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skemena's "50 Books in 2008"

Books I have read (or am planning to read) this year. Shooting for 50!
1. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
by Philip Pullman
  
2. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
by Philip Pullman
  
3.
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 The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski  
4.
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 Dress Your Best by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly  
5. Election
by Tom Perrotta
  
6. The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
by Jonathan Kozol
  
7. Letters to a Young Teacher
by Jonathan Kozol
  
8. Making Our High Schools Better: How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together
by Anne Wescott Dodd
  
9.
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 The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia  
10. Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
  
11. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
  
12.
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 Teaching as Leadership - Ms. Lora's Story (TFA)  
13. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
by Chris Fuhrman
  
14. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
15.
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 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
  
16. East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
17. Project Everlasting: Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets of Americas Greatest Marriages
by Mathew Boggs
  
18.
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 Teaching as Leadership (TFA)  
19. Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
by Donna Foote
  
20.
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 Diversity, Community & Achievement (TFA)  
21.
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 Classroom Management & Culture (TFA)  
22. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
23.
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 Learning Theory (TFA)  
24.
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 Secondary Literacy (TFA)  
25. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
26. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
  
27.
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 Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith  
28. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
  
29. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl  
30.
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 Winner Takes All
by Nora Roberts
  
31.
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 Twilight (The Twilight Saga)
by Stephenie Meyer
  
32. Eclipse
by Stephenie Meyer
  
33. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
34.
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 The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
35. New Moon (The Twilight Saga)
by Stephenie Meyer
  
36. The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
  
37.
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 Breaking Dawn
by Stephenie Meyer
  
38. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler  
39.
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 The Dash by Linda Ellis  
40. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
41.
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 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
  
42. The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
  
43. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera
  
44.
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 Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
  
45.
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 The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
  
47. Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
  
48. The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories  
51.
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 A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
  
52.
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 Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Bloom  
53.
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 Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates  
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Created by skemena on Apr 24, 2008.