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kocanda's "Michaela's, Books to read before I die, List."

I work in a bookstore, I love to read, and I’m a poor college student with an addiction to buying books. Its not enough to borrow or check them out at the library. I HAVE to OWN them! Tis is an on-going list of all the books I want to read.

1. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
by Ole Edvart Rolvaag
 
2. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
3. On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Jack Kerouac
 
4. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
 
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
 
6. Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
by Jane Goodall
 
7. I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann
 
8. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
by John Irving
 
9. Until I Find You: A Novel
by John Irving
 
10. The Imaginary Girlfriend: a Memoir
by John Irving
 
11.
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Son of the Circus, A
by John Irving
 
12. The Fourth Hand
by John Irving
 
13.
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Water Method Man
by John irving
 
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
 
15. A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound
by John Irving
 
16. The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
by John Irving
 
17.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
 
18. Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
19. Tao Te Ching
by Lao-Tzu
 
20.
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Last Child In the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv; (Reader). Jonathan Hogan
 
21. Moral Disorder and Other Stories
by Margaret Atwood
 
22.
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The Tent
by Margaret Atwood
 
23.
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
 
24. THE COLOR PURPLE
by ALICE WALKER
 
25. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
 
26. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
 
27. The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
 
28. Tales of Adam
by Daniel Quinn
 
29.
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Providence: The Story of a Fifty Year Vision Quest
by Daniel Quinn
 
30. Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
by Daniel Quinn
 
31. After Dachau
by Daniel Quinn
 
32. Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly As "The Little Book"
by Daniel Quinn
 
33. Work, Work, Work  
34. The Holy
by Daniel Quinn
 
35. My Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
 
36. The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand
 
37. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
 
38.
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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
 
39.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
 
40. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
 
41.
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
 
42. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
by Chuck Klosterman
 
43. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
 
44. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
 
45. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
 
46.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
 
47. The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
 
48.
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Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
by Sam Harris
 
49.
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love in the time of cholera
by gabriel garcia marquez
 
50. Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins
 
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Created by kocanda on Mar 03, 2008.