Books Read in 2005

  1. Backstory: Inside the Business of News, by Ken Auletta
  2. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, by John Mortimer
  3. Hotel Babylon: Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel, by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous
  4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, by Mark Haddon
  5. Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
  6. Servants of the People            , by Andrew Rawnsley
  7. The Price of Murder, by Bruce Alexander
  8. The Strange Death of Tory England, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  9. Ladies & Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, by Jonathan Mahler
  10. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
  11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
  12. Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, by Sarah Schulman
  13. Foreign Babes in Beijing, by Rachel DeWoskin
  14. Hard News, by Seth Mnookin
  15. A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game, by Selena Roberts
  16. Popco, by Scarlett Thomas
  17. Incendiary, by Chris Cleave
  18. The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe, by Paula Fox
  19. People in Trouble, by Sarah Schulman
  20. Empathy, by Sarah Schulman
  21. Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
  22. Waterloo, by Karen Olsson
  23. 99 Ways To Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, by Matt Madden
  24. Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
  25. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer
  26. 4:48 Pyschosis, by Sarah Kane
  27. Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy to Iraq, by Larry Diamond
  28. "I Didn't Do It for You": How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation, by Michela Wrong