FAVORITE BOOKS I READ IN 2003 (Most pub. before 2003):

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Mark Haddon
  
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha / Roddy Doyle
  
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America / Louis Menand
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald
  
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J.K. Rowling
  
• Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
  
• Servants of the Map: Stories / Andrea Barrett
  
• Best Music Writing 2002 / ed. Jonathan Lethem
  

Best Short Stories:
"Class Picture by Tobias Wolff" (excerpt from his new novel)
"What You Pawn I Will Redeem" by Sherman Alexie