« 2003 » 31 books:
« january »
- Coraline ~ Neil Gaiman
- Prey ~ Michael Crichton
« february »
- Shutterbug Follies ~ Jason Little
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood ~ Oliver Sacks
- One Hundred Demons ~ Lynda Barry
- Pagan Babies ~ Elmore Leonard
« march »
« april »
- Backflash ~ Richard Stark
- The Land of Laughs ~ Jonathan Carroll
- The Narrowback ~ Michael Ledwidge
- The Eyre Affair ~ Jasper Fforde
« may »
- The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold
- The Tao of Pooh ~ Benjamin Hoff
« june »
- Perdido Street Station ~ China Miéville
- The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day ~ David Bodanis
- 10th Grade ~ Joseph Weisberg
- Adventures in Time and Space With Max Merriwell ~ Pat Murphy
« july »
- In a Sunburned Country ~ Bill Bryson
- Lirael ~ Garth Nix
« august »
- Bitten ~ Kelley Armstrong
- Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police ~ Robert Twigger
« september »
- Firebreak ~ Richard Stark
- Killing Floor ~ Lee Child
« october »
- Across The Nightingale Floor ~ Lian Hearn
- The Scar ~ China Miéville
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
« november »
- The Island Of Lost Maps: A True Story Of Cartographic Crime ~ Miles Harvey
- The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle ~ Steven Pressfield
« december »
- Cold Mountain ~ Charles Frazier
- Jennifer Government ~ Max Barry
- Einstein's Dreams ~ Alan Lightman
« 2004 » 34 books:
« january »
- What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World ~ M. L. Rossi
- Buzz Monkey ~ Sam Hill
- Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio ~ Danny Gregory & Paul Sahre
- Breakout ~ Richard Stark
- Who Moved My Cheese? ~ Spencer Johnson, M.D.
- Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot Richard Restak, M.D.
- Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It ~ Geoff Dyer
« february »
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers ~ Mary Roach
- Popular Music ~ Mikael Niemi
« march »
- Gun Monkeys ~ Victor Gischler
« april »
- The Winter Queen ~ Boris Akunin
- Little Children ~ Tom Perrotta
- Heretics of Dune ~ Frank Herbert
« may »
- Chapterhouse: Dune ~ Frank Herbert
- The Time Traveler's Wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger
- Sorcerer's Apprentice ~ Tahir Shah
« june »
- A Trip to the Stars ~ Nicholas Christopher
- The Miserable Mill ~ Lemony Snicket
- Kings Of Infinite Space ~ James Hynes
- Butcher's Moon ~ Richard Stark
« july »
- Helm ~ Steven Gould
- The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living ~ Martin Clark
- Abhorsen ~ Garth Nix
« august »
- Rain Fall ~ Barry Eisler
- How To Rule The World ~ André de Guillaume
- Grass For His Pillow ~ Lian Hearn
« september »
- Iron Council ~ China Miéville
« october »
- The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number ~ Mario Livio
- Abarat ~ Clive Barker
- Hyperion ~ Dan Simmons
« november »
- Tishomingo Blues ~ Elmore Leonard
- The Fourth Hand ~ John Irving
« december »
- Hostage ~ Robert Crais
- Pastoralia ~ George Saunders
« 2005 » 41 books:
« january »
- Brilliance of the Moon ~ Lian Hearn
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #13 ~ edited by Chris Ware
- The Wellstone ~ Wil McCarthy
- The Effect of Living Backwards ~ Heidi Julavits
« february »
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography ~ Simon Singh
- The Missing World ~ Margot Livesey
« march »
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams ~ Kim Deitch
- Stolen ~ Kelley Armstrong
- Serpent Girl ~ Matthew Carnahan
« april »
- The Knight ~ Gene Wolfe
- A Short History of Nearly Everything ~ Bill Bryson
- Complications ~ Atul Gawande
« may »
- The Skinner ~ Neal Asher
- King Rat ~ China Miéville
« june »
- Altered Carbon ~ Richard K. Morgan
- Skinny Dip ~ Carl Hiaasen
- The Prestige ~ Christopher Priest
- A Long Way Down ~ Nick Hornby
« july »
- Drop City ~ T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Gridlinked ~ Neal Asher
« august »
- Cryptonomicon ~ Neal Stephenson
- Expendable ~ James Alan Gardner
- Blackwater Sound ~ James W. Hall
« september »
- Reflex ~ Steven Gould
- Pursuit ~ Thomas Perry
- The Man With The Getaway Face ~ Richard Stark
« october »
- Don't Know Much About the Bible ~ Kenneth C. Davis
- Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife ~ Mary Roach
- Closer To The Light ~ Melvin Morse, M.D.
- Moon Palace ~ Paul Auster
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay
« november »
- Battle Royale ~ Koushun Takami
- Why Things Are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life ~ Joel Achenbach
- The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words ~ Peter Bowler
- Peace Like A River ~ Leif Enger
« december »
- On My Way To Paradise ~ Dave Wolverton
- The Wooden Sea ~ Jonathan Carroll
- America (The Book) ~ Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show
- The Tombs of Atuan ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Farthest Shore ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
- The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism ~ James Geary
« 2006 » 29 books:
« january »
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ~ Malcolm Gladwell
- Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles ~ Anthony Swofford
« february »
- Dragonfly ~ Frederic S. Durbin
- The Thin Place ~ Kathryn Davis
« march »
- PopCo ~ Scarlett Thomas
- Thud! ~ Terry Pratchett
- Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences ~ John Allen Paulos
« april »
- A Game of Thrones ~ George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings ~ George R. R. Martin
- Why Do Men Have Nipples? ~ Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg, M.D.
« may »
- State of Fear ~ Michael Crichton
« july »
- The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop ~ Lewis Buzbee
- The Voyage of the Sable Keech ~ Neal Asher
- Enchanted Night ~ Steven Millhauser
- Save Your Own ~ Elisabeth Brink
- What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running The World ~ Melissa Rossi
- Dreamhouse ~ Alison Habens
« august »
- Rocketo: Journey To The Hidden Sea (vol 1) ~ Frank Espinosa
- A Storm of Swords ~ George R. R. Martin
« september »
- English Passengers ~ Matthew Kneale
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ~ Eric Schlosser
« october »
- The Quincunx ~ Charles Palliser
- Nobody Runs Forever ~ Richard Stark
- Dearly Devoted Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay
« november »
- Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas ~ Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
« december »
- A Feast For Crows ~ George R. R. Martin
- Ask The Parrot ~ Richard Stark
- The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists ~ Gideon Defoe
- The Pirates! In An Adventure With Ahab ~ Gideon Defoe
« 2007 » 34 books:
« january »
- Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War ~ Clive Barker
- Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System ~ Sharon Waxman
- Vampire Loves ~ Joann Sfar
« february »
- A Princess of Roumania ~ Paul Park
- Point Blank ~ Richard Stark
« march »
- The Pirate Wars ~ Peter Earle
« april »
- Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations ~ Simon Rich
- Then We Came to the End ~ Joshua Ferris
- Smoked ~ Patrick Quinlan
- Caught Stealing ~ Charlie Huston
« may »
- Un Lun Dun ~ China Miéville
- Six Bad Things ~ Charlie Huston
- A Dangerous Man ~ Charlie Huston
- Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? ~ Ted Rall
- Water For Elephants ~ Sara Gruen
- The Parrot's Lament: And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity ~ Eugene Linden
« june »
- Captain Alatriste ~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Western Limit Of The World ~ David Masiel
« july »
- Lord Valentine's Castle ~ Robert Silverberg
- Conan ~ Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter
- Apathy and Other Small Victories ~ Paul Neilan
- The Stolen Child ~ Keith Donohue
« august »
- What Every American Should Know About Europe: The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck-ups, Cross-Border Sniping, and Cultural Chaos of Our Transatlantic Cousins ~ Melissa Rossi
- The Outfit ~ Richard Stark
- Talk Talk ~ T. C. Boyle
- Bloodsucking Fiends ~ Christopher Moore
« september »
- The Ruins ~ Scott Smith
- Goblin Quest ~ Jim C. Hines
« october »
- Elantris ~ Brandon Sanderson
- Kushiel's Dart ~ Jacqueline Carey
« november »
- The Bone Doll's Twin ~ Lynn Flewelling
- The Immortal Game: A History of Chess ~ David Shenk
« december »
- The Omnivore's Dilemma ~ Michael Pollan
- Soon I Will Be Invincible ~ Austin Grossman
« 2008 » 48 books:
« january »
- Scar Night ~ Alan Campbell
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ~ Christopher Hitchens
- Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe ~ Tom Rogers
- The Tourmaline ~ Paul Park
« february »
- Hidden Warrior ~ Lynn Flewelling
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes ~ Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
- The God Delusion ~ Richard Dawkins
- Life After Life ~ Raymond Moody
« march »
- The Name of this Book is Secret ~ Pseudonymous Bosch
- Memoirs of An Invisible Man ~ H. F. Saint
- The White Tyger ~ Paul Park
« april »
- Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional ~ W. Jason Gilmore
- The Book of Lost Things ~ John Connolly
- The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science ~ Natalie Angier
« may »
- A Dirty Job ~ Christopher Moore
- Gil's All Fright Diner ~ A. Lee Martinez
- Three Tales of My Father's Dragon ~ Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Mainspring ~ Jay Lake
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip ~ George Saunders
« june »
- The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) ~ Joe Abercrombie
- Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two) ~ Joe Abercrombie
- I Love You, Beth Cooper ~ Larry Doyle
- Straits of Fortune ~ Anthony Gagliano
- The Garden of Last Days ~ Andre Dubus III
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret ~ Brian Selznick
« july »
- The Tale of Despereaux ~ Kate DiCamillo
- The Lies of Locke Lamora ~ by Scott Lynch
- James and the Giant Peach ~ Roald Dahl
- Santa Steps Out ~ Robert Devereaux
- The Goose Girl ~ Shannon Hale
« august »
- The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) ~ Patrick Rothfuss
- Halting State ~ Charles Stross
- The Learners ~ Chip Kidd
- Demolition Angel ~ Robert Crais
« september »
- Acacia: Book One: The War with the Mein ~ David Anthony Durham
« october »
- Last Argument of Kings (The First Law: Book Three) ~ Joe Abercrombie
- Old Man's War ~ John Scalzi
- At Large And At Small ~ Anne Fadiman
« november »
- Ilse Witch (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 1) ~ Terry Brooks
- Time Trap ~ Keith Laumer
- Sharp Teeth ~ Toby Barlow
- Dirty Money ~ Richard Stark
« december »
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex ~ Mary Roach
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 ~ Dave Eggers (Editor)
- The Time Bender ~ Keith Laumer
- Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
~ edited by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt
- The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ~ Bill Bryson
- The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need ~ Daniel H. Pink
« 2009 » 29 books
« february »
- Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1) ~ Jim Butcher
- Disquiet ~ Julia Leigh
- The Pirates! In An Adventure With Communists ~ Gideon Defoe
« april »
- Iron Angel (Deepgate Codex, Book 2) ~ Alan Campbell
- The Amazing Book of Useless Information ~ Noel Botham
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body ~ Neil Shubin
« may »
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson
- The Hidden World ~ Paul Park
« june »
- Poison Study ~ Maria V. Snyder
- Prador Moon ~ Neal Asher
- City of Thieves ~ David Benioff
« july »
- The Reavers ~ George MacDonald Fraser
- Low Moon ~ Jason
- The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume One ~ Gordon Dahlquist
- The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume Two ~ Gordon Dahlquist
« august »
- Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 2) ~ Jim Butcher
- Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1) ~ Steven Erikson
- How I Became A Famous Novelist ~ Steve Hely
« september »
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities ~ Amy Stewart
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions ~ Dan Ariely
« october »
- Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 2) ~ Steven Erikson
- Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1) ~ Gail Carriger
- A Little History of the World ~ E. H. Gombrich
- Peter and the Starcatchers ~ Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
- Boneshaker ~ Cherie Priest
« november »
- Naruto, Vol. 1 ~ Masashi Kishimoto
- The World Without Us ~ Alan Weisman
« december »
- Cursor's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 3) ~ Jim Butcher
- Beat The Reaper ~ Josh Bazell