What's Mary Been Reading?
(Reading a book does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of that book.)
List format:  finish date - title - author.


11/10/2008 - Memory - Lois McMaster Bujold
11/5/2008 - Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
10/22/2008 - The Rules - Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
10/5/2008 - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer
9/24/2008 - The Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
8/31/2008 - Henry Potty and the Deathly Paper Shortage - Valerie Estelle Frankel
8/24/2008 - Ringworld - Larry Niven
8/7/2008 - A Field Guide to Surreal Botany - Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg
7/27/2008 - The Missing Persons League - Frank Bonham
7/24/2008 - The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories - Philip K. Dick
6/25/2008 - Dr. Futurity - Philip K. Dick
6/24/2008 - Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynne Truss
6/24/2008 - The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
6/16/2008 - Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
6/15/2008 - Sphere - Michael Crichton
6/5/2008 - The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
6/2/2008 - Tabloid Love - Bridget Harrison
5/29/2008 - A Girl Could Stand Up - Leslie Marshall
5/29/2008 - The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
5/22/2008 - The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
5/20/2008 - The Design of Everday Things - Donald A. Norman
5/16/2008 - Dubious Bear is Dubious - Jade Gordon
5/13/2008 - The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan
5/4/2008 - The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
5/4/2008 - Soul Crisis - Sue Nathanson
4/26/2008 - The Primal Wound - Nancy Newton Verrier
4/7/2008 - Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
4/2/2008 - The Jungle Book:  Mowgli's Story - Rudyard Kipling
4/2/2008 - Awakenings - Oliver Sacks
3/23/2008 - Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
2/27/2008 - Next - Micheal Crichton
2/23/2008 - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
2/21/2008 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
2/19/2008 - The Story of My Life - Helen Keller (with accounts by Anne Sullivan and John Macy)
2/9/2008 - I'm Still Hungry - Carnie Wilson
2/7/2008 - Gut Feelings - Carnie Wilson
1/25/2008 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 1:  The Long Way Home - Joss Whedon & Georges Jeanty
1/22//2008 - Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner
1/16/2008 - A War of Gifts - Orson Scott Card
1/16/2008 - In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
1/10/2008 - Family Trust - Amanda Brown
1/8/2008 - A Brilliant Madness - Patty Duke and Gloria Hochman
1/1/2008 - To Ride Pegaus - Anne McCaffrey
12/17/2007 - An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
12/13/2007 - The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
12/2/2007 - Invasion From The Planet Of The Cows - Dan Greenburg
11/4/2007 - The John Varley Reader:  Thirty Years of Short Fiction - John Varley
9/29/2007 - The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
9/17/2007 - Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
9/8/2007 - The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
8/31/2007 - Operating Instructions - Anne Lamott
8/28/2007 - King Solomon's Ring - Konrad Z. Lorenz
8/24/2007 - The Big Love - Sarah Dunn
8/20/2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
7/25/2007 - Momo - Michael Ende
7/22/2007 - The Savage My Kinsman - Elisabeth Elliot
7/18/2007 - Passion and Purity - Elisabeth Elliot
7/15/2007 - The Game - Neil Strauss
7/11/2007 - I Don't Want to Go to Church! - Scott Cooper
7/9/2007 - Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
7/6/2007 - The Dawkins Delusion:  Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine - Alister McGrath & Joanna Collicutt McGrath
7/3/2007 - The Mystery Method - Mystery
6/30/2007 - Hooking Up or Holding Out - Jamie Callan
6/17/2007 - Think Like a Guy - Giuliana DePandi
6/15/2007 - The Guy's Guide to Dating, Getting Hitched, and Surviving the First Year of Marriage - Michael Crider
6/12/2007 - You Didn't Hear It From Us - Dushan Zaric & Jason Kosmas
6/10/2007 - I Love You, Let's Meet - Virginia Vitzthum
6/5/2007 - Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
5/23/2007 - Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
5/23/2007 - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
5/15/2007 - The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
5/5/2007 - The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
4/24/2007 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
4/19/2007 - The Lurking Fear and Other Stories - H. P. Lovecraft
4/11/2007 - Reading Lolita in Tehran:  A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
4/8/2007  - Sex and the Single Vampire - Katie MacAlister
3/26/2007 - The Planiverse:  Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World - A. K.  Dewdney
3/16/2007 - 200% of Nothing - A. K. Dewdney
3/11/2007 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3/1/2007 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
2/12/2007 - The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
2/10/2007 - North of Infinity:  Futurity Visions - Micheal Magnini, Editor
2/9/2007 - The Dreamland Chronicles:  The Woman of His Dreams - William Mark Simmons
2/6/2007 - The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
2/4/2007 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
1/21/2007 - The Dreamland Chronicles:  When Dreams Collide - William Mark Simmons
1/16/2007 - Damia - Anne McCaffrey
1/4/2007 - Henry Potty and the Pet Rock:  An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody - Valerie Estelle Frankel
1/1/2007 - The Five People You Meet Heaven - Mitch Albom
12/24/2006 - Blankets:  An Illustrated Novel - Craig Thompson
12/15/2006 - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire
11/19/2006 - Songs of the Gorilla Nation:  My Journey Through Autism - Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
11/16/2006 - Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
11/13/2006 - Journey from the Land of No - Roya Hakakian
11/6/2006 - The Dreamland Chronicles:  In the Net of Dreams - William Mark Simmons
11/5/2006 - A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind
10/25/2006 - Terra Incognita:  Travels in Antarctica - Sara Wheeler
10/10/2006 - The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
10/4/2006 - Catfish and Mandala - Andrew X. Pham
9/24/2006 - Before You Know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian
9/10/2006 -  Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
9/6/2006 - Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
9/6/2006 - Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding
8/30/2006 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
8/27/2006 - "Two Hearts" - Peter S. Beagle
8/16/2006 - Malafrena - Ursula K. LeGuin
8/14/2006 - Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
7/27/2006 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
7/21/2006 - The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum
7/9/2006 - Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbit
6/18/2006 - Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6/17/2006 - A Man Named Dave:  A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness - Dave Pelzer
6/12/2006 - Bridget Jones:  The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding
6/9/2006 - The Lost Boy:  A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family - Dave Pelzer
6/7/2006 - A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
5/31/2006 - Komarr - Lois McMaster Bujold
5/26/2006 - Characters & Viewpoint - Orson Scott Card
5/24/2006 - Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
5/12/2006 - Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
5/4/2006 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
4/28/2006 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - Joyce Carol Oates, Editor
4/23/2006 - Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
4/21/2006 - The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
4/21/2006 - The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
4/19/2006 - Lost - Gregory Maguire
4/15/2006 - A Child Called "IT":  One Child's Courage to Survive -  Dave Pelzer
4/8/2006 - On Writing:  A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
4/3/2006 - Riding the Bus with My Sister:  A True Life Journey - Rachel Simon
3/27/2006 - The Old Silent - Martha Grimes
3/23/2006 - Field Guide to the Slug - David George Gordon
3/6/2006 - Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
3/2/2006 - Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
2/24/2006 - The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - L. Frank Baum
2/22/2006 - The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2/17/2006 - PEEPS - Scott Westerfeld
2/16/2006 - The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
2/11/2006 - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
2/5/2006 - Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales - Gregory Maguire
2/4/2006 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1/30/2006 - Wicked:  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
1/25/2006 - The Return of Santiago:  A Myth of the Far Future - Mike Resnick
1/17/2006 - Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
1/10/2006 - Gaviotas :  A Village to Reinvent the World - Alan Weisman
1/8/2006 - Babe, the Gallant Pig - Dick King-Smith
1/4/2006 - The Road to Oz - L. Frank Baum
1/4/2006 - The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber
1/1/2006 - The Explainers - Jules Feiffer
12/22/2005 - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - L. Frank Baum
12/20/2005 - Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum
12/19/2005 - Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
12/18/2005 - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
12/15/2005 - The Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum
12/12/2005 - The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
12/4/2005 - Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
11/30/2005 - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
11/21/2005 - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
11/17/2005 - Worlds In Small - John Robert Colombo, Editor
11/8/2005 - Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
11/1/2005 - The Tao Is Silent - Raymond M. Smullyan
10/31/2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
10/27/2005 - A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
10/16/2005 - The Sorcerers' Crossing - Taisha Abelar
10/14/2005 - Witchcraft Today - Gerald B. Gardner
10/13/2005 - Book of Shadows - Phyllis Curott
10/9/2005 - The Witch's Garden - Harold A. Hansen, translated by Muriel Crofts
10/8/2005 - The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold
9/30/2005 - Kris Longknife:  Deserter - Mike Shepherd
9/23/2005 - Dance of Knives - Donna McMahon
9/22/2005 - Pirattitude:  So You Wanna Be a Pirate?  Here's How! - John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers
9/13/2005 - Kris Longknife:  Mutineer - Mike Shepherd
9/8/2005 - Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology - Cris DiMarco, Editor
8/30/2005 - Technopoly - Neil Postman
8/24/2005 - Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
8/16/2005 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
8/12/2005 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
8/9/2005 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
8/6/2005 - Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
8/3/2005 - The Vampire Armand - Anne Rice
7/25/2005 - Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
7/17/2005 - Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
7/7/2005 - Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
6/30/2005 - Chinese Myths and Fantasies - Cyril Birch
6/30/2005 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6/29/2005 -  The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
6/27/2005 - 4 Blondes - Candace Bushnell
6/24/2005 - The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
6/21/2005 - Dragons, Gods, & Spirits from Chinese Mythology - Tao Tao Liu Sanders
6/20/2005 - Sex & the City - Candace Bushnell
6/19/2005 -  Legally Blonde - Amanda Brown
6/18/2005 - Shopgirl - Steve Martin
6/16/2005 - The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
5/22/2005 - Trading Up - Candace Bushnell
5/13/2005 - The Beginning Place - Ursula K. LeGuin
5/7/2005 -  The Two Princesses of Bamarre - Gail Carson Levine
5/3/2005 - Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
4/29/2005 - Middlemarch - George Eliot
4/24/2005 - Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul
4/19/2005 - The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
4/15/2005 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
4/8/2005 - Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers

~~~~~~~~~~ before this point, listings are incomplete and may be slightly out of order ~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (also, before this point, the list is still under construction) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ (well, okay, the list is still under construction at the other end too -- but for a different reason) ~~

Winter 2004 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Summer 2002 - Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Summer 2002 - Otherland:  Sea of Silver Light - Tad Williams
Summer 2002 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Summer 2002 - Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Spring 2002 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Spring 2002 - 1984 - George Orwell
Spring 2002 - Persuasion - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Emma - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Lady Susan / The Watsons /  Sandition - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Love and Friendship & Other Early Works - Jane Austen
Spring 2002 - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Winter 2001 - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Fall 2001 - The Mayor Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy
Fall 2001 - The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Fall 2001 - Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Fall 2001 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Summer 2001 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Summer 2001 - Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Fall 2000 - Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
Fall 2000 - Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
Fall 2000 - Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Fall 2000 - Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Fall 2000 - A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
Summer 1999 - Otherland:  River of Blue Fire - Tad Williams
Spring 1999 - Otherland:  City of Golden Shadow - Tad Williams

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