Seven Years of Magic-
al Thinking: The Com-
plete Book Club List

Here are the book club titles
from 2000-2004 (plus editorial
comments). An asterisk means
I didn't have time to read the tit-
le in question. For a history of
the group, please click here.

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11/00: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian* [I'd like to read this]
12/00: Mikal Gilmore - A Shot in the Heart* [And this, too]

2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001

02/01: Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show
[So good I read it twice; great movie, too]
10/01: John Updike - Rabbit, Run and John Cheever - "The
Swimmer" (short story) [Depressing, but I liked them
both...haven't seen the film of the former; own the latter]

2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002

01/02: Katherine Porter - Ship of Fools [Took me awhile
to get into this...but I did. Haven't seen the movie yet]
02/02: Pete Dexter - Paris Trout
[I liked this; haven't seen the movie]
04/02: Bill Buford - Among the Thugs [I loved this]



05/02: Susanna Moore - In the Cut [Some
hated this; not me...I liked the movie, too]
06/02: Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adven-
tures of Kavalier and Clay [I really enjoyed this]
07/02: Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
[Loved it; Altman's quirky adaptation, too]

2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003

04/03: Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays
[Cold as ice, but I liked it...haven't seen the movie]
05/03: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera*
07/03: Phillip K. Dick - Confessions of a Crap Artist
[Not science fiction, but I liked it. Haven't seen the
movie; Jacques Audiard adapted the screenplay]
11/03: Jung Chang - The Wild Swans*
12/03: Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
[I liked this; haven't seen the movie]

2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004

02/04: Mian Mian - Candy [Girl gone wild in mo-
dern China. Like a film by Jia Zhangke come to print]
03/04: Walker Percy - The Movielover [I liked this]
07/04: David W. Maurer - The Big Con [A must for Mamet fans]
10/04: Ben Hecht - A Child of the Century [Didn't finish this]



Endnote: Joan Didion photo from Random House.