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the scattershot booklist, from january 2003

Esmé Raji Codell: Sahara Special
Pip Granger: Not All Tarts are Apple
Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh: Thrones, Dominations
Pamela Dean: The Dubious Hills
Chaim Potok: The Chosen (for the second or third time)
Hillary Frank: Better Than Running at Night
Delia Marshall Turner: Nameless Magery
Delia Marshall Turner: Of Swords and Spells
Marian Keyes: Last Chance Saloon (AKA brain candy)
Poppy Z. Brite: The Value of X
Matt Ruff: Fool on the Hill
Elizabeth Moon: The Speed of Dark
Hilary Liftin: Candy and Me: A Love Story (this woman and I have diametrically opposed candy preferences)
Cathi Hanauer, editor: The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (on balance, too many upper-middle-class magazine writers represented)
Nalo Hopkinson, editor: Mojo: Conjure Stories
Meg Wolitzer: The Wife: A Novel
Lloyd Alexander: Janine is French
Laurell K. Hamilton: Cerulean Sins
David Brin: Kiln People
P.F. Kluge: Eddie and the Cruisers (yes, the basis of the movie)
Posy Simmonds: Gemma Bovery
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Time Travelers, Ghosts, and Other Visitors
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (This was published as a children's book in the UK and as an adult book in the US, proving that American adults are as smart as British children.)
Robin McKinley: Sunshine
Ellen Peck's How to Get a Teen-age Boy and What to do with Him When You Get Him (yikes!)
Jerry Siegel, et. al.: Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
Ashley Kahn: Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Karen Joy Fowler: Black Glass: Short Fictions
Diane Duane: Stealing the Elf-King's Roses
Bettina Ballard: In My Fashion
Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris: Club Dead (These books form the Southern Vampire series thus far)
Erica Abeel: Women Like Us (A knockoff of The Group set at SLC, containing a character named, bizarrely enough, "Sally November")
Francesca Lia Block: Wasteland (not out until the fall)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Changing Planes: Stories (oh, wonderful.)
Geoff Ryman: 253
Diana Wynne Jones: The Time of the Ghost
Michael Marshall Smith: What You Make It: A Book of Short Stories
Marijane Meaker: Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman: The Fall of the Kings
Diana Vreeland: D.V.
Lisa Jewell: One-Hit Wonder
Penelope Lively: The Photograph
Garth Nix: Mister Monday (Book One in the "Keys to the Kingdom" series)
Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan: Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York
Joanna Trollope: A Village Affair
Anne Bernays: Growing Up Rich
Dorothy Sayers: Whose Body?
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonsong
Lorraine B. Diehl and Marianne Hardart: The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece
Dorothy Sayers: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Jennifer Crusie: Fast Women
Dorothy Sayers: Clouds of Witness
Dorothy Sayers: The Five Red Herrings
Neil Gaiman and various artists: The Sandman: Endless Nights
Georgette Heyer: Devil's Cub
Jennifer Crusie: Tell Me Lies
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy
Diana Wynne Jones: Wild Robert
Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines
Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford
Dorothy Sayers: Lord Peter Views the Body
Philip Reeve: Predator's Gold
Diana Wynne Jones: Power of Three
Dorothy Sayers and Robert Eustace: The Documents in the Case
Dorothy Sayers: The Nine Tailors
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: A Red Heart of Memories (for the third time, at least)
Judy Oppenheimer: Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson (a re-read)

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