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REVIEW INDEX (2003-2006)

Submitted by alison on Tue, 2003-09-30 15:05.

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  • 2006.09.07 - #78 Byatt, "The Game"; Fisher, "Not Now But Now"; Carey, "Bliss"
  • 2006.08.31 - #77 Crace, "Quarantine"
  • 2006.05.03 - #76 Dickens, "Little Dorrit"
  • 2006.04.25 - #75 Bemelmans, "Hotel Bemelmans"; Atwood, "Dancing Girls"; Weiss, "Marat/Sade"; Gornick, "Fierce Attachments"; Anaya, "Bless Me, Ultima"; Amis, "Night Train"; Tillman, "Cast In Doubt"; Auster, "Oracle Night"; Sinclair, "The Jungle"; Boyle, "The Road to Wellville"
  • 2006.02.17 - #74 Rose, "The Norton Book of Women's Lives"
  • 2006.02.15 - #73 Collins, "The Moonstone"; Austen, "Northanger Abbey"
  • 2006.02.14 - #72 Down and Out in Paris, London & Albany: Orwell, "Down and Out in Paris and London"; Kennedy, "Ironweed"; Liebling, "Between Meals"; Rhys, "After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie"
  • 2006.02.06 - #71 "The Magic Flute"; Oates, "We Were the Mulvaneys"; Leavitt, "A Place I've Never Been"
  • 2006.01.19 - #70 Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor" & "AIDS and Its Metaphors"
  • 2005.12.02 - #69 Hijuelos, "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love";Russo, "Empire Falls"; Rushdie, "Midnight's Children"
  • 2005.10.13 - #68 Drabble, "The Radiant Way"; Wolff, "This Boy's Life"; Tyler, "The Amateur Marriage"; Jackson, "The Lottery"; Lessing, "The Habit of Loving"; Hesser, "Cooking for Mr. Latte"
  • 2005.09.15 - Alison Kinney, "Term"
  • 2005.08.03 - #67 Stead, "The Man Who Loved Children"
  • 2005.08.02 - #66 Dee, "Palladio"; Patchett, "Truth & Beauty"; Austen, "Persuasion"; Trillin, "The Tummy Trilogy"; Proulx, "Bad Dirt"; Kingsolver, "Animal Dreams" & "Prodigal Summer"; Kincaid, "The Autobiography of My Mother"; Dahl, "The Best of Roald Dahl"; Carey, "True History of the Kelly Gang"
  • 2005.05.13 - #64 Keane, "Good Behaviour"
  • 2005.05.12 - #63 Smiley, "The Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton"; Ozick, "The Puttermesser Papers"
  • 2005.04.29 - #62 Nature: Ackerman, "The Moon by Whale Light"; Pollan, "The Botany of Desire"
  • 2005.04.18 - #61 Fisher, "Among Friends" & "With Bold Knife & Fork"; Marranca, "A Slice of Life"
  • 2005.04.12 - #60 Kawabata, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"; Leavitt, "Arkansas"; Thomas, "Herb's Pajamas"
  • 2005.04.08 - #59 BY ALISON & REBECCA: Greene, "The Power & the Glory"
  • 2005.04.06 - #58 Bowen, "The Death of the Heart"; Scliar, "Max & the Cats"
  • 2005.04.01 - #57 BY REBECCA: Greene, "Our Man in Havana"; Young, "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People"
  • 2005.03.30 - #56 Amis, "Time's Arrow"; Frayne, "Headlong"; McEwan, "Amsterdam"
  • 2005.03.04 - #55 BY REBECCA: Davis, "The Walking Tour" & Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"; BY MAX: Pollan, "The Botany of Desire" & Head, "A Question of Power"
  • 2005.03.01 - #54 Davis, "Versailles"
  • 2005.02.17 - #53 Forster, "A Passage to India"; Williams, "Ill Nature"
  • 2005.02.09 - #52 Sibley, "The Sibley Guide to Birds"
  • 2005.02.05 - Alison's 100 Bestest 20th Century Books
  • 2005.02.04 - #51 Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying"; James, "The Wings of the Dove"
  • 2005.02.02 - #50 Als, "The Women"; Elizabeth Bowen, "The House in Paris"
  • 2005.01.25 - #49 Connell, "Mrs. Bridge"; Crace, "The Devil's Larder"; Duff, "Once Were Warriors"; Fisher, "As They Were"; Kingsolver, "The Bean Trees"; Smiley, "Ordinary Love & Goodwill"
  • 2005.01.12 - #48 Walser, "Selected Stories"; Calvino, "t zero"
  • 2005.01.11 - #47 Parker, "The Geographical Cure"; White, "Frost in May"
  • 2005.01.10 - #46 Abley, "Spoken Here"; Steinberg, "Complete & Utter Failure"
  • 2005.01.05 - #45 Colwin, "Home Cooking"; Fisher, "The Measure of Her Powers"; Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
  • 2004.12.21 - #44 Orlean, "The Orchid Thief"; Gautreaux, "The Clearing"; Kushner, "Angels in America: Perestroika"
  • 2004.12.16 - #43 Winterson, "The.Powerbook"; Didion, "The White Album"; Oates, "Haunted"
  • 2004.12.15 - #42 Carey, "My Life As a Fake"; Doctorow, "Ragtime"; Martel, "Life of Pi"
  • 2004.11.10 - #41 Austen, "Mansfield Park"; Auster, "The Red Notebook"; Woolf, "Between the Acts"
  • 2004.11.04 - #40 Coetzee, "Disgrace"; Harrison, "The Kiss"; Whitehead, "The Colossus of New York"; Hazzard, "The Great Fire"; Proulx, "Postcards"; Sebold, "The Lovely Bones";
  • 2004.11.02 - #39 Sustainable Farming: Berry, "Another Turn of the Crank"; "A Sustainable Table"
  • 2004.10.12 - #38 BY MEG: Thackeray, "Vanity Fair"
  • 2004.10.11 - #37 Guterson, "Snow Falling on Cedars"
  • 2004.10.05 - #36 Bowles, "Two Serious Ladies"; Prejean, "Dead Man Walking"
  • 2004.09.29 - #35 Brown, "Annie Oakley's Girl"; Quindlen, "Black & Blue"
  • 2004.09.22 - #34 Walker, "The Little House Cookbook"; Grealy, "Autobiography of a Face"; Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day"; Goldberg, "Wild Mind"
  • 2004.09.17 - #33 Crace, "Being Dead"; Reichl, "Tender at the Bone"
  • 2004.09.13 - #32 Goldman, "The Ordinary Seaman"; Barrett, "Ship Fever"; Barthelme, "The King"
  • 2004.09.10 - My Essay on Chickens
  • 2004.09.09 - #31 Nabokov, "Strong Opinions"
  • 2004.08.27 - #30 White, "The Tree of Man"; Anne Bronte, "Agnes Grey"
  • 2004.08.16 - #29 Gaskell, "Wives & Daughters"; Ibsen, "An Enemy of the People"; Hanff, "84 Charing Cross Road"
  • 2004.08.05 - #28 Goldberg, "Bee Season"; Butler, "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain"; Bourdain, "Kitchen Confidential"; Martin, "Miss Manners…"; Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • 2004.07.29 - #27 Duras, "The North China Lover"; Sedaris, "Naked"; Truong, "The Book of Salt"; Danticat, "The Farming of Bones"; Byatt, "The Little Black Book of Stories"
  • 2004.07.21 - #26 Pynchon, "Mason & Dixon"; Bayley, "Elegy for Iris"
  • 2004.07.02 - #25 Ishiguro, "An Artist of the Floating World"; Barnes, "Flaubert's Parrot"; Millhauser, "The Knife Thrower"
  • 2004.06.16 - #24 Morrison, "Love"; Duras, "L'amant"; Kushner, "Angels In America: Milennium Approaches"; Salinger, "Nine Stories"
  • 2004.06.03 - #23 Brown, "The Da Vinci Code"; Karr, "The Liars' Club"; Harris, "Hannibal"
  • 2004.05.28 - #22 Kingsolver, "High Tide in Tucson" & "Small Wonder"; Robinson, "Housekeeping"
  • 2004.04.26 - #21 Shepard, "True West," "Buried Child," "Savage/Love"; Lamott, "Operating Instructions"; Boyle, "Without a Hero"
  • 2004.04.19 - #20 Bloom, "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You"
  • 2004.04.14 - #19 "Regional Cooking from Middle Earth"
  • 2004.03.25 - #18 Steingarten, "The Man Who Ate Everything"
  • 2004.03.19 - #17 BY JOSH: Coetzee, "Disgrace"
  • 2004.03.19 - #16 Moral Freshmen Reading
  • 2004.01.22 - #15 Gautreaux, "Welding With Children"; Davis, "Break It Down" & "Almost No Memory"; Byatt, "The Biographer's Tale"
  • 2003.12.10 - #14 BY JIM: Highsmith, "The Talented Mr. Ripley"; Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"; Alvaro Mutis, "The Adventures & Misadventures of Maqroll"
  • 2003.12.09 - #13 BY KARL & ALI: Rushdie & Roy; McCullers, "A Member of the Wedding"; Spark, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"; Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  • 2003.12.05 - #12 Theroux, "World's End"; Hughes, "A High Wind in Jamaica"; Bronte, "Villette"; Graves, "I, Claudius"
  • 2003.12.04 - #11 BY JOSH: Naipaul, "A House For Mr. Biswas"; Martel, "Life of Pi"
  • 2003.10.23 - #10 BY LYLE, KARL, & ALI: Orwell, "Homage to Catalonia," Joyce, "Ulysses"; McCullers, "Reflections in a Golden Eye"
  • 2003.10.22 - #9 Kingsolver, "The Poisonwood Bible"; Proulx, "Accordion Crimes"; "Best American Short Stories 1995"; O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Anderson, "Winesburg, Ohio"
  • 2003.10.16 - #8 Everything You Wanted to Know About A.S. Byatt But Were Afraid to Ask Alison
  • 2003.10.15 - #7 BY LYLE: Miller, "Personal Velocity"
  • 2003.10.14 - #6 BY HEATHER: Satrapi, "Persepolis"
  • 2003.10.13 - #5 BY KARL: H.P. Lovecraft in General
  • 2003.10.10 - #4 Davis, "Samuel Johnson Is Indignant"
  • 2003.10.08 - #3 BY LYLE: Flanagan, "Gould's Book of Fish"; Dickens, "Our Mutual Friend"
  • 2003.10.06 - #2 BY CHRISTINE: Roy, "The God of Small Things"
  • 2003.10.03 - #1 BY CHRISTINE: Banks, "A Girl's Guide to Hunting & Fishing"
  • 2003.10.01 - INAUGURAL MESSAGE