Books I Read in 2003 (34 Titles)

Fiction

American Gods
Author: Neil Gaiman

Between Girlfriends
Author: Elizabeth Dean

Charity Girl
Author: Georgette Heyer

The DaVinci Code
Author: Dan Brown

The Friendly Persuasion
Author: Jessamyn West

Jeeves In the Morning
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Johnny Tremain
Author: Esther Forbes

Just Like Beauty
Author: Lisa Lerner

Life of Pi: A Novel
Yann Martel; Hardcover

McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Author: Edited by Michael Chabon

Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman

Postern of Fate
Author: Agatha Christie

Revolutionary Girl Utena: To Plant
Author: Chiho Saito, Be-Papas

The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Sue Monk Kidd

Summerland
Author: Michael Chabon

Non – Fiction

100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships
Author: David Niven, Ph.D.

ASPCA’s Complete Guide to Cats
Author: James R. Richards

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Author: Eric A. Meyer

The Complete Guide to Personal and Home Safety
Author: Captain Robert L. Snow

Dear Friends: American Portraits of Men Together, 1840-1918
Author: David Dietcher

Designing with Web Standards
Author: Jeffrey Zeldman

The Dollhouse Murders: A Forensic Expert Investigates 6 Little Crimes
Author: Thomas Mauriello

Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution
Author: Dr. Atkins

Ghosts In The Bedroom: A Guide for Partners of Incest Survivors
Author: Ken Graber

The Great Big Book of Tomorrow
Author: tom tomorrow

Indiana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, and Other Offbeat Stuff
by Dick Wolfsie

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look At The Right
Author: Al Franken

Living History
Author: Hillary Clinton

Living Rooms
Author: Diane Dorrans Saeks

Outgrowing the Pain: A Book For and About Adults Abused As Children
Author: Eliana Gil

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed
Author: Patricia Cornwell

Slayer Slang: A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Lexicon
Author: Michael Adams, Jane Espenson

They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
Author: Barbara Holland

What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News
Author: Eric Alterman

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Village Voice: Our 25 Favorite Books of 2003

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Actress in the House

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It begins with a stage-slap, witnessed by a man named Daley, then spirals into cul-de-sacs of memory, ruminations on love and aging, ever returning to the linear narrative–the coupling of the actress and the man–before setting out again. Imbued with the peripatetic rhythms of consciousness, Actress‘s dazzling syntax configures language as the tension between repression and discovery, coaxed forward by McElroy’s tantalizingly patient hand.

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Newbery Medal Winners

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2005 — Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 — The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.

2003 — Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Hardcover

2002 — A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
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2001 — A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
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2000 — Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Microsoft e-book

1999 — Holes by Louis Sachar
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1998 — Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
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1997 — The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
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1996 — The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
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1995 — Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
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1994 — The Giver by Lois Lowry
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1993 — Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
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1992 — Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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1991 — Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
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1990 — Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
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1989 — Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Hardcover |
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1988 — Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Hardcover |
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1987 — The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Hardcover |
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1986 — Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
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Study Guide

1985 — The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
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1984 — Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
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1983 — Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
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Lesson Plans on CD

1982 — A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
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1981 — Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
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Lesson Plans on CD

1980 — A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
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1979 — The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
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1978 — Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
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Lesson Plans on CD

1977 — Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
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Lesson Plans on CD

1976 — The Grey King by Susan Cooper
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1975 — M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
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1974 — The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
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1973 — Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 — Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

1971 — Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 — Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 — The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 — From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
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1967 — Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Out of Print

1966 — I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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1965 — Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
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1964 — It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
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1963 — A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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1962 — The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
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1961 — Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
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1960 — Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
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1959 — The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
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1958 — Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
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1957 — Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
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1956 — Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
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1955 — The Wheel on The School by Meindert DeJong
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Paperback; illustrated by Maurice Sendak

1954 — And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
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1953 — Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
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1952 — Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
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1951 — Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
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1950 — The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
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1949 — King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
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1948 — The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
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1947 — Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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1946 — Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
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1945 — Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
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1944 — Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
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1943 — Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
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1942 — The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
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1941 — Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
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1940 — Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
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1939 — Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
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1938 — The White Stag by Kate Seredy
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1937 — Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
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1936 — Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
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1935 — Dobry by Monica Shannon
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1934 — Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
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1933 — Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
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1932 — Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
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1931 — The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
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1930 — Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
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1929 — The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
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1928 — Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
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1927 — Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
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1926 — Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
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1925 — Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
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1924 — The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
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1923 — The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
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1922 — The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Books I’ve Read in 2002 (48 Titles)

Fiction

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3
Author: Philip Pullman

And Then There Were None
Author: Agatha Christie
Another classic detective novel. I read the entire Agatha Christie murder genre when I was a kid, and I happened to find one of my old paperbacks at my mom’s house, so I picked it up again. This is one of my favorites, because it was one that truly stumped me when I first read it.

The Ape That Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Author: Elizabeth Peters

Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
A children’s book along the lines of Harry Potter. Artemis is the main character and a bad guy to boot, which is makes for a bit of cognitive dissonance while you cheer for the real heroes, the fairies, whom Artemis is trying to cheat out of a lot of gold.

Auntie Mame
Author: Patrick Dennis

A Beau Brummel Mystery: Death on a Silver Tray
Author: Rosemary Stevens
The first of a new mystery series starring Beau Brummel, the famous arbiter of fashion during one of my favorite historical periods, The Regency, in England. It wasn’t a great novel, but they score points for a cute idea… the notoriously frivolous Brummel is secretly an intelligent crime solver in this series.

A Beau Brummel Mystery: The Tainted Snuff Box
Author: Rosemary Stevens
The second book in the Beau Brummel mystery series. If you want a completely non-stressful waste of time, this series is great.

The Body in The Library
Author: Agatha Christie

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery
Author: Graeme Base
The kids picture book with mystery puzzles embedded in the artwork.

Ex Libris
Author: Ross King

The Falcon at the Portal
Author: Elizabeth Peters

Fingersmith
Author: Sarah Waters

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Author: John Fowles

The Gilded Chain: A Story of the King’s Blades
Author: Dave Duncan

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor
Author: Stephanie Barron

Jane and the Man of the Cloth
Author: Stephanie Barron

Jane and the Wandering Eye
Author: Stephanie Barron

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy
Author: Mabel Maney

Lady of Quality
Author: Georgette Heyer
Heyer is one of my favorite authors, I managed to win this copy of one of her many out of print Regency books from eBay. It is, of course, a romance novel set it Regency England, but unlike most romances, and like all Heyer novels, it stands out as an excellent piece of characterization and farce.

Lemony Snickett: The Unauthorized Autobiography
Author: Lemony Snickett

The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold

Lord of the Fire Lands: A Story of the King’s Blades
Author: Dave Duncan

Murder At The Chess Board
Author: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers

Pride and Promiscuity
Author: Arielle Eckstutt, Dennis Ashton

Sky of Swords: A Story of the King’s Blades
Author: Dave Duncan

Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3
Author: George R. R. Martin

Three Weeks
Author: Elinor Glyn

Whose Body?
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Classic Lord Peter Wimsey detection story from a classic mystery author.

Wizards First Rule
Author: Terry Goodkind

Non – Fiction

All About Plumbing Basics
Author: Ortho

Dick Wolfsie’s New Book (Longer, Funnier, Cheaper)
Author: Dick Wolfsie

The Drag King Book
Author: Del Lagrace Volcano, Judith "Jack" Halberstam

Fast Food Nation
Author: Eric Schlosser

Fun Along the Road: American Tourist Attractions
Author: John Margolies

Gardening for Pleasure
Author: Barron’s Publishing

The Good Citizen’s Handbook: A Guide to Proper Behavior
Author: Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
Compiled from real guidebooks on good citizenship from the 1920s-1960s, including information on the importance of a meat diet and why it’s never right to poison the neighbors’d dog, this handbook is hysterically funny in a completely straight-faced way.

The Good, The Bad, and the Difference
Author: Randy Cohen

Indianapolis: A Pictoral History
Author: Edward Leary
I bought this book from eBay; a nice picture book of early Indianapolis. It’s out of print.

Inside the West Wing
Author: Paul Challen

Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont
Author: Nancy Winters

Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris

MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice For The New Media Designer
Author: Hillman Curtis

Puppies
Author: Forbush

Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World
Editor: Brian M. Fagan

The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family
Author: Matt Groening

Stupid White Men
Author: Michael Moore

You Are Being Lied To
Author: Russ Kick, Editor. Disinformation.com
A collection of articles on political and social issues, examining cultural myth and disinformation from the government, big businesses, and religion.

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Books I Read in 2001 (58 Titles)

Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Author: Michael Chabon

The Bad Beginning [A Series of Unfortunate Events]
Author: Lemony Snicket

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles – Odd Girl Out
Author: Ann Bannon

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles – I Am A Woman
Author: Ann Bannon

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles – Women In The Shadows
Author: Ann Bannon

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles – Journey To A Woman
Author: Ann Bannon

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles – Beebo Brinker
Author: Ann Bannon

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Bertie Wooster: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

The Big Joke Game
Author: Scott Corbett

Bridges of Madison County
Author: James Waller

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Author: Helen Fielding

The Catcher in The Rye
Author: J. D Salinger

Chang & Eng
Author: Darin Strauss

The Cheese Monkeys
Author: Chip Kidd

The Dark Secret of Weatherend
Author: John Bellairs

The Deed of Paksennarion
Author: Elizabeth Moon

The Dress Lodger
Author: Sheri Holman

Fantastic Beasts & Where to find Them
Author: Newt Scamander

The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Author: Susan Vreeland

The Great Brain
Author: John D. Fitzgerald

Hanuman
Author: based on Valmiki’s Ramayana

Lord of Emperors
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb
Author: John Bellairs

More Adventures of the Great Brain
Author: John D. Fitzgerald

Move To Strike
Author: Peter O’ Shaughnessy

O Jerusalem
Author: Laurie R. King

Portnoy’s Complaint
Author: Phillip Roth

Quidditch Through the Ages
Author: Kennilworth Whisp

The Song of the Lioness Quartet – Alanna: The First Adventure
(The Song of the Lioness Quartet, Book 1)

Author: Tamora Pierce

The Song of the Lioness Quartet – In the Hand of the Goddess
(The Song of the Lioness Quartet, Book 2)

Author: Tamora Pierce

The Song of the Lioness Quartet – The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
(The Song of the Lioness Quartet, Book 3)

Tamora Pierce

The Song of the Lioness Quartet – Lioness Rampant
Tamora Pierce

A Song of Ice and Fire – Game of Thrones
Author: George R. R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire – Clash of Kings
Author: George R. R. Martin

His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife
Author: Phillip Pullman

The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
Author: John Bellairs

The Unexpected Guest
Author: Agatha Christie

A Vaudeville of Devils
Author: Robert Gerardis

The Watcher’s Guide Volume 2: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series
Author: Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, Maryelizabeth Hart

Wheel of Time Series – The Shadow Rising [book 4]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – Fires of Heaven [book 5]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – Lord of Chaos [book 6]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – A Crown of Swords [book 7]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – Path of Daggers [book 8]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – Winters Heart [book 9]
Author: Robert Jordan

The Wind Done Gone
Author: Alice Randall

Wonder Boys
Author: Michael Chabon

Non – Fiction

The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Author: Robert Byrne

Big Fun With Billy
Author: Dianora Niccolini

Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
Author: Douglas Rushkoff

Complete Idiots Guide to Shakespeare
Author: Laurie Rozakis, Ph. D

Erotica Universalis
Author: Gilles Neret

The Harlot By The Side of The Road
Author: Jonathan Kish

Mind Benders: Adventures in Lateral Thinking
Author: David J. Bodycombe

The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys
Author: Carole Kismaric & Marvin Heiferman

Napalm and Silly Putty
Author: George Carlin

The New Roadside America
Author: Kirby, Smith Wilson

The Okinawa Program
Author: Robert Gerardis

The Quest of The Holy Grail
Author: ?? Medieval Epic

The Truth Is…
Author: Melissa Etheridge

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex
Author: Joshua Piven, et al.

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Vintage International Catalog

Vintage International: Devoted to publishing the best writing of the twentieth century from the world over, Vintage International offers both classic and contemporary fiction and literary nonfiction in elegant paperback editions.

Abe, Kobo. Ark Sakura

Abe, Kobo. Kangaroo Notebook

Abe, Kobo. Woman in the Dunes

Aksyonov, Vassily. Generations of Winter

Amis, Martin. Dead Babies

Amis, Martin. Einstein’s Monsters

Amis, Martin. Information

Amis, Martin. London Fields

Amis, Martin. Other People

Amis, Martin. Rachel Papers

Amis, Martin. Success

Amis, Martin. Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

Argueta, Manilio. One Day of Life

Atxaga, Bernardo. Obabakoak

Auden, W. H.. As I Walked Out One Evening

Auden, W. H.. Collected Poems: Auden

Auden, W. H.. Dyer’s Hand

Auden, W. H.. Forewords and Afterwords

Auden, W. H.. Selected Poems

Baldwin, James. The Amen Corner

Baldwin, James. Another Country

Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time

Baldwin, James. Going to Meet the Man

Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name

Banville, John. Athena

Banville, John. Doctor Copernicus

Banville, John. Ghosts

Banville, John. Kepler

Barnes, Julian. Before She Met Me

Barnes, Julian. Cross Channel

Barnes, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot

Barnes, Julian. History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Barnes, Julian. Letters from London

Barnes, Julian. Metroland

Barnes, Julian. Porcupine

Barnes, Julian. Staring at the Sun

Barnes, Julian. Talking It Over

Bates, H. E.. Feast of July

Berberova, Nina. Italics are Mine

Berger, John. About Looking

Berger, John. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Berger, John. Another Way of Telling

Berger, John. Corker’s Freedom

Berger, John. Fortunate Man

Berger, John. G.

Berger, John. Keeping a Rendezvous

Berger, John. Lilac and Flag

Berger, John. Once in Europa

Berger, John. Pig Earth

Berger, John. Sense of Sight

Berger, John. Success and Failure of Picasso

Berger, John. To the Wedding

Bernieres, Louis De. Corelli’s Mandolin

Bernieres, Louis de. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Bernieres, Louis de. The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts

Blackburn, Julia. Book of Color

Bolt, Robert. Man for All Seasons

Boyd, William. Blue Afternoon

Boyd, William. Destiny of Nathalie X

Brink, Andre. Act of Terror

Broch, Hermann. Death of Virgil

Broch, Hermann. Sleepwalkers

Bulgakov, Mikhail. Master and Margarita

Byatt, A. S.. Angels and Insects

Byatt, A.S.. Babel Tower

Byatt, A. S.. Game

Byatt, A. S.. Matisse Stories

Byatt, A. S.. Passions of the Mind

Byatt, A. S.. Possession

Byatt, A. S.. Sugar and Other Stories

Byatt, A. S.. Virgin in the Garden

Calasso, Roberto. Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Calvino, Italo. Numbers in the Dark

Calvino, Italo. Road to San Giovanni

Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millenium

Camus, Albert. Fall

Camus, Albert. First Man

Camus, Albert. Happy Death

Camus, Albert. Myth of Sisyphus

Camus, Albert. Plague

Camus, Albert. Rebel

Camus, Albert. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Camus, Albert. Stranger

Capote, Truman. Answered Prayers

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

Capote, Truman. Grass Harp

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood

Capote, Truman. Music for Chameleons

Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms

Carey, Peter. Bliss

Carey, Peter. Fat Man in History

Carey, Peter. Illywhacker

Carey, Peter. Oscar and Lucinda

Carey, Peter. Tax Inspector

Carey, Peter. Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Cheever, John. Falconer

Cheever, John. Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Cheever, John. Wapshot Chronicle

Coe, Jonathan. Winshaw Legacy

Coetzee, J. M.. Age of Iron

Didion, Joan. After Henry

Didion, Joan. Book of Common Prayer

Didion, Joan. Democracy

Didion, Joan. The Last Thing He Wanted

Didion, Joan. Run River

Didion, Joan. Salvador

Dinesen, Isak. Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

Dinesen, Isak. Last Tales

Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Dinesen, Isak. Seven Gothic Tales

Dinesen, Isak. Winter’s Tales

Doctorow, E. L.. Book of Daniel

Doctorow, E. L.. Loon Lake

Doctorow, E. L.. Ragtime

Dorfman, Ariel. Konfidenz

Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors

Ellison, Ralph. Flying Home

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man

Ellison, Ralph. Going to the Territory

Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act

Endo, Shusaku. Scandal

Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!

Faulkner, William. Big Woods

Faulkner, William. Collected Stories

Faulkner, William. Go Down, Moses

Faulkner, William. Hamlet

Faulkner, William. If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms)

Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust

Faulkner, William. Light in August

Faulkner, William. Reivers

Faulkner, William. Sanctuary

Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury

Faulkner, William. Town

Faulkner, William. Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Faulkner, William. Unvanquished

Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong

Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier

Forster, E M. Howards End

Forster, E M. Longest Journey

Forster, E M. Room with a View

Forster, E M. Where Angels Fear To Tread

Franck, Dan. Separation

Fuentes, Carlos. Christopher Unborn

Gide, Andre. Immoralist

Grass, Gunter. Tin Drum

Graves, Robert. Claudius the God

Herr, Michael. Dispatches

Herr, Michael. Walter Winchell

Hollinghurst, Alan. Folding Star

Hollinghurst, Alan. Swimming Pool Library

Hrabal, Bohumil. I Served the King of England

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Artist of the Floating World

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Pale View of Hills

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Remains of the Day

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Unconsoled

Joyce, James. Dubliners

Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James. Ulysses

Judd, Alan. Devil’s Own Work

Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Emperor

Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Imperium

Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Shah of Shahs

Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Soccer War

Kawabata, Yasunari. Beauty and Sadness

Kawabata, Yasunari. Master of Go

Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country

Kawabata, Yasunari. Thousand Cranes

Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men

Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey

Klima, Ivan. Judge On Trial

Lagerkvist, Par. Barabbas

Lawrence, D.H.. Plumed Serpent

Lawrence, D.H.. Virgin and the Gypsy

Laxness, Halldor. Independent People

Laye, Camara. Radiance of the King

Lessing, Doris. Canopus in Argos

Lessing, Doris. Fifth Child

Levi, Primo. Drowned and the Saved

Mailer, Norman. Barbary Shore

Mailer, Norman. The Deer Park

Mailer, Norman. The Fight

Malan, Rian. My Traitor’s Heart

Malouf, David. The Conversations at Curlow Creek

Malouf, David. Great World

Malouf, David. Harland’s Half Acre

Malouf, David. Imaginary Life

Malraux, Andre. Man’s Fate

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks

Mann, Thomas. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice

Mann, Thomas. Doctor Faustus

Mann, Thomas. Magic Mountain

March, Michael. Description of a Struggle

Mars-Jones, Adam. Monopolies of Loss

Mars-Jones, Adam. Waters of Thirst

Martinez, Eloy. Santa Evita Tomas

Maxwell, William. All the Days and Nights

Maxwell, William. Ancestors

Maxwell, William. Chateau

Maxwell, William. Folded Leaf

Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow

Maxwell, William. They Came Like Swallows

Maxwell, William. Time Will Darken It

McCarthy, Cormac. All The Pretty Horses

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian

McCarthy, Cormac. Child of God

McCarthy, Cormac. Crossing

McCarthy, Cormac. Orchard Keeper

McCarthy, Cormac. Outer Dark

McCarthy, Cormac. Stonemason

McCarthy, Cormac. Suttree

McEwan, Ian. Cement Garden

McEwan, Ian. Comfort of Strangers

McEwan, Ian. First Love, Last Rites

McEwan, Ian. In Between the Sheets

McGahan, Jerry. Collected Stories

Mehta, Gita. Karma Cola

Milosz, Czeslaw. Captive Mind

Mishima, Yukio. Decay of the Angel

Mishima, Yukio. Runaway Horses

Mishima, Yukio. Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea

Mishima, Yukio. Sound of Waves

Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow

Mishima, Yukio. Temple of Dawn

Mishima, Yukio. Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Mistry, Rohinton. Fine Balance

Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey

Mistry, Rohinton. Swimming Lessons

Mosley, Nicholas. Hopeful Monsters

Munif, Abdelrahman. Cities of Salt

Munif, Abdelrahman. Trench

Munif, Abdelrahman. Variations on Night and Day

Murakami, Haruki. Dance Dance Dance

Murakami, Haruki. Elephant Vanishes

Murakami, Haruki. HardBoiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Murray, Albert. The Blue Devils of Nada

Murray, Albert. Hero and the Blues

Murray, Albert. Seven League Boots

Musil, Robert. Man Without Qualities Volume 1

Musil, Robert. Man Without Qualities Volume 2

Nabokov, Vladimir. Ada, Or Ardor

Nabokov, Vladimir. Bend Sinister

Nabokov, Vladimir. Defense

Nabokov, Vladimir. Despair

Nabokov, Vladimir. Enchanter

Nabokov, Vladimir. Eye

Nabokov, Vladimir. Gift

Nabokov, Vladimir. Glory

Nabokov, Vladimir. Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov, Vladimir. King, Queen, Knave

Nabokov, Vladimir. Laughter in the Dark

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita: A Screenplay

Nabokov, Vladimir. Look at the Harlequins!

Nabokov, Vladimir. Mary

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin

Nabokov, Vladimir. Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory

Nabokov, Vladimir. Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov, Vladimir. Strong Opinions

Nabokov, Vladimir. Transparent Things

Naipaul, V. S.. Bend in the River

Naipaul, V. S.. Guerrillas

Naipaul, V. S.. Turn in the South

Nicol, Mike. Horseman

Nicol, Mike. This Day and Age

O’Neill, Eugene. Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape

O’Neill, Eugene. Three Plays

Ondaatje, Michael. Cinnamon Peeler

Ondaatje, Michael. Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Ondaatje, Michael. Coming Through Slaughter

Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient

Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion

Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family

Onetti, Juan Carlos. Body Snatcher

Oz, Amos. Black Box

Ozick, Cynthia. Fame and Folly

Ozick, Cynthia. Metaphor and Memory

Ozick, Cynthia. Shawl

Pavic, Milorad. Dictionary of Khazars

Perkarkova, Iva. Truck Stop Rainbows

Petrushevskaya, Ludmila. Time: Night

Phillips, Caryl. Cambridge

Phillips, Caryl. Crossing the River

Phillips, Caryl. Final Passage

Phillips, Caryl. Higher Ground

Pressburger, Giorgio. Law of White Spaces

Pritchett, V. S.. Complete Collected Stories

Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way

Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman

Rezzori, Gregor Von. Memoirs of An AntiSemite

Rezzori, Gregor Von. Orient Express

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poetry of Rilke

Roth, Philip. American Pastoral

Roth, Philip. Anatomy Lesson

Roth, Philip. Breast

Roth, Philip. Counterlife

Roth, Philip. Deception

Roth, Philip. Facts

Roth, Philip. Ghost Writer

Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus

Roth, Philip. Great American Novel

Roth, Philip. Letting Go

Roth, Philip. My Life As a Man

Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock

Roth, Philip. Patrimony

Roth, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint

Roth, Philip. Prague Orgy

Roth, Philip. Professor of Desire

Roth, Philip. When She Was Good

Roth, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound

Rush, Norman. Mating

Rush, Norman. Whites

Rushdie, Salman. East, West

Rushdie, Salman. Moor’s Last Sigh

Salter, James. Light Years

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Age of Reason

Sartre, Jean-Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Reprieve

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Troubled Sleep

Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader

Sciascia, Leonardo. Open Doors and Three Novellas

Self, Will. Cock and Bull

Self, Will. My Idea of Fun

Self, Will. Quantity Theory of Insanity

Seth, Vikram. All You Who Sleep Tonight

Seth, Vikram. Golden Gate

Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don

Smart, Elizabeth. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Soueif, Ahdaf. In the Eye of the Sun

Soyinka, Wole. Ake

Soyinka, Wole. Isara

Stone, Robert. Children of Light

Styron, William. Confessions of Nat Turner

Styron, William. Lie Down in Darkness

Styron, William. Long March, In the Clap Shack

Styron, William. Set This House on Fire

Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice

Styron, William. This Quiet Dust

Styron, William. Tidewater Morning

Svevo, Italo. Confessions of Zeno

Swift, Graham. Ever After

Swift, Graham. Last Orders

Swift, Graham. Learning to Swim

Swift, Graham. Out of This World

Swift, Graham. Shuttlecock

Swift, Graham. SweetShop Owner

Swift, Graham. Waterland

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Diary of a Mad Old Man

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Key

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Makioka Sisters

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Quicksand

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Seven Japanese Tales

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Some Prefer Nettles

Tolstaya, Tatyana. On the Golden Porch

Tolstaya, Tatyana. Sleepwalker in a Fog

Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles

Welty, Eudora. Optimist’s Daughter

White, Edmund. Beautiful Room Is Empty

White, Edmund. Burning Library

White, Edmund. Caracole

White, Edmund. Forgetting Elena

White, Edmund. Skinned Alive

Winterson, Jeanette. Art and Lies

Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects

Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body

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Books I Read in 2000 (59 titles)

All the books I read in 2000. Click on a title to purchase it from Amazon.com.

Benet’s Readers Encyclopedia
Author: Harper and Row Publishers: New York, 1987.
I’ve been reading this reference encyclopedia from front to back (wierd, I know); I’ve finished from Letter A to K.

Fiction

A Letter of Mary: A Mary Russell Mystery
Author: Laurie R. King

Affinity
Author: Sarah Waters

Angela’s Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt

The Archivist
Author: Martha Cooley

At Home in Mitford
Author: Jan Karon

Black Ajax
Author: George MacDonald Fraser

Carry On, Jeeves
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
The classic story of the hapless Bertie Wooster and his dazzlingly efficient manservant Jeeves.

e: A Novel
Author: Matt Beaumont
A very fun little novel entirely of composed of fictional e-mails inside a fictional ad agency in London. Despite the almost total incompetence and scheming of most of the staff of the ad agency, they have a bid on one of the largest campaigns ever; a Coca-Cola promo. I was tempted to start labeling the characters with people from work, but as the novel progressed, I was really afraid to. The best part, though, is the author bio: “Matt Beaumont worked at several London advertising firms before he sold his first novel. In anticipation of the publication of in the United States and United Kingdom in Fall 2000, he is taking a break from corporate life.” I’d imagine that he has to!

Frederica
Author: Georgette Heyer

The Golden Compass
Author: Phillip Pullman

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling

The Inimitable Jeeves
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
The classic story of the hapless Bertie Wooster and his dazzlingly efficient manservant Jeeves.

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth
Author: F. C. Ware
A beautifully illustrated hard-bound cartoon book, it tells the story of Jimmy Corrigan, an Irish kid from Chicago going to visit his estranged father. I bought it because I’ve seen other work by Ware, mostly book jackets, and it’s an amazing illustration. The story is very depressing though; it bounces back and forth from the modern day Jimmy to his grandfather’s (also named Jimmy) story of his relationship with his father. These stories, interlaced with dream states, fantasy tangents, and diagrams (including a cut out 3-D assembly of the elder Jimmy’s childhood home) are a very entertaining if disturbing read.

Killing Time
Author: Caleb Carr

The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Author: Robert Nye

The Moor: A Mary Russell Mystery
Author: Laurie R. King

Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf

The Phantom Tollbooth
Author: Norman Juster
Milo’s a cynical little kid with nothing to do, until a tollbooth appears in his bedroom one day, and he hops in his car, rides through it, and finds himself in a kingdom where, with the help of a large ticking dog and an equally cynical bug, he becomes responsible for rescuing the princesses Rhyme and Reason to save the kingdom. That’ll learn him to be cynical and bored.

The Queen’s Man
Author: Sharon Kay Penman

Right Ho, Jeeves
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
The classic story of the hapless Bertie Wooster and his dazzlingly efficient manservant Jeeves.

Sailing to Sarantium
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Sarum
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
Like the book London, this novel takes several English families through their whole family trees from the Ice Age up to modern day England. As they build, tear down, lose and then unearth and misinterpret their heritages, we get to see the history of the island, the hubris and humility of mankind, the triumph and sorrow of good and bad people, and the inescapable stamp of their ancestors on their faces and personalities.

Very Good, Jeeves
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
The classic story of the hapless Bertie Wooster and his dazzlingly efficient manservant Jeeves.

Wheel of Time Series – The Eye of the World [Book 1]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – The Great Hunt [Book 2]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wheel of Time Series – The Dragon Reborn [Book 3]
Author: Robert Jordan

Wilma Loves Betty: And Other Hilarious Lesbian Parodies
Editors: Julie Trevelyan, Scott Brassart

Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to Be Rumoured About Around New York
Author: J. P. Donleavy

Non – Fiction

The Activist’s Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyond
Author: Randy Shaw

Ancient Mysteries
Author: Peter James and Nick Thorpe

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Watcher’s Guide
Authors: Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book
Author: Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, Thomas E. Sniegoski

The Cluetrain Manifesto
Author: Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

The Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America
Author: Kalle Lasn
“Lasn views contemporary existence as one in which people have almost entirely succumbed to the cultural mandates of consumer capitalism, turning to corporations for guidance about how to look and what to desire.” I agree with him about most of these ideas – and I think this is a very important book. Some of Lasn’s logic stumbles here and there, and needs further analysis and study, but from and intuitive perspective, I think he’s on to something.

Curse of Madame C: A Far Side Collection
Author: Gary Larson

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Author: Jakob Nielsen

Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette
Author: Meryl Cohn

Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction
Author: Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller

Flash 4 for Windows and Macintosh
Author: Katherine Ulrich

Foster Child: an Intimate Biography of Jodie Foster
Author: Buddy Foster and Leon Wagener
A(n unauthorized?) biography of Jodie Foster by her erstwhile brother Buddy. A somewhat embarrassing book to read, partly because you feel like a voyeur, and partly because you feel strange about the confessional nature of her brother’s story. It also seems to be told through a glass darkly, as though Buddy doesn’t really have all that much contact with his sister, or rather that he does but she doesn’t talk much when she’s around. I read it because I’ve always thought that Jodie was somewhat of an enigma; even when she’s onscreen, there always seems to be a part of her that isn’t there. The book didn’t enlighten me much.

The Frailty Myth
Author: Colette Dowling

Heroes Rogues and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior
Author: James McBride Dabbs, Mary Godwin Dabbs
This book seemed balanced and well-researched. They observed not just men, but the effects of testosterone on both men and women, and the consequences for both sexes of having high or low testosterone, as well as the positive and negative effects having high testosterone has on men and women. It was also interesting to read how testosterone interacts with other hormones, like serotonin. Their conclusions were consistent with human behavior I’ve observed. I think it would be fascinating to do a similar study on the effects of estrogen; perhaps there’s already a book.

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Author: Bill Watterson

In The Groove: Vintage Record Graphics 1940-1960
Author: Eric Kohler

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen

The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar: Solving the Oak Island Mystery
Author: Steve Sora
A worthless book that ultimately founders on the rocks of “unreadability,” I’m only linking it to Amazon for consistency’s sake, not as a suggestion that you should actually buy it. It spins out a mass of conspiracy theories about a mysterious lost treasure of the Knights of Templar and about a mysterious well/munitions dump/buried treasure vault on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. The theories are as implausible as they are contradictory and illogical. The gist of them is that a) Christ didn’t die on the cross, b) Christ DID die on the cross but left a child in the womb of Mary Magdalene, c) Mary Magdalene and her child, and perhaps Christ himself, went to live in the south of France, where they and their decendants were protected by the Knights Templar who planned to put them on the papal throne or maybe the throne of Jerusalem, d) the Knights Templar took their treasure and the secret lineage of Christ and the holy Grail and the Spear of Longinus to Scotland when they were persecuted in France, e) the Scots explored the North American mainland centuries before the Vikings and built settlements there, f)The Scots buried the treasure of the Templars, the Grail, the spear, the lineage of Christ and several pink elephants in a fantastically engineered vault on Oak Island, planning to return for it later or to just leave it there, or something, g) all attempts to excavate the Oak Island vault have been cursed, h) although the vault is elaborately booby-trapped to flood, the constructors left several markers urging on excavators.

May I Kiss You On The Lips, Miss Sandra?
Author: Sandra Bernhard

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Allusions
Author: Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber
It’s a reference book, but it was a nice read, not too long, and I learned the origins of many expressions I didn’t already know.

Never Be Lied to Again: How to Get the Truth in 5 Minutes or Less in Any Conversation or Situation
Author: David J. Lieberman

The Onion’s Finest News Reporting
Author: The Onion

Pope-Pourri: Little-Known Facts You May Not Remember from Sunday School
Author: John Dollison

The Portable Pundit: A Crash Course in Cocktail Party Conversation
Author: T. E. Krieger

The Queen of Whale Cay
Author: Kate Summerscale

Singing For Your Supper: Entertaining Ways to Be a Perfect Guest
Author: Edith Hazard

Snowmen: Snow Creatures, Crafts, and Other Winter Projects
Author: Frankie Frankeny (Photographer), Peter Cole, Leslie Jonath

Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969
Author: Jaye Zimet

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Author: Diane Wood Middlebrook

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Author: Stephanie Coontz

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Author: Spencer Johnson

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