2002 Books & Movies

I read. A lot. For fun, I decided to keep track of what I read during 2002. This list doesn't contain work-related reading.

Books I've read this year (not in reading order, but in series order)

S. M. Stirling's The Island trilogy

"Island in the Sea of Time"

"Against the Tide of Years"

"On the Oceans of Eternity"

John Dunning's "Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime"

Steve Perry's "Cybernation" (part of Tom Clancy's NetForce series)

Margaret Coel's John O'Malley series

"The Lost Bird"

"The Spirit Woman"

"The Thunder Keeper"

Carolyn Hart's Death on Demand series: "Sugarplum Dead"

Katy Munger's Casey Jones Mystery series

"Legwork"

"Out of Time"

"Money to Burn"

"Bad to the Bone"

"Better Off Dead"

Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan Mystery series

"Baltimore Blues"

"Charm City"

"Butchers Hill"

"In Big Trouble"

"The Sugar House"

"In a Strange City"

"The Last Place"

Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey Mystery: "Cat Spitting Mad"

Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery series

"Catering to Nobody"

"Dying for Chocolate"

"The Cereal Murders"

"The Last Suppers"

"Killer Pancake"

"The Main Corpse"

"The Grilling Season"

"Prime Cut"

"Tough Cookie"

"Sticks & Scones"

"Chopping Spree"

Sue Henry's An Alaska Mystery series

"Dead North"

"Cold Company"

Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series: "Lord of the Silent"

Sharyn McCrumb's "The Songcatcher"

Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife"

Armistead Maupin's "The Night Listener"

Anita Shreve's "Resistance"

Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin"

Rebecca Well

"Little Altars Everywhere" (book 1)

"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" (book 2)

Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series: "The Pillars of Creation"

Lalita Tademy's "Cane River"

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels

"Hard Eight"

Daphne DuMaurier's "Rebecca" (this was made into a very good movie in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock)

Gregory Maguire's "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series:

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Andrew Bernstein's "Heart of a Pagan"

Nicholas Sparks' "A Bend in the Road"

A. Manette Ansay's "Vinegar Hill: A Novel"

Terry McGarry's "Illumination"

Orson Scott Card's "Shadow Puppets"

Barbara Delinsky's "The Woman Next Door" (loaned to me by a very good friend - I'd forgotten to grab my book and it was allergy shot day (which means I sit for 20 mins after the shot) and had nothing to read!)

Nicholas Evans' "The Smoke Jumper"

Clive Cussler's "Valhalla Rising"

Gregory Maguire's "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"

Janet Evanovich's "Full House" (Dad, this one doesn't take place in NJ!)

Margaret Atwood's "Bodily Harm"

Linda Barnes' "A Trouble of Fools"

Jill Churchill's A Grace and Favor Mystery series:

"Anything Goes"

"In the Still of the Night"

"Someone to Watch Over Me"

Julie Garwood's "Mercy"

Barbara Delinsky's "A Woman Betrayed"

Allison Pearson's "I Don't Know How She Does It"

Nicholas Evans' "The Loop"

Janet Evanovich's "Visions of Sugar Plums"

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens"

Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Three Weeks in Paris" (picked up while waiting for my Rx to be filled)

Gregory Maguire's "Lost"

Richard Adams' "Watership Down"

Nicholas Sparks' "The Rescue"

Orson Scott Card's "Sarah"

John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas"

Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Deception"

79 books read in 2002.

Books on Tape

Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber"
Roger Zelazny's "Guns of Avalon"

Movies (and Plays) I've seen this year

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2nd time)
Gosford Park
Ocean's Eleven
Dragonfly
Ice Age
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (play)
Spider-Man
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (at home)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (at home)
Scooby-Doo
Men in Black II
Signs
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (at home)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (at home)
Shrek (at home)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (at home)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 version) (at home)
I am Sam (at home)
Billy Elliott (at home)
Twister (at home)
Serendipity (at home)
Spider-Man (at home)
The Pilot's Wife (at home)
Beauty and the Beast (Special Edition) (at home)
Rush Hour 2 (at home)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Minority Report (at home)
Two Weeks Notice

28 movies, 1 play seen in 2002.

More about books...

...waiting to be read (in no particular order):
Ok, I am a book addict. I don't know all of the books that I currently have on the shelf awaiting my reading attention. I buy books every time I go to the pharmacy and have to wait for my Rx to be filled.

...waiting to be purchased:
Check my list at Amazon.