Books I've Read Below is a list of books (linked to amazon.com for your purchasing pleasure) I have read recently (since summer 2001) but do not own (i.e. borrowed from friends or the library). A ** means I recommend this book highly. Most of the links are to the exact edition I have. Some are out of print altogether. This list is somewhat incomplete.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) **
- Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm (?)
- Story of O by Pauline Reage **
- A Room with a View by Edward Morgan Forster (1908)
- Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
- Twenty-one Stories by Graham Greene (1929-1954)
- Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham (196?)
- The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennet (1976?)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
- Watership Down by Richard Adams ()
- Roald Dahl
- Tales of the Unexpected (1990?)
- My Uncle Oswald (1990?)
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (1992)
- Short Cuts by Raymond Carver (1993)
- David J. Pelzer
- A Child Called "It" (1995)
- The Lost Boy (1997)
- David Sedaris
- Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (1995)
- Holidays on Ice (1998)
- Naked (1998)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (2001)
- The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (1997)
- Jane Green
- Jemima J. (1997)
- Mr. Maybe (2002)
- Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley (1999)
- The Splintered Day by V.K. Mina (1999)
- Summer Sisters by Judy Blume (1999)
- The Trials of Tiffany Trott by Isabelle Wolff (1999)
- Helen Fielding
- Bridget Jones' Diary (1999) **
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2001)
- The Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut (2000)
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank (2000)
- Big Trouble by Dave Barry (2001)
- The Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel (2001)
- A Heartbreaking Wotk of Staggering Genius by David Eggers (2001)
- High Maintenance by Jennifer Belle (2001)
- Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen (2001)
- Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski (2001)
- Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young (2001)
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2001)
- Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell (2001)
- Sophie Kinsella
- Confessions of a Shopaholic (2001) **
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (2002) **
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot (2003) **
- Anna Maxted
- Getting Over It (2001) **
- Running in Heels (2002) **
- Behaving like Adults (2003) **
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (2002)
- Everything's Eventual by Stephen King (2002)
- How to be Good by Nick Hornsby (2002)
- The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (2002) **
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)
- Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler (2002)
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet (2002)
- Bringing down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Student who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich (2002)
- Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Horowitz (2002)
- Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck (2002)
- By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz (2002)
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (2002)
- Slightly Single by Wendy Markham (2002)
- It's my F---ing Birthday by Merril Markoe (2002)
- Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes ( 2002)
- For Better, For Worse by Carole Matthews (2002)
- The Boy Next Door by Meggin Cabot (2002)
- Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros (2002)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling (2003)
- On my "To Read" list:
- Books I own/am borrowing:
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James (1888)
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
- Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (1938)
- Idoru by William Gibson (1996)
- Books on my New York Public Library Hold List:
- See Jane Date by Melissa Senate (2001)
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)
- Bookends by Jane Green (2002)
- Leap of Faith by Queen Noor (2003)
- In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner (2003)
- The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer (2003)
- Waiting to be added to the Hold List
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1999)
- Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes (2001)
- Watermelon by Marian Keyes (2002)
- Making Minty Malone by Isabelle Wolff (2000)
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (2002)
- I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson (2002)
- The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer (2002)
- Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles by Adele Lang (2002)
- Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged by John Keahey (2002)
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (2002)
- Apocalipstick by Sue Margolis (2003)
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (2003)
- Maneater by Gigi Levangie Grazer (2003)
- The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (2003)
- Babyville by Jane Greene (2003)
- Sushi for Beginners : A Novel by Marian Keyes (2003)
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