This is a list of nearly every book I've read for pleasure since the summer of 1993. I started keeping this list to keep track of the books I read during the long, hot summers of graduate school (the first time around), when I'd work all day in the library and come home and read all night. It was such joy to be reading for fun, rather than reading impenetrable music theory and criticism because it was assigned.
A few books are missing from this list because either a) I never finished them (extremely unusual) or b) I forgot to write them down on the list.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fannie Flagg)
Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)
Buffalo Gals (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Rubyfruit Jungle (Rita Mae Brown)
Backlash (Susan Faludi)
Indivisible
Meridian
Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
Zami (Audre Lorde)
Music, Talent, and Performance
Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
Transforming a Rape Culture
Dark Mirror
Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Sula (Zora Neale Hurston)
Fire With Fire (Naomi Wolf)
Spock's World
The First Wives Club
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Copper Crown (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Fifth Sacred Thing (Starhawk)
The Time of the Dark (Barbara Hambly)
The Longings of Women
Bulletproof Diva
Wyrms (Orson Scott Card)
Memory of Earth (Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Walls of Air (Barbara Hambly)
Stranger at the Wedding (Barbara Hambly)
Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Seventh Son (Orson Scott Card)
Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)
The Throne of Scone (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Silver Branch (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Hawk's Gray Feather (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
The Armies of Daylight (Barbara Hambly)
Dragonsbane (Barbara Hambly)
Animal Dreams
Druids (Morgan Llewellyn)
The Horse Goddess
The Forest House (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Winter Love (Han Suyin)
Within the Hollow Hills (John Matthews, ed.)
The Child Manuela (Christa Winsloe)
Coming of Age (G. Wayne Miller)
Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
The Hawk's Gray Feather (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
Lady of the Trillium (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The House of Eliott (Jean Marsh)
Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)
Lavender Mansions
The Oak Above the Kings (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison)
Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai)
Islanders (Margaret Elphinstone)
The White Raven (Diana Paxson)
The Wolf and the Raven (Diana Paxson)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)
Fear of Flying (Erica Jong)
Villette (Charlotte Brontë)
The Professor (Charlotte Brontë)
The Oak Above The Kings (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison)
The Silver Branch (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Copper Crown (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Throne of Scone (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Strange Days (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison)
Foxfire (Joyce Carol Oates)
Turning Japanese (David Mura)
Where the Body Meets Memory (David Mura)
The Cloister Walk (Kathleen Norris)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
The Two Towers (Tolkien)
The Return of the King (Tolkien)
Jhereg (Stephen Brust)
A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Tombs of Atuan (Le Guin)
The Farthest Shore (Le Guin)
Tehanu (Le Guin)
Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Last Unicorn (Beagle)
Rivethead (Ben Hamper)
Searoad (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Emma (Austen)
A Song for Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Le Guin)
Seventh Son (Orson Scott Card)
Red Prophet (Orson Scott Card)
Prentice Alvin (Orson Scott Card)
Alvin Journeyman (Orson Scott Card)
Stranger at the Wedding (Barbara Hambly)
Catherine, Called Birdy (Karen Cushman)
The Silent Tower (Barbara Hambly)
The Silicon Mage(Barbara Hambly)
The Folk of the Fringe (Orson Scott Card)
Pawn of Prophecy (David Eddings)
A Canticle for Liebowitz (W. M. Miller)
Always Coming Home (Le Guin)
Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner)
Thomas the Rhymer (Ellen Kushner)
The Hawk's Gray Feather (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Oak Above the Kings (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Hedge of Mist (Patricia Keneally Morrison)
Persuasion (Austen)
Mother of Winter (Barbara Hambly)
Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)
Blackmantle (Patricia Kennealy Morrison)
The Memory of Earth (O. S. Card)
Icefalcon's Quest (Barbara Hambly)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Call of Earth (Card)
The Ships of Earth (Card)
Earthfall (Card)
Earthborn (Card)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Saints (Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Speaker For The Dead (Orson Scott Card)
Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
The Armies of Elfland (Poul Anderson)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
Moo (Jane Smiley)
The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)
The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
The Women's Room (Marilyn French)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
The Hound and the Falcon (Judith Tarr)
A Song For Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Mirror of Her Dreams (Donaldson)
A Man Rides Through (Donaldson)
Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner)
Summer Sisters (Judy Blume)
A Room With A View (E. M. Forster)
Possession (A. S. Byatt)
Ballerina (Edward Stewart)
Children of Amarid (David Coe)
Outlanders (David Coe)
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
The Phoenix Guards (Stephen Brust)
Five Hundred Years After (Stephen Brust)
The Deer's Cry (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison)
Dragonsbane (Barbara Hambly)
Dragonshadow (Barbara Hambly)
The Golden Globe (John Varley)
Steel Beach (John Varley)
Sailing to Sarantium (G. G. Kay)
The Lions of al-Rassan (G. G. Kay)
Knight of the Demon Queen (Barbara Hambly)
A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin)
The Tombs of Atuan (Le Guin)
The Farthest Shore (Le Guin)
Tehanu (Le Guin)
The Outlanders (David Coe)
Eagle-Sage (David Coe)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
The Telling (Le Guin)
Shirley (Charlotte Brontë)
Tales From Earthsea (Le Guin)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Girl With A Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
The Two Towers (Tolkien)
Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Return of the King (Tolkien)
Horse Heaven (Jane Smiley)
The Black Chalice (Marie Jakober)
Alamut (Judith Tarr)
A Wind in Cairo (Judith Tarr)
Walking Home
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
Wild Life (Molly Gloss)
Sisters of the Raven (Barbara Hambly)
Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner)
The Fall of the Kings (Ellen Kushner/Delia Sherman)
Possession (A. S. Byatt)
Sailing to Sarantium (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Lord of Emperors (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Boychiks in the Hood
Holy Days
The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Ombria in Shadow (Patricia McKillip)
Freedom and Necessity (Steven Brust & Emma Bull)
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets (J. K. Rowling)
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)