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Christopher's "Books I read in 2006"

What I read – it was fun to watch this list evolve over the year… what I added and deleted and shifted around. Enjoy!
1. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu
  
2. Unless: A Novel
by Carol Shields
  
3. Mona and Other Tales
by Reinaldo Arenas
  
4. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
5. The Rwanda Crisis
by Gerard Prunier
  
6. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
by Vandana Shiva
  
7. Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
8. A Forest of Flowers (Longman African Writers Series) (Longman African Writers Series)
by Ken Saro-Wiwa
  
9.
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 Dr. Strangelove's Game
by Paul Strathern
  
10. A Dictionary of Maqiao
by Han Shaogong
  
11. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
12. Me Funny  
13. Beasts of No Nation : A Novel
by Uzodinma Iweala
  
14. Small Island: A Novel
by Andrea Levy
  
15.
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 Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays
by Derek Walcott
  
16. The Book of Shrigley
by David Shrigley
  
17. Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul
by Ron Haviv
  
18. To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
by Ted Rall
  
19. The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
by Khaled Hosseini
  
20. Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) (CBC Massey Lecture)
by Stephen Lewis
  
21.
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 The Remarkable Maria
by Patti McIntosh, ill. Tara Langlois and SMART, Suriname Art
  
22.
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 Not Wanted on the Voyage
by Timothy Findley
  
23. The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
24. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
25. The Namesake: A Novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
26. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)
by Thomas King
  
27. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
by George Ryga
  
28. Essential Cavafy (The Essential Poets Series)
by Cavafy
  
29. Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems
by Jelaluddin Rumi
  
30. Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
  
31. Tamarind Mem
by Anita Rau Badami
  
32. Sisters
by Wendy Lill
  
33. The Fighting Days
by Wendy Lill
  
34. Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace  
35. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Milan Kundera
  
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
37. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
by Michael Ignatieff
  
38. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
  
39. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
  
40.
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 Selected Columns from Canadian Living
by Peter Gzowski
  
41. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
by Chester Brown
  
42. Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  
43. Walsh
by Sharon Pollock
  
44.
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 Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe
by Stuart McLean
  
45. Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho
  
46. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
  
47.
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 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
by gabriela; Translated w/ Introduction By Langston Hughes Mistral
  
48. Who I Am and What I Want
by David Shrigley
  
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Created by Christopher on Mar 28, 2006.