I LOVE books!! Finding BX was sooo great, since it's connected me with other booklovers. Sadly, my finances only permit me to trade books to those within the US.

I am currently reading: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Animal Behavior

Books I've read this year:
1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
2. The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
3. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
4. The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez
6. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
7. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
8. The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande
9. Flash House by Aimme Liu
10. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
11. The Link between ADD and Addiction: Getting the Help You Deserve by Wendy Richardson
12. Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
13. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
14. Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at Home and in the Workplace by Sari Solden
15. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
16. Crescent by Diana Abu-Jabar
17. Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
18. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
19. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
20. Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
21. Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
22. The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila
23. Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jabar
24. The Republic by Plato
25. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (bookring)
26. Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn (bookring)
27. The Morning After by Lisa Jackson (bookring)
28. The Pact by Jodi Picoult (bookring)
29. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
30. Girls by Frederick Busch
31. Discourse on Method by Renee Descartes
32. Kindred by Octavia Butler (bookring)
33. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
34. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
35. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda
36. The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
37. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
38. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
39. Prey by Michael Crichton
40. The Slaves of New York
41. Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
42. New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
43. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
44. The.PowerBook

Rings/Rays I'm participating in:

The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood/Heir to the Shadows/Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop, #1185104
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, #1429331
The Body Artist by Don Delillo, #1410497
Swahili for the Broken-Hearted by Peter Moore, #1390870
Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson, #1403055
The Alienist by Caleb Carr, #1286726
Sorcery and Cecilia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Steverman and Patricia C. Wrede, #1517952
Was by Geoff Ryman, #1526041
Loving Che by Ana Menendez, #1404594
Pastoralia: Stories by George Saunders, #1534744
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, #1500995
The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch, #1200440
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, #1197245
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, #1537136
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan, #1544580
The Wave by Todd Strasser, #1568199
The Girl who Played Go by Shan Sa, #1520545
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult, #1568529
Beauty by Robin McKinley, #1601676
Rain by Kirsty Gunn, #1637266
Redemption Series by Karen Kingsbury, starting with #1653473
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward, #1620407
Peplay by Ken Grimwood, #1683316
The Eight by Katherine Neville, #1241865
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman, #1728319
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurt, #1735240

WISH LIST:
Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
The White Mercedes by Philip Pullman
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman