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In 2000 I started keeping a list of books that I would like to read. Unfortunately, for every one that I completed, I usually added five more, so the list has ballooned quite a bit over the last seven years. In the past I’ve been able to average around 50-70 books a year, but since I’ve had my son, that rate has dropped considerably. If I never added another book to this list I’d probably be finshing it up sometime in my 80s. But even as I added stuff I thought of other books that weren’t on the list yet, hence the title. I decided to put the list on here partly to motivate myself and partly to be able to access the list from any computer. Thanks for checking out my crazy list.

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    The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
    by Edward Abbey

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    Desert Solitaire a Season In the Wildern
    by Edward Abbey

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    The Woman in the Dunes
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    Ark Sakura
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    And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography
    by Ralph David Abernathy

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    No Longer at Ease
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson

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    My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
    by J. R. Ackerley

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    We Think the World of You (New York Review Books Classics)
    by J. R. Ackerley

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    An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
    by Diane Ackerman

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    Watership Down (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Adams

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    The great universal embrace: Arms summitry--a skeptic's account
    by Kenneth L Adelman

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    Lost City Radio
    by Daniel Alarcon

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    In the Land of White Death
    by Valerian Albanov

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    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee

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    Three Tall Women (Drama, Plume)
    by Edward Albee

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    The "Bounty"
    by Caroline Alexander

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    Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
    by Felipe Alfau

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    Natives and Exotics
    by Jane Alison

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    The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall
    by Oliver E. Allen

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    In the Time of the Butterflies
    by Julia Alvarez

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    Crazy Horse and Custer
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    Eisenhower
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    Pegasus Bridge
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    Undaunted Courage
    by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition
    by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

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    The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
    by Anita Amirrezvani

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    Five Points
    by Tyler Anbinder

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    Heyday: A Novel
    by Kurt Andersen

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    Winterset.
    by Maxwell Anderson

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    Berlin Underground, 1938-1945
    by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich

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    Ashes and Diamonds (European Classics)
    by Jerzy Andrzejewski

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    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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    Vinegar Hill (P.S.)
    by A. Manette Ansay

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    Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era
    by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

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    Blow-Up: A Film (Modern Film Scripts)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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    For Every Sin
    by Aharon Appelfeld

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    Thomas Jefferson: (The American Presidents Series)
    by Joyce Appleby

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    One Day of Life
    by Manlio Argueta

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    Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

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    Mountain Path
    by Harriette Simpson Arnow

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    The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
    by Herbert Asbury

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  48. 68.
    Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
    by Eliot Asinof

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  49. 69.
    Stet: An Editor's Life
    by Diana Athill

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    Abandonment
    by Kate Atkinson

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    Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
    by Rick Atkinson

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    An Army at Dawn
    by Rick Atkinson

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    Theodore Roosevelt: (The American Presidents Series)
    by Louis Auchincloss

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  54. 74.
    Collected Poems (Modern Library)
    by W.H. Auden

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    Selected Poems by W H Auden (7137)
    by W. H. Auden

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    Forewords and Afterwords
    by W. H. Auden

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  57. 77.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

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    Lady Susan
    by Jane Austen

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    Love and Freindship
    by Jane Austen

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    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Sanditon and Other Stories (Everyman's Library)
    by Jane Austen

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    The Fortunes of Wangrin
    by Amadou Hampate Ba

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    Tuck Everlasting
    by Natalie Babbitt

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    The Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral of Francis Bacon
    by Francis Bacon

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    The New Atlantis
    by Francis Bacon

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    Kiss Me, Judas
    by Will Christopher Baer

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    Penny Dreadful
    by Will Christopher Baer

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    Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920
    by Wesley Marvin Bagby

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    The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
    by Bernard Bailyn

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    The Bottle Factory Outing
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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    ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY.
    by Carlos. (Hemingway) Baker

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    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin

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    Nobody Knows My Name
    by James Baldwin

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    Notes of a native son
    by James Baldwin

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    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  78. 107.
    Vanished Splendors: A Memoir
    by Balthus

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    Old Goriot
    by Honore de Balzac

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    Gorilla, My Love
    by Toni Cade Bambara

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    Like a Hole in the Head
    by Jen Banbury

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    The Sea
    by John Banville

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    The Revolutions Trilogy
    by John Banville

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    The Unknown Soldiers: African-American Troops in World War I
    by Arthur E. Barbeau

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  85. 115.
    The Black Hole Of Calcutta (Common Reader Editions)
    by Noel Barber

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    King Arthur: Hero and Legend
    by Richard Barber

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    The Culture of the Twenties
    by Loren Baritz

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    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  90. 121.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

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  91. 122.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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  92. 123.
    Before She Met Me (Picador Books)
    by Julian Barnes

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    Metroland
    by J Barnes

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    The Porcupine
    by Julian Barnes

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    Talking it Over
    by Julian Barnes

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  96. 127.
    Biography of a Runaway Slave
    by Miguel Barnet

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  97. 129.
    Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan
    by Michael Barone

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  98. 130.
    Servants of the Map
    by Andrea Barrett

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    Syrup
    by Maxx Barry

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    The Sot-weed Factor
    by John Barth

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    Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme

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  103. 138.
    Headhunters
    by Jules Bass

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  104. 139.
    Samuel Johnson
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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  105. 141.
    The Feast of Love: A Novel
    by Charles Baxter

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  106. 142.
    Saul and Patsy
    by Charles Baxter

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    Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power
    by Georgia Beale

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    Contemporary American History 1877 - 1913
    by Charles A. Beard

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  109. 146.
    Chilly Scenes of Winter
    by Ann Beattie

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  110. 147.
    Perfect Recall : New Stories
    by Ann Beattie

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  111. 148.
    Picturing Will
    by Ann Beattie

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    Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919
    by Daniel R. Beaver

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  114. 152.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
    by Samuel Beckett

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    The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohm

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  118. 157.
    The Fall of Berlin 1945
    by Antony Beevor

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  119. 158.
    Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
    by Antony Beevor

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  120. 159.
    First, Do No Harm
    by Lisa Belkin

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  121. 160.
    Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
    by Derrick Bell

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    Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992.
    by J. Bowyer Bell

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  123. 162.
    Populism and Elitism: Politics In the Age of Equality
    by Jeffrey Bell

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  124. 163.
    Virginia Woolf: A Biography
    by Quentin Bell

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  125. 164.
    Out of This Furnace
    by Thomas Bell

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  126. 165.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy

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  127. 166.
    The Scroll of Seduction: A Novel
    by Gioconda Belli

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  128. 167.
    Cautionary Tales for Children
    by Edward Gorey

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  129. 168.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  130. 169.
    Jaws
    by Peter Benchley

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  131. 170.
    Shark Trouble
    by Peter Benchley

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  132. 171.
    The Devil and Daniel Webster (Penguin Classics)
    by Stephen Vincent Benet

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  133. 176.
    This Book Will Change Your Life
    by Benrik

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  134. 177.
    Meet Me In St. Louis, Limited Anniversary Edition
    by Sally Benson

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    Italics Are Mine
    by Nina Berberova

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    Tattered Cloak And Other Novels, The
    by Nina Berberova

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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
    by John Berendt

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    And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
    by John Berger

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    About Looking
    by John Berger

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    Sense of Sight
    by John Berger

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  142. 185.
    Keeping a Rendezvous
    by John Berger

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  143. 186.
    Lilac and Flag
    by John Berger

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  144. 187.
    Once in Europa
    by John Berger

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  145. 188.
    Pig Earth
    by John Berger

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  146. 189.
    The Success and Failure of Picasso
    by John Berger

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  147. 191.
    Three Dialogues Between Hylas & Philonous
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  148. 192.
    First Generations: Women in Colonial America
    by Carol Berkin

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  149. 195.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin

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  150. 197.
    The Loser: A Novel
    by Thomas Bernhard

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  151. 198.
    Gathering Evidence
    by Thomas Bernhard

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  152. 199.
    Making Patriots
    by Walter Berns

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    The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
    by Wendell Berry

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  155. 203.
    Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
    by Pierre Berton

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    The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
    by Michael R. Beschloss

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    Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
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    Tara Road
    by Maeve Binchy

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    Tree of Heaven
    by R. C. Binstock

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    A Happy Boy
    by Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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  162. 212.
    The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected
    by Earl Black

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  163. 213.
    The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953
    by Clay Blair Jr.

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  164. 214.
    The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
    by John W. Blassingame

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  165. 215.
    Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life
    by Herbert Block

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  166. 216.
    How to Read and Why
    by Harold Bloom

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    Wasted Beauty: A Novel
    by Eric Bogosian

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    The Seekers
    by Daniel J. Boorstin

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    The Americans
    by Daniel J. Boorstin

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    1812: The War That Forged a Nation (P.S.)
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  173. 226.
    This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
    by Tadeusz Borowski

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    Black Hawk Down
    by Mark Bowden

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  175. 230.
    Bowen's Court
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  176. 231.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  177. 232.
    The Heat of the Day
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  178. 233.
    The Little Girls
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  179. 234.
    A World of Love
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  180. 235.
    A Time in Rome
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  181. 236.
    Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  182. 238.
    Any Human Heart
    by William Boyd

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    Drop City
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  184. 241.
    East Is East (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by T.C. Boyle

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  185. 242.
    T.C. Boyle Stories
    by T.C. Boyle

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  186. 243.
    World's End (Contemporary American Fiction)
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    Eating People Is Wrong
    by Malcolm Bradbury

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    To the Hermitage
    by Malcolm Bradbury

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  190. 247.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes (Signed Limited Edition)
    by Joe Mugnaini

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  191. 248.
    Flags of Our Fathers
    by James Bradley

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  192. 249.
    Martha Washington: An American Life
    by Patricia Brady

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    Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand
    by Nathaniel Branden

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    Special Relationships
    by Brandon

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    The American Heritage Book of Indians
    by William Brandon

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    The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
    by H.W. Brands

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    T.R: The Last Romantic
    by H. W. Brands

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    Woodrow Wilson
    by H. W. Brands

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  200. 260.
    The Last Summer (of You and Me)
    by Anne Brashares

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    Confederate General from Big Sur
    by Richard Brautigan

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    Act of Terror
    by Andre Brink

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