- "Stories From the Vinyl Cafe" by Stuart McLean (on loan from my mum)
- "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham (a gift from my eldest bro)
- "Goodbye Tsugumi" by Banana Yoshimoto (awful!)
- "Big Sur" by Jack Kerouac
- "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery" by Norman Mailer
- "Japanese Handbook" (Lonely Planet phrasebook, stolen from Hello House I think)
- "Over to You" by Roald Dahl
- "Switch Bitch" by Roald Dahl
- "The Procrastinator's Handbook" by Rita Emmett (clearly didn't help, as I'm writing this list ...)
- "Ring" by Koji Suzuki (not as scary as I thought it would be -- may work my way up to the film)
- "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
- "Interzone" by William S. Burroughs
- my dream diary
- a scrapbook that goes back to 1999
- 21 filled notebooks
- "New Testament Amplified Bible"
- "A New Empty" by Mike Hannah (the only guy I ever knew who was EVICTED from Hello House)
- "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg
- "Howl and Other Poems" by Allen Ginsberg
- "Eat That Frog!" by Brian Tracy (recommended by Darren)
- "Step-By-Step Tarot" by Terry Donaldson (cashier at the Blue Parrot judged me as he took my payment)
- "One Hundred and One Ways" by Mako Yoshikawa
- "For Esme with Love and Squalor" by J.D. Salinger
- "Being a Broad in Japan" by Caroline Pover
- "The Cleansing Blood of Christ" by Everton Weekes
- "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac (the same copy that gave birth to Booze Cruise 2000 with Trev and Steve-o)
- "My Legendary Girlfriend" by Mike Gayle (male chick lit; call it dick lit?)
- "The Broken Cord" by Michael Dorris (kind of crazy and scary book about fetal alcohol syndrome)
- "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera
- "The Qur'an"
- "The Chakra Handbook" by Shalila Sharamon and Bodo J. Baginski
- "The Secret Language of Dreams" by David Fontana (beautifully illustrated)
- "Ego and Archetype" by Edward F. Edinger
- "Genki 1: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese" by lots of people
- "The Perfection of Yoga" by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- "How to Meditate" by Lawrence Leshan
- "The Malahat Review #154"
- "The Joke's Over" by Ralph Steadman (Christmas present from Ben)
- "Make Your Creative Dreams Real" by Sark
- "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron