2004 in review: the books

Ghost Rider, by Neil Peart

Deadly Divots, by Gene Breaznell

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, by Kent Nelson

In the Wake of the Plague, by Norman F. Cantor

Grandmother Spider, by James Doss

Shadows on the Aegean, by Suzanne Frank

Silver Lies, by Ann Parker

A Harvard Education in a Book (ed. Harvard Lampoon)

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow

The Bean Trees (on CD), by Barbara Kingsolver

That’s What I Call Commuting. By Ed Gabrielse and Mike Holinka

The Annotated Night Before Christmas, by Martin Gardner

The Unauthorized Guide to Choosing a Church, by Carmen Renee Barry

The Weaver and the Factory Maid, by Deborah Grabien

Blinded, by Stephen White

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Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years, by Sue Townsend

After the Holocaust, by Howard Greenfield

Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons, by Roberta Gellis

After, by Francine Prose

High Country, by Nevada Barr

Women of Mystery (ed. by Cynthia Manson)

Paul: A Critical Life, by Jerome Murphy O’Connor

Walking the Dales, by Mike Harding

The Mismeasure of a Woman, by Carol Tavris

Bruiser, by Ian Chorao

The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper

Cat Seeing Double, by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Crusoe’s Daughter, by Jane Gardam

Thursday Next in the Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde

Burning the Map, by Laura Caldwell

The Return of the Black Widowers, by Isaac Asimov

Mountain Mysteries, by Marvin Gregory and P. David Smith

A Cry from the Dark, by Robert Barnard

The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Dead Cat Bounce, by Sarah Graves

San Juan Solution, by R.E. Derouin

Box Nine, by Jack O’Connell

The Serpents Trail, by Sue Henry

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, by Robert Rankin

Guardian of the Horizon, by Elizabeth Peters

Swimming Across: A Memoir, by Andrew S. Grove

Monkeewrench, by P.J. Tracy

The Bookman’s Promise, by John Dunning

At the End of Words: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Mirian Stone

The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution, by Linda R. Monk

Eventide, by Kent Haruf

All My Life for Sale, by John D. Freyer

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss

The Name of the Game: How Sports Talk Got That Way, by Lafe Locke

True Confessions (comp. and ed. by John Winokur)

Sweet Land Stories, by E. L. Doctorow

Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (comp. by William Anderson)

Sarah: A Novel, by Marek Halter (1st in the Canaan trilogy)

Useful Girl, by Marcus Stevens

Ouray’s Beaumont Hotel: A Century of Ouray’s History, by Doris H. Gregory

Deception Pass, by Earl Emerson

Blitzkat, by Robert Westall

Silvermeadow, by Barry Maitland

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke

The Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One)

1066 and All That: The History Book to End All History Books, by W.C. Sellar, and R.J. Yeatman

Now We Are Sixty, by Christopher Matthew

R is for Ricochet, by Sue Grafton

The Wind Eye, by Robert Westall

Ten Big Ones, by Janet Evanovich

The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith

Secrets of the Code (ed. by Dan Burstein)

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by Bede

The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke (on CD, read by Simon Jones)

Something Rotten, by Jasper Fforde

Pyro, by Earl Emerson

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini

When God Looked the Other Way, by Wesley Adamczyk

Language Visible, by David Sacks

Is Heathcliff a Murderer? by John Sutherland

The Romanov Prophecy, by Steve Barry

Medal of Valor Firefighters, by Michael L. Middleton

Number 10, by Sue Townsend (on CD)

Green Angel, by Alice Hoffman

The Water Clock, by Jim Kelly

All I Did Was Ask, by Terry Gross

A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women (ed. by Elizabeth George)

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, by Ross King (on CD: read by John Lee)

Dicken’s Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England’s Great Victorian Novelists, by Daniel Pool

Eyewitness to Jesus: Amazing New Manuscript Evidence About the Origin of the Gospels, by Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew D’Ancona

The Bear’s Embrace: A Story of Survival, by Patricia Van Tighem

A Ghost in the Machine, by Caroline Graham

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, by Ron Koertge

Gilligan's Wake, by Tom Carson

The Square Halo and Other Mysteries of Western Art: Images and the Stories That Inspired Them, by Sally Fisher

The Sistine Chapel: the Art, the History, and the Restoration, by Carlo Pietrangeli, et al.

Escape from Slavery, by Francis Bok, with Edward Tivnan

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A.J. Jacobs

Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction, by John Sutherland

The Cunning Linguist, by Richard Lederer

Blacklist, by Sara Paretsky

Small World: A Microcosmic Journey, by Brad Herzog

This Vast Land, by Stephen Ambrose

Skeleton Man, by Tony Hillerman

The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl

The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, by Barbara R. Rossing

Metro Girl, by Janet Evanovich

The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger