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SDC's "Read 100 Books in 2007"

An old friend of mine used to read 100 books every year. Now that I’m through the sleep-deprived first year of parenthood, I’m going to aspire to this goal as well.

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1. Wow! Babies!
by Penny Gentieu
 
2.
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Goodnight Moon (Live Oak Readalong)
by Margaret Wise Brown
 
3. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
 
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
 
5. The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
by Khaled Hosseini
 
6. Little Children (Movie Tie-In)
by Tom Perrotta
 
7. Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup
by Jean Godfrey-June
 
8. The Guy Not Taken: Stories
by Jennifer Weiner
 
9. All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
by Terry Gross
 
10. The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
 
11. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
 
12. Stern Men
by Elizabeth Gilbert
 
13. A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Marlena De Blasi
 
14. The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert
 
15. To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
by Caitlin Flanagan
 
16. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
 
17. The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted
by Bonnie Fuller
 
18. Sandcastles
by Luanne Rice
 
19. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
by Dan Savage
 
20. Try
by Lily Burana
 
21. Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir
by Edwin John Wintle
 
22. I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood
by Trisha Ashworth
 
23. Evening(MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Susan Minot
 
24. How She Really Does It: Secrets of Success from Stay-at-work Moms
by Wendy Sachs
 
25. Elements of Style
by Wendy Wasserstein
 
26.
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Finishing Touches
by Deanna Kizis
 
27. The Debutante Divorcee
by Plum Sykes
 
28. Apex Hides the Hurt
by Colson Whitehead
 
29. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel
by Vendela Vida
 
30. Brick Lane: A Novel
by Monica Ali
 
31. The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
by Leah Stewart
 
32. Suzy Zeus Gets Organized: A Novel (Tin House)
by Maggie Robbins
 
33. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued
by Ann Crittenden
 
34. Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
 
35. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
 
36. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
 
37. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
by Steven Pressfield
 
38. The Descendants: A Novel
by Kaui Hart Hemmings
 
39. So Far from God: A Novel
by Ana Castillo
 
40. The Whole World Over: A Novel
by Julia Glass
 
41. Nefertiti: A Novel
by Michelle Moran
 
42. Notes From The Underbelly
by Risa Green
 
43. Atlas of the Human Heart: A Memoir
by Ariel Gore
 
44. Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager
by Ariel Gore
 
45. Skinny Bitch
by Kim Barnouin
 
46.
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Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Solutions for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap (and Start Looking Hot!)
by Rory Freedman
 
47. Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers  
48. Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World
by Mo'Nique Imes Jackson
 
49. Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
by Simon Rich
 
50. This Is How We Do It: A Practical Guide for the Working Mother
by Carol Evans
 
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Created by SDC on Feb 10, 2007.