the great catching up...

47. Tongue by Kyuang Ran Jo (An excellently written tale of food, sorrow & revenge.)

48. Twitter Wit

49. Enchanted Dreams by Nancy Madore

50. Red Carpet Rose by Pat Brady

51. Garden of the Perverse edited by Sage Vivant & M. Christian

52. Illustration Now edited by Julius Wiedeman

53. Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Ateget's Paris by Christopher Rauschenberg

54. Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life by Raymond Chandler (Words of wisdom from the master of the tough call.)

55. Steamed: a Steampunk Romance by Katie MacAlister (Kept expecting it to get better, silly me.)

56. Best American Erotica 2005

57. The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi (A study of Middle Eastern feelings towards the erotic from an insider.)

58. Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange (A nice Pride & Prejudice novel from Darcy's side, carefully kept to original tones & word choice.)

59. A Touch of Deadly by Charlaine Harris (Brain-junk fun)

60. Rose is Rose: Right on the Lips by Pat Brady

61. Best American Erotica 2004

62. Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

63. Fables 13: the Great Fables Crossover (the most disappointing volume in the otherwise fantastic Fables series)

64. The World According to Twitter by David Pogue & his 500,000 Followers

65. The Anxiety of Everyday Objects by Aurelie Sheehan (Wonderfully written. The adventures of whimsical dreamer in an office job. Excellent.)

66. Best American Erotica 2008


67. Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda


68. Yellow Dog by Charles de Lint


69. Portable Childhoods: Stories by Ellen Klages (Wonderful fantasy short stories of a similar vein as Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things.)

70. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (Pretty good fantasy. Death sentence traded for a food tasting job, interesting scenario, but the main character wasn't enticing enough to get me through the sequel.)


71. The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want by Cameron Tuttle

72. The Wild Things by Dave Eggars (Pretty close to the movie, very emotionally dense.)


73. Instructions by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess (Everything you need to know about how to live is in fairy tales, instruction manual by extract. Excellent.)

74. Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess


75. The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley


76. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan


77. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Why would a teen girl commit suicide? What drives us to the bottom? What would you do if you got there? Excellent, not an upper. Strong argument for the importance of all actions, no matter how small a decision might appear to be.)

78. Demo by Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan (graphic novel) (A bunch of awesome short stories about extraordinary people.)


79. Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn

80. Shrimp by Rachel Cohn (sequel to Gingerbread)

81. Cupcake by Rachel Cohn (finishing the trilogy)

82. Luxe by Anna Godbersen (1899 NYC. betrothals, scandals, secrets...first in quartet.)

83. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (Not as good as the main Twilight books, it exists for the obsessed, more so than I. Luckily short.)

84. Herotica 5

85. Ooku: The Inner Chambers. Vol. 1. by Fumi Yoshinaga. (Alterna-history. What if a disease killed off 75% of teen males in ancient Japan & kept doing so for centuries? How would it change culture, state infrastructure & interpersonal relationships? Excellent adult manga.)

86. Rumors by Anne Godbersen (The Luxe quartet continues.)

87. Envy by Anne Godbersen