21 November, 2003

Memoirs and Biographies

The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong

Eating the Underworld by Doris Brett

Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Layla's Story by Vanessa Gorman

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Non-Fiction

From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler
Books on Writing

Living the Good Life by Linda Cockburn

The Two Year Novel Course - Year One
by Lazette Gifford

Secrets and Mysteries by Denise Linn
Create a Character Clinic by Holly Lisle

Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies, and Bargaining Power by Rhona Mahoney
Writing Your Life by Patti Miller
Young Wives Tales ed Lisa Miya-Jervis
Wifework by Susan Maushart

How to Say I Do by Mandy Newman and June Newman

Book Lust by Nancy Pearl

Sweat Your Prayers by Gabrielle Roth

What Your Clothes Say About You by Trinny & Susannah


Mysteries and Crime

Locked Rooms by Laurie R King
The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
Phryne Fisher Mysteries by Kerry Greenwood
To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman
Past Mortem by Ben Elton
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
The Bowl of Night by Rosemary Edghill
Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood
Peepshow by Leigh Redhead
The Witch's Cradle by Gillian White

Fiction

The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
Gabriella's Book of Fire by Venero Armanno
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Speciman Days by Michael Cunningham

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

Queenmaker by India Edghill
Wisdom's Daughter by India Edghill
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

The Battle for Christabel by Margaret Forster
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Outlanders by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber; Voyager; and Drums in Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Cassandra; Medea; and Electra by Kerry Greenwood

The Saskiad by Brian Hall
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Incurable by John Marsden
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Snow Queen by Mardi McConnochie
Fivestar by Mardi McConnochie
The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
The Betrayal of Bindy McKenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty
Runaway by Alice Munro
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The River Midnight by Lillian Nattel
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble

The Bitch Goddess Notebook by Martha O'Connor

Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Prep by Curtis Sittenfield
Family History by Dani Shapiro
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Forbidden by Judy Waite
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
The Turning by Tim Winton
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse

Fantasy and Science Fiction

The Embers of Heaven by Alma Alexander

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Alyzon Whitestarr by Isobel Carmody

Widdershins by Charles de Lint
Starman by Sara Douglass
Battleaxe by Sara Douglass
Wizards at War by Diane Duane

Paying the Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Rosemary Edghill

Nightrunner Trilogy by Lynn Flewelling
The Tower of Ravens by Kate Forsyth
The Shining City by Kate Forsyth

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn
The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

Silver's Bane by Anne Kelleher
Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox

The Wizard of London by Mercedes Lackey
Magic's Promise; and Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier
Talyn by Holly Lisle
Diplomacy of Wolves by Holly Lisle
Vengeance of Dragons by Holly Lisle
Courange of Falcons by Holly Lisle

Blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marillier
Myrren's Gift by Fiona McIntosh
Od Magic by Patricia McKillip
The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia McKillip

Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

Wee Free Men & A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch & Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Odin's Voice by Susan Price

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Maul by Tricia Sullivan

Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S Tepper
The Family Tree by Sheri S Tepper

Giants of the Frost by Kim Wilkins
The Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Passage by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis