Books of 2004

These are all the books — that I managed to write down, anyway — that I read for the first time in 2004.

Adult Fiction

Motherless Brooklyn — Jonathan Lethem
The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
One Heart — Jane McCafferty
Empire Falls — Richard Russo
The Wasp Factory — Iain Banks
Some Days There's Pie — Catherine Landis
Mosquito Coast — Paul Theroux
The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd
The Runaway Jury — John Grisham

About a Boy — Nick Hornby
How to Be Good — Nick Hornby

Adult Fantasy/Sci Fi

The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester
Hyperion — Dan Simmons

Gunslinger — Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three — Stephen King
Waste Lands — Stephen King
Wizard and Glass — Stephen King
The Wolves of the Calla — Stephen King
Song of Susannah — Stephen King

Juvenile/YA Fiction

The Grooming of Alice — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Because of Winn-Dixie — Kate diCamillo
Heaven Eyes — David Almond
Amalee — Dar Williams
The Breadwinner — Deborah Ellis
Monster — Walter Dean Myers
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind — Suzanne Fisher Staples
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging — Louise Rennison
House of Stairs — William Sleator

Hard Love — Ellen Wittlinger
Heart on my Sleeve — Ellen Wittlinger

Fell — M. E. Kerr
Fell Down — M. E. Kerr
Fell Back — M. E. Kerr
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! — M. E. Kerr

The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room — Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket

Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom — Katherine Paterson
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum — Katherine Paterson

Juvenile/YA Fantasy

Peter Pan — J. M. Barrie
Alan Mendolsohn, Boy From Mars — Daniel Pinkwater
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
Blood and Chocolate — Annette Curtis Klause

First Test — Tamora Pierce
Page — Tamora Pierce
Squire — Tamora Pierce
In the Hand of the Goddess — Tamora Pierce
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man — Tamora Pierce
Lioness Rampant — Tamora Pierce

The Boggart — Susan Cooper
The Boggart and the Monster — Susan Cooper

Sabriel — Garth Nix
Lirael — Garth Nix
Abhorsen — Garth Nix

Howl’s Moving Castle — Diana Wynne Jones
Charmed Life — Diana Wynne Jones
The Lives of Christopher Chant — Diana Wynne Jones
Witch Week — Diana Wynne Jones
Archer’s Goon — Diana Wynne Jones
Dogsbody — Diana Wynne Jones

The Iron Ring — Lloyd Alexander
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen — Lloyd Alexander
The First Two Lives of Lukas Kasha — Lloyd Alexander
The Illyrian Adventure — Lloyd Alexander

Nonfiction (Not Including Required Textbooks)

Nickel and Dimed — Barbara Ehrenreich
Free Culture — Lawrence Lessig
Under the Banner of Heaven — Jon Krakauer
She’s Not There — Jennifer Finney Boylan
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them — Al Franken

Graphic Novels

PVP: The Dork Ages — Scott Kurtz
Hopeless Savages — Jen Van Meter, Christine Norrie & Chynna Clugston-Major
Persepolis 2 — Marjane Satrapi

Potential — Ariel Schrag
Definition — Ariel Schrag

Scooter Girl — Chynna Clugston-Major
Blue Monday: In-Between Days — Chynna Clugston-Major

Meridian: Flying Solo — Barbara Kesel
Meridian: Going to Ground — Barbara Kesel