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Reading List 2004
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Author (with links) |
Title (with book links) |
Notes |
| Almond, Steve |
Candy Freak |
. |
| Andersen, Kurt |
Turn of the Century |
. |
| Andric, Ivo |
The Bridge on the
Drina |
Nobel Prize Author
1961 |
| Atkinson, Kate |
Not the End of the
World |
. |
| Auster, Paul |
Oracle Night |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Bailey,
Blake |
A
Tragic Honesty: The Life & Work of Richard Yates |
National Book Critics Circle
Award Finalist 2004 |
| Baker, Nicholson |
Checkpoint |
. |
| Balzac, Honore de |
Cousin Bette |
. |
| Banville, John |
The Untouchable |
. |
| Barry, Dave |
Boogers
Are My Beat |
. |
| Basbanes, Nicholas
A. |
Among the Gently Mad |
. |
| Berg, Elizabeth |
The Art of Mending |
. |
| Bezmozgis, David |
Natasha |
Guardian First Book Shortlist
2004; Beth Top 2004 List |
| Brite, Poppy Z. |
Exquisite Corpse |
Stoker Award Shortlist 1996 |
| Brown, Larry |
Fay |
. |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
Dry |
. |
| Butler, Octavia |
Parable of the Sower |
. |
| Byatt, A. S. |
Little
Black Book of Stories |
. |
| Bynum, Sarah
Shun-Lien |
Madeleine
is Sleeping |
National Book Award Shortlist 2004;
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Caldwell, Ian |
The Rule of Four |
. |
| Carroll, Jonathan |
The
Land of Laughs |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Carter, Jimmy |
The Hornet's Nest |
. |
| Coben, Harlan |
Just One Look |
. |
| Coe, Jonathan |
The Winshaw
Legacy |
. |
| Cortazar,
Julio |
Hopscotch |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Cunningham, Michael |
At Home at the End
of the World |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Davis, Kathryn |
Hell |
. |
| Dunning, John |
Booked To Die |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Dybek, Stuart |
Streets
in Their Own Ink |
. |
| Ekuni, Kaori |
Twinkle Twinkle |
. |
| Ellroy, James |
My
Dark Places |
. |
| Ellroy, James |
Destination:
Morgue! |
. |
| Finder, Joseph |
Paranoia |
. |
| Fisher, Carrie |
The Best Awful |
. |
| Ford, Michael Thomas |
The
Little Book of Neuroses |
. |
Fox,
Paula |
Desperate Characters |
. |
| Gaiman,
Neil |
The
Sandman: Endless Nights |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Garland, Alex |
The Coma |
. |
| Glass,
Julia |
Three
Junes |
National
Book Award 2003 |
| Goodwin,
Stephen |
Breaking
Her Fall |
. |
| Gray, Alasdair |
1982, Janine |
. |
| Gray, Alasdair |
The Ends of Our
Tethers |
. |
| Grealy, Lucy |
Autobiography of a Face |
. |
| Greene, Graham |
A Burnt-Out Case |
. |
| Greer, Andrew Sean |
The Confessions of
Max Tivoli |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Hanff, Helene |
Q's Legacy |
. |
| Haruf, Kent |
Eventide |
. |
| Hegland, Jean |
Windfalls |
. |
| Hoffman,
Alice |
The
Probable Future |
. |
| Hoffman, Jilliane |
Retribution |
. |
| Hynes, James |
Kings of Infinite
Space |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Khadra, Yasmina |
The Swallows of
Kabul |
. |
| Korda, Michael |
Making
the List |
. |
| Kowalski, William |
The Adventures of
Flash Jackson |
. |
| Krabbe, Tim |
The Cave |
. |
| Krakauer, Jonathan |
Under
the Banner of Heaven |
. |
| Lahiri,
Jhumpa |
The
Namesake |
. |
| Land, Brad |
Goat: A Memoir |
. |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
As She Climbed
Across the Table |
. |
| Maguire,
Gregory |
Mirror
Mirror |
. |
| Markham,
Beryl |
West
with the Night |
. |
| Maugham, W. Somerset |
The Razor's Edge |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| McCullers, Carson |
The
Heart is A Lonely Hunter |
. |
| McEwan,
Ian |
The
Child in Time |
Whitbread
Novel Award 1987 |
| Moore, Christopher |
The
Stupidest Angel |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Morrison,
Toni |
Love |
Nobel
Prize Author 1993 |
| Murakami, Ryu |
In the Miso Soup |
. |
| Murray, Sabina |
A
Carnivore's Inquiry |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Myerson,
Julie |
Something
Might Happen |
. |
| Naipaul, V.S. |
Half A Life |
Nobel Prize Author
2001 |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
I am no one you know |
. |
| O'Brien, Tim |
The Things They
Carried |
. |
| O'Dell, Tawni |
Coal Run |
. |
| Palahniuk, Chuck |
Fight Club |
. |
| Palahniuk, Chuck |
Stranger Than
Fiction |
. |
| Patchett, Ann |
Truth & Beauty |
. |
| Paton, Alan |
Cry, The Beloved
Country |
. |
| Perrotta, Tom |
Little Children |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Pelecanos, George |
Hell To Pay |
Anthony Award Shortlist 2003 |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister's Keeper |
. |
| Quindlen, Anna |
A Short Guide to a
Happy Life |
. |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Loud and Clear |
. |
| Reid, Arthur |
The Story Teller |
. |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
Gilead |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Satrapi, Marjane |
Persepolis |
. |
| Satrapi, Marjane |
Persepolis
2: The Story of a Return |
. |
| Sedaris, David |
Dress Your Family... |
. |
| Shepard, Jim |
Project X |
. |
| Shreve, Anita |
Light
On Snow |
. |
| Smart, Elizabeth |
By Grand Central
Station I Sat Down and Wept |
. |
| Smith, Alexander
McCall |
Tears of the Giraffe |
. |
| Sosnowski, David |
Vamped |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Spiegelman, Art |
In
The Shadow Of No Towers |
. |
| Stendhal |
The Red and the
Black |
. |
| Stewart,
George R. |
Earth
Abides |
. |
| Tan, Amy |
The
Opposite of Fate |
. |
| Tartt,
Donna |
The
Little Friend |
Orange
Prize Shortlist 2003 |
| Theroux, Paul |
Sir Vidia's Shadow |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Tropper, Jonathan |
The Book of Joe |
Beth Top 2004 List |
| Truss, Lynne |
Eats, Shoots and
Leaves |
. |
| Tyler, Anne |
The
Amateur Marriage |
. |
| Warren, Richard |
The Purpose Driven
Life |
. |
| Wharton, Edith |
The Custom of the
Country |
. |
| Willett, Jincy |
Jenny & the Jaws
of Life |
. |
| Winston, Lolly |
Good Grief |
. |
| Winton, Tim |
Dirt Music |
. |
| Wolfe, Thomas |
You
Can't Go Home Again |
. |
| Yates, Richard |
A Good School |
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Have a comment on a book listed here or think of a book that you'd like to suggest for my
2005 reading list? Please
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updated 28 March 2005
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