Books Read in 2004 * = recommended strike = don’t bother neither mark = it passed the time FictionAngle of Repose*Balzac & the Little Chinese SeamstressCold Mountain*Cry, the Beloved Country*Fluke*How Right You Are, Jeeves*IronweedLamb: the Gospel According to Biff*PostcardsPride and Prejudice*Reindeer Moon*SpeakStiff Upper Lip, Jeeves*Stones for IbarraThe Dante ClubThe Forsyte Saga*The Human Stain*The Rice MotherThe Secret Life of Bees*The Stone Diaries* Non-FictionA Walk in the Woods*And I Alone Survived*Bird by Bird*Diary of a Breast Cancer HusbandDrawing Down the Moon*Every Day Gets a Little Closer*Love’s Executioner*Made in America*Momma and the Meaning of Life*Mother Shock*Nothing to DeclareOperating Instructions*Reading Lolita in Tehran*Rowing to Latitude*So Many Books, So Little Time*The Devil in the White City*The Invisible Garden*The Marquis de Sade: A Life*Them: Adventures with Extremists*Traveling Mercies*Why I’m Like This*Why Marriages Succeed or Fail*