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mike247worldwide's "Mike's List for 2009"

It’s Botswana time! I’m doing Peace Corps work, but have loads of time to read. My only concern is keeping a steady stream of books coming my way. I read 130 in 2007, 107 last year. What will be my final total? Game on!!!

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 Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion  
2. Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Nahem Yousaf
  
3.
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 The Human Factor Graham Greene  
4. Thirteen Moons: A Novel
by Charles Frazier
  
5.
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 The Golden Age by Gore Vidal  
6. All over but the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
  
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 McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy  
8. Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
  
9. Smiley's People
by John le Carre
  
10. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
by Elizabeth Pisani
  
11. Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [title page only]
by Michael Chabon
  
12. Preston Falls: A Novel
by David Gates
  
13. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
14.
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 The Patient
by Michael Palmer
  
15. Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
  
16. The Ethos Effect
by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
  
17. False Dawn
by John Gray
  
18. Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
  
19.
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 A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR, by Mark Helprin (Harvest Books, 2005)  
20. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
21.
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 The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
  
22. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
  
23. Treasury of African Love: Poems & Proverbs  
24. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
25. Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories  
26. Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures : A True Story from Hell on Earth
by Kenneth Cain
  
27. The White Tiger: A Novel
by Aravind Adiga
  
28.
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 the stonemason by cormac mccarthy  
29.
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 Oil! by Upton Sinclair  
30. When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Robert H. Bates
  
31. Zadie Smith's White Teeth
by Claire/ Smith, Zadie Squires
  
32.
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 A Mercy by Toni Morrison  
33. Burr: A Novel
by Gore Vidal
  
34. The Gutenberg Revolution
by John Man
  
35. Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
  
36. A Kiss Before Dying
by Ira, Levin
  
37. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
38. The Black House
by Paul Theroux
  
39. The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho
  
40. The Sargasso Bridge: America Speaks, Africa Answers
by Dr. Kofi J. Roberts
  
41.
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 Journey to the End of the Night by Celine  
42. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
43. Bel Canto (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett
  
44. Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
45. A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
  
46. The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
  
47. The Old Way: A Story of the First People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  
48. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
by Gaines Ernest J
  
49. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath
by Kate Moses
  
50. You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
  
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Created by mike247worldwide on Jan 15, 2009.