I haven't created these glorious book birds. They just happened to fly by on the internet, thanks to Bronia Sawyer: www.broniasawyer.co.uk/---/4547930967

Hello! I had a ton more info up like the many bookrays/rings I was in but it all was discombobulated from my virus scanner messing up links I had saved in an e-mail. Bookcrosser for life. I try to keep my wishlist up to date, as I love trades and swaps within the US (from my available list). Thank you to everyone supporting my reading habit over the years. :D

If you are interested in any books on my available list in exchange for a couple dollars shipping, PLEASE let me know!

Also, I try to keep my wishlist updated, at least when I acquire books (haven't added everything I'd like to read.)

>>>>>>>Reading Now: The Sentence

>>>>>>>Reading Next : the TBR shortlist:
Search 4.26
Sleepwalk 4
The Parisian - Hammad
Polostan
The Wedding People
The Extinction of Irena Rey
H Is for the Hawk + Man in High Castle + Prophet
Area X reread + Absolution
The Old Curiosity Shop
Go Tell it On the Mountain
Free Fall & The Paper Men - William Golding
The Quick and the Dead
Migrations
Talking Animals + Double Teenage
Toad
Utopia
Fourteen Days
Word for Woman is Wilderness
Villette
Middlemarch
Magic Mountain
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Luminaries
The Nix
Dear Cyborgs
America is not the heart
Washington Black
Wildwood
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Elena Ferrante quartet
Universal Harvester
Heads of the Colored People
Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link
Nights At the Circus - Angela Carter
Titanium Noir
Dreamland
Worst Journey in the World
South Pole Station
Battleborn
Hunters & Collectors
The Tribe of Iodine Wine & The Queen of What Remains
Dream of Perpetual Motion
Sula
Native Son
Nervous Conditions
Havisham + Jack Maggs
The Country of Ice Cream Star
The Last Illusion - Porochista Khakpour
The Bass Rock & After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld
The Sky Is Yours
Blueprints of the Afterlife & The Octopus Rises
Desert Sky Before Us
The Starless Sea
White Teeth
Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey
A Prayer For Travelers
Bewilderness
The Burning World
The Fireman
Doctor Sleep
Earthsea
Americanah - Adichie
Kraken - China Mieville
Never Enough: The Creative Life of Alex Jordan - Tom Kupsh
Flood of Fire - Amitav Ghosh
The Underground Airlines - Ben H. Winters
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
House Of Leaves
S. - J.J. Abrams
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Norwegian Wood & Hardboiled Wonderland & the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Number9Dream & Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Talk To Me, San Miguel, The Women, World's end & Talk Talk - T.C. Boyle
Mother Night, Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
By Blood - Ullman
The Search for Heinrich Schlogel - Baillie
Blood Drenched Beard - Galera
The Leaving of Things - Antani
History of the Rain - Williams
The Wild Birds
Talent
A Short Film About Disappointment
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter - Corthron
The Only Ones
Bad Teeth
The Lost Time Accidents
Salamander - Wharton
A Life in Books - Lehrer
Radiance - Valente
Golden Delicious
Whispers through the megaphone
City of Dreaming Books
Cowboy Feng
I Am Radar
Jamrach's Menagerie
Almanac of the Dead
Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Neverending Story
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
Songbook - Nick Hornby
Zeroville - Steve Erickson
The Gracekeepers - Kirsty Logan
The Ecstatic - Victor LaValle
The Terror - Simmons
Seeds - Horan
Many from Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Paul Beatty, Daniel Quinn, Dan Simmons, William Golding, Jeff VanderMeer, China Mieville, Nick Harkaway, David Foster Wallace, Peter Carey

>>>>>>>>I have read *164/358* of the shortlisted Morning News Tournament of Books competitors and *22/48* of the ToB Camp books. The six most recent: Margo's Got Money Troubles, Someone Like Us, The History of Sound, Colored Television, Headshot, The Book Censor's Library

>>>>>>>1001 Books in my possession that I'm trying to get to sooner (let me know if you're interested in them, and I WILL get to them sooner):
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
The Path to the Spiders' Nests - Italo Calvino
The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
Arabian Nights & Arabian Nights II
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Blind Man With A Pistol - Chester Himes
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
American Rust - Philip Meyer
Pastoralia - George Saunders


>>>>>>Books I have available from the 1001-library (Please request these!)
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Norton Critical edition)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (two mass market paperback copies)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (mass market)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

>>>>>>>>1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I've read *138* of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
2025:
2024: David Copperfield, Vineland, The Bluest Eye (re-read), The Sense of an Ending
2023: Turn of the Screw, The God of Small Things, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Breakfast of Champions
2022: Amateurs, The Ghost Road, Regeneration, Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Animal Farm
2021: Slaughterhouse Five, Solaris, The War of the Worlds, Walden, Shikasta, White Noise
2020: Frankenstein, The House of Mirth, The Plot Against America, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2019: Pippi Longstocking, The Accidental, Elizabeth Costello, Melmoth the Wanderer
2018: The Time Machine, Invisible Cities
2017: 2001, The Invisible Man
2016: Wise Blood, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Agnes Grey, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
From 2015: The Shining, Hound of the Baskervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, A Passage to India, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Reasons to Live, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, House of Seven Gables, American Pastoral

>>>>>>>>UPCOMING BOOKRINGS/RAYS ON THEIR WAY
Hollow City - Ransom Riggs: www.bookcrossing.com/---/14181821
The All-Night Sun - Diane Zinna www.bookcrossing.com/---/16208169/
Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot - Carl-Johan Vallgren www.bookcrossing.com/---/16219629

>>>>>>>>FAVORITE BOOKS BY YEAR

Best Reads of 2024
1. Wellness - Nathan Hill
2. American Mermaid - Julia Langbein
3. Poor Deer - Claire Oshetsky 
4. Barkskins - Annie Proulx
5. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
6. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Debra Magpie Earling
7. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
8. Monstrilio - Gerardo Samano Cordova
9. Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino
10. Ghost Pains - Jessi Jezewska Stevens
11. Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon
12. The Memory Librarian: and Other Stories From Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
13. Chain Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Honorable Mentions:
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
James - Percival Everett
The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt
The Librarianist - Patrick deWitt
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

Best Reads of 2023
1. I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness - Claire Vaye Watkins
2. The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz
3. Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward
4. Long Division (redux) - Kiese Laymon
5. Sooner of Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories - Sarah Pinsker
6. Lost Places: Stories - Sarah Pinsker
7. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
8. Heavy - An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
9. I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking - Leyna Krow
10. Half Gods - Akil Kumarasamy
11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
12. The Road to Wellville - T. Coraghessan Boyle
13. LaRose - Louise Erdrich
14. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
15. I Have Some Questions For You - Rebecca Makkai
16. House of Cotton - Monica Brashears
17. The Electric State - Simon Stalenhag
18. Temporary - Hilary Leichter
Honorable Mentions:
The Sandman 6: Fables & Reflections - Neil Gaiman
Dinosaurs - Lydia Millet
The Book of X - Sarah Rose Etter
The Book of Rain - Thomas Wharton
The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li
Telephone - Percival Everett
Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Best Reads of 2022
1. Books 1-5 (+ Death) of the Sandman - Neil Gaiman
2. The Visitors - Jessi Jezewska Stevens
3. All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
4. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra
5. For Other Ghosts - Donald Edem Quist
6. Hell of a Book - Jason Mott
7. Pym - Mat Johnson
8. Gold Fame Citrus - Claire Vaye Watkins
9. Animal Wife - Lara Ehrlich
10. Fight Night - Miriam Toews
11. Matilda - Roald Dahl
12. Regeneration - Pat Barker
13. The Five Wounds - Kirstin Valdez Quade
14. The Last Karankawas - Kimberly Garza
15. Neruda on the Park - Cleyvis Natera
16. The Prophets - Robert Jones Jr.
17. The Adventurists - Richard Butner
18. Country of Origin - Dalia Azim
19. Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar
20. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong
21. Animal Farm - George Orwell
22. Tooth & Claw: Stories - T.C. Boyle
23. The Confession of Copeland Cane - Keenan Norris
24. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell - Percival Everett
25. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
Honorable Mentions:
All's Well - Mona Awad
Where You Linger - Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Neverworld Wake - Marisha Pessl
Dear Thief - Samantha Harvey
Subdivision - J Robert Lennon
Matrix - Lauren Groff
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Best Reads of 2021
01. Chouette - Claire Oshetsky
02. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
03. Going to Meet the Man: Stories - James Baldwin
04. No One Is Talking About This - Patrica Lockwood
05. Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories - Polly Rosenwaike
06. Idaho - Emily Ruskovich
07. The New Wilderness - Diane Cook
08. White Noise - Don Delillo
09. Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
10. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
11. Stephen Florida - Gabe Habash
12. The Future Library - Peng Shepherd
13. The Animals In That Country - Laura Jean McKay
14. Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
15. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
16. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
17. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
19. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
20. Dear Miss Metropolitan - Carolyn Ferrell
Honorable mentions:
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Living Infinite - Chantel Acevedo
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
The Guild of Saint Cooper - Shya Scanlon
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Ghost Forest - Pik-Shuen Fung
Creatures of Passage - Morowa Yejide
Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
Red Pill - Hari Kunzru

Best Reads of 2020
01. Favorite Monster - Sharma Shields
02. The Littlest Hitler - Ryan Boudinot
03. Luster - Raven Leilani
04. Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn
05. Rusty Brown - Chris Ware
06. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
07. City of Refuge - Tom Piazza
08. A Mercy - Toni Morrison
09. Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson
10. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
11. Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha
12. Jane Slayre -  Sherri Browning Erwin
13. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
14. A Tale For the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
15. Fortune Smiles - Adam Johnson
16. Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots
17. An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine
18. Nothing To See Here - Kevin Wilson
19. Mary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen  - Dexter Palmer
20. FKA USA - Reed King
21. Remainder - Tom McCarthy
22. Valentine - Elizabeth Wetmore
23. The History of Bees - Maja Lunde
24. The Good Lord Bird - James McBride
25. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid

Best Reads of 2019
01.The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
02. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
03. The Fault In Our Stars - John Green
04. Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
05. Call Me Zebra - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
06. Milkman - Anna Burns
07. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
08. A Good Man Is Hard to Find & Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor
09. Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
10. Trouble No Man - Brian Hart
11. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
12. We Cast A Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin
13. The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea
14. Say Say Say - Lila Savage
15. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
16. NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
17. The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Honorable mentions:
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
Census - Jesse Ball
The Remainder - Alia Trabucco Zeran
Open City - Teju Cole
The Terranauts - T.C. Boyle
There There - Tommy Orange

Best Reads of 2018
01. Stories: Volume One - T. Coraghessan Boyle
02. The Overstory - Richard Powers
03. After the Plague: Stories - T. Coraghessan Boyle
04. The Dictionary of Animal Languages - Heidi Sopinka
05. The Animators - Kayla Rae Whitaker
06. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
07. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
08. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
09. The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
10. The Book of M - Peng Shepherd
11. Severance - Ling Ma
12. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
13. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
14. Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong
15. The Warriors - Sol Yurick
16. White Tears - Hari Kunzru
17. The Power - Naomi Alderman
18. The City & The City - China Mieville
19. Women Talking - Miriam Toews
20. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt

Best Reads of 2017
01. Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow - Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney
02. If the River Was Whiskey - T.C. Boyle
03. Without A Hero - T.C. Boyle
04. A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume
05. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
06. Version Control - Dexter Palmer
07. The Bone People - Keri Hulme
08. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
09. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
10. The Twenty Days of Turin - Giorgio de Maria
11. Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
12. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves - Karen Russell
13. The One Eyed Man - Ron Currie
14. Grief is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter
Honorable Mentions:
High Dive - Jonathan Lee
American War - Omar El Akkad
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin

Best Reads of 2016
01. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
02. The Last Days of New Paris - China Mieville
03. Descent of Man - T.C. Boyle
04. Greasy Lake - T.C. Boyle
05. The New & Improved Romie Futch - Julia Elliott
06. Orphans of the Carnival - Carol Birch
07. Oreo - Fran Ross
08. Human Acts - Han Kang
09. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
10. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
11. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
12. The Never-Open Desert Diner - James Anderson
13. The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe
14. Bats of the Republic - Zachary Thomas Dodson (more for the art than story)
15. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
16. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
17. Sweetland - Michael Crummey
18. The Vegetarian - Han Kang

Best reads of 2015
01. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
02. Reasons To Live - Amy Hempel
03. Get In Trouble - Kelly Link
04. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
05. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen
06. Galapagos Regained - James Morrow
07. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
08.The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac - Sharma Shields
09. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
10. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
11. Welcome To Braggsville - T. Geronimo Johnson
12. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. A Passage To India - E. M. Forster
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
16. All the Birds, Singing - Evie Wyld

Best reads of 2014
1. The Sleepwalker's Guide To Dancing - Mira Jacob
2. Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
3. The Plover - Brian Doyle
4. Long Division - Kiese Laymon
5. The Son - Philipp Meyer
6. The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
7. Bright's Passage - Josh Ritter
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
9. Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
10. The Tuner of Silences - Mia Couto
11. The Great Glass Sea - Josh Weil

Best reads of 2013
01. Night Film - Marisha Pessl
02. Parasites Like Us - Adam Johnson
03. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
04. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
05. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
06. The Round House - Louise Erdrich
07. Journey To the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
08. Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami
09. Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion
10. Snow Falling Cedars - David Guterson
11. A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb

Best reads of 2012
01. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
02. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
03. The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
04. Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
05. Arcadia - Lauren Groff
06. That's Not A Feeling - Dan Josefson
07. The Devil in Silver - Victor LaValle
08. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (just the second half really)
09. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow

Best reads of 2011
01. The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
02. A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
03. When the Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle
04. World War Z - Max Brooks
05. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
06. If This Is A Man (Survival in Auschwitz) - Primo Levi
07. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
08. Our Noise - Jeff Gomez
09. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
10. Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie

Best reads of 2010
01. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
02. Neverwhere (Graphic novel) - Mike Carey, Glenn Fabry
03. Far North - Marcel Theroux
04. Becoming Odyssa - Jennifer Pharr Davis
05. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
06. Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
07. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
08. Paradise - Toni Morrison
09. Watchmen - Alan Moore
10. Romancing Miss Bronte - Juliet Gael
11. Corvus - Esther Woolfson
12. Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
13. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky - Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng

Best reads of 2009
01. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
02. 'Ward 9' (a story) - Will Self
03. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
04. Sons of Heaven - Terrence Cheng
05. The Song Is You - Arthur Phillips
06. The Day the Falls Stood Still - Cathy Marie Buchanan
07. Drop City - T.C. Boyle
08. Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
09. Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat
10. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
11. The Trial - Franz Kafka

Best reads of 2008
01. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
02. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
03. The Farming of Bones - Edwidge Danticat
04. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
05. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
06. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
07. Maus + Maus II - Art Spigelman
08. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
09. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
10. Great Expectations -Charles Dickens
11. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
12. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
13. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
14. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald

Best reads of 2007
01. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
02. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
03. The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski
04. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
05. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
06. Caucasia - Danzy Senna
07. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
08. Truck - Katherine Dunn
09. East Is East - T.C. Boyle
10. A Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle
11. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
12. Time & Again - Jack Finney
13. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
15. Parnassus On Wheels - Christopher Morley

Best reads of 2006
01. The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle
02. Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer - Vik Muniz
03. Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
04. A Fistful of Fig Newtons - Jean Shepherd
05. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
06. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
07. Son of A Witch - Gregory Maguire
08. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
09. The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
10. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
12. The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
13. Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
14. Fall On Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
15. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
16. Wind, Sand & Stars - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Best reads of 2005
01. Restless Mind, Quiet Thoughts - Paul & Charles Eppinger
02. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
03. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
04. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
05. Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
06. Bartleby - Herman Melville
07. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
08. Not the End of the World - Kate Atkinson
09. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
10. On Writing - Stephen King

Best reads of 2004
01. The Stand - Stephen King
02. The Beach - Alex Garland
03. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
04. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
05. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
06. We the Living - Ayn Rand
07. Making History - Stephen Fry
08. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
09. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
10. When the Elephants Dance - Tess Uriza Holthe
11. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
12. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Peter Hedges
13. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
15. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
16. Paycheck: Stories - Philip K. Dick
17. City of Light - Lauren Belfer
18. Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi

Best reads of 2003
01-03. Ishmael / Story of B/ My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
04. 1984 - George Orwell
05. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
06. I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
07. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
08. Eating the Cheshire Cat - Helen Ellis
09. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter