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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. 51.
    I Was Told There'd Be Cake
    by Sloane Crosley

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  2. 52.
    A Death in Belmont
    by Sebastian Junger

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  3. 53.
    Hurry Down Sunshine
    by Michael Greenberg

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  4. 54.
    American Nerd: The Story of My People
    by Benjamin Nugent

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  5. 55.
    Paper Towns
    by John Green

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  6. 56.
    The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman

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  7. 57.
    Shakespeare Wrote For Money
    by Nick Hornby

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  8. 58.
    Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
    by Ariel Meadow Stallings

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  9. 60.
    The New Kings of Nonfiction
    by Ira Glass

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  10. 62.
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    The Society of S: A Novel
    by Susan Hubbard

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  11. 63.
    Boy Proof
    by Cecil Castellucci

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  12. 64.
    Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
    by Scott Douglas

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  13. 65.
    The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Philip Pullman

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  14. 67.
    Loving Will Shakespeare
    by Carolyn Meyer

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  15. 68.
    Gossip Girl
    by Cecily von Ziegesar

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  16. 69.
    The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
    by Trenton Lee Stewart

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  17. 70.
    First French Kiss: and other traumas
    by Adam Bagdasarian

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  18. 71.
    Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age
    by Jim Hoover

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  19. 73.
    The Plain Janes
    by Cecil Castellucci

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  20. 75.
    What Is the What (Vintage)
    by Dave Eggers

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  21. 76.
    Learning to Love You More
    by Miranda July

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  22. 77.
    Be More Chill: A Novel
    by Ned Vizzini

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  23. 78.
    Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo #2)
    by D. M. Cornish

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  24. 79.
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    by Sherman Alexie

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  25. 80.
    Altogether, One at a Time
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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  26. 81.
    Once Upon a Time in the North
    by Philip Pullman

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  27. 82.
    PopCo
    by Scarlett Thomas

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  28. 83.
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    The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories
    by Elizabeth Berg

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  29. 84.
    The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    by Naomi Klein

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  30. 85.
    The Bullet Trick
    by Louise Welsh

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  31. 86.
    Twilight
    by Stephenie Meyer

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  32. 87.
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    I Don't Believe in Atheists
    by Chris Hedges

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  33. 88.
    Doing It
    by Melvin Burgess

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  34. 89.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  35. 90.
    Slam
    by Nick Hornby

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  36. 91.
    Realityland: True-life Adventures at Walt Disney World
    by David Koenig

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  37. 92.
    Maps and Legends
    by Michael Chabon

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  38. 93.
    The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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  39. 94.
    Neverwhere: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

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  40. 95.
    Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    by Lemony Snicket

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  41. 96.
    The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Ellen Raskin

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  42. 97.
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    Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Cafe
    by Alice Major

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  43. 98.
    Here Comes Everybody
    by Clay Shirky

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  44. 99.
    The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
    by Sarah Ellis

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Created by prolix on Mar 27, 2006.
 

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