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For the cataloguer:
Books read in 2003


Total: 14

My criterion: I had to have read the book cover-to-cover to include it in this list. Sometime soon I will write up my thoughts on these books.


American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton (Non-fiction, 1993) - read in November/December
   
Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood by Jay MacLeod (Non-fiction, 1995) - read in October/November
   
Just Like You: An Autobiography by Gangaji & Roslyn Moore (Non-fiction, 2002) - read in October
   
The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer (Non-fiction, 2000) - read in October
   
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements by Temma Kaplan (Non-fiction, 1996) - read in October
   
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier (Non-fiction, 1999) - read in September/October
   
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Non-fiction, 2001) - read in July
   
The Girl In the Flammable Skirt: Stories by Aimee Bender (Fiction, 1998) - read in June/July
   
Lucky by Alice Sebold (Non-fiction, 1999) - read in June
   
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Non-fiction, 2001) - read in May/June
   
Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (Non-fiction, 2002) - read in May
   
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (Fiction, 1978) - read in April
   
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (Fiction, 1947) - read in March
   
The Widow's Children by Paula Fox (Fiction, 1976) - read in January