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This is a list of books
I've read since September 2002. Most recent is first. I've given each
a grade on the A to F scale.
If you purchase any of these through my Amazon Affiliate links, I'll get a small percentage!
| Finished on: | Title | Author | Grade |
| 09/14/03 | Bringing Down the House | Ben Mezrich | A- |
| 09/10/03 | Cloud Mountain | Aimee E. Liu | B- |
| 09/06/03 | Travels | Michael Crichton | B- |
| 08/29/03 | The Demon in the Freezer | Richard Preston | A- |
| 08/26/03 | Moo | Jane Smiley | A- |
| 08/23/03 | Hell Hath No Fury | Anna Holmes | B- |
| 08/18/03 | Prey | Michael Crichton | B+ |
| 08/16/03 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | A |
| 08/10/03 | I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb | B+ |
| 08/07/03 | The Veil of Illusion | Rebecca Ryman | B+ |
| 08/06/03 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | A- |
| 07/24/03 | The Far Pavilions | M.M. Kaye | A |
| 07/24/03 | Gig | Edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin Streeter | B+ |
| 07/22/03 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | A |
| 07/20/03 | The Boy He Left Behind | Mark Matousek | A |
| 07/19/03 | Operating Instructions | Anne Lamott | B+ |
| 07/18/03 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | B+ |
| 07/13/03 | The Ground Beneath Her Feet | Salmon Rushdie | B+ |
| 07/03/03 | Circle of Gold | Karen Harper | C |
| 07/05/03 | Wrongful Death | Baine Kerr | A- |
| 07/03/03 | No Way Back | Rick Mofina | B- |
| 06/28/03 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | B+ |
| 06/23/03 | Olivia and Jai | Rebecca Ryman | B+ |
| 06/22/03 | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | A |
| 06/21/03 | Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed | Philip Hallie | C |
| 06/20/03 | Shalimar | Rebecca Ryman | B+ |
| 06/18/03 | Shopgirl | Steve Martin | B |
| 06/15/03 | The Face of Fear | Dean Koontz | C+ |
| 06/14/03 | The Emperor of Scent | Chandler Burr | A- |
| 06/12/03 | Bill Bryson's African Diary | Bill Bryson | B |
| 06/10/03 | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | B |
| 06/09/03 | Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | A- |
| 06/08/03 | The Zap Gun | Philip K. Dick | C |
| 06/05/03 | Jaguars Ripped My Flesh | Tim Cahill | A- |
| 06/02/03 | Historic Restaurants of Paris | Ellen Williams | B |
| 05/30/03 | Paris to the Moon | Adam Gopnik | A |
| 05/26/03 | Buttered Side Down: Stories | Edna Ferber | B |
| 05/22/03 | Interface | Stephen Bury | A |
| 05/20/03 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | A |
| 05/15/03 | I Don't Know How She Does It | Allison Pearson | A |
| 05/15/03 | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | A |
| 05/15/03 | Jenny and the Jaws of Life | Jincy Willett | A |
| 05/14/03 | Doctor No | Ian Fleming | B |
| 05/11/03 | Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About | Mil Millington | B+ |
| 05/11/03 | A Sending of Dragons | Jane Yolen | B |
| 05/10/03 | Heart's Blood | Jane Yolen | B |
| 05/10/03 | Sister Emily's Lightship | Jane Yolen | B+ |
| 05/07/03 | The Wide Window | Lemony Snicket | B- |
| 05/07/03 | The Reptile Room | Lemony Snicket | B- |
| 05/07/03 | The Man Who Killed His Brother | Stephen R. Donaldson | B+ |
| 05/07/03 | The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket | B- |
| 05/06/03 | Armageddon Summer | Jane Yolen | C |
| 05/06/03 | Briar Rose | Jane Yolen | C+ |
| 05/05/03 | Girl in a Cage | Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris | C |
| 05/04/03 | Queen's Own Fool | Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris | B- |
| 05/04/03 | The Book of the Heathen | Robert Edric | B+ |
| 05/03/03 | Dragon's Blood | Jane Yolen | B |
| 05/02/03 | Oblivion's Altar | David Marion Wilkinson | C- |
| 04/30/03 | The Future Homemakers of America | Laurie Graham | B |
| 04/29/03 | Eyes of the Virgin | Thomas F. Monteleon | B+ |
| 04/27/03 | The Autobiography of My Mother | Jamaica Kincaid | B+ |
| 04/26/03 | Hidden Places | Lynn Austin | B |
| 04/25/03 | Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | A |
| 04/23/03 | Boy in the Water | Stephen Dobyns | C |
| 04/18/03 | Sitting Shiva | Elliot Feldman | B+ |
| 04/14/03 | The Woodwitch | Stephen Gregory | D |
| 04/13/03 | Zelda's Cut | Philippa Gregory | D |
| 04/10/03 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | B+ |
| 04/08/03 | Rescue Me | Gigi Levangie Grazer | B |
| 04/07/03 | The Green Mile | Stephen King | B+ |
| 04/05/03 | The Wished-for Country | Wayne Karlin | B |
| 04/03/03 | Year of Wonders | Geraldine Books | A |
| 03/23/03 | This Boy's Life | Tobias Wolff | A- |
| 03/22/03 | The Favored Child | Philippa Gregory | B- |
| 03/21/03 | Wideacre | Philippa Gregory | B |
| 03/19/03 | The Waters of Babylon | David Stevens | B |
| 03/17/03 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | David Eggers | A |
| 03/13/03 | Seven Dials | Anne Perry | B |
| 03/08/03 | Rain of Gold | Victory Villaseñor | A- |
| 03/05/03 | The Little Friend | Donna Tartt | A |
| 02/24/03 | Cruel Habitations | Kate Charles | B |
| 02/23/03 | The Hardscrabble Chronicles | Laurie Bogart Morrow | B+ |
| 02/21/03 | Zodiac: the Eco-Thriller | Neal Stephenson | A |
| 02/16/03 | The Venetian's Wife | Nick Bantock | C |
| 02/16/03 | Lucky | Alice Sebold | A |
| 02/15/03 | Alexandria | Nick Bantock | C |
| 02/14/03 | Murder Mysteries | Neil Gaiman | A- |
| 02/14/03 | Witchblade: Obakemono | Fiona Avery | B |
| 02/13/03 | The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean | A |
| 02/11/03 | Burning the Map | Laura Caldwell | B |
| 02/08/03 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | A+ |
| 01/26/03 | The Olive Fairy Book | Andrew Lang | B+ |
| 01/26/03 | Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish | Martha Zamora | B+ |
| 01/21/03 | Unless | Carol Shields | A- |
| 01/18/03 | Death of a 'Jewish American Princess' | Shirley Frondorf | B- |
| 01/09/03 | The Year Roger Wasn't Well | Sarah Payne Stuart | B |
| 01/10/03 | Kaaterskill Falls | Allegra Goodman | A |
| 01/09/03 | Demian | Herman Hesse | A- |
| 01/08/03 | Demon Doctors | Kenneth V. Iserson | D |
| 01/03/03 | The Bitch in the House | Cathi Hanauer | A+ |
| 12/28/02 | Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet | Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon | B+ |
| 12/28/02 | Lying Awake | Mark Salzman | A |
| 12/26/02 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | A- |
| 12/22/02 | The Nanny Diaries | Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus | A- |
| 12/21/02 | A Dog Year | Jon Katz | A- |
| 12/15/02 | Running with Scissors | Augusten Burroughs | A |
| 12/10/02 | Silk | Alessandro Baricco | A- |
| 12/03/02 | The Map of Love | Ahdaf Soueif | A |
| 11/30/02 | Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | A |
| 11/27/02 | Marie Antoinette | Antonia Fraser | B- |
| 11/24/02 | Another Shot | Joe Kita | B |
| 11/23/02 | The Great Escape | Ian Watson | B+ |
| 11/22/02 | The Soloist | Mark Salzman | A |
| 11/21/02 | Across the Nightengale Floor | Lian Hearn | B |
| 11/18/02 | An Affair of Honor | Richard Marius | A |
| 11/11/02 | Lady Audley's Secret | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | B |
| 11/10/02 | The Triumph of Katie Byrne | Barbara Taylor Bradford | C |
| 11/09/02 | The Small Business Start-up Kit for California | Peri Pakroo | A |
| 11/02/02 | Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir | D.J. Waldie | A+ |
| 10/28/02 | Epileptic 1 | David B. | A- |
| 10/27/02 | The Book of Eleanor | Pamela Kaufman | B- |
| 10/27/02 | The Best American Travel Stories, 2001 | Paul Theroux | A |
| 10/09/02 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | A |
| 10/03/02 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families | Philip Gourevitch | A+ |
| 09/27/02 | Fall On Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald | B+ |
| 09/19/02 | Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Post-War America | Donald Katz | B+ |
| 09/15/02 | There's No Toilet Paper...on the Road Less Traveled | Doug Lansky | A |
| 09/14/02 | Fraud | David Rakoff | A |
| 09/12/02 | Stolen Lives: 20 Years in a Desert Jail | Malika Oufkir | B |
| 09/08/02 | Take the Cannoli | Sarah Vowell | A- |
| 09/07/02 | Barrel Fever | David Sedaris | A |
| 09/03/02 | 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com | Mike Daisey | A+ |