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I’m a librarian. This is the list where I keep track of things I run into, or read reviews of, and want to read. I never make real statistical progress on it, because for every book I finish, six more find their way onto my desk.

I read young adult (YA) and children’s fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, non-fiction, contemporary fiction, short stories, biographies and memoirs, and the occasional graphic novel. Sometimes things find their way onto this list, not because I have particular enthusiasm for them, but because my curiosity has been sparked by a request from a library visitor. (Like Twilight, which is the most popular book in the world for some reason.)

Beginning in late March, 2006…

June, 2008: Landmark: 150 books read (some of them very short, but some of them also <Blindness>
Mid-March, 2009: 185 books read! That’s more than 61 books a year, 1.18 books a week…
Nov, 2009: 222 books read.

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  1. 251.
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
    by Roméo Dallaire

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  2. 252.
    Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
    by Gertrude Stein

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  3. 253.
    All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  4. 254.

  5. 255.
    Under the Bridge
    by Rebecca Godfrey

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  6. 256.
    Beneath a Marble Sky: A Novel of the Taj Mahal
    by John Shors

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  7. 257.
    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger

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  8. 258.
    Crossing the Postmodern Divide
    by Albert Borgmann

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  9. 259.
    Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
    by Lawrence Lessig

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  10. 260.
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    Book : A Novel
    by Robert Grudin

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  11. 261.
    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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  12. 262.
    You Shall Know Our Velocity
    by Dave Eggers

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  13. 263.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  14. 264.
    The Penelopiad : The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
    by Margaret Atwood

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  15. 265.
    Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
    by Paul Theroux

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  16. 266.
    Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
    by Kamran Nazeer

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  17. 267.
    Adverbs: A Novel
    by Daniel Handler

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  18. 268.
    Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  19. 269.
    Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker's Journey
    by Elijah Wald

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  20. 270.
    Echolalias : On the Forgetting of Language
    by Daniel Heller-Roazen

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  21. 272.
    House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

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  22. 274.
    Troublesome Words
    by Bill Bryson

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  23. 275.
    Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
    by David Weinberger

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  24. 276.
    Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne Lamott

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  25. 277.
    Bunker 13: A Novel
    by Aniruddha Bahal

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  26. 278.
    The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
    by Lemony Snicket

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  27. 281.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  28. 284.
    Happiness: A Novel
    by Will Ferguson

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  29. 286.
    Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
    by Suketu Mehta

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  30. 288.
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    Daughters of the North: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Sarah Hall

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  31. 289.
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
    by Susanna Clarke

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  32. 291.
    Pirates of the Retail Wasteland
    by Adam Selzer

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  33. 292.
    Copyright's Paradox
    by Neil Weinstock Netanel

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  34. 293.
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    An Atlas of Radical Cartography
    by Avery Gordon

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  35. 294.
    Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
    by T. L. Taylor

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  36. 295.
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    The Cellist of Sarajevo
    by Steven Galloway

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  37. 296.
    Three Day Road
    by Joseph Boyden

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  38. 297.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

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  39. 298.
    An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island
    by Tom Neale

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  40. 299.
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    Miss Hobbema Pageant
    by W. P. Kinsella

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  41. 300.
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Created by prolix on Mar 27, 2006.
 

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