reading lists
a little late,
but because i appreciated reading everyone elses 2005 reading list,
i'm sorry it's not catagorized - i labeled things where i remembered enough to label, stars mean i remembered enough to recommend, if i spelt anything incorrectly it's because i keep records of what i've read every year handwritten & even i can't always read my own writting.
vanity of duluoz - kerouac
yellow wall-paper & other stories - charlotte perkins gilman (feminist fiction)
time out of joint - phillip k dick (sci-fi)
foxfire -joyce carol oats (coming of age)
when zachary beaver came to town - kimberly willis holt (ya)
young wives' tales - corral + miya jervis (memior collection)
mirabilis - suzann coral
dream me home safely - wright edelman
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch - pkd (sci-fi)
blindness - jose saramago
fanny hill - john eleland (sex work historical fiction)
sex & single girls - loe damsky (memior collection)
angels & demons - dan brown
keeping you a secret - julie ann peters
all over creation - ruth ozeki (fiction) * not as good as my year of meats but still recommended
the dangerous lives of alter boys - chris fuhrman
american gods - neil gaiman (fiction - sci-fi/religeon/fantasy)*
a million little pieces - james frey
born confused - tanuja desai hidier
children of nafta - david bacon (non-fiction, nafta, california, mexico, migrant workers & history)*
cruddy - lynda barry (graphic novel)*
the man in the high castle -pkd (sci-fi)
white teeth - zadie smith
running with scissors - augusten burroughs
the lovely bones - alice sebold (fiction - coming of age/violent crime)
vancouver - cruise & griffith (historical fiction)
bare - elisabeth eaves
depending on the light - thea hillman
slaves of new york - tama janowitz
why girls are wierd - pamela ribon
strip city - lily burana
black, white, & jewish - rebecca walker
the crack in space - pkd (sci-fi)
haunted - chuch palahniuk (violent fiction)*
solar eclipse - pkd (scifi)
gravel queen - tea benduhm (ya)
dress your family in courdury and denim - david sedaris (fictional memoir)*
light - m. john harrison
i'm the one that i want - margaret cho
the unquiet mind - kay jamison
this bridge called my back - moraga (memoir collection)
bangkok 8 - john burdett (fiction, mystery, takes place in tokyo, post-apocalyptic)*
waltzing through flaws - paula sharp
like - ali smith
family history - dani shapiro
necklace of kisses - franchesca lia block (fiction, fairy tale, worse than the originals)
naked - david sedaris (fictional memoir)*
lost in jersey city - paula sharp (fiction)
the whole story - ali smith
job hopper - ayun halliday (memoir, temp work, written by a zinester)*
snakes & earrings - hitomi kanehara (fiction, body mod, japan, youngest to ever win some prestigous award)*
coin locker babies - ryu murakami (fiction, orphans, trans, japan)*
chicken - david sterry
at home on the stroll - alexandra highcrest (memoir, canada, trans, sex work)
the last madam - christine wiltz (biography, new orleans, sex work)
stranger than fiction - chuck palahniuk (non-fiction)
the madam - julianna baggett
hey nostrodamous - douglas coupland (fiction)
microsurfs - douglas coupland (fiction, silicon valley & seattle pre-burst)
the times square hustler - robert mcnamera (sociology, sex work, vaguely offensive)
the divine invasion - pkd (scifi)
hard boiled wonderland - haruki murakami (fiction, japan, mysoginistic)
amrita & goodbye tsugumi - bannana yoshimoto (fiction, japan, coming of age)*
and if anyone was interested in my books read list, here is my "books to be read list" i apologise for any copied or wierd formatting, some of these have been cut and pasted off of other peoples lists or recommendations:
the great gatsby
spook: science tackles the afterlife - mary roach
Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story (Hardcover)
by Chuck Klosterman
Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers (Paperback)
by Stefan Fatsis
We Thought You Would Be Prettier : True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive (Paperback)
by Laurie Notaro
magical thinking: true stories (augusten burroughs, 304pp.)
back rooms: voices from the illegal abortion era ellen messer & kathryn e. may
savage boys & wild girls: a history of feral children michael newton
stripping & other stories pagan kennedy
The Basic Eight (Paperback)
by Daniel Handler
the white album hanif kureishi
Getting a Life : Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)
by Helen Simpson
Still Life with Woodpecker (Paperback) & jitterbug perfume
by Tom Robbins
john fante in general
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by John Fante
The Road to Los Angeles (Paperback)
by John Fante
the extra man - by jonathan ames
Shanghai Baby
Chaos and All That by Liu Sola
angela carter
Youth in Revolt
by C.D. Payne
Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp
by C. D. Payne
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller, Jr.;
Skin, by Kathe Koja; and
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Helena Kvarnstrom's "Violence"
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
new atwood
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Drive by Jennie Goode (ed.)
Sand in My Bra & Other Misadventures by Jennifer Leo (ed.)
Snake Hips by [info]tupelo
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally by Angela Jane Fountas (ed.)
A Place For Us by Nicholas Gage
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
Food For Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American & Arab-Canadian Feminists by Joanna Kadi (ed.)
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Remaking Women: Feminism & Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod (ed.)
"So I'm Talkin' to This Guy..." by Rob Borsellino
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
lucky by alice sebold
hobol: a young man's thoughts on trains & tramping in america
erica rand
american woman by susan choi
the company you keep by neil gordon
"The Sexual Politics of Meat" by Carol Adams
Gender outlaw : on men, women, and the rest of us / Kate Bornstein.
The Persistent desire : a femme-butch reader / edited by Joan Nestle.
Looking queer : body image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities / Dawn Atkins, editor.
daniel quinn
Nutrition and physical degeneration; a comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects, by Weston A. Price
In the miso soup / Ryu Murakami
haruki murakami
banana yoshimoto
stranger than fiction chuck p
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
by Jenna Jameson
Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion.
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha" by Lesly Downer
Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany
The Liars' Club : A Memoir : Karr, Mary.
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel : Kingsolver, Barbara.
Happy Hooker
The Way of the Whore by Tamara Faith Berger
Callgirl by Jeanette Angell
The Madam by Julianna Baggott
Holidays On Ice : Sedaris, David.
Revolting librarians redux : radical librarians speak out / edited by Katia Roberto
GenderQueer : voices from beyond the sexual binary / edited by Joan Nestle
dick
Whores & other feminists / Jill Nagle, editor.
Cop to call girl / by Norma Jean Almodovar.
Real live nude girl : chronicles of sex-positive culture / Carol Queen.
Lessons in Taxidermy
by Bee Lavender
how we are hungry / dave eggers
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig
the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger
whores on the hill
storyville / lois battle
Mayflower madam : the secret life of Sydney Biddle Barrows / by Sydney Barrows with William Novak.
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
amy hemple
mark richard
jon stewart's silly books
candy luke davies
candy - about china
singling out the couples stella duffy
secrets and confidences
paul feigg
marge piercey's woman on the edge of time
donna tartt
hotel world ali smith
Rachel DeWoskin called Foreign Babes in Beijing
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff also fraud
'phone sex: aural thiills and oral skills'
You Beat People Up for a Living Don't You, Mummy? (Paperback)
by Roy William Turner
Nothing Natural (Hardcover)
by Jenny Diski
anansi boys - neil gaiman
lies my teacher told me
"Boy In The Middle" by Patrick Califia
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway
Charles Bukowski
buddha baby
snow by ellen mattson
wickett's remedy by myla goldberg.
Shopgirl by Steve Martin and
Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin
nights at the circus by angela carter
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
vonnegut
bowkaski
how to be lost by amanda eyre ward
bait and switch by barbara ehrenreich
Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints by Simon Doonan
but because i appreciated reading everyone elses 2005 reading list,
i'm sorry it's not catagorized - i labeled things where i remembered enough to label, stars mean i remembered enough to recommend, if i spelt anything incorrectly it's because i keep records of what i've read every year handwritten & even i can't always read my own writting.
vanity of duluoz - kerouac
yellow wall-paper & other stories - charlotte perkins gilman (feminist fiction)
time out of joint - phillip k dick (sci-fi)
foxfire -joyce carol oats (coming of age)
when zachary beaver came to town - kimberly willis holt (ya)
young wives' tales - corral + miya jervis (memior collection)
mirabilis - suzann coral
dream me home safely - wright edelman
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch - pkd (sci-fi)
blindness - jose saramago
fanny hill - john eleland (sex work historical fiction)
sex & single girls - loe damsky (memior collection)
angels & demons - dan brown
keeping you a secret - julie ann peters
all over creation - ruth ozeki (fiction) * not as good as my year of meats but still recommended
the dangerous lives of alter boys - chris fuhrman
american gods - neil gaiman (fiction - sci-fi/religeon/fantasy)*
a million little pieces - james frey
born confused - tanuja desai hidier
children of nafta - david bacon (non-fiction, nafta, california, mexico, migrant workers & history)*
cruddy - lynda barry (graphic novel)*
the man in the high castle -pkd (sci-fi)
white teeth - zadie smith
running with scissors - augusten burroughs
the lovely bones - alice sebold (fiction - coming of age/violent crime)
vancouver - cruise & griffith (historical fiction)
bare - elisabeth eaves
depending on the light - thea hillman
slaves of new york - tama janowitz
why girls are wierd - pamela ribon
strip city - lily burana
black, white, & jewish - rebecca walker
the crack in space - pkd (sci-fi)
haunted - chuch palahniuk (violent fiction)*
solar eclipse - pkd (scifi)
gravel queen - tea benduhm (ya)
dress your family in courdury and denim - david sedaris (fictional memoir)*
light - m. john harrison
i'm the one that i want - margaret cho
the unquiet mind - kay jamison
this bridge called my back - moraga (memoir collection)
bangkok 8 - john burdett (fiction, mystery, takes place in tokyo, post-apocalyptic)*
waltzing through flaws - paula sharp
like - ali smith
family history - dani shapiro
necklace of kisses - franchesca lia block (fiction, fairy tale, worse than the originals)
naked - david sedaris (fictional memoir)*
lost in jersey city - paula sharp (fiction)
the whole story - ali smith
job hopper - ayun halliday (memoir, temp work, written by a zinester)*
snakes & earrings - hitomi kanehara (fiction, body mod, japan, youngest to ever win some prestigous award)*
coin locker babies - ryu murakami (fiction, orphans, trans, japan)*
chicken - david sterry
at home on the stroll - alexandra highcrest (memoir, canada, trans, sex work)
the last madam - christine wiltz (biography, new orleans, sex work)
stranger than fiction - chuck palahniuk (non-fiction)
the madam - julianna baggett
hey nostrodamous - douglas coupland (fiction)
microsurfs - douglas coupland (fiction, silicon valley & seattle pre-burst)
the times square hustler - robert mcnamera (sociology, sex work, vaguely offensive)
the divine invasion - pkd (scifi)
hard boiled wonderland - haruki murakami (fiction, japan, mysoginistic)
amrita & goodbye tsugumi - bannana yoshimoto (fiction, japan, coming of age)*
and if anyone was interested in my books read list, here is my "books to be read list" i apologise for any copied or wierd formatting, some of these have been cut and pasted off of other peoples lists or recommendations:
the great gatsby
spook: science tackles the afterlife - mary roach
Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story (Hardcover)
by Chuck Klosterman
Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers (Paperback)
by Stefan Fatsis
We Thought You Would Be Prettier : True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive (Paperback)
by Laurie Notaro
magical thinking: true stories (augusten burroughs, 304pp.)
back rooms: voices from the illegal abortion era ellen messer & kathryn e. may
savage boys & wild girls: a history of feral children michael newton
stripping & other stories pagan kennedy
The Basic Eight (Paperback)
by Daniel Handler
the white album hanif kureishi
Getting a Life : Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)
by Helen Simpson
Still Life with Woodpecker (Paperback) & jitterbug perfume
by Tom Robbins
john fante in general
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by John Fante
The Road to Los Angeles (Paperback)
by John Fante
the extra man - by jonathan ames
Shanghai Baby
Chaos and All That by Liu Sola
angela carter
Youth in Revolt
by C.D. Payne
Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp
by C. D. Payne
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller, Jr.;
Skin, by Kathe Koja; and
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Helena Kvarnstrom's "Violence"
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
new atwood
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Drive by Jennie Goode (ed.)
Sand in My Bra & Other Misadventures by Jennifer Leo (ed.)
Snake Hips by [info]tupelo
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally by Angela Jane Fountas (ed.)
A Place For Us by Nicholas Gage
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
Food For Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American & Arab-Canadian Feminists by Joanna Kadi (ed.)
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Remaking Women: Feminism & Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod (ed.)
"So I'm Talkin' to This Guy..." by Rob Borsellino
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
lucky by alice sebold
hobol: a young man's thoughts on trains & tramping in america
erica rand
american woman by susan choi
the company you keep by neil gordon
"The Sexual Politics of Meat" by Carol Adams
Gender outlaw : on men, women, and the rest of us / Kate Bornstein.
The Persistent desire : a femme-butch reader / edited by Joan Nestle.
Looking queer : body image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities / Dawn Atkins, editor.
daniel quinn
Nutrition and physical degeneration; a comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects, by Weston A. Price
In the miso soup / Ryu Murakami
haruki murakami
banana yoshimoto
stranger than fiction chuck p
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
by Jenna Jameson
Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion.
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha" by Lesly Downer
Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany
The Liars' Club : A Memoir : Karr, Mary.
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel : Kingsolver, Barbara.
Happy Hooker
The Way of the Whore by Tamara Faith Berger
Callgirl by Jeanette Angell
The Madam by Julianna Baggott
Holidays On Ice : Sedaris, David.
Revolting librarians redux : radical librarians speak out / edited by Katia Roberto
GenderQueer : voices from beyond the sexual binary / edited by Joan Nestle
dick
Whores & other feminists / Jill Nagle, editor.
Cop to call girl / by Norma Jean Almodovar.
Real live nude girl : chronicles of sex-positive culture / Carol Queen.
Lessons in Taxidermy
by Bee Lavender
how we are hungry / dave eggers
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig
the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger
whores on the hill
storyville / lois battle
Mayflower madam : the secret life of Sydney Biddle Barrows / by Sydney Barrows with William Novak.
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
amy hemple
mark richard
jon stewart's silly books
candy luke davies
candy - about china
singling out the couples stella duffy
secrets and confidences
paul feigg
marge piercey's woman on the edge of time
donna tartt
hotel world ali smith
Rachel DeWoskin called Foreign Babes in Beijing
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff also fraud
'phone sex: aural thiills and oral skills'
You Beat People Up for a Living Don't You, Mummy? (Paperback)
by Roy William Turner
Nothing Natural (Hardcover)
by Jenny Diski
anansi boys - neil gaiman
lies my teacher told me
"Boy In The Middle" by Patrick Califia
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway
Charles Bukowski
buddha baby
snow by ellen mattson
wickett's remedy by myla goldberg.
Shopgirl by Steve Martin and
Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin
nights at the circus by angela carter
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
vonnegut
bowkaski
how to be lost by amanda eyre ward
bait and switch by barbara ehrenreich
Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints by Simon Doonan