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(2008: Short Stories)
count: 16 read so far, 350 left to read this year to reach my goal.
Ellen, Elizabeth. "Rememberances 1969-1974." Pindeldyboz 10 Dec, 2003. Unk. page number in print.
Ellen, Elizabeth. "Priceless." Hobalt April, 2004. Unk. page number in print.
Vallianatos, Corinna. "My Escape." Tin House Volume 9. Number 3 (Spring 2008): 35-38.
Rock, Peter. "My Abandonment." Tin House Volume 9. Number 3 (Spring 2008): 53-63.
Ennis, Sean. "Darkflips." Tin House Volume 9. Number 3 (Spring 2008): 146-155.
Hadley, Tessa. "Friendly Fire." The New Yorker 4 Feb. 2008 63-66.
Nelson, Antonya. "Or Else." The New Yorker 19 Nov. 2007: 80-87.
Avrich, Jane. "Your Horoscope by Blakely and Jorg." Tin House Volume 9. Number 1 (Fall 2007): 18-19.
Bernheimer, Kate. "Whitework." Tin House Volume 9. Number 1 (Fall 2007): 30-34.
July, Miranda. "Oranges." Tin House Volume 9. Number 1 (Fall 2007): 163-168.
Rember, John. "Channeling Jimmy." Idaho Mountain Express. Oct. 31, 2007: URL.
Bender, Aimee. "Lemonade." Tin House Volume 9. Number 1 (Fall 2007): 20-29.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. "The Third and Final Continent." The New Yorker 21-28 Jun. 1999: 200-214.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. "The Oracular Vulva." The New Yorker 21-28 Jun. 1999: 178-185.
Wallace, David Foster. "Asset." The New Yorker 21-28 Jun. 1999: 93-94.
Moody, Rick. "Hawaiian Night." The New Yorker 21-28 Jun. 1999: 108-111.
(2007: Books)
Complete Plays, Sarah Kane
Angels, Denis Johnson
Before You She Was a Pitbull, Elizabeth Ellen
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
Lenny Bruce Is Dead, Jonathan Goldstein
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Cheerleaders From Gomorrah, John Rember
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
As Cool As I Am, Pete Fromm
The First Hurt: Stories, Rachel Sherman
(2006: Books)
Carousel of Progress, Katherine Tanney
Running With Sissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Carolyn Chute
King Dork, Frank Portman
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (re-read)
Towelhead, Alicia Erian
We Are All Fine Here, Mary Guterson
The Magician, Sol Stein
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
How I Became Stupid, Martin Page
(2005: Books)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Best Day the Worst Day, Donald Hall
Speak of the Devil, Richard Hawke
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr
Willful Creatures, Aimee Bender
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America, Phillip Roth
Ignorance, Milan Kundera
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, ed. David Sedaris
Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway
Nice Big American Baby, Judy Budnitz
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Columnist, Jeffrey Frank
Floating in My Mother's Palm, Ursula Hegi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
(2004: Books)
Coyote v. Acme, Ian Frazier
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
In The Shadow of No Towers, Art Spiegelman
The Burn Journals, Brent Runyon
Garden State, Rick Moody
An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Jincy Willett
Jenny and the Jaws of Life, Jincy Willet
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison
Naked in Baghdad, Anne Garrels
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Too Much Coffee Man: Parade of Tirade, Shannon Wheeler
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Truth & Beauty : A Friendship, Ann Patchett
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
Polaroids from the Dead, Douglas Coupland
Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher
A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity, Whittney Otto
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto, Chuck Klosterman
Sula, Toni Morrison (re-read)
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood, A. J. Albany
The Coma, Alex Garland & Nicholas Garland
(2003: Books)
Fraud : Essays, David Rakoff
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, Cintra Wilson
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Frida : A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Hayden Herrera
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, Richard Hugo
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
1984, George Orwell
The First Year--Lupus: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed, Nancy C. Hanger
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Chuck Palahniuk
Voluntary Simplicity (rev) : Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, Duane Elgin
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Sula, Toni Morrison
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford
The Good Times Are Killing Me, Lynda Barry
The Book of Liz, David Sedaris & Amy Sedaris
Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World, Sarah Vowell
(late 2001, 2002: Books)
Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Lucky, Alice Sebold
Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling
Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Indian Killer, Sherman Alexie
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Denis Johnson
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now,Sandra Tsing Loh
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Name of the World, Denis Johnson
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
Cruddy, Lynda Barry
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll
Note: These are the books I finished. Books I attempted to read, but never finished, are not listed. And this list doesn't include all the essays and short stories I read for school. Or the issues of US Weekly I read in the waiting rooms.