Books that I’ve completed in 2009. My goal is 40.
So far my favorites are:
-The Man Who Walked Through Time
-Life of Pi – except that when I realized halfway through that it was NOT based on a true story…that broke my heart. Even though it says "a novel" on the cover, I’m an idiot and spent half the book thinking it was non-fiction. And the end was disappointing.
-American Psycho – even though I marked it as "not worth consuming" I have never read a book or watched a movie that affected me more. I went to film school because of my love of horror and….I can’t begin to describe the nightmares that book gave me. I didn’t read anything for awhile. Seeing the movie in NO WAY prepares you for those vivid descriptions
-Into the Wild
Read before:
-The Lord of the Rings (4th reading, I remember why I was so obsessed before)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
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The Absorbent Mind
by Maria Montessori
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The Five people you meet in heaven
by Mitch Albom
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Vintage)
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Night
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The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
by Colin Fletcher
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
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Virgin: The Untouched History
by Hanne Blank
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Fast-Talking Dames
by Maria DiBattista
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Player Piano written by K. Vonnegut
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
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The Myth of Monogamy
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Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
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Into The Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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Haunted
by Chuck Pahlaniuk
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She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
by Wally Lamb
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Daisy Miller
by Henry James
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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime
by Mark Haddon
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Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
by Andy Letcher
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Flight Volume Four
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The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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This Side of Paradise (Vintage Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Krakauer Jon
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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by R. K. Narayan
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Little Children
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sima Qian
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Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics)
by Tacitus
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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Sunjata: Three Mandinka Versions
by Gordon Innes
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