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
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
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Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
by John Sellers
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Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Literacy Bridge Middle Reader)
by Ying Chang Compestine
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Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S. Lovell
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
by Trenton Lee Stewart
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Stasiland
by Anna Funder
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How to Ditch Your Fairy
by Justine Larbalestier
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
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Liar
by Justine Larbalestier
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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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The Day the World Came to Town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede
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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
by M. F. K. Fisher
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Everybody into the Pool: True Tales
by Beth Lisick
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Helping Me Help Myself
by Beck Lisick
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Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher
by Joan Reardon
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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
by Dave Cullen
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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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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
by Rick Riordan
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Gossip Girl #5: I Like It Like That
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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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Gossip Girl #7: Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel (Gossip Girl)
by Cecily von Ziegesar
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Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
by Rachel Cohn
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The Last Light of the Sun
by Guy Gavriel Kay
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
by Kevin Roose
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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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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
by Todd Pruzan
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I Do but I Dont: Walking Down the Aisle without Losing Your Mind
by Kamy Wicoff
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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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