a prior booklist.

the scattershot booklist, from january 2005

Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle
Ed Sikov: Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers
Liz Berry: Easy Freedom
Meg Wolitzer: The Position: A Novel
Pip Granger: Trouble in Paradise
Alexander McCall Smith: The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alice Mattison: Field of Stars
Joan Silber: Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Liz Berry: Easy Connections
Pip Granger: Not All Tarts are Apple (a reread)
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Making Book (a reread)
Patricia Bosworth: Diane Arbus: A Biography
Michelle Herman: The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood
Elizabeth Janeway: Daisy Kenyon
Alexander McCall Smith: The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer: Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History
Louisa May Alcott: Jack and Jill (obviously a re-read)
Pip Granger: No Peace for the Wicked
How to Punch People in the Head and Run Away: A Primer
Sharon Owens: The Tea House on Mulberry Street
Sandy Hotchkiss: Why is it Always About YOU?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
Philippa Pearce: The Little Gentleman
Graham Roumieu: In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot (this is one of the funniest books I've ever read)
Louisa May Alcott: Eight Cousins: Or the Aunt Hill (re-read)
Louisa May Alcott: Rose in Bloom (re-read)
Poppy Z. Brite: Prime
Diane Middlebrook: Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage
Stacy Horn: The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad
Bill Bryson: In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
Mandy Sayer: 15 Kinds of Desire
Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jessica Mitford: Hons and Rebels
Hilary McKay: Indigo's Star
Hilary McKay: Permanent Rose
Francine du Plessix Gray: Them: A Memoir of Parents
Francesca Lia Block: Necklace of Kisses
Anne McCaffrey and John Gregory Betancourt: Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey
Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved
Robin Morgan: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
Jonathan Cott: On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering
Gwyneth Jones: Life
Carla Speed McNeil: Talisman (thank you, Jenni)
Megan Whalen Turner: The King of Attolia
Susan Palwick: Flying In Place
Ann Rule: Green River, Running Red (an oddly relaxing read)
Tamora Pierce and Josepha Sherman, editors: Young Warriors: Stories of Strength
Tamora Pierce: The Will of the Empress
Anne Chisholm: Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life
Carrie Vaughn: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Jodi Picoult: Vanishing Acts
Jane Lindskold: Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
Jimmy McDonough: Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Scott Young: The Flood
Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me
Levon Helm and Stephen Davis: This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band
Elizabeth Bear: Hammered
Joseph McCabe: Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators
Wendy Christensen: Outwitting Cats: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Persuading the Felines in Your Life That What You Want Is Also What They Want
Ann Rule: Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases
Garth Nix: Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
Nina Bawden: Dear Austen (Austen Kark was a remarkable man. An enormous loss.)
Patricia Miles: The Gods In Winter
Sgt. Randy Sutton: True Blue: Police Stories By Those Who Have Lived Them
Delphine Hirsh: The Girl's Guide to Surviving a Breakup (the theme book of 2005, alas)

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