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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.

Beginning in late March, 2006…

June, 2008: Landmark: 150 books read (some of them very short, but some of them also <Blindness>

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    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    by Sherman Alexie

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    Altogether, One at a Time
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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    Once Upon a Time in the North
    by Philip Pullman

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    PopCo
    by Scarlett Thomas

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    The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories
    by Elizabeth Berg

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    The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    by Naomi Klein

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    The Bullet Trick
    by Louise Welsh

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    Twilight
    by Stephenie Meyer

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    I Don't Believe in Atheists
    by Chris Hedges

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    Doing It
    by Melvin Burgess

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    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

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    Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age
    by Jim Hoover

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    Slam
    by Nick Hornby

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    Realityland: True-life Adventures at Walt Disney World
    by David Koenig

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    Maps and Legends
    by Michael Chabon

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    The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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    Neverwhere: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

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    Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    by Lemony Snicket

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    The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Ellen Raskin

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    Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Cafe
    by Alice Major

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    Here Comes Everybody
    by Clay Shirky

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    The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
    by Sarah Ellis

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    Arrival
    by Shaun Tan

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    flyboy action figure comes with gasmask
    by Jim Munroe

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    The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
    by Diane Setterfield

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    The Outsiders
    by S. E. Hinton

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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    by Stephen Chbosky

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    Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians
    by Brandon Sanderson

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    Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
    by Rachel Cohn

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    Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Hardcover ISBN 0439852706
    by Cornelia Funke

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    Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
    by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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    The World Without Us
    by Alan Weisman

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    King Dork
    by Frank Portman

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    Under the Banner of Heaven
    by Jon Krakauer

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    The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Alberto Manguel

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    13 Little Blue Envelopes
    by Maureen Johnson

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    An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
    by Arundhati Roy

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    Partly Cloudy Patriot
    by Sarah Vowell

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    Not-So-Very-Nice Goings On at Victoria Lodge
    by Philip Ardagh

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    Journey to an 800 Number
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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    The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
    by E. L. Konigsburg

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    Princess Academy
    by Shannon Hale

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    M is for Magic
    by Neil Gaiman

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    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

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    Empress of the World
    by Sara Ryan

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    The Keep
    by Jennifer Egan

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    Library Juice Concentrate

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    At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
    by Alexander Mccall Smith

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    The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
    by Alexander McCall Smith

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    Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust
    by Neil Gaiman

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    Portuguese Irregular Verbs
    by Alexander McCall Smith

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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
    by J. K. Rowling

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    How We Are Hungry
    by Dave Eggers

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