thorina – The Heartbreak Diet
Niederhoffer, Galt – The Romantics
Maynard, Elizabeth Ph.D. – Writing Through the Darkness
Park, Ed – Personal Days