Books I’ve read or am reading in 2009.
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Latin American Histories Series)
by Franklin W. Knight
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A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny
by Mark Kurlansky
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The Taqwacores
by Michael Muhammad Knight
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Disgrace: A Novel
by J. M. Coetzee
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Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
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Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance And Accommodation, 1838-1920
by Lamarsh Roopnarine
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Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
by Matt Taibbi
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The International Banana Trade
by Julian Roche
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel
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The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization (At Table)
by James Wiley
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
by Patricia Volk
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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A Lion Among Men
by Gregory Maguire
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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
by David King
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How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
by Allen Raymond
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Anticancer, a New Way of Life
by MD, PhD, David Servan-Schreiber
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
by Nick Reding
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Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Martha A. Sandweiss
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Political Brain
by Drew Westen
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The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing
by Bruce D. Perry
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Things I've Been Silent About
by Azar Nafisi
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Alexandria: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
by Lindsey Davis
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Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since 9/11
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
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Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni
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The Elder Gods (The Dreamers, Book 1)
by David Eddings
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"In Case Atom Bombs Fall": An Anthology of Governmental Explanations, Instructions and Warnings from the 1940s to the 1960s
by Michael Scheibach
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
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The Forever War (Vintage)
by Dexter Filkins
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Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
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One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food
by Michael Schaffer
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Mirror Mirror: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye (Updated Edition): Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
by Pamela Blair
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
by Kevin Roose
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Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman
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