books: 2003
(A star indicates a book I especially loved.)
November
- A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn by Craig Steven Wilder
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- The River at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
October
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
- *Morningside Heights by Andrew Dolkart
- "The Bear" by William Faulkner
- Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- *The Treasure of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
September
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- "The Fox" by D.H. Lawrence
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- Dubliners by James Joyce (again)
- *To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (again)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
August
- *The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
- Echo by Francesca Lia Block
- *I am not Jackson Pollock by John Haskell
- It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
- Food and Loathing by Betsy Lerner
- Amandine by Adele Griffin
- *Long Quiet Highway by Natalie Goldberg
- *Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- *The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
July
- *The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L'Engle
- *The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
- *The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
- Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
- Blue Angel by Francine Prose
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle
- Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
June
- Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
- *The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell
- *The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (again)
- Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
May
- Fox by Adrienne Rich
- *The Immoralist by André Gide (again)
- Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- * The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
- A Shopkeeper's Millennium by Paul Johnson
- Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin
- Race and Manifest Destiny by Reginald Horsman
April
- Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (again)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
- *White Noise by Don DeLillo
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
March
- *The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
- *Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner
February
- The Long, Bitter Trail by Anthony F.C. Wallace
- *Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (again)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (again)
- *Laughter by Henri Bergson
- Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Endgame and Act Without Words I by Samuel Beckett
January
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- *Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesy
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker edited by Stuart Y. Silverstein
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