Reading Record 2004
The Colossus of New York (Colson Whitehead)
The Devil in the White City (Eric Larsen)
Borderlines (Caroline Strauss)
One Last Look (Susanna Moore).
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness (Karen Armstrong) (finished 3/2)
A Traveller’s Companion to Venice (John Julius Norwich, ed.) (finished 3/8)
Follow up: Norwich’s History of Venice?
The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro) (finished 3/26)
The Memory of All That (Betsy Blair) (finished 3/30)
The Automat (Lorraine Diehl and Marianne Hardart) (4/4)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) (finished around 4/24)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman; finished around 5/1)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand; finished 5/6)
The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant; finished 5/16)
The Linguist and the Emperor (Daniel Meyerson)
Mr. Fortune’s Maggot (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman; finished 5/29)
The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman, finished 6/4)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon, finished 6/10)
The Island at the Center of the World (Russell Shorto, finished around 6/20)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi; finished 7/2)
The Rule of Four (Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomas; finished 7/8)
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux; finished 7/21)
Why Read the Classics? (Italo Calvino; finished 7/27)
Sarah Canary (Karen Joy Fowler; finished 8/5)
Pride and Prejudice (reread; Jane Austen; finished 8/6)
The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer; finished 8/13 or thereabouts)
Phantom (Susan Kay; October, I think)
Paradise Alley (Kevin Baker; no idea)
The Egyptologist (Arthur Phillips; early November)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams; reread; finished 12/3)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling; reread)
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje; reread)
Under the Banner of Heaven (Jon Krakauer; finished 12/25)