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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. 301.
    Them: Adventures with Extremists
    by Jon Ronson

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  2. 303.
    Wonder Boys: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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  3. 304.
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    Cycler
    by Lauren McLaughlin

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  4. 305.
    Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne Lamott

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  5. 306.
    The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Michael Chabon

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  6. 307.
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics
    by Marisha Pessl

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  7. 308.
    Sunshine
    by Robin McKinley

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  8. 309.
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    The Blue Sword
    by Robin McKinley

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  9. 310.
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    Mistik Lake
    by Marsha Brooks

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  10. 311.
    The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    by Brian Selznick

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  11. 312.
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    A Great and Terrible Beauty
    by Libby Bray

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  12. 313.
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    The Book Thief

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  13. 314.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  14. 316.
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    The Geography of nowhere

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  15. 317.
    Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books
    by Margaret Willes

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  16. 318.
    Poppy Shakespeare
    by Clare Allan

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  17. 319.
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    sharp teeth
    by Toby Barlow

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  18. 320.
    Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
    by Elizabeth Kolbert

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  19. 321.
    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson

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  20. 323.
    The World Made Straight: A Novel
    by Ron Rash

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  21. 325.
    Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
    by Margaret Atwood

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  22. 327.
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    Predictably Irrational
    by Dan Ariely

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  23. 328.
    The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  24. 329.
    More Information Than You Require
    by John Hodgman

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  26. 331.
    Thin Is the New Happy
    by Valerie Frankel

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  27. 332.
    The Wordy Shipmates
    by Sarah Vowell

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  28. 334.
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Collins Design Wisps)
    by F Scott Fitzgerald

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  29. 336.
    The Order of Odd-Fish
    by James Kennedy

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  30. 338.
    Wishful Drinking
    by Carrie Fisher

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  31. 339.
    Cutting for Stone: A novel
    by Abraham Verghese

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  32. 340.
    Among Schoolchildren
    by Tracy Kidder

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  33. 341.
    Appointment at the Ends of the World
    by DVM, William Karesh

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  34. 342.
    Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
    by Simon Rich

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  35. 344.
    Necessary Sins
    by Lynn Darling

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  36. 345.
    Prophet of Yonwood (Books of Ember)
    by Jeanne Duprau

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  37. 346.
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    We need to talk about Kevin
    by Lionel Shriver

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  38. 347.
    Lullabies for Little Criminals
    by Heather O'neill

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  39. 348.
    The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life
    by Lauretta Hannon

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  40. 350.
    Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation
    by Elizabeth Arveda Kissling

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Created by prolix on Mar 27, 2006.
 

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