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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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    The True Meaning of Smekday
    by Adam Rex

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    Eating Animals
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    Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
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    Leviathan
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    Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Literacy Bridge Middle Reader)
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    Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
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    The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
    by Trenton Lee Stewart

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    Stasiland
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    How to Ditch Your Fairy
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    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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    Liar
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    The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
    by Julia Quinn

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    William S.
    by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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    Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
    by Suzanne Collins

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    Then We Came to the End: A Novel
    by Joshua Ferris

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    Dear American Airlines: A Novel
    by Jonathan Miles

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    How to Cook a Wolf
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    Everybody into the Pool: True Tales
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    Helping Me Help Myself
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    Hunger Games
    by Suzanne Collins

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    The City of Ember
    by Jeanne DuPrau

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    Columbine
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    Because I'm Worth It (Gossip Girl #4)
    by Cecily von Ziegesar

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    Nineteen Minutes
    by Jodi Picoult

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    Geography Club
    by Brent Hartinger

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    A Dangerous Climate (St. Germain)
    by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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    Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic Book)
    by Patricia C. Wrede

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    Tales from Outer Suburbia
    by Shaun Tan

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    You're The One That I Want
    by Cecily von Ziegesar

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    The People of Sparks
    by Jeanne Duprau

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    Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
    by Rachel Cohn

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    The Last Light of the Sun
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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    All I Want Is Everything (Gossip Girl, 3)
    by Cecily von Ziegesar

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    Looking for Alaska
    by John Green

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    Gossip Girl 2
    by Cecily Von Ziegesar

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    One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
    by Rebecca Mead

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    3 Willows: the sisterhood grows
    by Ann Brashares

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    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
    by Chuck Klosterman

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    The Book of a Thousand Days
    by Shannon Hale

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    I Was Told There'd Be Cake
    by Sloane Crosley

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    A Death in Belmont
    by Sebastian Junger

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    Hurry Down Sunshine
    by Michael Greenberg

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    American Nerd: The Story of My People
    by Benjamin Nugent

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    Paper Towns
    by John Green

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    The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman

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    Shakespeare Wrote For Money
    by Nick Hornby

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    Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
    by Ariel Meadow Stallings

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    The New Kings of Nonfiction
    by Ira Glass

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    The Society of S: A Novel
    by Susan Hubbard

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    Boy Proof
    by Cecil Castellucci

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    Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
    by Scott Douglas

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    The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Philip Pullman

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    Loving Will Shakespeare
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    Gossip Girl
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    The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
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    First French Kiss: and other traumas
    by Adam Bagdasarian

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

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    The Plain Janes
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    What Is the What (Vintage)
    by Dave Eggers

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    Learning to Love You More
    by Miranda July

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    Be More Chill: A Novel
    by Ned Vizzini

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    Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo #2)
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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
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    Once Upon a Time in the North
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    PopCo
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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
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    Twilight
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    I Don't Believe in Atheists
    by Chris Hedges

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    Doing It
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    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
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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
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    The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
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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)
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    Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Cafe
    by Alice Major

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    Here Comes Everybody
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    The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
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    Arrival
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    flyboy action figure comes with gasmask
    by Jim Munroe

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    The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
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    The Outsiders
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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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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)
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    13 Little Blue Envelopes
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    An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
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    Partly Cloudy Patriot
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    Not-So-Very-Nice Goings On at Victoria Lodge
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    Journey to an 800 Number
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    The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
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    Princess Academy
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    M is for Magic
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    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

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    Empress of the World
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    The Keep
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    Library Juice Concentrate

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    At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
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    The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
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    Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust
    by Neil Gaiman

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    Portuguese Irregular Verbs
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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
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    How We Are Hungry
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    Gathering Blue
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    Messenger (Readers Circle)
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    Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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    Night Probe!
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    HEADLESS CUPID, THE (Yearling Books (Paperback))
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    No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
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    The Prestige
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    From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E.Frankweiler
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    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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    Mirrormask
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    Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials book II
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    The Amber Spyglass
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    The Mysterious Benedict Society
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    The Happiness of Kati
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    City Life
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    Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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    Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
    by Lawrence Lessig

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    Fire
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    With Borges
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    The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
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    Attaboy, Sam! (Sam)
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    Assassination Vacation
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    One Hot Second

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    The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
    by Philip Pullman

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    The Library at Night
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    Library: An Unquiet History
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    The Xanadu Adventure
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    The Garneau Block
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    The Drackenberg Adventure
    by Lloyd Alexander

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    The El Dorado Adventure
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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
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    Millions (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
    by Frank Cottrell Boyce

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    The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
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    The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Dover Thrift Editions)
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    Holes
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    Skellig
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    Why Moms Are Weird
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    Coraline (P.S.)
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    The Giver
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    Montmorency: Thief Liar Gentleman? (After Words)
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    Bad Girls (Nick Hern Books)
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    Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
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    Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
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    Bad Girls
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    Tulip Touch
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    Girl Stories
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    The End (Series of Unfortunate Events)
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    Peter and the Starcatchers
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    PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
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    In the Shadow of No Towers
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    Serenity: Those Left Behind
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    Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories
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    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
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    Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo)
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    The Baby Project
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    The Wonder Spot
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    The Jedera Adventure
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    A Fabulous Creature
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    Notes from a Small Island
    by Bill Bryson

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    Sex and the City
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    Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker
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    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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    The Illyrian Adventure
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    Pretending the Bed is a Raft
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    The Imaginary Girlfriend (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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    No Time Like Show Time (Hermux Tantamoq Adventure)
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    Anastasia's Chosen Career (Anastasia)
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    The City of Falling Angels
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    Harriet the Spy
    by Louise Fitzhugh

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    The Planets
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    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
    by Sue Townsend

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    Rats Saw God
    by Rob Thomas

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    FATHER'S ARCANE DAUGHTER
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    About the B'Nai Bagels
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    The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
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    Eleanor Rigby : A Novel
    by Douglas Coupland

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    Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
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    Song of the Gargoyle
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    Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish
    by Richard Flanagan

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    Everything Is Illuminated
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    Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    George and Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism
    by Charlotte Moore

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    The Headless Cupid
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    Close Range : Wyoming Stories
    by Annie Proulx

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    The Satanic Verses
    by Salman Rushdie

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    The Chocolate War (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Robert Cormier

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    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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    Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
    by Gertrude Stein

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    All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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    Under the Bridge
    by Rebecca Godfrey

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

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    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Crossing the Postmodern Divide
    by Albert Borgmann

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

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    Book : A Novel
    by Robert Grudin

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    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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    You Shall Know Our Velocity
    by Dave Eggers

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    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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    The Penelopiad : The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
    by Margaret Atwood

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