first 55 books

i'm too lazy to find out about backdating entries and then copying and pasting 55 book reviews, so here's the list of all of 'em instead. if you want to know what i thought of any of these, just ask, and i'll point you toward my comments. :)

*=i was re-reading this one
1. anne fadiman's ex libris
2.* all 5 harry potters (more than once, as the year panned out!)
3.* michael chabon's the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
4. haven kimmel's something rising (light and swift)
5. zz packer's drinking coffee elsewhere
6. diana wynne jones' howl's moving castle
7. susan fromberg schaeffer's the snow fox
8. ross king's domino
9. douglas coupland's generation x
10. douglas coupland's microserfs
11. peter hoeg's miss smilla's feelings for snow
12. robertson davies' the rebel angels
13. max barry's jennifer government
14. gish jen's typical american
15. robertson davies' fifth business
16. louise erdrich's the master butcher's singing club
17. robertson davies' the manticore
18. robertson davies' world of wonders
19. daniel wallace's big fish
20. ann patchett's taft
21. susan cooper's over sea, under stone
22. susan cooper's other 4 dark is rising books
23. robertson davies' what's bred in the bone
24. pete hamill's snow in august
25. robertson davies' the lyre of orpheus
26.* haruki murakami's hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
27.* madeleine l'engle's a wrinkle in time
28. suzan-lori parks' getting mother's body
29. ann patchett's the magician's assistant
30. ann patchett's the patron saint of liars
31. andrew sean greer's the confessions of max tivoli
32. lynne truss' eats, shoots and leaves
33.* madeleine l'engle's a swiftly tilting planet
34.* michael dorris and louise erdrich's the crown of columbus
35.* kobo abe's the kangaroo notebook
36. margaret atwood's oryx and crake
37. mark haddon's the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
38. jon mcgregor's if nobody speaks of remarkable things
39. ruth ozeki's my year of meats
40. george eliot's middlemarch
41. james woods' the book against god
42. ruth ozeki's all over creation
43. robertson davies' temper-tost
44. robertson davies' leaven of malice
45. robertson davies' a mixture of frailties
46. audrey niffenegger's the time traveler's wife
47. david sedaris' dress your family in corduroy and denim
48. nicholson baker's the everlasting story of nory
49. isaac bashevis singer's the seance
50!!! zoe heller's what was she thinking? [notes on a scandal]
51. thomas dyja's meet john trow
52. steve almond's my life in heavy metal
53. reynolds price's a long and happy life
54. herman wouk's war and remembrance
55. debbie macomber's the shop on blossom street (my requisite chick-lit for the year, it was about a chick who owns a knitting store!)