What I Read in 2004

*1.  Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
2.  Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
*3.  Life of Pi, Yann Martel
*4.  Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
*5.  The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
*6.  The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
7.  A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
*8.  Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
9.  Forgotten Fire, Bagdasarian
10.  The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
11.  Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
*12.  The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
13.  When God Winks, Squire Rushnell
14.  Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
*15.  To America, Stephen Ambrose
16.  Green Grass Grace, Shawn McBride
17.  Bachelor Girl, Betsy Israel
*18.  A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
*19.  The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
20.  The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
*21.  Wild Swans, Jung Chang
*22.  Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
23.  The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson
*24.  Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
25.  Bergdorf Blondes, Plum Sykes
26.  Philistines at the Hegerow, Steven Gaines
*27.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
28.  Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
*personal favorites