Reading List: Year One

April 2006

100: Unlocking the Air by Ursula LeGuin - 29 Apr

99: The Bridegroom by Ha Jin - 25 Apr

98: Typography by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris - 21 Apr

97: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie -19 Apr

96: The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser - 18 Apr

95: Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse - 14 Apr

94: The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez - 10 Apr

93: The Best of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton - 9 Apr

92: Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes - 6 Apr

91: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 4 Apr

90: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - 3 Apr

March 2006

89: Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta - 31 Mar

88: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie - 27 Mar

87: Fabre’s Book of Insects by Jean Henri Fabre - 27 Mar

86: Frangipani by Célestine Vaite - 21 Mar

85: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse -15 Mar

84: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler -1 Mar

February 2006

83: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King - 24 Feb

82: Why Things Break by Mark E. Eberhard - 23 Feb

81: The Best Sex Writing of 2004 by Daniel O’Connor ed. - 22 Feb

80: Belle de Jour by Anonymous - 22 Feb

79: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - 19 Feb

78: Venus in Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch - 16 Feb

77: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - 14 Feb

76: The Prestige by Christopher Priest - 14 Feb

75: Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 12 Feb

74: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 9 Feb

73: Boogers are My Beat by Dave Barry - 8 Feb

72: Very Good, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 5 Feb

January 2006

71: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - 30 Jan

70: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin - 27 Jan

69: Orbital Resonance by John Barnes - 24 Jan

68: Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt - 23 Jan

67: Sarudie by Satou Roman - 20 Jan

66: A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shao Gong - 17 Jan

65: Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet - 12 Jan

64: Instr. for American Servicemen in Britain 1942 by WD - 9 Jan

63: Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse - 7 Jan 2006

62: Trading Up by Candace Bushnell - 4 Jan

December 2005

61: Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisburger - 31 Dec

60: The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe - 7 Dec

59: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 5 Dec

58: Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse - 2 Dec

November 2005

57: Liquor by Poppy Z . Brite - 29 Nov

56: Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell - 27 Nov

55: All She Was Worth by Miyabe Miyuki - 25 Nov

54: The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad - 21 Nov

53: Oranges by John McPhee - 19 Nov

52: The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett - 17 Nov

51: A Rabbit’s Eyes by Haitani Kenjirou - 16 Nov

50: Ardor: A Novel of Enchantment by Lily Prior - 16 Nov

49: Sandman Vol.5 A Game of You by Neil Gaiman - 15 Nov

48: Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen - 11 Nov

47: Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker - 7 Nov

46: The Truth by Terry Pratchett - 6 Nov

45: Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse - 4 Nov

44: nymphomation by Jeff Noon - 1 Nov

October 2005

43: Elizabeth&Mary: Cousins,Rivals,Queens by Jane Dunn 28 Oct

42: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - 15 Oct

41: Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin - 13 Oct

40: The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert - 10 Oct

39: Emma by Jane Austen - 7 Oct

September 2005

38: The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian - 29 Sept

37: Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire - 23 Sept

36: Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie - 14 Sept

35: Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin - 12 Sept

34: Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 5 Sept

August 2005

33: The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder - 26 Aug

32: Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford - 23 Aug

31: The Printer’s Devil by Paul Bajoria - 14 Aug

30: The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa - 7 Aug

29: The Joy of Sumo by David Benjamin - 4 Aug

28: Daisy Miller by Henry James - 1 Aug

July 2005

27: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - 30 July

26: The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu - 29 July

25: The Food of Love by Anthony Capella - 27 July

24: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi - 27 July

23: H. P. and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - 19 July

22: As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto - 19 July

21: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman - 19 July

20: Sock by Penn Jillete - 15 July

19: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 13 July

18: Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker - 9 July

17: The Art of Murder by Jose Carlos Somoza - 9 July

June 2005

16: The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir - 26 June

15: I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine - 20 June

14: eating mammals by John Barlow - 18 June

13: Mutants by Armand Marie LeRoi - 17 June

12: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester - 15 June

11: Sarudie by Satou Roman - 14 June

10: My Life as Emperor by Su Tong - 13 June

9: Baudolino by Umberto Eco - 9 June

8: The Kama Sutra - 9 June

May 2005

7: Ring by Koji Suzuki - 31 May

6: Stiff by Mary Roach - 30 May

5: Codex by Lev Grossman - 27 May

4: The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 25 May

3: Complications by Atul Gawande - ?? May

2: The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker - ?? May

1: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - ?? May