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January
The Big Four by Agatha Christie ***
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer (BookRing) *****
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (BookRing) ****
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (BookRing) ****
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost (BookRing) *****
No Touch Monkey! by Ayun Halliday ****
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs *****

February
Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood (BookRing) ****
Dreadful Acts by Philip Ardagh ****
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster ***
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides *****
What Was She Thinking? by Zoe Heller ****
Beezus & Ramona by Beverly Cleary ****
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro ****
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene ****

March
Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore *****
The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie ****
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (BookRing) ****
Native Son by Richard A. Wright ****
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin ****
Home Coming by Sonia Sanchez ****
We a BaddDDD People by Sonia Sanchez ***
Say Uncle by Kay Ryan ****
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (BookRing) ****
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (BookRing) ***

April
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (BookRing) *****
Funny In Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas (BookRing) *****
Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris *****
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (BookRing) ***
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (BookRing) *****

May
The Falls by Karen Harper (BookRing) **
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (BookRing) ****
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (BookRing) ****
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck (BookRing) *****
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (BookRing) ***
Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper by Scott Frost (BookRing) *****
Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin (BookRing) *****
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (BookRing) *****
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (BookRing) ****
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (BookRing) ****

June
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (BookRing) ***
More On Oxymoron by Patrick Hughes (BookRing) ***
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (BookRing) *****
As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto (BookRing) *****
The Mysterious Disapperance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin *****
The Cat on My Shoulder by Lisa Angowski Rogak (BookRing) *****
Journal Of Ordinary Thought: Shades of Grey (BookRing) *****
The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene ****

July
The Clue In the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene ****
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (BookRing) *****
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (BookRing) ***
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips ****
Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten by Oliver Herford (BookRing) ****
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (BookRing) ***
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (BookRing) ***
1,000 Marbles by Jeffrey Davis (BookRing) *****

August
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (BookRing) *****
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie McDonald (BookRing) *****
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (BookRing) ****
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (BookRing) ****
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (BookRing) *****
Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (BookRing) *****
The Ha-Ha by Dave King (BookRing) *****
Never Let a Fool Kiss You Or A Kiss Fool You by Mardy Grothe ****

September
Saturday by Ian McEwan (BookRing) ***
Julie Of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (BookRing) ****
Death On the River Walk by Carolyn Hart ****
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz *****
Ex Libris: Confessions Of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (BookRing) *****

October
The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss (BookRing) ****
Tales From a Broad by Fran Lebowitz (BookRing) *****
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (BookRing) ****
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (BookRing) ***

November
Cat On a Hyacinth Hunt by Carole Nelson Douglas ****
Go by Simon Lewis ***
Intensity by Dean Koontz ***
Memoirs Of a Geisha by Arthur Golden *****

December
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis *****
Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene ****
Resting In the Bosom of the Lamb by Augusta Trobaugh *****
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ****
The Green Room by Carol Reposa ****
The Knight in Rusty Armor by Robert Fisher *****
The First Time by Jeff Coplon *****
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins by Walter Dean Myers ****