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Books now read and reviewed (M = mini-review):

2008 (in the order they were reviewed)
Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill (M)
Day of Empire, by Amy Chua
The Somnambulist, by Jonathan Barnes
Bringing Home the Birkin, by Michael Tonello
The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon (M)
This Year You Write Your Novel, by Walter Mosley (M)
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, by Pierre Bayard (M)
The Last Opium Den, by Nick Tosches (M)
The Gathering, by Anne Enright
From Hell, by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (M)
Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock (M)
Black Hole, by Charles Burns (M)
Trip, by Mick MacO (M)
Zeroville, by Steve Erickson (M)
Now And Forever, by Ray Bradbury (M)
The Gum Thief, by Douglas Coupland
The Boy Detective Fails, by Joe Meno
Via Dolorosa, by Ronald Malfi
Shakespeare: The World as Stage, by Bill Bryson (M)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks
Clown Girl, by Monica Drake (M)
The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta
Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold
by George, by Wesley Stace
The Night Climbers, by Ivo Stourton
The Bird is a Raven, by Benjamin Lebert (M)
Halting State, by Charles Stross
Petropolis, by Anya Ulinich
Vacation, by Jeremy Shipp
Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis

2007 (in alphabetical order)
After Dark. by Haruki Murakami
The Black Sun, by James Twining
The Chess Machine, by Robert Lohr
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
Consolation, by Michael Redhill
dermaphoria, by Craig Clevenger
The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger
The End As I Know It, by Kevin Shay
The Exception, by Christian Jungersen
Glasshouse, by Charles Stross
God is a Woman, by Ian Coburn
Grand Avenues, by Scott Berg
Growing Up Moffett, by Sarah Moffett
HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq
Infoquake, by David Louis Edelman
Jamestown, by Matthew Sharpe
Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen, by Lesley Hazleton
Little Children, by Tom Perrotta
Lucky Man, by Ben Tanzer
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
No one belongs here more than you., by Miranda July
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, by Carl Smith
The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq
Radiant Days, by Michael FitzGerald
Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Right Livelihoods, by Rick Moody
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, by Stephen Marche
The Slynx, by Tatyana Tolstaya
Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
Three Fallen Women, by Amy Güth
Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson
The Uses of Enchantment, by Heidi Julavitz
Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future, by Jack Myers and Jerry Weinstein
The Welsh Girl, by Peter Ho Davies
The Whole, by John Reed

Too awful to finish
Engleby, by Sebastian Faulks
New Bedlam, by Bill Flanagan
The Pesthouse, by Jim Crace
The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks
You Don't Love Me Yet, by Jonathan Lethem

Tales from the Completist (books older than 2006)
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (M)
Barrel Fever, by David Sedaris (M)
Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon (M)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
Drop City, by TC Boyle
Dune, by Frank Herbert (M)
Exposure, by Kathryn Harrison (M)
Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z Brite (M)
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (M)
The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker (M)
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (M)
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (M)
The Giant's House, by Elizabeth McCracken (M)
Hairstyles of the Damned, by Joe Meno
Independence Day, by Richard Ford (M)
Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice (M)
Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto (M)
Layover, by Lisa Zeidner (M)
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (M)
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
Lords of Chaos, by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (M)
The Loving Dominant, by John Warren (M)
Lucky Wander Boy, by DB Weiss (M)
Matala, by Craig Holden (M)
Me and Kev, by Simon Black (M)
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, by Neal Pollack (M)
Oath of Fealty, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (M)
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, by Michelle Tea (M)
The Redneck Manifesto, by Jim Goad (M)
Reservation Road, by John Burnham Schwartz (M)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (M)
Shock Treatment, by Karen Finley (M)
The Solitudes, by John Crowley
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (M)
Valencia, by Michelle Tea (M)
Vox, by Nicholson Baker (M)

Currently in my reading list (updated 5/3/08):
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA, by Nick Taylor
And All Shall Be Well..., by Tod Wodicka
The Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates
Grey, by Jon Armstrong
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
Infected, by Scott Sigler
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Prisoners in Paradise, by Akmal Shebl
The Savage Detective, by Robert Bolano