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Jan 11, 2005 9:46:03 PM Archived Entry: "2005 Book Purchases"
I think I'm buying fewer books since I started keeping a list of them - but real control still hasn't been exerted.
January
1. Darkness Illuminated: Essays on His Dark Materials
2. The Devil's Account: Phillip Pullman and Christianity - Hugh Rayment-Pickard
3. The Boudoir
February
4. How to Use Your Eyes - James Elkins
5. Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6. Beasts - John Crowley
7. Frommer's England 2005
8. Rick Steve's England 2005
March
9. Bizarre Sex Underground - Michael Leigh
10. Nudes of the '20s and '30s - Thomas Walters
11. Where to Find Fossils in Southern England - R. Coram
12. The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality - Fraser Harrison
13. The Browser's Guide to Erotica - Roy Harley Lewis
April
14. The Life of the World to Come - Kage Baker
15. Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics
16. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill - Mark Bittner (met the author and everything!)
May
17. The Longest Beach: An Eccentric Guide to Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula - Fay Malloy and Marilyn Zornado
18. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
19. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - Anita Loos
June
20. Wild Side of Sex: The Book of Kink - Midori
21. Metallic Love - Tanith Lee
22. The New American Splendor Anthology- Harvey Pekar
23. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
24. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
25. The Spider Garden - Michael Manning
26. Hydrophidian - Michael Manning
July
27. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body - Armand Leroi
28. Deep Secret - Diana Wynne-Jones
29. Cart and Cwidder (The Dalemark Quartet Bk. 1) - Diana Wynne-Jones
30. Drowned Ammet (Dalemark Quartet, Bk.2) - Diana Wynne-Jones
31. A Tale of Time City- Diana Wynne-Jones
32. Power of Three - Diana Wynne-Jones
33. The Magicians Of Caprona - Diana Wynne-Jones
34. The Time of the Ghost - Diana Wynne-Jones
35. The Invitation: The Book of Magic - Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, and Carla Jablonski
36. Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip
37. Gnarl!: Stories - Rudy Rucker
38. The Hacker and the Ants - Rudy Rucker
39. Seek! Selected Nonfiction - Rudy Rucker
40. Frek and the Elixir - Rudy Rucker
41. The Golden Age - John C. Wright
42. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing - James Elkins
43. The Tangled Wing (Revised and Updated) - Melvin Connor
44. The Tiger in the Well (The Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Bk. 3) - Phillip Pullman
45. Banewreaker : Volume I of The Sundering - Jaqueline Carey
August
45. The Undergrowth of Literature - Gillian Freeman
46. The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality
47. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth Century England (a gift, actually) - Steven Marcus
48. The Orton Diaries - edited by John Lahr
49. Sexual Moralities in France, 1780-1980 - Antony Copley
50. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
September
51. Smoke and Shadows - Tanya Huff
October
52. Od Magic - Patricia McKillip
53. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
54. Frommer's Memorable Walks in Paris
55. Rick Steve's Guide to Paris
56. Vita Sexualis - Ogai Mori
57. Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z - Alison Tyler
58. Up in Heaven - Pierre LaTour (an old Grove Press title)
59. La Tarantula: An Erotic Tale of Spain - Don Luis de V***
60. Memoirs of a Voluptuary - Anonymous (anohter "Wordsworth Classic Erotica" title)
61. States of Ecstasy (contains "The Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman" and "Blind Lust") - Anonymous
62. Violette - Anonymous ('first published in Brussels in 1892)
63. Menage - Emma Holly (this isn't a classic but I liked the teaser on the back about living with two gorgeous guys)
64. 21st Century Kinkycrafts - edited by Janet W. Hardy
65. Erotic Lifestyles - Iris and Steven Finz
66. The Velvet Underground - Michael Leigh (alas, I had already bought this as "Bizarre Sex Underground")
67. When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians - Patricia Anderson
68. Erotica: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature - Charlotte Hill and William Wallace
November
69. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
70. The Scar - China Mieville
71. Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan (autographed)
72. Salome/Under the Hill - Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley
73. The Hedonism Handbook - Michael Flocker
74. Woken Furies - Richard Morgan (since Altered Carbon rocked)
December
75. Thinks - David Lodge
76. Hot Monogamy - Patricia Love and Jo Robinson
77. Frommer's Paris 2006
78. Blood Price - Tonya Huff
79. Saratoga Backtalk - Stephen Dobyns (I wonder if I have all of the Charlie Bradshaw mysteries yet?)
80. Spin State - Chris Moriarty
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars