Diane's Reading List, 1999 - present

-----------------1999--------------------

LA Confidential (James Ellroy)
Bridget Jones' Diary (Helen Fielding)
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
Farewell My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
The Russia House (John LeCarre)
Debt of Honor (Tom Clancy)
Murder in the Museum of Man (Alfred Alcorn)
The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)
Star Trek: Mosaic (Jeri Taylor)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
My Tiny Life (Julian Dibbell)
The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)
Bech:  A Book (John Updike)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Phantom Menace (Terry Brooks)
Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Joy of Work (Scott Adams)
Twenty Years After (Alexandre Dumas)
Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
The Annotated Alice (Lewis Carroll)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
The Empire Strikes Back (Donald F. Glut)
The Return of the Jedi (James Kahn)
The Vicomte of Bragelonne (Alexandre Dumas)
H is for Homicide (Sue Grafton)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John LeCarre)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
The Broken Sword (sequel to The Forever King) (Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy)
Intensity (Dean Koontz)
Tales From the Edge: Insanity, Illinois (Mark Sumner)
Local Rules (Jay Brandon)
A Dog's Life (Peter Mayle)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Graham)
The Safety of Objects (A.M. Homes)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
To the Hilt (Dick Francis)
The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan)
Microserfs (Coupland)
The Dragon Reborn (Robert Jordan)
The Shadow Rising (Robert Jordan)
In Big Trouble (Laura Lippman)
Mad Jack (Catherine Coulter)
The Fires of Heaven (Robert Jordan)
Bagombo Snuff Box (Kurt Vonnegut)
Timeline (Michael Crichton)
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (Janet L. Abu-Lughod)

TOTAL:  48

-----------------2000--------------------

Be Sweet (Roy Blount, Jr.)
On the Way Home (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers)
Atlantis Found (Clive Cussler)
The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
Soul of the Fire (Terry Goodkind)
The Winter King (Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 - Bernard Cornwell)
Heir to the Empire (Timothy Zahn)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and
     the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Simon Winchester)
Enemy of God (Warlord Chronicles, vol. 2 - Bernard Cornwell)
Excalibur (Warlord Chronicles, vol. 3 - Bernard Cornwell)
Zodiac (Neal Stephenson)
Dark Force Rising (Timothy Zahn)
The Last Command (Timothy Zahn)
Primary Colors (Joe Klein)
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
One More Time (Mike Royko)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An anthology of Chicago writing (David Starkey, ed.)
Virtual Light (William Gibson)
Idoru (William Gibson)
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the
     Nation (Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor)
Hannibal (Thomas Harris)
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett)
Bedford Square (Anne Perry)
Lord of Chaos (Robert Jordan)
The Arts and Crafts Home (Kitty Turgeon)
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
A Crown of Swords (Robert Jordan)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
Path of Daggers (Robert Jordan)

TOTAL:  38

-----------------2001--------------------

Personal Injuries (Scott Turow)
Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy Sayers)
The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul (Keri Leigh)
The River King  (Alice Hoffman)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Beggars in Spain (Nancy Kress)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
Give Us a Kiss: A Country Noir (Daniel Woodrell)
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins)
Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
In the Garden of Iden (Kage Baker)
Evening Star (Larry McMurtry)
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
L is for Lawless (Sue Grafton)
The Sky Coyote (Kage Baker)
Mendoza in Hollywood (Kage Baker)
Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
L.A. Requiem (Robert Crais)
Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)
Executive Orders (Tom Clancy)
Whose Body? (Dorothy Sayers)
Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery)
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
The Winds of War (Herman Wouk)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
Anne of the Island (L.M. Montgomery)
War and Remembrance (Herman Wouk)
How to be Good (Nick Hornby)
Looking for the Mahdi (N. Lee Wood)
Murder in the White House (Margaret Truman)

TOTAL:  37

-----------------2002--------------------

One For the Money (Janet Evanovich)
A Grave Talent (Laurie King)
Miracle Under the Oaks (William K. Stevens)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Botany for Gardeners (Brian Capon)
Taliesin (Stephen R. Lawhead)
Two for the Dough (Janet Evanovich)
Three to Get Deadly (Janet Evanovich)
Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
Four to Score (Janet Evanovich)
The Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland)
The Graveyard Game (Kage Baker)
To Play the Fool (Laurie King)
Darwin's Ghost (Steve Jones)
High Five (Janet Evanovich)
Hot Six (Janet Evanovich)
The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King)
With Child (Laurie King)
Night Work (Laurie King)
Darwin's Radio (Greg Bear)
Winter's Heart (Robert Jordan)
The Stand (Stephen King)
Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
How To Be Good (Nick Hornby)
Seven Up (Janet Evanovich)
Sharpe's Eagle (Bernard Cornwell)
Demolition Angel (Robert Crais)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Archer's Tale (Bernard Cornwell)
The Firebrand (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy)
The Han Solo Adventures (Brian Daley)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
All Tomorrow's Parties (William Gibson)
Total Recall (Sara Paretsky)
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker (David Remnick and Henry Finder, eds.)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Murder in Wrigley Field (Crabbe Evers)

TOTAL:  46

-----------------2003--------------------

Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
Murderer's Row (Crabbe Evers)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (P.D. James)
Hugger Mugger (Robert B. Parker)
Voodoo River (Robert Crais)
The Monkey's Raincoat (Robert Crais)
Lullaby Town (Robert Crais)
Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens)
Hard Eight (Janet Evanovich)
Darwin's Ghost (Steve Jones)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)
Double Whammy (Carl Hiaasen)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
The Dark Wind (Tony Hillerman)
The Ghostway (Tony Hillerman)
People of Darkness (Tony Hillerman)
Invasion of Privacy (Jeremiah Healy)
Black House (Stephen King and Peter Straub)
Black Echo (Michael Connelly)
The Concrete Blonde (Michael Connelly)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
Bang the Drum Slowly (Mark Harris)
Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)
The Far Side of the World (Patrick O'Brian)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
Children of Dune (Frank Herbert)
Widow's Walk (Robert B. Parker)
The Horse You Came In On (Martha Grimes)
Say It Ain't So, Joe! (Donald Gropman)
Indigo Slam (Robert Crais)
Stormy Weather (Carl Hiaasen)
In a Strange City (Laura Lippman)
Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini)
Hostage (Robert Crais)
Grandmaster (Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran)
Encounters with the Archdruid (John McPhee)
Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates) (unfinished)
Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)

TOTAL:  43

-----------------2004--------------------

Gods and Generals (Jeff Shaara)
The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber)
Red Dwarf
The Island of Lost Maps
The Secret of the Old Mansion (Trixie Belden #1)
The Red Robin Mystery (TB#2)
The Gatehouse Mystery (TB#3)
The Mysterious Visitor (TB#4)
The Mystery Off Glen Road (TB#5)
Mystery in Arizona (TB#6)
The Mysterious Code (TB#7)
The Black Jacket Mystery (TB#8)
Cold Mountain (Frazer)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Happy Valley Mystery (TB#9)
TB#10-39
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - a re-read, but worth it
Passage (Connie Willis)
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
The Last Detective (Robert Crais)
Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
Gun, With Occasional Music (Jonathan Lethem)
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Eoin Colfer)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Boys Who Would Be Cubs (Joseph Bosco)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling; movie-related re-read)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
Crossroad Blues (Ace Atkins)
Sir Apropos of Nothing (Peter David)
Anonymous Rex (Eric Garcia)
Trunk Music (Michael Connelly)
Traders (William Brashler)
Lay Down My Sword and Shield (James Lee Burke)
The Book of Evidence (John Banville)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
Darwin's Children (Greg Bear)
How Right You Are, Jeeves! (P.G. Wodehouse)
Wait Till Next Year (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Driving Force (Dick Francis)
Southern Cross (Patricia Cornwell)
Deader by the Lake (Doug Cummings)
The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Martha Grimes)
Safeword (Y: The Last Man book 4) (Brian K. Vaughan)
The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman)

TOTAL:  74 (!)

-----------------2005--------------------

January

The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) (Harvey Pekar)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
City of Bones (Michael Connelly)
The Mauritius Command (Patrick O'Brian)
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)

February

The Mercy Rule (John Lescroart)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Fallen Man (Tony Hillerman)

March

The Natural (Bernard Malamud)
Every Secret Thing (Laura Lippman)
The Great American Novel (Philip Roth)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)

April

The Narrows (Michael Connelly)
Sunset Express (Robert Crais)
La Perdida #1, #2, #3 (Jessica Abel)
Sin City #1: The Hard Goodbye (Frank Miller)
The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)

May

An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears)
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
La Perdida #4, #5 (Jessica Abel)
Jerusalem Inn (Martha Grimes)
Spectre of the Past (Star Wars) (Timothy Zahn)

June

Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
Sin City #2: A Dame to Kill For (Frank Miller)
The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Sharyn McCrumb)
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)

July

The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
Two Plus Two Equals Minus Seven (John F. Adams)
Ten Big Ones (Janet Evanovich)

August

Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
Ring of Truth (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5) (Brian K. Vaughan)
The First Hundred Days (Ex Machina, Vol. 1) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game (Jerry Remy)
Ball Four (Jim Bouton)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
The Stargazey (audio) (Martha Grimes)

September

Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
Positively Fifth Street (James McManus)

October

Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson)
Crossing California (Adam Langer)
Rent Girl (Michelle Tea)

November

Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff)

December

The Science of Middle-Earth (Henry Gee)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx) (I know it's just a short story, but it was bound like a book!)
Red-Tails in Love (Marie Winn)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

Total: 53


-----------------2006--------------------

January

Magician: Apprentice (Raymond Feist)
Girl on Girl (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Tag (Ex Machina, Vol. 2) (Brian K. Vaughan)
America (The Book) (Jon Stewart)

February

Magician: Master (Raymond Feist)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)

March

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
The Simple Art of Murder (Raymond Chandler)
The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy book 1) (Garth Nix)

April

The Detective and Mr. Dickens (William J. Palmer)
The Gold Bug Variations (Richard Powers)
Lirael (Abhorsen Trilogy book 2) (Garth Nix)
Abhorsen (Abhorsen Trilogy book 3) (Garth Nix)

May

Trouble is my Business (Raymond Chandler)
I Sailed With Magellan (Stuart Dybek)
The Adventures of Tintin - The Black Island (Herge)
Ghost World (Daniel Clowes)
The Last Place (Laura Lippman)

June

Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Fifth Business (book 1 of the Deptford Trilogy) (Robertson Davies)
Paper Dolls (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7) (Brian K. Vaughan)

July

Dead and Gone (Andrew Vachss)
Fact v. Fiction (Ex Machina, Vol. 3) (Brian K. Vaughan)
The Forgotten Man (Robert Crais)
Distraction (Bruce Sterling)
Hide the Cannoli (Sarah Vowell)
The Hearing (John Lescroart)

August

Fire Sale (Sara Paretsky)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
The Blue Corn Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery (Nancy Pickard)

September
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
Guilt (John Lescroart)
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

October
The Closers (Michael Connelly)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
The Quincunx (Charles Palliser)
Twelve Sharp (Janet Evanovich)

November
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
The Sandman: Vol. 1 Preludes and Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman)
Eleven on Top (Janet Evanovich)

December
March to War (Ex Machina, Vol. 4) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Kimono Dragons (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Baltimore Blues (Laura Lippman)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
The Color of Magic (Terry Pratchett)

Total:  49

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2007

January
The Sandman: Vol. 2 The Doll's House (Neil Gaiman)
The End of Mr. Y (Scarlet Thomas)
Charm City (Laura Lippman)
Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf)

February
Butchers Hill (Laura Lippman)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
In Big Trouble (Laura Lippman)
In a Strange City (Laura Lippman)
The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud)

March
The Prestige (Christopher Priest)
By a Spider's Thread (Laura Lippman)
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (William Anderson)
A Little House Sampler (ed. William Anderson)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)

April
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Bang the Drum Slowly (Mark Harris)
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

May
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Old Contemptibles (Martha Grimes)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
The Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

June
Jailbird (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dark Lord of Derkholm (Diana Wynne Jones)
The Client (John Grisham)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)

July
Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella)
The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)
Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
Motherland (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Double Indemnity (James M. Cain) (audio)
The Keep (Jennifer Egan) (audio)

August
The Sandman: Vol. 3 Dream Country (Neil Gaiman)
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (W.P. Kinsella)
Smoke Smoke (Ex Machina, Vol. 5) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Lincoln's Melancholy (Joshua Wolf Shenk)
The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)

September
The Brothers K (David James Duncan)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Echo Park (Michael Connelly)
The Black Diamond Detective Agency (Eddie Campbell)

October
The Last Full Measure (Jeff Shaara)
A New Leash on Death (Susan Conant)
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)

November
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren)
Big City, Bad Blood (Sean Chercover)
Castle in the Air (Diana Wynne Jones)
Ellery's Protest (Ellery Schemp)

December
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
Priestess of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson)
Chicago Blues (Libby Fischer Hellman, ed.)

Total:  54

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2008

January
Dead and Doggone (Susan Conant)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Sin in the Second City (Karen Abbott)
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)

February
Bite of Death (Susan Conant)
A Paws Before Dying (Susan Conant)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Becoming Laura Ingalls (John E. Miller)

March
Emma (Jane Austen)
Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris)
Shakespeare's Landlord (Charlaine Harris)
People of Darkness (Tony Hillerman)
The Blessing Way (Tony Hillerman)
The Watchman (Robert Crais)

April
The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (Gideon Defoe)
The Laughing Corpse (Laurell K. Hamilton)
Bridget Jones' Diary (Helen Fielding)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

May
A Bone of Contention (Susanna Gregory)
The Carriage House (Carla Neggers)
Darwinia (Robert Charles Wilson)

June
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Civil War (Bruce Catton)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)

July
A Mile in Her Boots (Jennifer Bove, ed.)
Let the Hurricane Roar (Rose Wilder Lane)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)
The Wild Trees (Richard Preston)
Anatomy of a Rose (Sharman Apt Russell)

August
No Good Deeds (Laura Lippman)
Endymion (Dan Simmons)
Whys and Wherefores (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9) (Brian K. Vaughan)
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
Nature Girl (Carl Hiassen)
Rise of Endymion (Dan Simmons)

September
Sharp Objects (Gillian Flynn)
Austenland (Shannon Hale)
Guilty Pleasures (Laurell K. Hamilton)
The Blade Itself (Marcus Sakey)

October
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
What the Dead Know (Laura Lippman)
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer)

November
New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
Calumet City (Charlie Newton)
Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer)
Fort Dearborn (Jeremy Crimmins)

December
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Tom Clancy)
McTeague (Frank Norris)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)


Total:  56

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2009

January
Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (Bill Bryson)
The Daily Coyote (Shreve Stockton)
Death du Jour (Kathy Reichs)
Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Grave Sight (Charlaine Harris)

February
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Grave Surprise (Charlaine Harris)
An Ice Cold Grave (Charlaine Harris)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

March
Another Thing to Fall (Laura Lippman)
The Glorious Cause (Jeff Shaara)
The Host (Stephenie Meyer)
Rise to Rebellion (Jeff Shaara)

April
Sandman Vol. 4:  Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman)
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Dark Tower I:  The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
The $64 Tomato (William Alexander)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

May
City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)
The Dark Tower II:  The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)
The Wordy Shipmates (Sarah Vowell)
Altered Carbon (Richard K. Morgan)
Clouds of Witness (Dorothy L. Sayers)

June
The Overlook (Michael Connelly)
Living Dead in Dallas (Charlaine Harris)
Bleeding Dodger Blue (Crabbe Evers)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)

July
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
So You Want to Be a Wizard (Diane Duane)

August
Eight Dogs Flying (Karen Ann Wilson)
A Shot to Die For (Libby Fischer Hellman)
Dust to Dust (Heather Graham)
Through a Glass Darkly (Karleen Koen)

September
Old Man's War (John Scalzi)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke)
Line of Vision (David Ellis)
The Lincoln Lawyer (Michael Connelly)
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants (Jane S. Smith)

October
Dogs and Goddesses (Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, Lani Diane Rich)
Collapse (Jared Diamond)
Mr. Paradise (Elmore Leonard)
A Drink Before the War (Dennis Lehane)

November
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
Wicked Plants (Amy Stewart)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (Stephen King)
A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual (Barbara Pleasant)

December
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution (Randal Keynes)
Home Safe (Elizabeth Berg)
Chasing Darkness (Robert Crais)

Total:  54

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2010

January
Good People (Marcus Sakey)
An Eye for Murder (Libby Fischer Hellman)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)

February
Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
Fearless Fourteen (Janet Evanovich)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)

March
The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)
Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane)

April
London (Edward Rutherfurd)
A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)
The Annotated Alice (Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner)

May
A Storm of Swords (George R. R. Martin)
Certain Prey (John Sandford)
The Paradise Snare (A.C. Crispin)
Supernatural: Nevermore (Keith R.A. DeCandido)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

June
Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)
White Noise (Don DeLillo)
The Demon's Lexicon (Sarah Rees Brennan)
Double Play (Robert B. Parker)
Supernatural: The Unholy Cause (Joe Schreiber)
The Hutt Gambit (A.C. Crispin)

July
A Feast for Crows (George R.R. Martin)
Mortal Prey (John Sandford)
Too Much Coffee Man's Guide for the Perplexed (Shannon Wheeler)
Supernatural: Witch's Cannon (Jeff Mariotte)
Supernatural: Bone Key (Keith R.A. DeCandido)
The Alaska Cruise Companion (Joe Upton)

August
Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon (Keith R.A. DeCandido)
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
The Infernal City (An Elder Scrolls Tale) (Greg Keyes)
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (David Quammen)

September
An Image of Death (Libby Fischer Hellman)
The Brass Verdict (Michael Connelly)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkein)

October
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work (Robert Twombly)
Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School (Nancy Frazier)

November
City of Ashes (Cassandra Clare)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson)
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Things That Matter (Edward Mendelson)

December
City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Mark Haddon)
Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper)

Total:  49

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2011

January
Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner)
The Winds of Change (Martha Grimes)
Doubleback (Libby Fischer Hellman)
Night of the Living Trekkies (Kevin Anderson and Sam Stall)

February
Reversible Errors (Scott Turow)
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
A Picture of Guilt (Libby Fischer Hellman)
Heat Wave ("Richard Castle")

March
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
Metropolis (Elizabeth Gaffney)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
A Series of Unfortunate Events 1: The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket)
A Series of Unfortunate Events 2: The Reptile Room (Lemony Snicket)
Chew Vol 1: Taster's Choice (John Layman and Rob Guillory)

April
Grave Secret (Charlaine Harris)
The Guild Vol. 1 (Felicia Day, Jim Rugg and Dan Jackson)
Agent to the Stars (John Scalzi)
The Man with Two Arms (Billy Lombardo)

May
Deja Dead (Kathy Reichs)
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Bill Willingham and Lan Medina)
The Last Dickens (Matthew Pearl)
The Blue Last (Martha Grimes)

June
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
13 Little Blue Envelopes (Maureen Johnson)
The Wilder Life (Wendy McClure)

July
The Remarkable Baobab (Thomas Pakenham)
Busman's Honeymoon (Dorothy Sayers)
The Front Porch Prophet (Raymond L. Atkins)
Anya's Ghost (Vera Broskol)

August
Moxyland (Lauren Beukes)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. R. Rowling)
Set the Night on Fire (Libby Fischer Hellman)
The Last Little Blue Envelope (Maureen Johnson)

September
Guns (Phil Bowie)
The First Rule (Robert Crais)
The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm (Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham)
Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love (Bill Willingham et al.)

October
The Forgotten Man (Robert Crais)
PopCo (Scarlet Thomas)
Scared Stiff (Annelise Ryan)
Rebel Angels (Libba Bray)
Restore My Heart (Cheryl Norman)

November
Lord Valentine's Castle (Robert Silverberg)
The Watchman (Robert Crais)
Chasing Darkness (Robert Crais)
The Bucolic Plague (Josh Kilmer-Purcell)

December
The Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass (Stephen King)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
Night of the Jabberwock (Frederick Brown)

Total: 54

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2012

January