Book List 2005
January He, She, and It -- Marge Piercy* February March April May June
Chronicles, Vol. 1 -- Bob Dylan
Little Children -- Tom Perotta
The Mammoth Cheese -- Sheri Holman
Mike Nelson's Death Rat: A Novel -- Michael J. Nelson
The Mermaids Singing -- Val McDermid*
Lily and Joel: A Novel of Life, Love and Audio Tapes -- Arthur Henley*
Ghost Riders -- Sharyn McCrumb
Waiting for My Cats to Die -- Stacy Horn*
Into the Wild -- Jon Krakauer*
A Salty Piece of Land -- Jimmy Buffett
Lady Oracle -- Margaret Atwood*
And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You -- Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Anything for Billy -- Larry McMurtry*
Blood Oath -- David Morrell*
Law of Similars -- Chris Bohjalian*
The Lords of Discipline -- Pat Conroy*
Oryx and Crake -- Margaret Atwood
Class Reunion -- Rona Jaffe* (hey, I'm an equal opportunity reader)
Concert of Ghosts -- Campbell Armstrong
Couch World -- Cathy Yardley
The Blue Hour -- T. Jefferson Parker*
The Water is Wide -- Pat Conroy*
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The Soul of a New Machine -- Tracy Kidder*
The Error of Our Ways -- David Carkeet*
Black Cross -- Greg Iles
We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lionel Shriver*
The Lecturer's Tale -- James Hynes
The House Next Door -- Anne Rivers Siddons*
Greetings from the Garden State -- Leslie Brenner
The Bang Devils -- Patrick Foss
A Place of Hiding -- Elizabeth George
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger* (yesssss...it made me cry....for the thirrrrrrddddd time)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Frog King -- Adam Davies*
Smoke Screen -- Kyle Mills
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Spandau Phoenix -- Greg Iles
Sleeping Beauty -- Philip Margolin
Playing with Fire -- Peter Robinson
Islands -- Anne Rivers Siddons
Brimstone -- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Honeymoon -- James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Mountains Beyond Mountains -- Tracy Kidder
Ordinary People -- Judith Guest
The Piano Teacher -- Elfriede Jelinek
Beach Music -- Pat Conroy*
White Palace -- Glenn Savan*
The Madman's Tale -- John Katzenbach
Intent to Harm -- Stan Washburn
Turtle Moon -- Alice Hoffman
Don't Look Back -- Daphne DuMaurier
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Coal Run --Tawni O'Dell
Liquor -- Poppy Z. Brite*
The Coffin Dancer -- Jeffery Deaver
Doctors -- Erich Segal*
The Mermaid Chair -- Sue Monk Kidd
Blood Memory -- Greg Iles
Tomcat in Love -- Tim O'Brien
The Fear of Flying -- Erica Jong*
The World According to Garp -- John Irving*
The Manhattan Hunt Club -- John Saul*
The Quality of Life Report -- Meaghan Daum
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Therapy -- Jonathan Kellerman
The First 48 -- Tim Green
The Way the Crow Flies -- Anne-Marie MacDonald*
Alamo House -- Sarah Bird*
The Deed -- Keith Blanchard
River Angel -- A. Manette Mansay
The Innocent -- Harlan Coben
Prime -- Poppy Z. Brite
Truth and Beauty -- Ann Patchett
A Child Called It -- Dave Pelzer*
The Drowning Tree -- Carol Goodman
Stranger than Fiction -- Chuck Palahniuk
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain
Hoot -- Carl Hiaason
Cuba -- Emily Barr*
The Confessions of Max Tivoi -- Andrew Sean Greer
Big Stone Gap -- Adriana Trigiani
The Weight of Water -- Anita Shreve*
The Hottest State -- Ethan Hawke*
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The Third Child -- Marge Piercy
The Last Time They Met -- Anita Shreve
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave Eggers*
Perv: A Love Story -- Jerry Stahl
Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery -- Maggie Estep
Sleeping With Cats: A Memoir -- Marge Piercy
Animal Factory -- Edward Bunker
Eating Chinese Food Naked -- Mei Ng
Coming of Age in Mississippi -- Anne Moody
If Loving You is Wrong -- Gregg Olsen (shut up)
The Second Chair -- John Lescroart
Full Dress Grey -- Lucian Truscott IV
Big Cherry Holler -- Adriana Trigiani
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July
Milk Glass Moon -- Adriana Trigiani
The Closers -- Michael Connolly
Shoot the Moon -- Billie Letts
The Millionaires -- Brad Meltzer
Well of Lost Plots -- Jasper Fforde
Sea Glass -- Anita Shreve
Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead -- Christine Wicker
The Probable Future -- Alice Hoffman
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August
Two Souls Indivisible:The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam -- James S. Hirsch
Broken Prey -- John Sanford
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- JK Rowling*
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- JK Rowling
Cross Bones -- Kathy Reichs
Heart Stone -- Luanne Rice
Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal -- Christopher Moore
The Yokoto Officers Club -- Sarah Bird
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September
Fluke or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings -- Christopher Moore
Practical Demonkeeping -- Christopher Moore
Mayday -- Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block
Bloodsucking Fiends -- Christopher Moore
Light Before Day -- Christopher Rice
A Density of Souls -- Chrisopher Rice
Running With Scissors -- Augusten Burroughs
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants -- Ann Brashares
The Dive From Clausen's Pier -- Ann Packer
Deep Blue -- Tom Morrison
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October
Snow Garden -- Christopher Rice
The Tender Bar -- J.R. Moehringer
The Traveler -- John Twelve Hawks
Clay's Way -- Blair Mastbaum
I Am Charlotte Simmons -- Tom Wolfe
The Mommy Club -- Sarah Bird
Eventide -- Kent Haruf
The Lincoln Lawyer -- Michael Connolly
Hawkes Harbor -- S.E. Hinton
The Broker -- John Grisham
The Photograph -- Penelope Lively
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November
Dispatch -- Bentley Little
After -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Tell No One -- Harlan Coben
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe
Sleep No More -- Greg Iles
Quentins -- Maeve Binchy
PopCo -- Scarlett Thomas
Dry -- Augusten Burroughs
Early Graves -- Thomas H. Cook
South of No North -- Charles Bukowski
Bone Parade -- Michael Nykanen*
A Wedding in December -- Anita Shreve
On the Down Low -- J.L. King
Lightening -- Dean Koonz*
Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson
Light on Snow -- Anita Shreve
Vanishing Acts -- Jodi Picoult
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December
Wicked -- Gregory Maguire
Sideways -- Rex Pickett
Prep: A Novel -- Curtis Sittenfeld
A Million Little Pieces -- James Frey
The Falls -- Joyce Carol Oates
A Certain Slant of Light -- Laura Whitcomb
Twisted -- Jonathan Kellerman
The Best American Short Stories 2002
Sweetwater Creek -- Anne Rivers Siddons
Conviction -- Richard North Patterson
Redbird Christmas -- Fannie Flagg
The Know-It-All -- AJ Jacobs
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*Indicates Re-reads
