Books I Have
Read Recently 2003
Suzanne P. Johnson
Rebecca’s Tale, Sally Beauman, 2001
Everything’s Eventual (stories), Stephen King, 2002
An Improper Death, Paula Paul, 2002
Death of the Last Villista, Allana Martin, 2001
Welcome to Paradise, Laurence Shames, 1999
How Still We See Thee Lie (stories), Allana Martin et al., 2002
Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996
Nemesis, Agatha Christie, 1971
Robinson Carusoe, Daniel Defoe, 1719
The House of Women, Alison G. Taylor, 1998
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, 1947
Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, 1942
Naked Came the Phoenix (serial novel), Marcia Talley, 2001
Natural Suspect (serial novel), William Bernhardt, 2001
Darker Masques (stories), J. N. Williamson, 2002
Wreck the Halls, Sarah Graves, 2001
Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman, 2002
A Cold Christmas, Charlene Weir, 2002
A Season for Murder, Ann Granger, 1991
Death of a PTA Goddess, Leslie O’Kane, 2002
The Golden Gate Murders, Peter King, 2002
Death of a Mill Girl, Clyde Linsley, 2002
Other Worlds, Barbara Michaels, 1999
The Bride’s Kimono, Sujata Massey, 2001
Monday the Rabbi Took Off, Harry Kemelman, 1972
Resurrecting Ravana (Buffy), Ray Garton, 2000
The Mysterious North (stories), Dana Stabenow, 2002
Herland and Selected Stories, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, early 1900’s
Ghosts in the Middle Ages, Jean-Claude Schmitt, 1994
Haunted Northern New York, Cheri Revai, 2002
Out of the Madhouse (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, 1999
Ghost Roads (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, 2002
Sons of Entropy (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, 2002
Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin, 1820
Là-Bas (The Damned), J.-K. Huysmans, 1891
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos, 1781
Gothic Tales, Elizabeth Gaskell, ca. 1850-1860
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe, 1794
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole, 1764
The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade, ca. 1780-1800
Uncle Silas, J.S. LeFanu, 1864
Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown, 1798
The Monk, Matthew G. Lewis, 1796
Pamela, Samuel Richardson, 1741
The Secret History, Donna Tartt, 1992
Bread and Wine, Ignazio Silone, 1936
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, 2000
The Lurking Fear (and other stories), H. P. Lovecraft, ca. 1920-1940
Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams, 1948
Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare, 1623
Neal Pollack’s Anthology of American Literature, Neal Pollack, 2000
The Seville Communion, Arturo Perez-Reverte, 1995
Publish and Perish, James Hynes, 1997
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, early 1960’s
Mazes & Labyrinths, W. H. Matthews, 1922
Run Man Run, Chester Himes, 1966
Smith of Wooton Major, J. R. R. Tolkein, 1967
Farmer Giles of Ham, J. R. R. Tolkein, 1949
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Wilkie Collins, ca. mid 1800’s
Ghost and Horror Stories, Ambrose Bierce, ca. 1890
Best Supernatural Tales, Arthur Conan Doyle, ca. 1900
Best Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood, early 1900’s
Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton, ca. 1910-1937
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M. R. James, 1904
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, 1958
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds, Lilian Jackson Braun, 1998
Cat on the Scent, Rita Mae Brown, 1999
Murder on the Prowl, Rita Mae Brown, 1998
Lilydale, Christine Wicker, 2003
Cloud of Sparrows, Takashi Matsuoka, 2002
Stiff, Mary Roach, 2003
Portrait of a Killer, Patricia Cornwell, 2002
100 Ghastly Ghost Stories, Stefan Dziemianowicz et al., eds., 1993
Dissolution, C. J. Sansom, 2003
More Like Wrestling, Danyel Smith, 2003
Sinister Pig, Tony Hillerman, 2003
A Cold Day for Murder, Dana Stabenow, 1992
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt, 2002
The Haunted House, Charles Dickens, 1862
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, 1859
The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler,1996
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells, 1992
The Matrix Reloaded (Matrix II), May 2003
Gordon, Edith Templeton, 1961
Leucippe and Clitophon, Achilles Tatius, 2nd century c.e.
Bloodroot, Susan Wittig Albert, 2001
Underdog, Laurien Berenson, 1996
The Dream Factory, Janet Leigh, 2002
The Restless Dead, Hugh B. Cave, 2003
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1922
Curse of the Bronze Lamp, Carter Dickson, 1945
The Shape of Snakes, Minette Walters, 2001
Mrs. Malory and Death by Water, Hazel Holt, 2003
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, 1803
Hearse Case Scenario, Tim Cockey, 2002
I Pass Like Night, Jonathan Ames, 1989
The Traveling Vampire Show, Richard Laymon, 2001
Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, E. T. A. Hoffman, 1820
The Underdogs, Mariano Azuela, 1924
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo, 1831
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux, 1911
The Lurker at the Threshold, H. P. Lovecraft, 1945
God is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 71/2 Laws of Spiritual and Finacial Growth, Brother Ty, 1998
The Dog on the Roof, Mary Madsen Hallock, 2002
Death of a Dustman, M.C. Beaton, 2001
Crewel World, Monica Ferris, 1999
Thyme of Death, Susan Wittig Albert, 1992
Columbo: The Hoffa Connection, William Harrington, 1995
A Suitable Vengance, Elizabeth George, 1991
Death at Whitechapel, Robin Paige, 2000
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle, 1962
A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle, 1973
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L’Engle, 1978
Emperor Norton’s Ghost, Dianne Day, 1998
Body of Intuition, Claire Daniels, 2002
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy, Barbara Vine, 1998
The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker, 1989
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
The Giver, Lois Lowry, 1993
If I Should Die, Grace F. Edwards, 1997
A Toast Before Dying, Grace F. Edwards, 1998
No Time to Die, Grace F. Edwards, 1999
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling, 2003
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders, Terry Sullivan with Peter Maiken, 1983
A Rage to Kill, Anne Rule, 1999
Funeral In Blue, Anne Perry, 2001
A Taste for Murder, Claudia Bishop, 1994
Kat Scratch Fever, Karen Kijewski, 1997
Obsession, John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, 1998
Fool’s Puzzle, Earlene Fowler, 1994
Too High, Corson Hirschfeld, 2001
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos, Donna Andrews, 2001
The I-5 Killer, Anne Rule, 1984
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, 2003
Borrower of the Night, Elizabeth Peters, 1973
The Ape Who Guards the Balance, Elizabeth Peters, 1998
Catch as Cat Can, Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown, 2002
Take the Bait, S. W. Hubbard, 2003
Chopping Spree, Diane Mott Davidson, 2002
Murder Checks Inn, Tim Myers, 2003
Love Made of Heart, Teresa LeYung Ryan
The Princeton Murders, Ann Waldron, 2003
If Cooks Could Kill, Joanne Pence, 2003
The Terra-Cotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri, 1996
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool, 1993
The Medieval Underworld, Andrew McCall, 1979
Miss Remarkable and Her Career, Joanna Rubin Dranger, 2001
Red Zone, Aphrodite Jones, 2003
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, 1995
St. Ursula’s Convent or, The Nun of Canada, Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart, 1824
Thurber Country, James Thurber, 1949
Uniform Justice, Donna Leon, 2003
The Snack Thief, Andrea Camilleri, 2003
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders, 1996
Pastoralia, George Saunders, 2000
The Reef, Edith Wharton, 1912
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative, Herbert Mason, ca. 3000 bce
The Clue in the Old Album (Nancy Drew #24), Carolyn Keene, 1947
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, 2002
Ghost of Blackwood Hall (Nancy Drew #25), Carolyn Keene, 1948
Mystery of the Tolling Bell (Nancy Drew #23), Carolyn Keene, 1946
The Clue in the Jewel Box (Nancy Drew #20), Carolyn Keene, 1943
The Kennedy Curse, Edward Klein, 2003
Wicked, Gregory Maguire, 1995
Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer, 2003
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, 2002
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew #22), Carolyn Keene, 1945
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew #21), Carolyn Keene, 1944
One More for the Road (short stories), Ray Bradbury, 2002
The Awakening, Kate Chopin, 1899
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
Dangerous Attraction, Robert Scott, 2003
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911
Murder on Route 66, Carolyn Wheat, ed., 1999
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Lives of Dax, Marco Palmieri, ed., 1999
Chobits 1-8, Clamp,
Don’t Ask, Donald Westlake, 1993
Red House, K. J. A. Wishnia, 2001
The Gnostics, Tobias Churton, 1987
A Place of Hiding, Elizabeth George, 2003
Posted to Death, Dean James, 2002
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg, 1967
A Deadly Shaker Spring, Deborah Woodworth, 1998
Love Me, Garrison Kellior, 2003
The Ghostway, Tony Hillerman, 1984
Parasites Like Us, Adam Johnson, 2003
Columbo: The Helter Skelter Murders, William Harrington, 1994
Moss Gardening, Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures, George Schenk, 1997
Orpheus Descending, Tennessee Williams, 1957
He Shall Thunder in the Sky, Elizabeth Peters, 2000
Murder at San Simeon, Patricia Hearst and Cordelia Frances Biddle, 1996
The Last Manly Man, Sparkle Hayter, 1998
A Fashionable Murder, Valerie Wolzien, 2003
Danse Macabre: François Villon, Aubrey Burl, 2000
The Bad Popes, E. R. Chamberlin, 1969
The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy, George Holmes, 1997
Isle of Dogs, Patricia Cornwell, 2001
The Vampire’s Violin, Michael Romkey, 2003
The Puzzle Bark Tree, Stephanie Gertler, 2003
Pagan Babies, Elmore Leonard, 2000
Red Moon, Robert Westbrook, 2000
Deadly Nightshade, Cynthia Riggs, 2001
Touch, Elmore Leonard, 1987
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain, 1889
Women’s Monasticism and Medieval Society, Bruce Venarde, 1997
In famiglia: Storie di interessi e affetti nell’Italia moderna, Roberto Bizzocchi, 2001
Death Never Takes a Holiday, Noreen Wald, 2000
I Still Miss My Man, But My Aim Is Getting Better, Sarah Shankman, 1996
Likely To Die, Linda Fairstein, 1997
Ghostwriter, Noreen Wald, 1999
The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, Laura Joh Rowland, 2002
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medicis, Lauro Martines, 2003
I’ll Be Leaving You Always, Sandra Scoppettone, 1993
A.K.A. Jane, Maureen Tan, 1997
Crow in Stolen Colors, Marcia Simpson, 2000
The Music of What Happens, John Straley, 1996
Hunting Season, Nevada Barr, 2002
The Hope Valley Hubcap King, Sean Murphy, 2002
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett, 1992
A Bad Spell in Yurt, C. Dale Brittain, 1991
The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint, C. Dale Brittain, 1993
Daughter of Magic, C. Dale Brittain, 1996
The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum, 1910
The Etruscan Chimera, Lyn Hamilton, 2002
What’s Wrong with the Rorschach? James M. Wood et al., 2003
Baudolino, Umberto Eco, 2000
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, Gene Bruckner, 1986
The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant, Duccio Balestracci, 1984
Art: A New History, Paul Johnson, 2003
Law, Family and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy, Thoman Kuehn, 1991
Better Reading Italian, Daniela Gobetti (Ph.D!), 2002
Blood Lure, Nevada Barr, 2001
Riding the Rap, Elmore Leonard, 1995
Carrie Pilby, Caren Lissner, 2003
Stick, Elmore Leonard, 1983
Murder Among Us, Jonnie Jacobs, 1998
Samurai Girl I: Book of the Sword, Carrie Asai, 2003
Identity, Steven Piziks, 2003
Samurai Girl II: Book of the Shadow, Carrie Asai, 2003
52 Pickup, Elmore Leonard, 1974
Maximum Bob, Elmore Leonard, 1991
The Wheat Field, Steve Thayer, 2002
Fried by Jury, Claudia Bishop, 2003
Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters, 1915
The Trail of the Serpent, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1860
Weird N.J., Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, 2003
Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, Franz Lidz, 2003
Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong, ca. 1500
The Ultimate Frankenstein, Byron Preiss, ed., 1991
The Music of the Spheres, Elizabeth Redfern, 2001
Daughter of the Game, Tracy Grant, 2002
Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard, 1992
The Emperor’s Assassin: Memoirs of Bow Street Runner, T.F. Banks, 2003
At Crighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, ca. 1870
The Importance of Being Ernestine, Dorothy Cannell, 2002
The Voyeur, Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1958
Murder in Georgetown, Elliott Roosevelt, 1999
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, 1845
The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed., 2003
Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862
Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr, 1993
A Venetian Affair, Andrea Di Robilant, 2003
She, H. Rider Haggard, 1887
Ayesha, The Return of “She”, H. Rider Haggard, 1904
Mademoiselle de Scudéri, E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1819
A Royal Duty, Paul Burrell, 2003
The Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce Henderson, 1992
The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge, John Flenley and Paul Bahn, 2003
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, 1913
The Golden One, Elizabeth Peters, 2002
Pronto, Elmore Leonard, 1993
City of Light, Lauren Belfer, 1999
Matrix III: Revolutions, 2003
Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer, 2000
Angel: Endangered Species, Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte, 2002
The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason, Iain McCalman, 2003
Grave’s End: A True Ghost Story, Elaine Mercado and Hans Holzer, 2001
The Best Tales of Hoffman, E.T.A. Hoffman, ca. 1815
King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard, 1885
Allan Quatermain, H. Rider Haggard, 1887
Secret Tactics, Kazumi Tabata, 2003
The Sword and the Cross, Fergus Fleming, 2003
A Separate Peace, John Knowles, 1959
Blooded (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, 1998
Stardust, Neil Gaiman, 1999
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt, 1860
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Caroline Alexander, 2003
Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra, 2002
So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps, Dillon Banerjee, 2000
Bobby’s Girl, J.D. Austin, 2001
The Lost Slayer: Omnibus Edition (Buffy), Christopher Golden, 2001
The Silk Road, Frances Wood, 2002
The Killers Among Us: Motives Behind Their Madness, Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson, 1995
Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christen Andersen (ed. Pat Iversen), ca. 1850
The Mummies Of Urumchi, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, 1999
Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989
Sunshine, Robin McKinley, 2003
Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man, D. Brian Plummer, 1997
Shakespeare ALIVE!, Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland, 1988
The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston, 2002
Genghis Kahn: Conqueror of the World, Leo de Hartog, 1989
Voice of the Violin, Andrea Camilleri, 1997
Great Weird Tales, S.T. Joshi, ed., 1999
100 Ghastly Ghost Stories, Stefan Dziemianowicz et al., eds., 1993
Medieval Tales and Stores, Stanley Appelbaum, 2000
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington,
Two for the Lions, Lindsey Davis, 1998
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Peter Hopkirk, 1980
The Silk Road, Judy Bonavia, 2002
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang, Sally Hovey Wriggins, 2004
Monkey, Wu, Ch’eng-en, trans. Arthur Waley, 1943
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China, David Hinton, 2002
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838
Magic and Mystery in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel, 1932
Lhasa and Its Mysteries, L. Austine Waddell, 1904
Valley of the Golden Mummies, Zahi Hawass, 2000
Child of the Hunt (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, 1998
Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
The Journey to the West, Vol. I, trans. Anthony Yu, 1592
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