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2003 books!

• Best transgender erotica - Hanne Blank & Raven Kaldera, editors
• Blue shoe - Anne Lamott
• What happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci
• Vixens - Bertrice Small
• For better, for worse - Carole Matthews
• Free radical - Claire Rudolf Murphy
• My heartbeat - Garret Weyr
• Amanda's wedding - Jenny Colgan

Books I've actually managed to finish in 2002:

• Mr. Maybe - Jane Green
• Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
• Talking to Addison - Jenny Colgan
• The best little girl in in the world - Steven Levenkron
• The broke diaries - Angela Nissel
• The luckiest girl in the world - Steven Levenkron
• The lovely bones - Alice Sebold
• Sloppy firsts - Megan McCafferty
• Courtney's legacy : a father's journey - George Cantor
• That takes ovaries : bold females and their brazen acts - Rivka Solomon, editor
• Hard love - Ellen Wittlinger
• The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The idot-girl's action adventure club : true tales from a magnificent and clumsy life - Laurie Notaro
• Neurotica - Sue Margolis
• The White - Deborah Larsen
• Bookends - Jane Green
• Snow in August - Pete Hamill
• Hornito (my lie life) - Mike Albo
• Just for fun : the story of an accidental revolutionary - Linus Torvalds & David Diamond
• All families are psychotic - Douglas Coupland
• Cut - Patricia McCormick
• The binding chair, or, A visit from the foot emancipation society - Kathryn Harrison [Is it just me, or has Kathryn Harrison gotten weirder and weirder since she wrote The Kiss?]
• Hope was here - Joan Bauer
• The bad beginning : a series of unfortunate events - Lemony Snicket
• The doctor's guide to weight loss surgery : how to make the decision that could save your life - Louis Flancbaum
• The nanny diaries - Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
• The thinking woman's guide to a better birth - Henci Goer
• The Blue nowhere - Jeffrey Deaver
• Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
• The Hunters - Claire Messud
• Misconceptions: truth, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood - Naomi Wolf
• Stupid white men and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation - Michael Moore
• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
• Fat chance - Leslea Newman
• Gut feelings - Carnie Wilson
• Treasured past - Linda Hill
• Choices - Nancy Toder
• Fast food nation - Eric Schlosser
  

Books I've actually managed to finish in 2001:

• My year of meats - Ruth L. Ozeki
• Long time no see - Susan Isaacs
• By the River Piedra I sat down and wept - Paulo Coelho
• Bird by bird - Anne Lamott
• Aquamarine - Alice Hoffman
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
• Big big love : a sourcebook on sex for people of size and those who love them - Hanne Blank
• As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl - John Colapinto
• On the fringe - Donald Gallo, editor
• Waiting : the true confessions of a waitress - Debra Ginsberg
• Terminal velocity - Blanche McCrary Boyd
• The human stain - Philip Roth
• Like being killed - Ellen Miller
• Empress of the World - Sara Ryan
• Bridget Jones : Age of Reason - Helen Fielding
• Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
• Good in bed - Jennifer Weiner
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
• Harley, like a person - Cat Bauer
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica - Hanne Blank, editor
• Going down - Jennifer Belle
• I was a teenage fairy - Francesca Lia Block
• Mr. Perfect -Linda Howard
• Valencia - Michelle Tea
• Keeping the moon - Sarah Dessen
• Veronika decides to die - Paulo Coelho
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
• Dreamland - Sarah Dessen
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
• That summer - Sarah Dessen
• Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes - Chris Crutcher
• The burning times: a novel of medieval France - Jeanne Kalogridis
• Life in the fat lane - Cherie Bennett
• Myrtle of Willendorf - Rebecca O'Connell
• Am I blue? Coming out from the silence - Marion Dane Bauer, editor
• Someone like you - Sarah Dessen
• Dangerous angels : the weetzie bat books - Francesca Lia Block
• No condition is permanent - Cristina Kessler
• Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block
• Violet and Claire - Francesca Lia Block
• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
• Frommer's 99 Washington, DC - Frommer's
• The unofficial guide to Washington, DC - Joe Surkiewicz, Bob Sehlinger and Eve Zibart
• The ethical slut - Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
• Half a heart - Rosellen Brown
• Disobedience - Jane Hamilton
• Black white and jewish: autobiography of a shifting self - Rebecca Walker
• Body outlaws: young women write about body image and identity - Ophira Edut [revised ed. of Adios, Barbie, with a few new chapters and a kick-ass editor's note].
• Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard

Other books I've finished:

• Eating Chinese food naked - Mei Ng
• The Silver Kiss - Annette Curtis Klause
• Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia - Marya Hornbacher
• Cybergirl! A woman's guide to the world wide web - Aliza Sherman
• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster - Jon Krakauer
• The undertaking : life studies from the dismal trade - Thomas Lynch (very very interesting)
• Been there, haven't done that : a virgin's memoir - Tara McCarthy
• Blood and chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause
• Upgrading and fixing PCs for dummies, 3rd. ed. - Andy Rathbone
• The Lover - Marguerite Duras
• Guided tours of hell - Francine Prose (not very interesting at all)
• God said "HA!" - Julia Sweeney
• The Loving Dominant - John Warren (Thanks Michelle!)
• Halfway heaven : diary of a Harvard murder - Melanie Thernstrom
• First cut : a season in the human anatomy lab - Albert Howard Carter III
• The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
• Last night in paradise : sex and morals at the century's end - Katie Roiphe
• Where the heart is - Billie Letts
• Inventing memory : a novel of mothers and daughters - Erica Jong
• Just between us girls - Sydney Biddle Barrows
• The Tenth Justice - Brad Meltzer
• Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite
• Kids are punny - Rosie O'Donnell
• A woman's guide to making therapy work - Joan Shapiro (Thanks Michelle!)
• Up Island - Anne Rivers Siddons
• Gut symmetries - Jeanette Winterson (sorry folks, i don't see why people love her work so much)
• The packing book : secrets of the carry on traveler - Judith Gilford (Thanks Lani!)
• Sensual magic - Pat Califia (Thanks Nick!)
• The art of breaking glass - Matthew Hall
• The hottest state - Ethan Hawke
• Every day - Elizabeth Richards
• Joy school - Elizabeth Berg
• The underground guide to San Francisco - Jennifer Joseph, ed.
• She's come undone - Wally Lamb
• Talk dirty to me : an intimate philosophy of sex - Sallie Tisdale
• Surface tension : love, sex and politics between lesbians and straight women - Edited by Meg Daly
• Necessary madness - Jenn Crowell
• Love invents us - Amy Bloom
• Don't talk to strangers - Bethany Campbell
• Take this book to the gynecologist with you - Gale Maleskey
• Desert of the heart - Jane Rule
• Vegetarian Times vegetarian beginner's guide - Vegetarian Times
• Guilt by association - Susan R. Sloan
• Prozac nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Tessie and Pearlie - Joy Horowitz
• The voice on the radio - Caroline B. Cooney
• In a heartbeat - Eric Stone
• Kink : the hidden sex lives of Americans - Susan Crain Bakos
• The skin palace - Jack O'Connell
• Touched - Carolyn Haines
• Kink - Kathe Koja
• Push - Sapphire
• Requiem for a glass heart - David Lindsey
• First love - Joyce Carol Oates
• The invisible woman: confronting weight prejudice in America - W. Charisse Goodman
• Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood
• Dual attraction : understanding bisexuality - Martin S. Weinberg

take me out of this nerdy mess!