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biographies
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman  Algernon, Charlie, and I - Daniel Keyes  Without Vodka, Aleksander Topolski  Appetite for Life, Noel Riley Fitch  On Writing, Stephen King  The Last Madam, Christine Wiltz  Valencia, Michele Tea  The Kid, Dan Savage 

children & young adult books
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares  Summerland, Michael Chabon  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling  The Giver, Lois Lowry  Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry  Holes, Louis Sachar  War for the Oaks, Emma Bull  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares  I Was A Rat!, Philip Pullman  The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket  The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket  Coraline, Neil Gaiman  The Tiger in the Well, Philip Pullman  The Shadow in the North, Philip Pullman  Mixed Magics, Diana Wynne Jones  Empress of the World, Sara Ryan  Violet and Claire, Francesca Lia Block  I Was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block  Sophie's Masterpiece, Eileen Spinelli, Jane Dyer  Q is for Quark - A Science Alphabet Book, David M. Schwartz  Clockwork: Or All Wound Up, Philip Pullman  Red Ranger Came Calling - A Guaranteed True Christmas Story, Berkely Breathed  The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket  The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman  Roverandom, J.R.R. Tolkien  Bud, not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis  The Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman  The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman  Sector 7, David Wiesner  The Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman  Return to Gone-Away, Elizabeth Enright  Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling  Gone Away Lake, Elizabeth Enright  The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure, Hans Magnus Enzensberger  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book III), JK Rowling  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book II), JK Rowling  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book I), JK Rowling 

comfort reading & trashy novels
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King  California Roll - Roger L. Simon  Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain  Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain  The Helium Murder, Camille Minichino. 

comics
Finder: Sin Eater, Carla Speed McNeil  Harlequin Valentine, Neil Gaiman  Pedro and Me, Judd Winick  The Quotable Sandman, Neil Gaiman  Bone - Ghost Circles, Jeff Smith  Bone: Old Man's Cave, Jeff Smith  Bone: Rock Jaw, Jeff Smith  Signal to Noise, Eric S. Nylund  Bone - The Dragon Slayer, Jeff Smith  Bone - Eyes of the Storm, Jeff Smith  Bone - The Great Cow Race, Jeff Smith  Dreamtoons, Jesse Reklaw  Bone, Jeff Smith  Midnight Days, Neil Gaiman 

cookbooks & food writing
Cooking for Mr. Latte, Amanda Hesser  The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, Judy Rodgers  Let Us Eat Cake, Sharon Boorstin  Best Food Writing 2002, Holly Hughes  The Best American Recipes 1999, Fran McCullogh, Suzanne Hamlin  The Fourth Star, Leslie Brenner  Chez Panisse Fruit - Alice Waters  Stuffed - Adventures of a Restaurant Family, Patricia Volk  Think Like a Chef, Tom Colicchio  The Last Course - The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern, Claudia Fleming  A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain  The Cook and The Gardener, Amanda Hesser  Kitchen Suppers: Good Food to Share with Good Friends, Alison Becker Hurt  Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser  The Northwest Essantials, Greg Atkinson  The Cafe Cookbook: Italian Recipes for London's River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, Rose Gray  Flavours, Donna Hay  Cocktail-O-Matic, Suzanne Matczuk  The Millennium Cookbook, Eric Tucker, John Westerdahl, and Sascha Weiss  Staff Meals from Chanterelle, David Waltuck, Melicia Phillips  Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Love, Life, Food & Flavor, Laura Esquivel  My Kitchen Wars, Betty Fussell  The Potted Herb, Abbie Zabar  Terra, Hiro Sone, Lissa Doumani  The Best Thing I Ever Tasted: The Secret of Food, Sally Tilsdale  The Northern California Best Places Cookbook, Cynthia C. Nims, Carolyn Dille  San Francisco Seafood, Michele Anne Jordan  The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver  Monday Night at Narsai's, Narsai David  The Best Food Writing 2000, Holly Hughes  The French Laundry Cookbook, Thomas Keller  Alligator Dreams: The Story of Greenwood Ridge Vineyards, Richard Paul Hinkle  Simple French Food, Richard Olney  Off the Eaten Path, Bob Blumer  Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress, Debra Ginsberg  The Soul of a Chef, Michael Ruhlman  A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle  Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes  Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking, Shirly A. Corrihur.  Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain  Cook's Illustrated 1999 Almanac  Chez Panisse Desserts, Lindsay Shere  The Measure of Her Powers; an MFK Fisher Reader  Noodle, Terry Durak  Taste, David Rosengarten  A Celebration of Women Chefs, Julie Stillman & Alice Waters 

lit-ra-ture
Wonder When You'll Miss Me, Amanda Davis  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon  Jenny and the Jaws of Life, Jincy Willett  Dead Air, Iain Banks  Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk  The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster  Whit, Iain Banks  Canal Dreams, Iain Banks  Boonville, Robert Mailer Anderson  White Oleander, Janet Fitch  Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier  Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn  The Hours, Michael Cunningham  The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni  FingerSmith, Sarah Waters  The Book Borrower, Alice Mattison  The House of Fog and Sand, Andre Dubus III  The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank  The Bridegroom, Ha Jin  A Widow for One Year, John Irving  The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood  The Crow Road, Iain Banks  Espedair Street, Iain Banks  The Path of Minor Planets, Andrew Sean Greer  Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk  Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui  Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast, Bill Richardson  The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse  The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks  Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland  Frisco Pigeon Mambo, C.D. Payne  Choke, Chuck Palahniuk  The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks  Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters  Dating Big Bird, Laura Zigman  Shopgirl, Steve Martin  Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley  Waiting, Ha Jin  The Liar, Stephen Fry  Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver  The Night Listener, Armistead Maupin  Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami  The Saskiad, Brian Hall  Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris  Timbuktu, Paul Auster  To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee  The Cider House Rules, John Irving  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers  Ghost of Chance, William S. Burroughs  How it Was for Me, Sean Andrew Greer  Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem  The Berlin Noir Trilogy, Phillip Kerr  The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, John Birmingham.  Beyond the Curve, Kobo Abe  He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, John Birmingham  Marley in Hell; James Oleson 

non-fiction
The Bitch in the House, Cathi Hanauer  Time Out Tokyo  Victoria and Vancouver Island: A Personal Tour of an Almost Perfect Eden, Kathleen Thompson Hill, Gerald N. Hill  Cunt: A Declaration of Independance, Inga Muscio  Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer  Congregations in Conflict - The Battle over Homosexuality, Keith Hartman  Bi Any Other Name,Bisexual People Speak Out, Loraine Hutchins, editor and Lani Kaahumanu, editor  Class, Paul Fussell 

science fiction & fantasty
Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll  Vitals, Greg Bear  Chasm City, Alastair Reynolds  Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling  Lost: A Novel, Gregory Maguire  Cosmonaut Keep, Ken Macleod  The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien  The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien  Psychlone, Greg Bear  The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carroll  The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll  Lust, Geoff Ryman  Zeitgeist, Bruce Sterling  Passage, Connie Willis  The Scar, China Mieville  Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds  King Rat, China Mieville  Emergence, David R. Palmer  Gumshoe Gorilla, Keith Hartman  Perdido Street Station, China Mieville  The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien  The Fellowship of The Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien  Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo  Sky Coyote, Kage Baker  Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks  The Goblin Companion, Brian Froud and Terry Jones  Calculating God, Robert J. Sawyer  Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks  The Sky Road, Ken MacLeod  1968, Joe Haldeman  Marooned In Realtime, Vernor Vinge  The Peace War, Vernor Vinge  The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod  The Stone Canal, Ken MacLeod  American Gods, Neil Gaiman  Inversions, Iain M. Banks  Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov  The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Christopher Moore  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlien  All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson  The Big U, Neal Stephenson  Was, Geoff Ryman  Russian Spring, Norman Spinrad  Dreaming in Smoke, Tricia Sullivan  The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: A Dickens of a Christmas Carol, James Oleson  One for the Morning Glory, John Barnes  The Business, Iain Banks  Tea from an Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan  The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman  Forever Free, Joe Haldeman  The Marriage of Sticks, Jonathan Carroll  Distraction: A Novel, Bruce Sterling  Walking on Glass, Iain M. Banks  Expendable, James Alan Gardner  Promised Land, Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice  A Hunger in the Soul, Mike Resnick  Excession, Iain M. Banks  The Ophiuchi Hotline, John Varley  Frameshift, Robert Sawyer  The Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks  The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse, Keith Hartman  The Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay  The Gift, Patrick O'Leary  The Golden Globe, John Varley  Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson  Titan, John Varley  Tales of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory McGuire  Behind Door Number Three, Patrick O'Leary  Millennium, John Varley  Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire  Queen City Jazz, Kathleen Ann Goonan  In the Garden of Iden,Kage Baker  Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, Connie Willis  Sailing to Sarantium. Guy Gavriel Kay  The Eternal Footman, James A. Morrow 

scientific curiosity
Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis  Time, Love, Memory Jonathan Weiner  Genome, The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley