Books Read 2008
- Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Michael Chabon: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)
- Pete Hamill: North River: A Novel
- Dana Thomas: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
- Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
- Stuart Woods: Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington Novels)
- Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Diana Gabaldon: A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander)
- Ken Follett: World Without End
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Benjamin Black: Christine Falls: A Novel
- Deborah Rodriguez: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls
- John Seabrook: NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing - the Marketing of Culture
- David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Alison Larkin: The English American: A Novel
- Lisa Tucker: The Cure for Modern Life: A Novel
- Monique Truong: The Book of Salt: A Novel
- Lisa Tucker: Once Upon a Day: A Novel
- Amity Gaige: The Folded World
- Frank Herbert: Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
- Robert B. Reich: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)
- Claire LaZebnik: Knitting Under the Influence
- James McBride: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Shan Sa: The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel
- Daniel J. Solove: The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
- Peter Hoeg: The Quiet Girl: A Novel
- Michael Gates Gill: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel
- Phoebe Damrosch: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
- Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Books Read 2007
- Barbara Taylor Bradford: The Ravenscar Dynasty
- Dean Koontz: The Darkest Evening of the Year
- Louise Erdrich: The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.)
- Mary Higgins-Clark : I'll Be Seeing You
- James Patterson: Double Cross (Alex Cross)
- Nina Garcia: The Little Black Book of Style
- Albert Sanchez Pinol: Cold Skin
- Julia Cameron: Floor Sample
- Jennifer Haigh: Mrs. Kimble (P.S.)
- Cornelia Read: A Field of Darkness
- Rachel Spencer: Au Paris
- Mary Gordon: Circling My Mother: A Memoir
- Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
- Linda Fairstein: Death Dance: A Novel (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)
- House-Bound: Winifred Peck
- Philippa Gregory: The Queen's Fool: A Novel
- Christian Jungersen: The Exception: A Novel
- Leonard Shengold: Haunted by Parents
- Rachel Cusk: Arlington Park: A Novel
- Anita Shreve: A Wedding in December
- Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
- McCarthy, Mary: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (New York Review Books Collections)
- Nancy Isenberg: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
- Dan Ho: Rescue from House Gorgeous
- Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
- Michael Ondaatje: Divisadero
- Vinita Hampton Wright: Dwelling Places: A Novel
- Rumer Godden: An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection)
- Mats Wahl: The Invisible
- Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
- Jerome Groopman: How Doctors Think
- Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Plum Sykes: The Debutante Divorcee
- Anne Rivers Siddons: Sweetwater Creek
- Cormac Mccarthy: All the Pretty Horses
- Paul M. Barrett: American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
- Joseph Conrad: Almayer's Folly
- Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- Penelope Rowlands: A Dash of Daring
- Thomas Hager: The Demon Under the Microscope
Books Read 2006
- Stephen King: The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
- Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
- Malcolm Gladwell: Blink
- Robert Ludlum: The Bancroft Strategy
- Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden
- Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
- Lars Gustafsson: The Death of a Beekeeper
- T. C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain
- Marion Nestle: What to Eat
- Stephen King: Song of Susannah
- Stephen King: Wolves of the Calla
- Danielle Steel: Toxic Bachelors
- Stephen King: Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)
- Stephen King: The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
- Alan Jacobs: The Narnian
- Stephen King: The Gunslinger
- Stephen King: The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
- Anne Tyler: Digging To America
- Anita Shreve: Resistance
- Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
- James Patterson: 4th of July
- Harlan Coben: The Innocent
- Elizabeth George: With No One as Witness
- George Orwell: Why I Write
- Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking
- Norah Vincent: Self Made Man
- Danielle Steel: Impossible
- Philippa Gregory: The Constant Princess
Books Read 2005
- Robert Caro: The Power Broker
- Julian Jackson: The Fall of France
- Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
- J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
- Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire
- Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
- Daniel Mason: The Piano Tuner
- J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Anne McCaffrey: Freedom's Ransom
- C. S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew
- Ian McEwan: Saturday
- Cormack McCarthy: No Country for Old Men
- Chinua Achebe: Home & Exile
- Phillipa Gregory: The Other Bolyn Girl
- Phillipa Gregory: The Virgin's Lover
- Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
- Jared Diamond: Guns, germs and Steel
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
- Mary Higgins Clark: A Cry in the Night
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
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Although I think of myself as continually distracted, that is far from the truth. The problem is that when I am doing something I love, be it reading a book, listening to music, sewing, knitting, or just daydreaming, I am so totally focused that the intrusion of the world comes as something of a shock. I see myself as distracted because there are so many things pulling at my hearstrings, so many things in which to lose myself, so many things tempting away from my one true passion ..... of the moment.
