My List

Here we are at the last day of 2004, and since I doubt that I will finish reading a book tonight, here in all its glory, or lack thereof, a list of books I read in 2004. I give the books I read a grade and if I have blogged about it, I linked the blog to that grade. If it seems that the post and grade don't match, I can only say that the grade is given right after I read the book and the post is written a day or two after I have given the grade. Thanks for stopping by in 2004. I hope you come back in 2005. Happy New Year!

Books I read in 2004

1. A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Nonfiction. B+
2. Misogyny: The Male Malady by David D. Gilmore. Nonfiction. B
3. The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White. Nonfiction. B+
4. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury. Nonfiction/Essays. B
5. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Fiction. C
6. Book Lust by Nancy Pearl. Nonfiction. A
7. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Science fiction. A-
8. The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell. Fiction. B+
9. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty. Nonfiction. A-
10. Replay by Ken Grimwood. Fiction. A
11. Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn. Fiction. B+
12. Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel edited by William Zinsser. Nonfiction Essays/Lectures. A
13. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Fiction. C
14. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Fiction. A
15. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer, Translator. Nonfiction. A
16. The Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt. Fiction, Short Stories. A-
17. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. Fiction. A
18. In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, edited and translated by Julian Barnes. Nonfiction. A
19. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Scifi/Speculative Fiction. A
20. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. Fiction. C+
21. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. Fiction Short Stories. A
22. Urgent 2nd Class by Nick Bantok. Nonfiction. B+
23. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Fiction. A
24. The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. LeGuin. Nonfiction Essays. A
25. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. Collection. A
26. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Fiction. A+
27. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing by Stephen King. Essays. B
28. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. Fantasy fiction. A
29. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volumen One, 1915-1919 by Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Nonfiction. A
30. Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin. Fantasy Fiction. B-
31. The Art of the Bookplate by James P. Keenan. Nonfiction, Art. A
32. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart. Nonfiction. C
33. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt. Fiction. B-
34. The School Among the Ruins, Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich. Poetry. A
35. The Pornography of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Nonfiction. C-
36. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Fiction. A
37. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer. Nonfiction. A
38. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Fiction. A
39. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. Fiction. A
40. An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy. Essays. A
41. Women and Evil by Nel Noddings. Nonfiction/Philosophy. A
42. The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow. Fiction. A-
43. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Fiction. A-
44. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart and the Writers of The Daily Show. Humor/Satire. A
45. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. Fiction. A
46. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain. Nonfiction. F
47. Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed. Fiction. C+
48. Light by M. John Harrison. Science fiction. B
49. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Fiction. B
50. The Undressed Art: Why We Draw by Peter Steinhart. Nonfiction. A-
51. A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books by Alberto Manguel. Nonfiction. A
52. The Epicure's Lament by kate Christensen. Fiction. A
53. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. Fiction. A
54. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. Scifi/Speculative fiction. A-
55. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby. Essays. A