New Movies Seen in 2010 (So Far)

• Bee Season (2005)
• Driving Lessons (2006)
• Precious (2009)
• The Sergeant (1968)
• A Single Man (2009)
• The White Ribbon (2009)

New Books Read in 2010 (So Far)

• Dirty Bow Wow: A Tribute to Dogs and the Objects of Their Affection by Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz
• Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood by Melissa Hart
• M for Mischief by Richard Parker
• Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl
• Poor Little Witch Girl by Marie Desplechin
• Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan
• Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

New Movies Seen in 2009

• Adam's Apples (2005)
• Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
• The Age of Believing (2008)
• American East (2007)
• American Teen (2008)
• Away We Go (2009)
• Be Like Others (2008)
• Birds of America (2008)
• Blind Flight (2003)
• Breakfast with Scot (2007)
• By the People (2009)
• Cat Dancers (2008)
• Chalk (2006)
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• Children of the Sun (2007)
• Choose Connor (2007)
• Constantine's Sword (2007)
• Conventioneers (2005)
• Coraline (2009)
• Diggers (2006)
• Doubt (2008)
• Eastern Promises (2007)
• Eleven Men Out (2005)
• Eli's Coming (1996)
• Family Prayers (1993)
• Firelight (1997)
• Girls Rock! (2007)
• The Good Life (2007)
• Goth Cruise (2008)
• Green Chimneys (1997)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
• Happy, Texas (1999)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
• How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
• Jellyfish (2007)
• A Jihad for Love (2007)
• Jindabyne (2006)
• Join Us (2007)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
• Linda & Ali (2005)
• Little Children (2006)
• Living Goddess (2008)
• Living the Legacy (2009)
• A Love to Hide (2005)
• Man Push Cart (2005)
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
• My Father My Lord (2007)
• My Mother's Smile (2002)
• Normal People Scare Me (2006)
• One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
• Outrage (2009)
• Private Practices (1986)
• Prom Night in Mississippi (2008)
• The Reader (2008)
• Ready? OK! (2008)
• Red Road (2006)
• Ruby Blue (2007)
• Save Me (2007)
• The Servant (1963)
• Shelter (2007)
• Shouting Fire (2009)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Smart People (2008)
• Snow Angels (2007)
• Sophie Scholl (2005)
• The Spanish Gardener (1956)
• Sweet Mud (2006)
• The Ten (2007)
• Ten Canoes (2006)
• Together (2000)
• Torn Apart (1990)
• Tuya's Marriage (2006)
• 2012 (2009)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• Which Way Home (2009)
• Without the King (2007)
• The Witnesses (2007)
• Worlds Apart (2008)
• The Wrestler (2008)
• The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

New Books Read in 2009

• A Is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books by Lorilee Craker
• The Atheist's Guide to Christmas edited by Ariane Sherine
• Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies by Roger Bennett and Jules Shell
• Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm
• A Cool Moonlight by Angela Johnson
• Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl by Susan Campbell
• The Declaration by Gemma Malley
• Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of Childhood by Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz
• Fixed Mix Seeks Same: The First Book of Dog Personal Ads by Christine Ecklund and Dean Minerd
• Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs by Julie Jackson
• Greetings from Bury Park: A Memoir by Sarfraz Manzoor
• Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg
• Hit the Road, Manny by Christian Burch
• I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams
• I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith Through an Atheist's Eyes by Hemant Mehta
• The Janus Gate: An Encounter with John Singer Sargent by Douglas Rees
• Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas
• Laura Upside-Down by Doris Buchanan Smith
• The Magic Nation Thing by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
• My So-Called Family by Courtney Sheinmel
• Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love edited by Rebecca Walker
• Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion edited by Dale McGowan
• A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer
• Perishable: A Memoir by Dirk Jamison
• Pharos: A Ghost Story by Alice Thompson
• Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce
• The Resident Witch by Marian T. Place
• The Resistance by Gemma Malley
• Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Sign of the Raven by Julie Hearn
• Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman
• Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama edited by Jory John
• The Treasures of Weatherby by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman
• Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater
• Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve
• When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
• Whisper in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac
• You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs
• Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership edited by Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis

New Movies Seen in 2008

• Atonement (2007)
• Autism: The Musical (2007)
• Beautiful Ohio (2006)
• The Big Bad Swim (2006)
• Blame It on Fidel (2006)
• Brick Lane (2007)
• Brideshead Revisited (2008)
• The Bubble (2006)
• Calendar Girls (2003)
• Campfire (2004)
• Century Hotel (2001)
• City of Ember (2008)
• Congorama (2006)
• Evening (2007)
• Fat Girls (2006)
• Flock of Dodos (2006)
• For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
• Forgiving the Franklins (2006)
• The Golden Compass (2007)
• Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
• The Happening (2008)
• Hear and Now (2007)
• History of a Secret (2003)
• Juno (2007)
• Ken Park (2002)
• La Petite Jerusalem (2005)
• Lake of Fire (2006)
• The Last King of Scotland (2006)
• Last Night (1998)
• Life After Tomorrow (2006)
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• Marjoe (1972)
• Milk (2008)
• Moolaadé (2004)
• Normal (2007)
• Offside (2006)
• Old Joy (2006)
• Out of the Blue (2006)
• Outing Riley (2004)
• Proof (1991)
• Protagonist (2007)
• Reign Over Me (2007)
• Religulous (2008)
• Right at Your Door (2006)
• Root of All Evil? (2006)
• Sex with Love (2003)
• Shortbus (2006)
• Stephanie Daley (2006)
• The Strange One (1957)
• Summercamp! (2006)
• Ten More Good Years (2008)
• This Is England (2006)
• Towelhead (2007)
• 20 Fingers (2004)
• 21 Up South Africa (2007)
• A Very Serious Person (2006)
• The Visitor (2007)
• WALL-E (2008)
• Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
• The Yacoubian Building (2006)
• Year Zero (2004)
• The Young Lovers (1964)
• Zodiac (2007)

New Books Read in 2008

• Adoption Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography by Susan G. Miles
• Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down by Irene Schram
• Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont
• The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau
• Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Girl on a Broomstick by Katharine Newlin Burt
• Glenda by Janice May Udry
• The God Box by Alex Sanchez
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
• God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin
• Good Charlotte by Carol Beach York
• A Handful of Time by Kit Pearson
• The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 by Michael Cart
• How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page
• Humanism, What's That?: A Book for Curious Kids by Helen Bennett
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
• The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India by Zia Jaffrey
• Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg
• A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays by David Valdes Greenwood
• New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer by Bill Maher
• The October Country by Ray Bradbury
• Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish by Joe Mackall
• A Question of Time by Dina Anastasio
• Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
• The Red Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer
• Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers by Tony Deifell
• The Seven Stone by Mary Francis Shura
• Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D.
• Sleeping Arrangements: A Memoir by Laura Shaine Cunningham
• The Solitary Vice: Against Reading by Mikita Brottman
• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
• Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting by Jamila Gavin
• Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen
• The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott
• This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
• Under the Dragon: California's New Culture by Lonny Shavelson and Fred Setterberg
• Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman
• The Witch and the Ring by Ruth Chew

New Movies Seen in 2007

• After the Wedding (2006)
• American Gun (2005)
• The Architect (2006)
• The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004)
• Blasphemy (2001)
• Bloodbrothers (1978)
• The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005)
• The Bridge (2006)
• Camp Out (2006)
• The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Civic Duty (2006)
• The Clay Bird (2002)
• Close to Home (2005)
• Coastlines (2002)
• C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
• Day Night Day Night (2006)
• The Dead Girl (2006)
• Eulogy (2004)
• Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)
• 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
• 51 Birch Street (2005)
• Flannel Pajamas (2006)
• Flower and Garnet (2002)
• Following Sean (2005)
• A Fond Kiss (2004)
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
• Guys and Balls (2004)
• Half Nelson (2006)
• Hand of God (2006)
• Hard as Nails (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Heading South (2005)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
• Imaginary Witness (2004)
• Jonestown (2006)
• Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
• Land of Plenty (2004)
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
• The Lives of Others (2006)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
• The Motel (2005)
• My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
• The N Word (2004)
• Narc (2002)
• Opal Dream (2005)
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
• Playing House (2003)
• The Proposition (1998)
• Quinceañera (2006)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
• Rich Kids (1979)
• Sherrybaby (2006)
• Sir! No Sir! (2005)
• So Young, So Bad (1950)
• Staircase (1969)
• Stardust (2007)
• The State Within (2006)
• Streamers (1983)
• Sweet Land (2005)
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
• 3 Needles (2005)
• Through Deaf Eyes (2007)
• 21 Up America (2006)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Wassup Rockers (2005)
• Whole New Thing (2005)
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
• WTC View (2005)

New Books Read in 2007

• Ambergate by Patricia Elliott
• Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson
• The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
• The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
• Blue Moon by Hila Feil
• Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds by Sabine Kuegler
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules edited by David Sedaris
• Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey by Joshua Hammer
• The City Beyond the Gates by N. Roy Clifton
• Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All edited by Harlyn Aizley
• Eight Seconds by Jean Ferris
• The Endless Pavement by Jacqueline Jackson
• Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume edited by Jennifer O'Connell
• Families of Value: Personal Profiles of Pioneering Lesbian and Gay Parents by Robert A. Bernstein
• The Forgotten World of Uloc by Bryan Buchan
• The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The God of Grandma Forever by Margriet Hogeweg
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage by David Valdes Greenwood
• I Will Make You Disappear by Carol Beach York
• Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors by Lisa Alther
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South by Catherine McCall
• Loretta Mason Potts by Mary Chase
• A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
• Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
• Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s by Margaret Sartor
• The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A.M. Homes
• Moon Eyes by Josephine Poole
• Murkmere by Patricia Elliott
• My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood by Linda Rosenkrantz
• My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure by Shawn Decker
• Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
• Nothing: Something to Believe In by Nica Lalli
• Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages
• Poster Child: A Memoir by Emily Rapp
• Revenge of the Dolls by Carol Beach York
• Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement by Lauren Sandler
• Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman
• Seminary Boy: A Memoir by John Cornwell
• Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women by Suzann Ledbetter
• The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
• Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement by Tanya Erzen
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
• What You Call Winter by Nalini Jones
• The Witch's Garden by Ruth Chew

New Movies Seen in 2006

• Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
• All Aboard (2006)
• Asylum (2005)
• Before the Fall (2004)
• The Best Man (1964)
• The Betsy (1978)
• Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
• The Boys of Baraka (2005)
• Brother Born Again (2001)
• Brothers (2004)
• Bubble (2005)
• Cape of Good Hope (2004)
• Capote (2005)
• The Constant Gardener (2005)
• Côte d'Azur (2005)
• Don't Tell (2005)
• Dorian Blues (2004)
• The Dying Gaul (2005)
• Evil (2003)
• The Five Senses (1999)
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
• 49 Up (2005)
• Gendernauts (1999)
• Goldfish Memory (2003)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
• The Great New Wonderful (2005)
• Hard Candy (2005)
• Hard Pill (2005)
• Head-On (2004)
• The Holy Girl (2004)
• In the Cut (2003)
• Ithuteng (2005)
• Jesus Camp (2006)
• Junebug (2005)
• Keane (2004)
• The King (2005)
• Lady in the Water (2006)
• Last Days (2005)
• Le Confessionnal (1995)
• Let's Get Frank (2003)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• The Living End (1992)
• Loggerheads (2005)
• The Mirror (1997)
• The Mudge Boy (2003)
• Munich (2005)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Murderball (2005)
• My Son the Fanatic (1997)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Nobody Knows (2004)
• Paradise Now (2005)
• Pizza (2005)
• Pretty Persuasion (2005)
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Protocols of Zion (2005)
• Radio Days (1987)
• The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
• Rank (2006)
• Rosenstrasse (2003)
• Rock School (2005)
• Seamless (2005)
• The Shipping News (2001)
• Something New (2006)
• Sorry, Haters (2005)
• Spetters (1980)
• The Squid and the Whale (2005)
• Stagedoor (2006)
• Thin (2006)
• Thumbsucker (2005)
• Transamerica (2005)
• Tsotsi (2005)
• Turtles Can Fly (2004)
• Twelve and Holding (2005)
• United 93 (2006)
• Unknown White Male (2005)
• Walk the Line (2005)
• The War Within (2005)
• Watermarks (2004)
• Wedding Wars (2006)
• When Ocean Meets Sky (2003)
• Who Are the DeBolts? (1977)
• Wilby Wonderful (2004)
• Wordplay (2006)
• The World According to Sesame Street (2006)
• Yellow Brick Road (2006)
• Zero Degrees of Separation (2005)

New Books Read in 2006

• All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown
• American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds by James Maguire
• Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds by Patricia Lynne Duffy
• Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock by Andrew Beaujon
• A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir by Frank DeCaro
• Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle’s Memoir by Edwin John Wintle
• Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers edited by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
• Children of Morrow by H.M. Hoover
• Clementina by Eileen Dunlop
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
• The Cruel Mother: A Memoir by Sian Busby
• Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
• Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Double Spell by Janet Lunn
• The End by Lemony Snicket
• Escape from Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
• Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson
• God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America by Naomi Schaefer Riley
• Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and Out of Major-League Baseball by Billy Bean
• The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin
• Gossamer by Lois Lowry
• A Haunting Air by Barbara C. Freeman
• The House on the Hill by Eileen Dunlop
• Jessamy by Barbara Sleigh
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• The Leather Boys by Gillian Freeman
• A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents edited by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe
• The Manny Files by Christian Burch
• Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel
• Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice by James Lileks
• Mr. Pudgins by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen
• My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between edited by Anne Burt
• My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood by Christine Rosen
• Otherborn by Joan Gould
• People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
• Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
• The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
• Robinsheugh by Eileen Dunlop
• Romansgrove by Mabel Esther Allan
• The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right by Robert Lanham
• Sisterland by Linda Newbery
• The Snow Ghosts by Beryl Netherclift
• Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
• Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America by Mark Oppenheimer
• The 13th is Magic by Joan Howard
• Time to Go Back by Mabel Esther Allan
• Treasures of Morrow by H.M. Hoover
• The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
• Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels by Hella Winston
• The Watcher in the Woods by Florence Engel Randall
• Where the Truth Lies by Lucy Cullyford Babbitt
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

New Movies Seen in 2005

• AKA (2002)
• Alfie (2004)
• Around the Bend (2004)
• Bad Education (2004)
• Bear Cub (2004)
• Beat (2000)
• The Best Way to Walk (1976)
• Beyond the Sea (2004)
• Big City (1948)
• Boat Trip (2002)
• Book of Love (2004)
• Born Into Brothels (2004)
• The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• The Brown Bunny (2003)
• The Château (2001)
• Closer (2004)
• Conspiracy of Silence (2003)
• The Corn is Green (1945)
• Cowboys & Angels (2003)
• Crash (2005)
• Crónicas (2004)
• The Day After (1983)
• De-Lovely (2004)
• Downfall (2004)
• The Education of Shelby Knox (2005)
• El Mar (2000)
• Enduring Love (2004)
• Facing Windows (2003)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• Family (2001)
• Finding Neverland (2004)
• Flightplan (2005)
• Garden State (2004)
• George Washington (2000)
• Ginger and Cinnamon (2003)
• Girlhood (2003)
• Happy Endings (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
• Heights (2004)
• Hiding and Seeking (2004)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• A Home at the End of the World (2004)
• I Will Survive (1999)
• The Indian Runner (1991)
• Intimacy (2001)
• Island in the Sun (1957)
• Joy in the Morning (1965)
• Kinsey (2004)
• Lackawanna Blues (2005)
• Latter Days (2003)
• Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
• Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
• Mango Souffle (2002)
• Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
• Mean Creek (2004)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
• Moonlight Mile (2002)
• My Summer of Love (2004)
• Mysterious Skin (2004)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• Our Fathers (2005)
• Palindromes (2004)
• Paper Clips (2004)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Put the Camera on Me (2003)
• The Rapture (1991)
• The River (2001)
• Saints and Sinners (2004)
• The Same River Twice (2003)
• Sand (2000)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• Shake It All About (2001)
• Shattered Glass (2003)
• 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
• Some of My Best Friends Are (1971)
• Something the Lord Made (2004)
• Sons and Lovers (1960)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Spin the Bottle (2000)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)
• The Subject Was Roses (1968)
• Tarnation (2003)
• Tiptoes (2003)
• Tomorrow, the World (1944)
• Touch of Pink (2004)
• 21 Up (1977)
• Twist of Faith (2004)
• Undertow (2004)
• Vera Drake (2004)
• Virgin (2003)
• Walk on Water (2004)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Where Are We? (1993)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• The Woodsman (2004)
• You'll Get Over It (2002)

New Movies Seen in 2004

• American Wedding (2003)
• The Bad Seed (1956)
• Blind Spot (2002)
• Born Rich (2003)
• Bright Young Things (2003)
• The Bronze Screen (2002)
• The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
• The Butterfly Effect (2004)
• Cambridge Spies (2003)
• Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
• City of God (2002)
• The City of No Limits (2002)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Elephant (2003)
• The Experiment (2001)
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
• Fat Girl (2001)
• Forgive and Forget (2000)
• Get Your Stuff (2000)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
• The Holy Land (2001)
• I Capture the Castle (2003)
• In America (2002)
• Jack (2004)
• Km. 0 (2000)
• The Leather Boys (1964)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
• Lost Boundaries (1949)
• A Love Divided (1999)
• The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
• Mambo Italiano (2003)
• Marathon Man (1976)
• Maryam (2000)
• Maybe Baby (2000)
• The Mother (2003)
• My Flesh and Blood (2003)
• My Knees Were Jumping (1996)
• My Life on Ice (2002)
• My Sweet Charlie (1970)
• My Wife is an Actress (2001)
• Mystic River (2003)
• On Line (2002)
• One Magic Christmas (1985)
• Open Water (2003)
• Ordinary Sinner (2001)
• Osama (2003)
• OT: Our Town (2002)
• Peter Pan (2003)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Possible Loves (2001)
• The River (1997)
• The Rules of Attraction (2002)
• Saved! (2004)
• The Scarlet Letter (1995)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• The Slaughter Rule (2002)
• Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
• Son Frère (2003)
• A Taste of Honey (1961)
• Thirteen (2003)
• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• To Be and To Have (2002)
• The Trip (2002)
• Tully (2000)
• Victor/Victoria (1982)
• The Village (2004)
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
• Winged Migration (2001)
• Word Wars (2004)
• Yossi & Jagger (2002)

New Books Read in 2005

• Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle
• The Albatross by Susan Hill
• Among the Enemy by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves edited by Kate Moses and Camille Peri
• Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia by Palmer Brown
• Born Into Brothels: Photographs by the Children of Calcutta by Zana Briski
• Bunny Lake is Missing by Evelyn Piper
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
• The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy
• A Chill in the Lane by Mabel Esther Allan
• The City Under Ground by Suzanne Martel
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage
• Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro
• The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
• Faded Pictures from My Backyard: A Memoir by Sue Carswell
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• The Haunted Dolls: An Anthology edited by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories by Sam Swope
• In a Blue Velvet Dress by Catherine Sefton
• Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer
• Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
• Miss Ghost by Ruth M. Arthur
• The Missing Persons League by Frank Bonham
• Moth Manor: A Gothic Tale by Martha Bacon
• My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
• One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel
• The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger
• Parsley Sage, Rosemary & Time by Jane Louise Curry
• The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
• Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men by Peggy Drexler and Linden Gross
• The Secret of the Seven Crows by Wylly Folk St. John
• The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby by Palmer Brown
• Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
• So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
• Stitches by Glen Huser
• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
• The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
• The Truth About Unicorns by Bonnie Jones Reynolds
• Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened by Torey Hayden
• The War Between the State: Northern California vs. Southern California edited by Jon Winokur
• The Wave by Todd Strasser
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future edited by Rebecca Walker
• When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg
• Why I Am a Muslim: An American Odyssey by Asma Gull Hasan
• The Witch Doll by Helen Morgan
• The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl

New Books Read in 2004

• Alexander Fox and the Amazing Mind Reader by John C. Clayton
• Am I a Woman?: A Skeptic’s Guide to Gender by Cynthia Eller
• Among the Brave by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Bad Seed by William March
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children’s Literature edited by Susan Lehr
• Bella by Anne and Edward Syfret
• The Black Sheep by Jean Merrill
• The Blue-Nosed Witch by Margaret Embry
• The Boy Who Could Fly by Robert Newman
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
• The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis by Brendan Powell Smith
• A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer
• The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir by Michelle Tea
• Child of My Heart: A Celebration of Adoption by Barbara Alpert
• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• A Class Divided by William Peters
• Come Along With Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures by Shirley Jackson
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is by Abigail Garner
• Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowd by Stephen Zanichkowsky
• Gay Dads: A Celebration of Fatherhood by David Strah
• The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues edited by Wendy Lesser
• Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
• The Ghost Garden by Hila Feil
• The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. John
• Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
• Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books by Deborah O’Keefe
• The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
• The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
• Growing Wings by Laurel Winter
• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
• The Haunting of Granite Falls by Eva Ibbotson
• The Hidden Cave by Ruth Chew
• Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
• The House on Parchment Street by Patricia A. McKillip
• How I Learned to Cook: And Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships edited by Margo Perin
• How It Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of All Ages edited by Judith E. Snow
• I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
• Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life edited by Christian McEwen
• The Life to Come and Other Stories by E.M. Forster
• Living in the Light: Freeing Your Child From the Dark Ages by Anne R. Stone
• Lost Boundaries by William Lindsay White
• Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth edited by Michael Cart
• Magic Comes in Its Time by Berniece Rabe
• Magic in the Park by Ruth Chew
• The Magic Tunnel by Caroline D. Emerson
• Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
• Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Mirror of Danger by Pamela Sykes
• Naomi Wants to Know: Letters from a Little Girl to the Big Big World by Naomi Shavin
• Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are edited by Michael Cart
• A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
• One Hot Second: Stories About Desire edited by Cathy Young
• Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto by Anneli S. Rufus
• Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway by Gary Gladstone
• The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
• Period Pieces: Stories for Girls edited by Erzsi Deak and Kristin Embry Litchman
• Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson by Judy Oppenheimer
• Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism by George Kalinsky
• Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
• Raising a Reader: A Mother’s Tale of Desperation and Delight by Jennie Nash
• The Red Room Riddle: A Ghost Story by Scott Corbett
• Royal Magic by Ruth Chew
• The Secret Lives of Married Men by David Leddick
• Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World by Beth Kephart
• The Shades by Betty Brock
• Shelf Life: Stories by the Book edited by Gary Paulsen
• Slut!: Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum
• Small Shadows Creep edited by Andre Norton
• Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories About Faith and Belief edited by Linda Rowe Fraustino
• Souls: Beneath and Beyond Autism by Sharon Rosenbloom
• A Sound of Crying by Rodie Sudbery
• Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church by James M. Ault, Jr.
• Summer Magic by Ruth Chew
• Target by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
• A Taste of Honey: A Play by Shelagh Delaney
• They Don’t Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom by Jane Katch
• 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen edited by James Howe
• Tomie dePaola: His Art and His Stories by Barbara Elleman
• The Trespassers by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Unseen by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Value of X by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant
• Virgin Territory: Stories from the Road to Womanhood by Cathy Alter
• The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz
• Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up by Barbara Feinberg
• William and Mary: A Story by Penelope Farmer
• Wings by Bill Brittain
• The Would-Be Witch by Ruth Chew

New Books Read in 2003

• The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life by Sid Fleischman
• Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Among the Dolls by William Sleator
• Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames
• As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl by John Colapinto
• At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf by Bennett Alfred Cerf
• The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption by Patty Dann
• Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter
• Beloved Benjamin is Waiting by Jean E. Karl
• Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
• The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr
• The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Alison Lurie
• Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl by Carmit Delman
• But I’ll Be Back Again: An Album by Cynthia Rylant
• A Candle in Her Room by Ruth M. Arthur
• The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
• Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
• Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
• The Children of Willesden Lane: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
• Crossing Over: One Woman’s Escape from Amish Life by Ruth Irene Garrett
• Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
• Double Fudge by Judy Blume
• A Double Thread: Growing Up English and Jewish in London by John Gross
• Down a Sunny Dirt Road: An Autobiography by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• A Family Year Abroad: How to Live Outside the Borders by Chris Westphal
• Father Figures: Three Wise Men Who Changed a Life by Kevin Sweeney
• Five Pages a Day: A Writer’s Journey by Peg Kehret
• Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man by B.D. Wong
• From Reader to Writer: Teaching Writing Through Classic Children's Books by Sarah Ellis
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
• The Ghosts by Antonia Barber
• The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
• The Girl With the Brown Crayon by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year by Francesca Lia Block
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood by Stephen Lewis
• House of Stairs by William Sleator
• The House Where The Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging by Kate Young Caley
• How We Talk: American Regional English Today by Allan Metcalf
• In the Kingdom of the Fairies: A Memoir of a Magical Summer and a Remarkable Friendship by Susan Coyne
• Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found by Sarah Saffian
• Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
• Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu
• Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars: A Memoir by Lauralee Summer
• Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14 by Erica Bauermeister and Holly Smith
• Letters to Montgomery Clift: A Novel by Noël Alumit
• Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett
• The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers by Bruce Shenitz
• Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth by Daniel Glick
• Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League by Paula Penn-Nabrit
• My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time by Sven Birkets
• The Next Better Place: A Father and Son on the Road by Michael C. Keith
• The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir by Kathy Dobie
• Outside by Andre Norton
• Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood by Julia Scully
• The Page Turner by David Leavitt
• Peter by Kate Walker
• Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril
• Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco
• Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
• The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family by Paul Karasik and Judy Karasik
• Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
• Season of Ponies by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Second-hand Magic by Ruth Chew
• Shattered Love: A Memoir by Richard Chamberlain
• The Shell House by Linda Newbery
• A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson
• Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat: Memories of My Childhood in Turkey by Vedat Dalokay
• Split: Stories from a Generation Raised on Divorce by Ava Chin
• Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad
• The Summer Birds by Penelope Farmer
• Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
• The Territory of Men: A Memoir by Joelle Fraser
• This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover
• Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
• What’s My Line?: The Inside History of TV’s Most Famous Panel Show by Gil Fates
• What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?: A Memoir by E. Lynn Harris
• The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House by Mary Chase
• Willie: Raising and Loving a Child With Attention Deficit Disorder by Ann Colin
• The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker
• The Wisdom of Big Bird & the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch: Lessons From a Life in Feathers by Caroll Spinney
• The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew
• Witch in the House by Ruth Chew
• Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien

New Books Read in 2002

• The Altar Boy Chronicles by Tony Pasquarello
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool, the Very Last Word on First Names by Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran
• The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein by Carol Ryrie Brink
• The Bears’ House by Marilyn Sachs
• Beautiful Child by Torey L. Hayden
• Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele Borba
• The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• The Children’s Story by James Clavell
• Children of the Depression by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin
• Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents, and Teachers by Norma Bowles
• Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher
• Dial-a-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
• Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
• The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden
• Double Take: The Story of Twins by Daniel Jussim
• Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey
• Drowning in Fire: A Novel by Craig S. Womack
• Elijah’s Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism by Valerie Paradiz
• Exploding the Myths: The Truth About Teenagers and Reading by Marc Aronson
• 42 Up: Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man by Bennett L. Singer
• Four Dolls by Rumer Godden
• Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today by Wendy Kaminer
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations by Randy Cohen
• The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
• I’m the One That I Want by Margaret Cho
• I Really Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Journeys from Harare to Eternity by Roger Rapoport and Bob Drews
• Inside Picture Books by Ellen Handler Spitz
• Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
• Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up With Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray
• Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
• Joy of Reading: One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success by Debbie Duncan
• Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket
• Libby on Wednesday by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist by Dan Barker
• The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• Loving Lefties: How to Raise Your Left-Handed Child in a Right-Handed World by Jane M. Healey, Ph.D.
• Ma and Pa Dracula by Ann M. Martin
• The Magic Bookshelf: A Parent's Guide to Showing Growing Minds the Path to the Best Children's Literature by Janie and Richard Jarvis
• The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• The Misfits by James Howe
• My Sisters’ Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out by Iris Jacob
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
• On My Way by Tomie dePaola
• One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Life Magazine Staff
• Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood by Arthur Laurents
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Pagan Time: An American Childhood by Micah Perks
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chblosky
• Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant’s Tales of Sex, Rage and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet by Elliott Hester
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World by Debra Ginsberg
• Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home by Rhonda Barfield
• Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Spellcasters: Witches and Witchcraft in History, Folklore, and Popular Culture by Pauline Bartel
• Split: A Counterculture Childhood by Lisa Michaels
• Storybook Travels: Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children's Literature by Colleen Dunn Bates and Susan LaTempa
• Teacha!: Stories from a Yeshiva by Gerry Albarelli
• Terrorism and Kids: Comforting Your Child by Fern Reiss
• This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost by Carolyn S. Briggs
• Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• True Stories of the X-Amish: Banned, Shunned, Excommunicated by Ottie Garrett
• Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play by Jane Katch
• Voices From Another Place: A Collection of Works From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries by Susan Soon-Keum Cox
• West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary
• What a Year by Tomie dePaola
• What Are Little Girls Made Of?: A Guide to Female Role Models in Children's Books by Marjorie N. Allen
• When Jeff Comes Home by Catherine Atkins
• Wifey by Judy Blume
• The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein
• Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam
• Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism by Danya Ruttenberg

New Books Read in 2001

• Adiós, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity by Ophira Edut
• Adopting On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adopting as a Single Parent by Lee Varon
• The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend
• Adrian Mole: The Lost Years by Sue Townsend
• Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff
• An American Family by Jon and Michael Galluccio
• American Muslims: The New Generation by Asma Gull Hasan
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
• The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
• Be My Baby: Parents and Children Talk About Adoption by Gail Kinn
• The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ana Novac
• The Big Domino in the Sky: And Other Atheistic Tales by Michael Martin
• Black Books Galore!: Guide to Great African American Children’s Books by Donna Rand, Toni Trent Parker, and Sheila Foster
• Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
• The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
• Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother by Christina Baker Kline
• Children of a Vanished World by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Hartman Flacks
• Chopstick Childhood In a Town of Silver Spoons: Orphaned at the Ming Quong Home, Los Gatos, CA by Nona Mock Wyman
• Confessions of a Single Father by Jim Covington
• Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin
• Couples: A Celebration of Commitment by Catherine Whitney and M.I. Hamburg
• Daycare and Diplomas: Teen Mothers Who Stayed in School by Ann Bergmann Ewing
• Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families by Myra Alperson
• Duck Egg Blue: A Novel by Derrick Neill
• Earthstar Magic by Ruth Chew
• Edinburgh: A Novel by Alexander Chee
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
• Face Forward: Young African American Men in a Critical Age by Julian C.R. Okwu
• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Francie by Karen English
• The Half-Jewish Book: A Celebration by Daniel M. Klein and Freke Vuijst
• Half Magic by Edward Eager
• Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• Holly’s Secret by Nancy Garden
• Home Fronts: Controversies in Nontraditional Parenting by Jess Wells
• I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes With Religion by Marilyn Singer
• I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp by H. Volavkova
• I Was My Mother’s Bridesmaid: Young Adults Talk About Thriving in a Blended Family by E. and V. Carlisle
• Into the Dream by William Sleator
• It Came from Ohio: My Life As a Writer by R. L. Stine
• Jewish Mothers: Strength, Wisdom, Compassion by Paula Wolfson and Lloyd Wolf
• Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again by Susan Shreve
• Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge by Susan Shreve
• Konrad by Christine Nostlinger
• Learning to Swim: A Memoir by Ann Warren Turner
• Leaving Fishers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
• Looking Back: A Book of Memories by Lois Lowry
• The Magic Detectives by Joe Nickell
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Merlin's Mistake by Robert Newman
• Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren
• The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
• Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood by Camille Peri and Kate Moses
• Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• My Diary--My World by Elizabeth Yates
• My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
• Name Me Nobody by Lois Ann Yamanaka
• Needles: A Memoir of Growing Up with Diabetes by Andie Dominick
• Naomi in the Middle by Norma Klein
• The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
• Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure by Tim Cahill
• On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• On the Fringe by Donald R. Gallo
• One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children by David Elliot Cohen
• Other People’s Dirt: A Housecleaner’s Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
• Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives by John Nikkah
• Picture the Girl: Young Women Speak Their Minds by Audrey Shehyn
• Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers by Judy Blume
• The Queer Parent’s Primer: A Lesbian and Gay Families’ Guide to Navigating the Straight World by Stephanie Brill
• Rain Forest Girl: More Than an Adoption Story by Chalise Miner
• Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary
• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
• Room to Grow: Twenty-Two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children by C. Kline
• Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives by Mary Motley Kalergis
• Shirts and Skin by Tim Miller
• Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
• Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
• Speak American: A Survival Guide to the Language and Culture of the U.S.A. by Dileri Borunda Johnston
• Spiritualized: A Look Inside the Teenage Soul by Mark Healy
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
• Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised As Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots by Barbara Kessel
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Temporary Child: A Foster Care Survivor's Story by Edward J. Benzola
• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
• Wanting a Child by Jill Bialosky and Helen Schulman
• The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers
• The Wednesday Witch by Ruth Chew
• When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up by Amy Ehrlich
• Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
• While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
• The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
• Witch’s Broom by Ruth Chew
• Witch Child by Celia Rees
• Yule: A Celebration of Light and Warmth by Dorothy Morrison

New Books Read in 2000

Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia by Robert Klose
Adoption Journeys: Parents Tell Their Stories by Carole S. Turner.
Aldo Peanut Butter by Johanna Hurwitz
Angela and Diabola by Lynne Reid Banks
A.P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco by Marie Hammontree
Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
As I Am: Young African American Women in a Critical Age by Julian C. R. Okwu
Autobiography of a Family Photo: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson
Barefoot Heart: Stories Of A Migrant Child by Elva Trevino Hart
Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir by Keith Fleming
Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
Cockroach Cooties by Laurence Yep
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
The Colors of Freedom: Immigrant Stories by Janet Bode
The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Driving While Black: What To Do If You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling by Kenneth Meeks
The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam by Robert S. McKelvey
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esme Raji Codell
Ethnic Dress by Frances Kennett
Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck
Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury by Donna Minkowitz
Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
First Comes Love by Marion Winik
Friends & Family: True Stories of Gay America's Straight Allies by Dan Woog
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Generation J by Lisa Schiffman
The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait by Glenway Wescott
The Happy Heretic by Judith Hayes
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm by Lynne Reid Banks
Here We All Are by Tomie dePaola
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright
Juliette Low: Girl Scout by Helen Higgins
Kate by Jean Little
The Kindness of Children by Vivian Gussin Paley
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Lark in the Morning by Nancy Garden
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
Listen for the Singing by Jean Little
Little by Little: A Writer's Education by Jean Little
The Little Leftover Witch by Florence Laughlin
Look Through My Window by Jean Little
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by David J. Pelzer
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin by Susana Herrera
Maura’s Angel by Lynne Reid Banks
Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society by Norine Dresser
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew
Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents by Noelle Howey
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt
Portrait of a Survivor by Florence M. Soghoian
A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story by Anthony Godby Johnson
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations by Al Franken
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Secret Places by Janice Elliott
Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager
Skeptic in the House of God by James L. Kelley
Smart Parenting for African Americans: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Difficult World by Jeffrey Roger Gardere
Stars Come Out Within by Jean Little
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Take Wing by Jean Little
Taking Sides by Norma Klein
Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light by Marion Winik
Those Who Can...Teach: Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference by Lorraine Glennon
Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II by Emmy E. Werner
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood by Cherrie L. Moraga
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins
What Is Atheism?: A Short Introduction by Douglas E. Krueger
Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle by Tobias Schneebaum
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture by Chelsea Cain
Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen
A Woman Like You: The Face of Domestic Violence by Vera Anderson
Women in the Material World by Faith D'Aluisio
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden