2008

1. The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Gary Shteyngart

2007

1. Fraud, David Rakoff
2. I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe (I know, I know... but I got a masters degree - isn't that enough reading for a year?)
3. Switch Bitch, Roald Dahl
4. Goats, Mark Jude Poirier
5. Crossing California, Adam Langer
6. Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (I want to be evil too!)
7. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
8. The Resons I won't be Coming, Elliot Perlman

2006
1. The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem (Wow.)
2. City in Love, Alex Shakar (Not quite as amazing as Savage Girl, but it made waiting for the next novel a bit less irksome. Please buy his books so he'll stop commuting to Urbana and publish something again.)
3. Hey Nostradamus!, Douglas Coupland (I admit, I didn't think a fictional Columbine account was a good idea. Leave it to Coupland to prove me wrong.)
4. Everyman, Philip Roth
5. Hot Animal Love, Scott Bradfield
6. Radio On, Sarah Vowell (Obviously, nonfiction is not my bent, but damn.)
7. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo (One wonders if his name is Donald and if, maybe, he likes rats.)
8. Insect Dreams, Marc Estrin
9. Lamb, Christopher Moore
10. That eye, the sky, Tim Winton
11. The Master and Margerita, Mikhail Bulgakov
12. A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
13. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
14. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
15. The Commitment, Dan Savage
16. Little Children, Tom Perrotta
2005
1. Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turganev (More psycho pedaphilia in Russian lit anyone? Anyone?)
2. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
3. Set this House in Order, Matt Ruff (Okay Matt, you've got six years to get something else out. I'm waiting.)
4. A Year in the Merde, Stephen Clarke (Apparently the only thing my tales about France lack in publishability is sex.)
5. The Fuck Up, Arthur Nersesian
6. The Seraglio, James Merrill
7. The Normals, David Gilbert
8. The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell
9. Against Depression, Peter Kramer (Eh, whatever.)
10. Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall (One of my less successful remainder picks from Unabridged... further proof that people are telling women writers the wrong things.)
11. Eleanor Rigby, Douglas Coupland (How many times can a man write the same book? Who cares, it's a good one... I just bought Hey Nostradamus!)
12. The Savage Girl, Alex Shakar
13. Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
14. How to be Good, Nick Hornby
15. The Universal Donor, Craig Nova (Okay, I shouldn't have read this and you shouldn't either. Definitely 250 pages of my life I want back. I may skip the Newberry Library sale next year.)
16. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger (Grow up. Grow old. Get over yourself.)
17. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (The things we do for love...)
18. You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers