a prior booklist.

the scattershot booklist, from january 2004

Pip Granger: The Widow Ginger
Karen Joy Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club
Alison Bechdel: Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For
Lesléa Newman: The Best Short Stories of Lesléa Newman
William H. Pritchard: Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life
Hubert H. McAlexander: Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life
Jodi Picoult: My Sister's Keeper
Mary von Schrader Jarrell: Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic, and Teacher Randall Jarrell
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin (for the sixth time)
Randy Kennedy: Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York
Martin Gottfried: All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse
Laurell K. Hamilton: Seduced by Moonlight
Barry Silesky: John Gardner: Literary Outlaw
Madeleine E. Robins: Petty Treason: A Sarah Tolerance Mystery (not yet published ... )
Mary Monica Pulver: Murder at the War: A Modern-Day Mystery with a Medieval Setting
Dorothy Sayers: Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy Sayers: Unnatural Death
Susan Stinson: Venus of Chalk
Margo Perin, editor: How I Learned to Cook: And Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (this made me feel as if I had had the best and most normal and most supportive mom ever)
Otis Williams: Temptations
Caroline Stevermer: A Scholar of Magics
Isabelle Holland: Dinah and the Green Fat Kingdom
Marge Piercy: Three Women
Art, Aaron, Charles, and Cyril Neville (with David Ritz): The Brothers: An Autobiography
Diana Wynne Jones: Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories (Note: This is a selection of her stories, rather than all of her stories collected in one volume)
David Ritz: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
Ann Patchett: Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Jack Ashford: Motown: The View from the Bottom
Joyce Johnson: Missing Men: A Memoir
Daniel Jones, ed.: The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom (after reading this book, I've realized that I must secretly be male)
Charlaine Harris: Dead to the World
Poppy Z. Brite: Liquor
Jodi Picoult: Picture Perfect
Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
Steve Almond: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Some random Harry Potter books, again
Jennifer Finney Boylan: She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Dorothy Sayers: Busman's Honeymoon
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Frank Huyler: The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
Alison Rose: Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl
Joel Kostman: Keys to the City: Tales of a New York Locksmith
Harvey Swados: Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
Laura Anne Gilman: Staying Dead
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D: I'm Okay ... You're a Brat!
Joseph H. Mazo: Dance Is a Contact Sport (about the New York City Ballet's 1973 season)
Vera Caspary: Laura (basis of my favorite film)
Paul Taylor: Private Domain: An Autobiography
Otto Friedrich: Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations
Allegra Kent: Once a Dancer ...: An Autobiography (Kent was married to photographer Bert Stern)
David Hajdu: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña
Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers: A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Jean Nathan: The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Perri Klass: Love and Modern Medicine: Stories
Diana Wynne Jones: Conrad's Fate
Peter Weston: With Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom
Emily Fox Gordon: Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy (Note to self: please stop reading these books)
Rosemary Edghill, ed.: Murder by Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural
Joan Reardon: Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe
J.B.S. Haldane: My Friend Mr Leakey (this is one of Neil Gaiman's talisman books)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Brimstone
Alexander McCall Smith: Morality for Beautiful Girls
John Grandits: Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Lisa Jewell: Ralph's Party
Rachel Caine: Ill Wind (Weather Warden, Book One)
Chris Wooding: The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days
Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Fantasy Life (not to be confused with this version of a fantasy life)
Anonymous and Imogen Edwards-Jones: Hotel Babylon: Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Nicey and Wifey's Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
Walter Lord: A Night to Remember
Alice Hoffman: The River King
Gwen Berryman: The Life and Death of Doris Archer

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