Read and Appreciated in 2004
A Year’s Best List
Fiction
- The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
- City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- Moonwise, Greer Gilman
- Fudoki, Kij Johnson
- Art & Lies, Jeanette Winterson
- Helen in Egypt, H.D.
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- Last Love in Constantinople, Milorad Pavić
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
- The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter
- Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories, Angela Carter
- The Sappho Companion, edited by Margaret Reynolds
Nonfiction
- The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ
Catherynne M. Valente is the author of The Labyrinth, recently published by Prime Books. A second novel, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams is scheduled for a 2005 release.
Copyright © 2005 by Catherynne M. Valente.




