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January
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *****
Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman ****

February
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ***
Dry by Augusten Burroughs ****

March
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel *****
Ambulance Girl by Jane Stern ****

April
Three Junes by Julia Glass ****
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve (BookRing) ***
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (BookRing) **

May
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx (BookRing) ***
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer ***
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ***
Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories by Virginia Woolf ***

June
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti ***
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (BookRing) *****
An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan ****
My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Boned by Nicole Hollander *****
Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel by Tara Ariano ****
Why Dogs Are Better Than Kids by Jennifer Berman ****
Message In a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (BookRing) ***
Everything Here Is Mine: An Unhelpful Guide to Cat Behavior by Nicole Hollander ****
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi *****
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke ****

July
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss *****
Sins of the Seventh Sister by Huston Curtiss *****
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro ****
Party Monster by James St. James (BookRing) *****
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi ****
Sickened by Julie Gregory *****

August
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk *****
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard ****
A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron **
Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (BookRing) *****
10th Grade by Joe Weisberg ****
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich *****
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman *****
Atonement by Ian McEwan (BookRing) ****

September
Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey by Dan Rhodes *****
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown *****
Oxymoronica by Mardy Grothe ****
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo *****
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz *****
A House Called Awful End by Philip Ardagh ***
Blindness by Jose Saramago (BookRing) *****
The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman ****
It's My F---ing Birthday! by Merrill Markoe (BookRing) ***
Childhood by Andre Alexis (BookRing) ****
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky *****

October
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (BookRing) ***
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (BookRing) ****
Lightning by Dean Koontz (BookRing) ***
Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk (BookRing) ****
Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope (BookRing) ***
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (BookRing) ****

November
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (BookRing) *****
Good/Grief by Josh Koppel ****
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn *****
Hectic Ethics by Francisco Hinojosa ****
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger *****
Darwin For Beginners by Jonathan Miller ***
Reigning Cats and Dogs by Hilary B. Price ****
Lesbian Etiquette by Gail Sausser (BookRing) ***
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio (BookRing) ****
There Are Jews In My House by Lara Vapnyar ****
Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ****
The Years by Virginia Woolf ****

December
Drinking, Smoking & Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times by Sara Nickles (BookRing) ****
Getting In Touch With Your Inner Bitch by Elizabeth Hilts (BookRing) ***
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (BookRing) ****
What Are You Looking At? by Donna Jarrell & Ira Sukrungruang (BookRing) ****
The Fourth Hand by John Irving ****
Cards On the Table by Agatha Christie ****