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1 Dorothy Sayers 6 The
Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Whimsey #6) ENGLISH 20th 1 MYSTERY 1
2 Dorothy Sayers 7 Have
His Carcase (Lord Peter Whimsey #7) ENGLISH 20th 2 MYSTERY 2
3 Vladimir Nabokov 14 Bend
Sinister RUSSIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1
4 Dorothy Sayers 8 The
Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Whimsey #8) ENGLISH 20th 3 MYSTERY 3
5 Andrea Camilleri 1 The
Shape of Water ITALIAN 21st 1 MYSTERY 4
6 Dorothy Sayers 9 Gaudy
Night (Lord Peter Whimsey #9) ENGLISH 20th 4 MYSTERY 5
7 Dorothy Sayers 10 Busman's
Honeymoon (Lord Peter Whimsey #10) ENGLISH 20th 5 MYSTERY 6
8 Dorothy Sayers 11 and Jill Paton Walsh 1 Thrones,
Dominations (Lord Peter Whimsey #11) ENGLISH 20th 6 MYSTERY 7
9 Andrea Camilleri 2 The
Snack Thief ITALIAN 21st 2 MYSTERY 8
10 Andrea Camilleri 3 The
Terra-Cotta Dog ITALIAN 21st 3 MYSTERY 9
11 Stephen King 4 The
Gunslinger (Dark Tower #1) AMERICAN 20th 1 FANTASY 1
12 Robert Asprin 14 Something
MYTH Inc. AMERICAN 21st 1 FANTASY 2
13 Robert Asprin 15 and Jody Lynn Nye Myth-Told
Tales AMERICAN 21st 2 FANTASY 3
February
14 Stephen King 5 The
Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower #2) AMERICAN 20th 2 FANTASY 4
15 Stephen King 6 The
Waste Lands (Dark Tower #3) AMERICAN 20th 3 FANTASY 5
16 Tracy Chevalier 4 **The
Lady and the Unicorn AMERICAN 21st 3 HISTORICAL NOVEL 1
17 Alexander McCall Smith 5 The
Full Cupboard of Life (#5 in The No. 1 Ladies' Dective Agency) BOTSWANNA
21st 1 MYSTERY 10
18 Christopher Moore 2 Practical
Demonkeeping AMERICAN 20th 4 FANTASY 6
19 Robert Asprin 16 and Jody Lynn Nye Myth
Alliances AMERICAN 21st 4 FANTASY 7
20 Douglas Adams 9 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 12 episodes,
radio version (audio) ENGLISH 20th 7 FANTASY 8
21 Rene Bijenico 1 Aliens in the Mind, 6 episodes, radio version (audio)
ENGLISH 20th 8 FANTASY 9
22 Robert Parker 35 Melancholy
Baby AMERICAN 21st 5 MYSTERY 11
23 Stephen King 7 Wizard
and Glass (Dark Tower #4) AMERICAN 20th 5 FANTASY 10
March
24 Stephen King 8 Wolves
of the Calla (Dark Tower #5) AMERICAN 21st 5 FANTASY 11
25 Stephen King 9 Song
of Susannah (Dark Tower #6) AMERICAN 21st 6 FANTASY 12
26 Robert Asprin 17 and Jody Lynn Nye Myth-Taken
Identity AMERICAN 21st 7 FANTASY 13
27 Paul Auster 2 **Oracle
Night AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 2
28 Nicholas Sparks 1 *The
Notebook AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 3
29 Nicholas Sparks 2 Nights
in Rodanthe AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 4
30 Stephen King 10 The
Dark Tower (Dark Tower #7) AMERICAN 21st 10 FANTASY 14
31 Jose Saramago 3 ****The
Cave PORTUGUESE 20th 1 NOVEL 2
32 Stephen R. Donaldson 1 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book One Lord Foul's Bane
AMERICAN 20th 5 FANTASY 15
April
33 Orson Scott Card 8 Red
Prophet (Alvin Maker Book 2) AMERICAN 20th 6 FANTASY 16
34 Tommaso Landolfi 1 Gogol's
Wife ITALIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 1
35 Stephen R. Donaldson 2 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Two The Illearth War
AMERICAN 20th 7 FANTASY 17
36 Jose Saramago 4 ****All
the Names PORTUGUESE 20th 2 NOVEL 3
37 Rupa Bajwa 1 * The
Sari Shop INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 4
38 Ray Bradbury 6 Bradbury 13, 13 episodes, radio version (audio) ENGLISH
20th 9 FANTASY 18
39 Erma Bombeck 6 Best of Erma Bombeck, 5 episodes, radio version (audio)
AMERICAN 20th 8 HUMOR 1
40 J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) 1 Glory in Death AMERICAN 20th 9 MYSTERY
11
41 Stephen R. Donaldson 3 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Three The Power that
Preserves AMERICAN 20th 10 FANTASY 19
42 Philip Roth 6 ***The
Plot Against America AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 5
43 Ray Bradbury 7 *The
Illustrated Man AMERICAN 20th 11 FANTASY 20
May
44 Stanislaw Lem 14 Mortal
Engines POLISH 20th 1 FANTASY 21
45 Jose Saramago 5 *The
Stone Raft PORTUGUESE 20th 3 NOVEL 6
46 Robert Heinlein 2 Farnham's Freehold AMERICAN 20th 12 FANTASY 21
47 Alexander McCall Smith 6 In
the Company of Cheerful Ladies BOTSWANNA 21st 2 MYSTERY 11
48 Stephen R. Donaldson 4 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Four: The Wounded Land
AMERICAN 20th 13 FANTASY 22
49 Jose Saramago 6 Baltasar
and Blimunda PORTUGUESE 20th 4 NOVEL 7
50 James Hogan 16 **Cradle
of Saturn AMERICAN 20th 13 FANTASY 23
51 James Hogan 17 The
Anguished Dawn AMERICAN 21st 12 FANTASY 24
52 Orson Scott Card 9
Prentice Alvin (Alvin Maker Book 3) AMERICAN 20th 14 FANTASY 25
53 John Kennedy Toole 1 A
Confederacy of Dunces AMERICAN 20th 15 NOVEL 8
splenectomy 5/24/2005
54 Ian McEwan 6 ****Saturday
ENGLISH
21st 1 NOVEL 9 review
55 David Edmonds 1 and John Eidinow 1 Wittgenstein's
Poker ENGLISH 21st 2 PHILOSOPHY 1
56 Piers Anthony 1 A
Spell for Chameleon [Xanth #1] AMERICAN 20th 16 FANTASY 26
57 Alexander McCall Smith 7 At
the Villa of Reduced Circumstances BOTSWANNA 21st 3 NOVEL 10
58 Eoin Colfer 4 Artemis
Fowl: The Opal Deception IRISH 21st 1 FANTASY 27
59 David Foster Wallace 7
Everything and More AMERICAN 21st 12 MATH 1
60 James Gleick 3 What
Just Happened AMERICAN 21st 13 INTERNET 1
June
61 Vassily Aksyonov The
Island of Crimea [second time] RUSSIAN 20th 1 FANTASY 28
62 Neal Stephenson 8 ** The
System of the World [volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle] AMERICAN 21st 14
NOVEL 11
63 Brian Greene 2 ****The
Fabric of the Cosmos AMERICAN 21st 15 SCIENCE 1
64 Jay Lake 1 *Rocket
Science AMERICAN 21st 16 FANTASY 29
65 James Van Pelt ***The
Last of the O-Forms AMERICAN 21st 17 FANTASY 30
66 James Hogan 18 Entoverse
AMERICAN 20th 14 FANTASY 31
67 James Hogan 19 ** Mission
to Minerva AMERICAN 21st 18 FANTASY 32
68 James Hogan 20 ****Paths
to Otherwhere AMERICAN 20th 15 FANTASY 33
69 S.M. Barrett 1 Geronimo's
Story of His Life AMERICAN 20th 16 HISTORY 1
70 Jason Hook 1 The
Apaches AMERICAN 20th 17 HISTORY 2
71 James Hogan 21 ****Multiplex
Man AMERICAN 20th 17 FANTASY 34
July
72 Stephen Donaldson 5 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Five: The One Tree
AMERICAN 20th 17 FANTASY 35
73 Tony Hillerman 1 Dance
Hall of the Dead AMERICAN 20th 18 MYSTERY 12
74 John Muir 1 Steep
Trails [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 1 NATURE 1
75 J.W. Powell 1 Canyons
of the Colorado [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 2 NATURE 2
76 Stephen Donaldson 6 The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Six: White Gold Wielder
AMERICAN
20th 19 FANTASY 36
77 Terry Tempest Williams 1 Coyote's
Canyon AMERICAN 20th 20 NATURE 3
78 Terry Tempest Williams 2 Pieces
of White Shell AMERICAN 20th 21 NATURE 4
79 Tony Hillerman 2 A
Thief of Time AMERICAN 20th 22 MYSTERY 13
80 J.K. Rowling 6 ***Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ENGLISH 21st 3 FANTASY 37
August
81 Wallace Stegner 1 Mormon
Country AMERICAN 20th 22 HISTORY 3
82 Edward Abbey 1 Desert
Solitaire AMERICAN 20th 23 NATURE 5
83 Terry Tempest Williams 3 The
Open Space of Democracy AMERICAN 21st 19 NATURE 6
84 Sean B. Carroll 1 Endless
Forms Most Beautiful AMERICAN 21st 20 BIOLOGY 1/NATURE 7
85 Alexander McCall Smith 8 The
Sunday Philosophy Club BOTSWANA 21st 4 MYSTERY 14
86 John Irving 12 **Until
I Find You AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 12
87 Nancy Farmer 1 *The
House of the Scorpion AMERICAN 21st 22 FANTASY 38
September
88 Christopher Paolini 2 Eldest
AMERICAN 21st 22 FANTASY 39
89 Jose Saramago 7 **The
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis PORTUGUESE 20th 5 NOVEL 9
October
90 Louis de Bernieres 5 **Birds
Without Wings ENGLISH 21st 4 NOVEL 10
November
91 Tom Wolfe 2 I
am Charlotte Simmons AMERICAN 21st 23 NOVEL 11
92 Yann Martel 2 The
Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios CANADIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES
2
93 James Gleick 4 Faster
AMERICAN
20th 24 INTERNET 2
94 David Guterson 3 Our
Lady of the Forest AMERICAN 21st 24 NOVEL 12
December
95 William Martin 1 Back Bay AMERICAN 20th 25 NOVEL 13
96 William James 3 Some
Problems of Philosophy AMERICAN 20th 26 PHILOSOPHY 2
97 O. Henry 5 Sixes and Sevens AMERICAN 19th 1 SHORT STORIES 3
98 O. Henry 6 The Heart of the West AMERICAN 19th 2 SHORT STORIES 4
99 O. Henry 7 The Trimmed Lamp AMERICAN 19th 3 SHORT STORIES 5
100 Erik Larson 1 The
Devil in the White City AMERICAN 21st HISTORY 4
101 Ann Pachett 1 **Bel
Canto AMERICAN 21st NOVEL 14
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