Read In 2003
1:11 p.m. on 05.23.04

* = Ugh, why did I bother?
***** = Absolutely wonderful.

January
Hell�s Angles: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson ***
Speaking in Tongues by Jeffery Deaver ***

February
Why I�m Like This by Cynthia Kaplan ***
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk ***

March
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk ****
Violets are Blue by James Patterson ***

April
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk ***

May
The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman ****
One Girl: A Novel in Stories by Sheila Kohler ****
The Devil�s Larder: A Feast by Jim Crace **

June
The Summons by John Grisham ***
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn *****
Werewolves In Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon *
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell ****
Kick Me: Adventures In Adolescence by Paul Feig ****

July
Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell ****
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich ****
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling *****
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling *****
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman ****
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling *****

August
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling *****
Dark Hollow by John Connolly ****
The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver ***
Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher ***

September
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ****
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs ***
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg ***

October
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers ***
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey ****
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain ****
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay ****
Shopgirl by Steve Martin **

November
Family History by Dani Shapiro ***

December
A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry ****
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket ****