Starbook - Ben Okri. ( Read more... )

The Heart of the Mirage - Glenda Larke. ( Read more... )

The New Moon's Arms - Nalo Hopkinson. ( Read more... )

Ragamuffin - Tobias Buckell. ( Read more... )

The Shadow Speaker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu. ( Read more... )

Acacia - David Anthony Durham. ( Read more... )

The Magic of Blood - Dagoberto Gilb. ( Read more... )

Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan. ( Read more... )

Spaceman Blues: A Love Song - Brian Francis Slattery. ( Read more... )

Midnight Brunch - Marta Acosta. ( Read more... )

Flight - Sherman Alexie. ( Read more... )

Popco - Scarlett Thomas. Re-read. Nothing else to say that I haven't said before: I still adore this book & find it immensely comforting & inspiring.

Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers - Lois-Ann Yamanaka. ( Read more... )

Short Girls - Bich Minh Nguyen. ( Read more... )

"Lesbians" in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance - Edited by Diana Khor and Saori Kamano. ( Read more... )

Wind Follower - Carole McDonnell. ( Read more... )

Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs. ( Read more... )

White Witch, Black Curse - Kim Harrison. ( Read more... )

River's Daughter - Tasha Campbell. ( Read more... )

Lesbians Talk: Making Black Waves - Valerie Mason-John & Ann Khambatta. ( Read more... )

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture - Angela Y. Davis. ( Read more... )

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis. ( Read more... )

Coffins, Cats and Fair Trade Sex Toys - Jeremy Piercy. ( Read more... )

Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood - Virgil Suarez. Rather patchy collection of essays & poetry about Suarez's life being moved from Cuba to the US as a child to be “spared Angola”--a conflict described succinctly multiple times only as “Cuba's Vietnam.” Now, I realize that my historical ignorance of this is totally my fault. At the same time, if Angola was important enough to spur his family's move from Cuba, & thus to lend itself to the title of this book, I expected a bit more detail on how it was affecting other Cuban families or what might've been going on.

Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel - Deborah McLaren. This is the kind of academic book that spawns a “no duh” reaction from me, as the arguments against tourism as a beneficial mechanism of development are ones that seem patently obvious to me. At first I felt like McLaren was making statements about the harms of tourism without enough examples to back them up, but once she finally decided to get specific, the book got more compelling. This would probably be a good text for someone who'd never really thought about these issues before, though I still found it a bit timid at times in terms of its condemnation of tourism & its willingness (or lack of, I guess) to even entertain the cessation of tourism as a potential option.

At Grave's End - Jeaniene Frost. This third book in the Night Huntress (ugh, what a name) series about half-vampire vampire hunter Cat Crawfield was much better than the second. I disliked immensely the graphic torture bits, though, & find it disturbing that, as in many vampire novels, the vamps have a violent retribution-based code of justice that seems to be aimed at simultaneously raising the disgust & the grudging admiration of the reader. Also, I thought Frost was going to be much bolder in terms of killing off a major character, but she wimps out, & the book is less interesting for it.

The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover - Victoria Janssen. ( Read more... )

Weddings from Hell - Maggie Shayne, Jeaniene Frost, Terri Garey, Kathryn Smith. ( Read more... )

The House of Discarded Dreams - Ekaterina Sedia. ( Read more... )

On Call: Political Essays - June Jordan. ( Read more... )

A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan - Leny Mendoza Strobel. ( Read more... )

Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto. ( Read more... )

Typical American - Gish Jen. ( Read more... )

Black Looks: Race and Representation - bell hooks. ( Read more... )

Matters of the Blood - Maria Lima. ( Read more... )

Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi Goto. ( Read more... )

Song of the Exile - Kiana Davenport. ( Read more... )

Trumpet - Jackie Kay. ( Read more... )

(that was also my 50th book for the 50books_poc challenge, hooray!)

The Chalupa Rules: A Latino Guide to Gringolandia - Mario Bosquez. ( Read more... )

Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand - Carrie Vaughn. ( Read more... )

Kitty Raises Hell - Carrie Vaughn. ( Read more... )

One Foot in the Grave - Jeaniene Frost. ( Read more... )

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide - Andrea Smith. ( Read more... )

The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin. ( Read more... )

The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One - Margaret Lobenstine. ( Read more... )

San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement - Estella Habal. ( Read more... )

Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank - Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis. ( Read more... )

Second-Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta. ( Read more... )

Ten Little Indians - Sherman Alexie. ( Read more... )

Strangers - Taichi Yamada, translated by Wayne P. Lammers. ( Read more... )

The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat. ( Read more... )

Walking a Tightrope: New writing from Asian Britain - Edited by Rehana Ahmed. ( Read more... )

Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo. ( Read more... )

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie. ( Read more... )

Silver Phoenix - Cindy Pon. ( Read more... )

The Darker Mask: Heroes from the Shadows - Edited by Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers. ( Read more... )

Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes. ( Read more... )

Buxton Spice - Oonya Kempadoo. ( Read more... )

Londonstani - Gautam Malkani. ( Read more... )

As Long As Nothing Happens, Nothing Will - Zhang Jie. ( Read more... )

Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara. ( Read more... )

The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 3: Carnival of Feminist SF - Edited by Liz Henry. ( Read more... )

A Letter to My Father: Growing Up Filipina & American - Helen Madamba Mossman. ( Read more... )

Mella & the N'anga: An African Tale - Gail Nyoka. ( Read more... )

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World - Vijay Prashad. ( Read more... )

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang. ( Read more... )

Shanghai Tango: A Memoir - Jin Xing. ( Read more... )

Chinese Whispers: The true story behind Britain's hidden army of labour - Hsiao-Hung Pai. ( Read more... )

Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. ( Read more... )

The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain - Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe. ( Read more... )

A Little Too Much Is Enough - Kathleen Tyau. ( Read more... )

Ten Things I Hate about Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah. ( Read more... )

The Conversations of Cow - Suniti Namjoshi. ( Read more... )

Men of the Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Magic to the Bone - Devon Monk. ( Read more... )

Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England & Africa - Ekow Eshun. ( Read more... )

The Last Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko. ( Read more... )

Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo. ( Read more... )

Crossing the Border: Voices of Refugee and Exiled Women - Edited by Jennifer Langer. ( Read more... )

Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters - Andrew Simms. ( Read more... )

Women, Race & Class - Angela Davis. ( Read more... )

Cyclecraft: The complete guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for adults and children - John Franklin. ( Read more... )

The Role of the Academic Librarian - Anne Langley, Edward Gray and KTL Vaughn. ( Read more... )

How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff. ( Read more... )

Blowout - Susan Vaught. ( Read more... )

Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris. ( Read more... )

From Outside In: Refugees and British Society - Edited by Nushin Arbabzadah. ( Read more... )

Dark Moon - Lori Handeland. ( Read more... )

Kobal: The Mysteries of the Septagram - Paul Bryers. ( Read more... )

The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-Living Guide for the 21st Century - Andy & Dave Hamilton. ( Read more... )

Superior Saturday - Garth Nix. ( Read more... )

Exchange - Paul Magrs. ( Read more... )

The Little Book of Compost - Allan Shepherd. ( Read more... )

Kin: New Fiction by Black and Asian Women - Edited by Karen McCarthy. ( Read more... )

Stuffed & Starved: From Farm to Fork, the Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel. ( Read more... )

A Century of Migration (Bristol's Asian Communities) - Munawar Hussain. ( Read more... )

Chinatown Beat - Henry Chang. ( Read more... )

Once Upon a Time in the North - Phillip Pullman. ( Read more... )

The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Club Dead - Charlaine Harris. ( Read more... )

Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris. ( Read more... )

In 2008, I read 152 books, 18 of which were rereads. Last year I was excited to compile a list of the best books I read; I'm not sure I'll get around to it this year though.

Onward!

The Organic Garden: Green Gardening for a Healthy Planet - Allan Shepherd. ( Read more... )

Go Organic! Successful organic gardening in 5 easy steps - Bob Flowerdew. ( Read more... )

No Humans Involved - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead. ( Read more... )

The Devil Inside - Jenna Black. ( Read more... )

Undead & Unappreciated - Mary Janice Davidson. ( Read more... )

Borrowed Light - Anna Fienberg. ( Read more... )

The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking - Simon Singh. ( Read more... )

Living with the Dead - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Victory of Eagles - Naomi Novik. ( Read more... )

The Crown of Dalemark - Diana Wynne Jones. ( Read more... )

From There to Here: 16 True Tales of Immigration to Britain: The 2nd Decibel Penguin Prize Anthology - Edited by Arts Council. ( Read more... )

The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper. Holiday season re-read. As deliciously creepy to me as ever.

The Broken Bridge - Phillip Pullman. ( Read more... )

Kitty Goes to Washington - Carrie Vaughn. ( Read more... )