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2000

• Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
• Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman
• Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
• Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman
• Pieces: A Collection of New Voices edited by Stephen Chbosky
• The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
• Girl by Blake Nelson
• Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson

2001

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
• Echo by Francesca Lia Block
• Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
• Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fences by August Wilson
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• Valencia by Michelle Tea
• The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America by Michelle Tea
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
• The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo

2002

• The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Ecstasia by Francesca Lia Block
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
• Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler and Allan Stadler
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
• Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker
• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Confessions by Augustine
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

2003

• Off the Map by Kika Kat and Hib Chickena
• The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners by CrimethInc.
• Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
• Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women by Paula Gunn Allen
• Primavera by Francesca Lia Block
• In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anaïs Nin
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan et al.
• Selected Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence
• Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
• For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
• White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
• No Logo by Naomi Klein
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
• Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
• The World and Other Places: Stories by Jeanette Winterson

2004

• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block
• Marvel 1602 by Andy Kubert, Todd Klein, Peter Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, Richard Isanove
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
• Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
• Love and Garbage by Ivan Klíma
• Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year by Francesca Lia Block
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
• Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
• Time's Magpie: A Walk in Prague by Myla Goldberg
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt

2005

• Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
• Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
• The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
• Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook by CrimethInc.
• Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes
• Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson
• The Sea Came in at Midnight by Steve Erickson
• Number9Dream by David Mitchell
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
• The Beautiful: Collected Poems by Michelle Tea
• Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground by Maria Raha
• Battle Royale by Yuji Oniki and Koushun Takami
• Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker
• Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Rent Girl by Laurenn McCubbin and Michelle Tea
• Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes by David Willis McCullough
• Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
• The Couriers Volume 1 by Brian Wood and Rob Goodridge
• Zero Girl by Sam Kieth
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo by Unknown, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

2006

• Art Through the Ages by Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner
• Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
• The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Herbert Butterfield and Arthur Koestler
• Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly by Jennifer Goltz et al.
• Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Aeneid by Virgil and Robert Fitzgerald
• Violent Cases by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman
• Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong
• Channel Zero by Warren Ellis and Brian Wood
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Serenity: The Official Visual Companion by Joss Whedon
• The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm by Various Authors
• Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
• Cathedral of the Black Madonna: The Druids and the Mysteries of Chartres by Jean Markale and Jon Graham
• Serenity: Those Left Behind by Brett Matthews et al.
• Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
• Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende
• Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
• We3 by Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison
• After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel and Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
• A Wolf at the Door: And Other Retold Fairy Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Demo: The Collection by Becky Cloonan and Brian Wood
• Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
• The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin
• Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt
• Supermarket by Brian Wood
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
• Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Severance by Robert Olen Butler
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

2007

• Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 16: Slayer, Interrupted by Various Authors
• The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Loveless Vol. 1: A Kin of Homecoming by Brian Azzarello et al.
• King Dork by Frank Portman
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• DMZ Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Azzarello et al.
• Buddha by Karen Armstrong
• Adverbs by Daniel Handler
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 1 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx
• Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita by Ashok Kumar Malhotra
• Mariana by Katherine Vaz
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers by Elizabeth Merrick
• A Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
• Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
• Prayer: A History by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski
• Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing by Various Authors
• Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 2 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
• Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
• Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates (reread)
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (reread)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home by Joss Whedon
• Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Various Authors
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
• The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
• Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 3 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 4: Safeword by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 5: Ring of Truth by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 7: Paper Dolls by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy by Various Authors
• Young Avengers Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg et al.
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstoya
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Fray: Future Slayer by Joss Whedon
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Young Avengers Volume 2: Family Matters by Andrea Di Vito et al.
• JLA: Earth 2 by Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Zeroville by Steve Erickson
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• The New Avengers, Volume 1: Breakout by Brian Michael Bendis et al.
• Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways by Zeb Wells et al.
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Steve Dillon et al.
• Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World by Steve Dillon et al.
• In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
• Specials by Scott Westerfeld
• The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
• Lyric Poems by John Keats
• French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

2008

• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• JPod by Douglas Coupland
• Will the Circle be Unbroken: Country Music in America by Alanna Nash, Willie Nelson, and Paul Kingsbury
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
• Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint
• Devilish by Maureen Johnson
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons by José Marzán Jr., Pia Guerra, Brian K. Vaughan, and Goran Sudžuka
• The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress and the Real Queen of France by Lisa Hilton
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
• Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld
• Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
• The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows by Various Authors
• Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Pretty Monsters: Stories by Kelly Link
• Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields

2009

• Runaways Vol. 8: Dead End Kids by Michael Ryan, Christina Strain, and Joss Whedon
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Better Days by Brett Matthews, Will Conrad, and Joss Whedon
• Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings by A.S. Byatt
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
• Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll by James L. Dickerson
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Your Body Is Changing by Jack Pendarvis
• Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Steve Buccellato
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms by Joseph Campbell and Michael Toms
• At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol Lee Flinders
• The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
• Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Anya Johanna DeNiro
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• Beowulf by A.J. Church, Gareth Hinds
• The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
• The New York Four by Ryan Kelly, Brian Wood
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
• The New Avengers Volume 3: Secrets and Lies by Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho, David Finch
• Runaways Vol. 9: Dead Wrong by Christina Strain, Terry Moore, Dave Meikis, Humberto Ramos
• The New Avengers Volume 4: The Collective by Mike Deodato, Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 3: Secret Invasion Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Khoi Pham
• Mary Jane Volume 1: Circle of Friends by Sean McKeever, Takeshi Miyazawa
• The New Avengers Volume 8: Secret Invasion Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos, David W. Mack, Billy Tan, Jim Cheung
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 2: Venom Bomb by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley
• The New Avengers Volume 5: Civil War by Howard Chaykin, Olivier Coipel, Pasqual Ferry, Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu, Jim Cheung
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 1: The Ultron Initiative by Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho
• The New Avengers Volume 2: Sentry by Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven
• Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers by Matthew Ryan, Rick Ketcham, Christina Strain, Christopher Yost, Michael Ryan, Takeshi Miyazawa
• Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana
• The New Avengers Volume 9: Secret Invasion Book 2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos, Billy Tan, Jim Cheung
• The New Avengers Volume 7: The Trust by Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu
• Young Avengers Presents: 1-6 by Paul Cornell, Ed Brubaker, Paco Medina, Harvey Tolibao, Alan Davis, Mark Brooks, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Brian Reed, Matt Fraction
• Runaways Vol. 10: Rock Zombies by Terry Moore, Takeshi Miyazawa
• The New Avengers Volume 6: Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Leinil Francis Yu
• Mary Jane Volume 2: Homecoming by Sean McKeever, Takeshi Miyazawa
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents: Volume 1
• The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
• Outcasts United: A Refugee Team and an American Town by Warren St. John
• This Girl for Hire by G.G. Fickling
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• London: A History by A.N. Wilson
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
• What Time Devours by A.J. Hartley
• The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories by Various Authors
• The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural by Various Authors
• Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
• The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales by Alison Lurie
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales by Mike Ashley

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