Begun late and filling in the gaps, as per usual. This year continues my efforts to read books largely by women or people of color. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Stephen Fry audiobook) J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Stephen Fry audiobook) J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter…

1. Neal Stephenson – Anathem2. Octavia E. Butler – Blood Child and Other Stories3. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Dispossessed4. Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Endless Nights5. Haruki Murakami – The Library6. Helen Oyeyemi – The Opposite House

1. Francesca Lia Block – Love in the Time of Global Warming2. Chang-Rae Lee – On Such a Full Sea3. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret4. John Gardner – Grendel5. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass6. Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife7. Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love…

1. Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet2. Neal Stephenson – Zodiac3. Guy Thorne – When It Was Dark4. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief5. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Pennyroyal Press edition)6. Charles Soule, Renzo Podesta, W.Scott Forbes – Twenty-Seven, First Set7. Lewis Carroll – Through…

1. Art Spiegelman – Maus I2. Michael Pollan – In Defense of Food3. Isabel Allende – Of Love and Shadows4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude5. Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle6. Phillip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?7. Charles Bukowski – Women8. Francesca Lia Block – Ecstasia9.…

Turns out when you work at a bookstore you actually tend to read less. 1. Spencer Holst – The Language of Cats2. Haruki Murakami – Dance, Dance, Dance3. Haruki Murakami – After Dark4. Charles Bukowski – Hot Water Music5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales6. Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (2nd time)7.…

1. Yasunari Kawabata – The Sound of the Mountain  f2. Hitomi Kanehara – Snakes and Earrings  f3. Isabel Allende – City of the Beasts  ya4. Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams  f5. Xiaolu Guo – A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers  f6. Augusten Burroughs – Magical Thinking  m7. Augusten Burroughs – Dry, A Memoir  m8. Banana…

1. Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex  pf2. Dian Curtis Regan – Princess Nevermore  ya3. Keith Miller – The Book of Flying  f4. Sally Lowenstein – Sender Unknown  ya5. Alastair Mackintosh – Symbolism and Art Nouveau  nf6. Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Chosen  f7. Elizabeth Berg – The Handmaid and the Carpenter  pf8. Barbara Kingsolver – Animal, Vegetable,…

Guess who graduated from college / became largely unemployed in 2008? Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera  mr Isabel Allende – Eva Luna (again)  mr J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan  p, c Marcus Borg (ed.) – Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally  nf Samuel Beckett – The Lost Gospel…

Aldous Huxley – The Genius and the Goddess  f Isabel Allende Eva Luna mr Christopher Paolini – Eldest  sf/f  ya Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking  pf Ernest J. Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying  f Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude  mr Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee –…