a prior booklist.

the scattershot booklist, from january 2000 or so

Jane Alpert: Growing Up Underground
Lewis Shiner: Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story
Ellen Forney: Monkey Food
Chelsea Cain, ed.: Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture
Lisa Michaels: Split: A Counterculture Childhood
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Make a Wish for Me (All of the Beany Malone books have been reissued by Image Cascade -- hooray!)
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Welcome, Stranger
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Pick a New Dream
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Tarry Awhile
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fall On Your Knees (recommended by my Canadian friend Esme)
Fodor's Canada 2000 (speaks for itself. Yay Canada! Yay Sloan!)
Pamela Dean: Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Come Back, Wherever You Are
Bruce Brooks: The Moves Make the Man
Lynne Reid Banks: The L-Shaped Room (There are two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely. I had no idea! Also a movie.)
David Laskin: Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
Naomi Klein: No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Joan Wyndham: Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary
Stacey D'Erasmo: Tea
Paul Buttenweiser: Their Pride and Joy
Jill Robinson: Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and found
Deirdre McCloskey: Crossing: A Memoir
Juan Felipe Herrera: CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse
Octavia E. Butler: Bloodchild and Other Stories
Sharon Lebewohl and Rena Bulkin: The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from Abe Lebewohl's Legendary New York Kitchen (just like Mom used to make -- really!)
Ellen Wittlinger: What's In a Name
Sonya Sones: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Camden Joy: Boy Island
Marcelle Clements: Rock Me
M.E. Kerr: What Became of Her
Brian Sweet: Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years
Barbara Hambly: Dragonsbane
Kate Bornstein: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Elissa Schappell: Use Me (caveat: it features an extremely dislikable protagonist whom I wanted to slap, hard)
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique -- I re-read this every year or so
Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In the Culinary Underbelly (The more I think of it, the more he reminds me of one of my ex-housemates.)
Beth Gutcheon: The New Girls, which is a version of The Group set at Miss Porter's School
Betty Friedan: "It Changed My Life": Writings On the Women's Movement
Terri Windling, ed.: The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
Charles de Lint: Forests of the Heart
Sharyn McCrumb: Bimbos of the Death Sun
Patti Perret: The Faces of Fantasy
Alison Bechdel: Post-Dykes to Watch Out For
Joan Silber: In My Other Life
Amy Bloom: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
Hettie Jones: Drive (I also suggest her memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones)
Skeeter Davis: Bus Fare to Kentucky: The Autobiography of Skeeter Davis
Francesca Lia Block: Nymph (this is porn, folks!)
Amy Bloom: Come To Me: Stories (for the fourth time)
Laurie Colwin: Shine On, Bright & Dangerous Object (for the eighth time)
Nance Van Winckel: Curtain Creek Farm: Stories
Ira Skutch: The Days of Live: Television's Golden Age as Seen by 21 Directors Guild of America Members
York Membery: Ralph Fiennes: The Unauthorized Biography
Leslie What: The Sweet and Sour Tongue
Lewis Shiner: Glimpses
Frank Stockton/Maurice Sendak: The Griffin and the Minor Canon
Michael Fried: Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (which I found on the street, appropriately enough)
Geraldine McCaughrean: The Stones Are Hatching
Margaret K. Wetterer: Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express (thanks to Jack)
Peter S. Beagle: Tamsin
Frank Stockton/Maurice Sendak: The Bee-Man of Orn
Kara Dalkey: Crystal Sage
Jane Mendelsohn: Innocence
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Past the Size of Dreaming
Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn
Jerry Spinelli: Knots in My Yo-Yo String
Kara Dalkey: Steel Rose
Kim Addonizio: Tell Me
Rita Murphy: Night Flying
Brock Cole: Celine
Leslie Gourse: Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
Jerry Spinelli: Stargirl
Sharon Creech: The Wanderer
Bett Williams: Girl Walking Backwards
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Megan Whalen Turner: The Queen of Attolia
Joan Larkin: Cold River
Susan Thornton: On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner
Melissa Bank: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Tamora Pierce: Page
Peg Bracken: The I Hate to Housekeep Book
Erika Tamar: High Cheekbones
Jeff Giles: Back in the Blue House
Kyoko Mori: Stone Field, True Arrow
Tamora Pierce: Squire
Adrienne Salinger: My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

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