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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. 351.
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    Wandering Out of Bounds in the Middle East
    by Neil MacFarquhar

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  2. 352.
    Eating the Dinosaur
    by Chuck Klosterman

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  3. 353.
    Friends Like These
    by Danny Wallace

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  4. 354.
    God Is.: My Search for Faith in a Secular World
    by David Adams Richards

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  5. 355.
    The Vertigo of Lists: An Illustrated Essay
    by Umberto Eco

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  6. 358.
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    What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
    by Malcolm Gladwell

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  7. 359.
    The Camera My Mother Gave Me
    by Susanna Kaysen

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  8. 361.

  9. 362.
    Conquest of the Useless
    by Werner Herzog

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  10. 363.
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    Devil's Company: A Novel
    by David Liss

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  11. 364.
    Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)
    by Gail Carriger

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  12. 365.

  13. 368.
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    Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
    by Zadie Smith

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  14. 370.
    Shoplifting from American Apparel
    by Tao Lin

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  15. 371.

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Created by prolix on Mar 27, 2006.
 

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