in june 08 i sent leese these 4 bks: 1) love & literacy in LA 2) private lives of impressionists by sue roe 3) broken 4) kinfolks by lisa alter. i also loaned joy 1) banfield's "the sea" & "eat, pray, love" & i'm giving mom "owen mzee"
beginning list of BOOKS READ jan 2006 (includes previously read)

1. MacDougall Street Ghosts by Hesper Anderson
2. South Mountain Road by Hesper Anderson
3. 102 Minutes: the Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
4. Fat Girl by Judith Moore
5. Everybody Into the Pool by Beth Lisick
6. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
7. My Friend Leonard by James Frey
8. City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
9. Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt
10. Fire by Sebastian Junger
11. Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
12. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
13. Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
14. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
15. Post Secret by Frank Warren
16. Bad Trips by Keath Fraser
17. Young Men & Fire by Norman MacLean
18. A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
19. Memoirs of a Geisha by Andrew Golden
20. Colorado Kid by Stephen King (in fact, MOST of King's books)
21. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (have read all Sedaris' books to date)
22. Alaska by James Michener (never finished)
23. Mexico by James Michener (never finished)
24. Hawaii by James Michener
25. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
26. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
27. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
28. Tis by Frank McCourt
29. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
30. A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
31. Singing My Him Song by Malachy McCourt
32. My Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
33. Magical Thinking by Augustin Burroughs
34. Dry by Augustin Burroughs
35. Running with Scissors by Augustin Burroughs
36. Tales From the Bed by Jenifer Estess
37. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
38. The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
39. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
40. Tom Sawyer & Huckeberry Finn by Mark Twain
41. Gone with the WInd by Margaret Mitchell
42. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
43. Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
44. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
45. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
46. Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
47. Aztec by Gary Jennings
48. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
49. Secret of the Old Post Box by Dorothy Sterling
50. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
51. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
52. The Shipping New by E. Annie Prouix
53. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
54. Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
55. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
56. Lovely Bones by Ann Sebold
57. Night by Elie Weisel
58. Holes by Louis Sachar
59. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
60. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TIme by Mark Haddon
61. Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
62. Alienist by Caleb Carr
63. Touching the Void by Joe Spencer
64. Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
65. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
66. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
68. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
69. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
70. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
71. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
72. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
73. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
74. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
75. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
76. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
77. 1984 by George Orwell
78. Animal Farm by George Orwell
79. Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
80. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
81. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
82. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83. Color Purple by Alice Walker
84. Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
85. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
86. Remains of the Day by E.M. Forster
87. At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
88. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
89. Wake Up, I'm Fat by Camryn Manheim
90. Bunny, Bunny: Gilda Radner by Alan Zwiebel
91. Because of Winn-Dixie by Anna Sophia Robb
92. Black Boy by Richard Wright
93. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
94. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
95. Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane
96. Vertical Limit by Mel Odom
97. Everest: Mountain Without Mercy by David Breashears
98. Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer
99. Dove by Robin L. Graham
100. Day I Became an Autodidact by Kendall Hailey
101. Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
102. Cast of Killers by Sidney Kirkpatrick
103. Alive: the Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
104. Black Ice by Lorene Cary
105. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
106. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
107. Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
108. Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
109. Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
110. Managing Ignatius by Jery Strahan
111. Friendship:Letters by Dan Rowen & John D. McDonald
112. Year In Provence by Peter Mayle
113. Ain't No Dust In Heaven by Jeane Clarke
114. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
115. And the Sea will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
116. Brighty by Marguerite Henry
117. Death in Yellowstone by Lee Whittlesey
118. Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon by Thomas Myers
119. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
120. Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl
121. Run Bambi Run by Kris Radish
122. Mormon Murders by Steven Naifeh
123. Salamander by Allen Dale ROberts
124. Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux
125. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
126. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Mari Rilke
127. Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin
128. Blue Highways by Willaim Least Heat Moon
129. Tulip Fever by Deorah Moggach
130. Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
131. Unveiling Claudia by Daniel Keys
132. Tracks by Robyn Davidson
133. White Palace by Glen Savan
134. Water Dancer by Jenifer Levin
135. Watchmen by Alan Moore
136. Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
137. Watch for Me on the Mountain by Forrest Carter
138. Victim: the other Side of Murder by Gary Kinder
139. Time of Fire by Evan Handler
140. Herculaneum by Joseph Jay Deiss
141. Malcolm X
142. Roots by Alex Haley
143. Iron & Slik by Mark Salzman
144. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
145. Smashed by Koren Zailckas
146. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Speigelman
147. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
148. My Story (Illustrated Edition) by Marilyn Monroe
149. I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl
150. Frame-Up:Untold Story of Fatty Arbuckle by Andy Edmonds
151. Hot Toddy:True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder by Andy Edmonds
most of the Discovery Books published by Abrams
most everything by Ann Rule
most everything by Marge Piercy
most everything by John Grisham
most everything by John McDonald
most everything by Gregory McDonald
most everything on the Titanic
most everything on Pompeii
most everything by Clyde Edgerton
most everything by John Krakauer
most everything by John Callahan
most everything by Michael Crichton
most everything by Shirley MacLaine
most everything by Ernest Hemingway
most everything by Barbara Kingsolver
most everything by J.D. Salinger
most everything by John Irving
most everything by Kurt Vonnegut
most everything by Dave Eggers
most everything by Shel Silverstein
most everything by Dr. Seuss
most by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
most by Thomas Harris
most by Ayn Rand
a coupla books by Anne Rice (i'm not a fan)
couple by Chuck Barris
couple by Pat Conroy
some by Tom Robbins
some by John Steinbeck
some by Jim Harrison
all the Harry Potter books
most of the Nancy Drew books
not enough by Tobias Wolff
not enough Bill Bryson