Books Read in 2011:
1) The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling by Simon Armitage (Jan 4) (review)
2) Hating Olivia by Mark SaFranko (Jan 20) (review)
3) Snow White by Donald Barthelme (Jan 26) (review)
4) The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard (Jan 28) (review)
5) Solipsist by Henry Rollins (Feb 1) (review)
6) Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (Feb 2) (review)
7) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Feb 4) (review)
8) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger (Feb 6) (review)
9) J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski (Feb 15) (review)
10) French Leave by Anna Gavalda (Feb 16) (review)
11) In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa (Feb 19) (review)
12) The Scarlet Letters by Louis Auchincloss (Feb 26) (review)
13) Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book (Feb 27) (review)
14) Reading Women by Stephanie Staal (Mar 1) (review)
15) Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane (Mar 8)
16) Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti (Mar 10) (review)
17) Other People We Married by Emma Straub (Mar 31) (review)
18) Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (Mar 31) (review)
19) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Apr 17) (review)
20) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (Apr 17) (review)
21) Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (Apr 17) (review)
22) Seducing the Demon by Erica Jong (Apr 19) (review)
23) No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon (Apr 20)
24) Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (Apr 23) (review)
25) The Luxe by Anna Godberson (Apr 24) (review)
26) The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky (May 1) (review)
27) South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (May 2) (review)
28) Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (May 7) (review)
29) True Grit by Charles Portis (May 8) (review)
30) Life Sentences by Laura Lippman (May 9) (review)
31) The Raising by Laura Kasischke (May 28) (review)
32) The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman (May 30) (review)
33) The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt (Jun 3) (review)
34) Hooked by John Franc (Jun 4)
35) The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes (Jun 4) (review)
36) Sugar in My Bowl ed. by Erica Jong (Jun 15) (review)
37) Nom de Plume by Carmela Ciuraru (Jun 22) (review)
38) Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Shaffer (Jun 24)
39) Popular by Alissa Grosso (Jun 25) (review)
40) Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (Jun 30)
41) The End of Everything by Megan Abbot (Jul 2) (review)
42) Still Life With Brass Pole by Craig Machen (Jul 4) (review)
43) The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Jul 13) (review)
44) Sex at Dawn (Jul 19) (review)
45) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Jul 24) (thoughts)
46) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Jul 25) (thoughts)
47) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Jul 26) (thoughts)
48) BITCHfest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism ed. by Lisa Jervis and Andy Zeisler (Jul 30)
49) Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn Kyle (Jul 31) (review)
50) Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (Aug 1)
51) Story of My Life by Jay McInerney (Aug 3)
52) A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (Aug 6) (review)
53) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Aug 6) (review)
54) The Truth Teller’s Lie by Sophie Hannah (Aug 7)
55) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Aug 13) (thoughts)
56) Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy (Aug 16)
57) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Aug 19) (thoughts)
58) Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich (Aug 19) (review)
59) Private Parts of Girls by Sophie Mayer (Aug 22)
60) Everything Happens Today by Jesse Browner (Aug 25)
61) In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard (Sept 5) (review)
62) King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (Sept 25)
63) The Cradle in the Grave by Sophie Hannah (Sept/Oct)
64) Whipping Girl by Julia Serano (Oct 19)
65) Women of Color and Feminism by Maythee Rojas (Oct 21)
66) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Oct 24) (review)
67) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Oct 26)
68) Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (Oct 29)
69) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Nov 4) (review)
Books Read in 2010
1. Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg (Feb 3)
2. The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Feb 21)
3. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt (Feb 26)
4. The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt (Mar 3)
5. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (Mar 6)
6. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (Mar 12)
7. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Mar 15)
8. The Water’s Lovely by Ruth Rendell (Mar 16)
9. Coraline by Neil Gaiman {JUV} (Mar 17)
10. The Underachiever’s Diary by Benjamin Anastas (Mar 20)
11. The Romantic Movement by Alain de Botton (Mar 23)
12. Cracks by Sheila Kohler (Apr 7)
13. Girls in Peril by Karen Lee Bowen (Apr 13)
14. Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman {TEEN} (Apr 20)
15. Disappear by Talitha Stevenson (Apr 23)
16. Darkness Visible by William Styron (Apr 30)
17. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (May 5)
18. Sanctuary by Edith Wharton (May 7)
19. The Stranger by Albert Camus (May 8)
20. Daisy Miller by Henry James (May 9)
21. Animal Farm by George Orwell (May 11)
22. 1984 by George Orwell (May 13)
23. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (May 21)
24. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (May 24)
25. Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (May 24)
26. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (May 29)
27. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Jun 1)
28. Liar by Justine Larbalestier {TEEN} (Jun 2)
29. There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Jun 6)
30. Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block {TEEN} (Jun 8)
31. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Jun 13)
32. Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose (Jun 23)
33. 03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat (July 2)
34. Anthropology of An American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann (July 9)
35. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser (July 9)
36. Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood (July 19)
37. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (July 21)
38. Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss (July 24)
39. The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti (July 24)
40. Little Face by Sophie Hannah (Aug 19)
41. The Likeness by Tana French (Aug 24)
42. Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello (Aug 26)
43. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton (Aug 27)
44. Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer (Aug 31)
45. In the Woods by Tana French (Sept 3)
46. Fall by Colin McAdam (Sept 6)
47. Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky (Sept 14)
48. Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James (Sept 19)
49. All is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang (Oct 4)
50. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (Oct 13)
51. Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick (Nov 11)
52. Blue Angel by Francine Prose (Nov 21)
53. Experience by Martin Amis (Dec 31)
Books Read in 2009
1. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Jan 16)
2. Passing by Nella Larsen (Jan 18)
3. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (Jan 20)
4. Disquiet by Julia Leigh (Jan 21)
5. I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman (Jan 24)
6. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (Jan 28)
7. Earthbound by Richard Matheson (Jan 29)
8. The Life Room by Jill Bialosky (Feb 2)
9. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (Feb 10)
10. Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (Feb 22)
11. Love Falls by Esther Freud (Mar 2)
12. Girl Meets Boy By Ali Smith (Mar 18)
13. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (Mar 22)
14. Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates (Mar 23)
15. Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst(Apr 8)
16. I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates (Apr 16)
17. Exposure by Talitha Stevenson (Apr 21)
18. Going Down by Jennifer Belle (Apr 28)
19. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (Apr 29)
20. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (May 6)
21. The Collector by John Fowles (May 20)
22. The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates (Jun 2)
23. Brutal Language of Love by Alicia Erian (Jun 16)
24. Slam by Nick Hornby (Jul 6)
25. The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols (Jul 17)
26. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Jul 18)
27. Real World by Natsuo Kirino (Jul 19)
28. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (Jul 20)
29. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau (Aug 12)
30. Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon (Aug 14)
31. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (Aug 17)
32. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Aug 18)
33. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Aug 26)
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Sept 18)
35. Manic by Terri Cheney (Sept 23)
36. The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Sept 24)
37. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Nov 14)
38. The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd (Nov 25)
39. Family Album by Penelope Lively (Nov 26)
40. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (Dec 13)
41. Fundamentals of Play by Caitlin Macy (Dec 19)
Books Read in 2008
1. Halfway House by Katharine Noel
2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
3. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
4. Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
5. Lust, and Other Stories by Susan Minot
6. Rapture by Susan Minot
7. Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
8. In Her Absence by Antonio Muñoz Molina
9. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
10. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
11. The Wrecking Ball by Christiana Spens
12. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
13. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
14. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
Books Read in 2007
1. Closer by Patrick Marber
2. Little Children by Tom Perrota
3. Come Closer by Sara Gran
4. Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
5. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
6. The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
7. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
Books Read in 2006
1. As Simple As Snow by Gregory Calloway
2. Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
4. The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
5. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
6. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
10. The Boys and the Bees by Joe Babcock
11. The Kiss by Kathyrn Harrison
12. Envy by Kathryn Harrison
13. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
14. Asa, As I Knew Him by Susanna Kaysen
15. Josie and Jack by Kelly Braffet
16. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
17. Fascination by William Boyd
18. Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex
19. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
20. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
21. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
22. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
23. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
24. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
25. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
26. Life Penalty by Joy Fielding
27. Puppet by Joy Fielding
28. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
29. Chloe Does Yale by Natalie Crinsky
30. Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis
31. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
32. The Edge of Pleasure by Philippa Stockley
33. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
34. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
35. Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant
36. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
37. An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson
38. The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet
39. Til Death Do Us Part by Kate White
40. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
41. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
42. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
43. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
44. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. Shut the Door by Amanda Marquit
46. The Four Temperaments by Yona Zeldis McDonough
47. Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon
48. A Body to Die For by Kate White
Books Read in 2005*
1. The Bitch Posse by Martha O’Connor
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
5. Envy by Sandra Brown
6. The Photograph by Penelope Lively
7. White Horses by Alice Hoffman
8. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
*Definitely more…but I didn’t religiously keep track of my books until late 2006
