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author: Jane Austen
name: Aki
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1818
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/04/08
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]]> 22448277 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:08:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories]]> Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories
author: Michael Chabon
name: Aki
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/02/08
shelves: contemporary, short-stories
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]]> 22347457 Sat, 17 May 2008 15:07:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Woman Hollering Creek and The House on Mango Street]]> Woman Hollering Creek and The House on Mango Street
author: Sandra Cisneros
name: Aki
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1992
rating: 1
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/17/08
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]]> 16138686 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:14:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto]]> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
author: Chuck Klosterman
name: Aki
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
rating: 1
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date added: 05/15/08
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]]> 18832167 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:45:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books]]> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
author: Azar Nafisi
name: Aki
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 03/28/08
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]]> 15659641 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:46:21 -0800 <![CDATA[Drown]]> Drown
author: Junot Díaz
name: Aki
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 03/08
date added: 02/17/08
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I started this book on a Chinatown bus headed to New York. I was hoping that it would help me sleep; help me escape the smell of fried foods and the awkward rush of cell phone conversations. Instead, I found myself submerged, giving in to the relentless pull of the characters in Diaz’s novel. Full, seamless, Diaz’s sparse yet intense writing propels you through each short story, even when the characters seem hopelessly stalled.
]]> 15079494 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:35:46 -0800 <![CDATA[A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story]]> A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
author: Elaine Brown
name: Aki
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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date added: 02/10/08
shelves: politics
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]]> 15072442 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:21:59 -0800 <![CDATA[The Monsters of Templeton]]> The Monsters of Templeton
author: Lauren Groff
name: Aki
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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date added: 02/10/08
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Loved this book! I wanted to climb into this book so many times and just be!
]]> 14452408 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:11:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: Aki
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 03/08
date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14452080 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:08:33 -0800 <![CDATA[The God of Small Things]]> The God of Small Things
author: Arundhati Roy
name: Aki
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 03/08
date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14447797 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:16:58 -0800 <![CDATA[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems]]> The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
name: Aki
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1817
rating: 5
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date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14447766 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:16:32 -0800 <![CDATA[Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
name: Aki
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14447703 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:15:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: Walt Whitman
name: Aki
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14447643 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:15:08 -0800 <![CDATA[Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems]]> Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems
author: Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
name: Aki
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 14447502 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:13:36 -0800 <![CDATA[Erotique Noire/Black Erotica]]> Erotique Noire/Black Erotica
author: Roseann P. Bell
name: Aki
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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date added: 02/03/08
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]]> 13572250 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:51:26 -0800 <![CDATA[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
author: Junot Díaz
name: Aki
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at: 02/08
date added: 01/25/08
shelves: ethnic-junction, folklore, rx-factor
review:
brain candy with cool spanish slang
]]> 13348944 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:01:40 -0800 <![CDATA[The Elephant Vanishes: Stories]]> The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Aki
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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date added: 01/23/08
shelves: short-stories
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]]> 13346131 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:42:39 -0800 <![CDATA[April Witch: A Novel]]> April Witch: A Novel
author: Majgull Axelsson
name: Aki
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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date added: 01/23/08
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]]> 13345795 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:40:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Stupid White Men. Eine Abrechnung mit dem Amerika unter George W. Bush]]> Stupid White Men. Eine Abrechnung mit dem Amerika unter George W. Bush
author: Michael Moore
name: Aki
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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date added: 01/23/08
shelves: ethnic-junction, politics, satire
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]]> 13345639 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:39:31 -0800 <![CDATA[Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right]]> Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
author: Al Franken
name: Aki
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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date added: 01/23/08
shelves: politics, satire
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]]> 13344522 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:28:11 -0800 <![CDATA[The End and the Beginning (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 5)]]> The End and the Beginning (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 5)
author: Andy Meisler
name: Aki
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/23/08
shelves: episode-guide, science-fiction
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]]> 13344490 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:27:55 -0800 <![CDATA[All Things (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 6)]]> All Things (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 6)
author: Marc Shapiro
name: Aki
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/23/08
shelves: episode-guide, science-fiction
review:

]]> 13344358 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:26:38 -0800 <![CDATA[The Truth Is Out There (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 1)]]> The Truth Is Out There (The Official Guide to the X-Files, Vol. 1)
author: Brian Lowry
name: Aki
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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date added: 01/23/08
shelves: episode-guide, science-fiction
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]]> 13344198 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:25:02 -0800 <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
author: Douglas Adams
name: Aki
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1979
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/23/08
shelves: fantasy, science-fiction, short-stories
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]]> 13343505 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:18:44 -0800 <![CDATA[Patti Smith: American Artist]]> Patti Smith: American Artist
author: Frank Stefanko
name: Aki
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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date added: 01/23/08
shelves: family-album
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]]> 13343440 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:18:07 -0800 <![CDATA[Patti Smith: A Biography]]> Patti Smith: A Biography
author: Nick Johnstone
name: Aki
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1997
rating: 1
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date added: 01/23/08
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]]> 13343411 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:17:53 -0800 <![CDATA[Patti Smith : An Unauthorized Biography]]> Patti Smith : An Unauthorized Biography
author: Victor Bockris
name: Aki
average rating: 3.18
book published: 1999
rating: 2
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date added: 01/23/08
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]]> 13343387 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:17:41 -0800 <![CDATA[Auguries of Innocence: Poems]]> Auguries of Innocence: Poems
author: Patti Smith
name: Aki
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/23/08
shelves: contemporary, poetry
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]]> 13114784 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:19:38 -0800 <![CDATA[Naked]]> Naked
author: David Sedaris
name: Aki
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: satire
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]]> 13111050 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:54:29 -0800 <![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]> The Da Vinci Code
author: Dan Brown
name: Aki
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2003
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, formula, mystery
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]]> 13110537 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:51:00 -0800 <![CDATA[Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)]]> Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
author: Kaye Gibbons
name: Aki
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: coming-of-age
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]]> 13110317 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:49:30 -0800 <![CDATA[The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)]]> The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
author: Pearl S. Buck
name: Aki
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1931
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13109990 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:47:13 -0800 <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)]]> The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
author: Dante Alighieri
name: Aki
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1308
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure
review:

]]> 13109730 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:45:40 -0800 <![CDATA[The Joy Luck Club]]> The Joy Luck Club
author: Amy Tan
name: Aki
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, ethnic-junction, satire
review:

]]> 13109600 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:45:02 -0800 <![CDATA[The Kitchen God's Wife]]> The Kitchen God's Wife
author: Amy Tan
name: Aki
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1991
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, ethnic-junction
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]]> 13108962 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:40:11 -0800 <![CDATA[The Republic (Penguin Classics)]]> The Republic (Penguin Classics)
author: Plato
name: Aki
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: politics
review:

]]> 13108589 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:37:13 -0800 <![CDATA[The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)]]> The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
author: Gloria Naylor
name: Aki
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1983
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: contemporary, ethnic-junction
review:

]]> 13108440 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:36:03 -0800 <![CDATA[Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone]]> Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
author: Sophocles
name: Aki
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1958
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13108231 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:34:18 -0800 <![CDATA[The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)]]> The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
author: Jane Hamilton
name: Aki
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1988
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
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]]> 13107664 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:29:36 -0800 <![CDATA[Native Son (Perennial Classics)]]> Native Son (Perennial Classics)
author: Richard Wright
name: Aki
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1940
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, coming-of-age, ethnic-junction
review:

]]> 13107586 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:28:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Lord of the Flies]]> Lord of the Flies
author: William Golding
name: Aki
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1954
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, coming-of-age
review:

]]> 13107451 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:27:16 -0800 <![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
author: John Steinbeck
name: Aki
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1939
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13103139 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:41:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Early Embraces: True Life Stories of Women Describing Their First Lesbian Experience (Early Embraces)]]> Early Embraces: True Life Stories of Women Describing Their First Lesbian Experience (Early Embraces)
author: Lindsey Elder
name: Aki
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: eroticism, feminist, short-stories
review:

]]> 13103078 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:41:13 -0800 <![CDATA[Working Parts: A Novel]]> Working Parts: A Novel
author: Lucy Jane Bledsoe
name: Aki
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: contemporary
review:

]]> 13102541 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:37:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Aki
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1604
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13101967 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:33:25 -0800 <![CDATA[Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women]]> Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
author: Maya Angelou
name: Aki
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1995
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, poetry
review:

]]> 13101934 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:33:09 -0800 <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
author: Maya Angelou
name: Aki
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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date added: 01/21/08
shelves: biography, coming-of-age
review:

]]> 13101241 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:28:26 -0800 <![CDATA[The Crucible]]> The Crucible
author: Arthur Miller
name: Aki
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, mystery
review:

]]> 13101153 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:27:49 -0800 <![CDATA["Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller (Master Guides S.)]]> "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller (Master Guides S.)
author: Peter Spalding
name: Aki
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1987
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13099673 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:15:25 -0800 <![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Aki
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1597
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, coming-of-age
review:

]]> 13099138 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:09:24 -0800 <![CDATA[The House of Mirth]]> The House of Mirth
author: Edith Wharton
name: Aki
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1905
rating: 5
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date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13099096 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:08:48 -0800 <![CDATA[Candide (Thrift Editions)]]> Candide (Thrift Editions)
author: Voltaire
name: Aki
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1759
rating: 3
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date added: 01/21/08
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]]> 13098852 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:05:22 -0800 <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Poems]]> The Waste Land and Other Poems
author: T.S. Eliot
name: Aki
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, poetry
review:

]]> 13098560 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:01:48 -0800 <![CDATA[The Wedding: A Novel]]> The Wedding: A Novel
author: Dorothy West
name: Aki
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13097546 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:50:40 -0800 <![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451]]> Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Aki
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1953
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, punk-outsider, radical
review:

]]> 13097521 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:50:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Invisible Man]]> Invisible Man
author: Ralph Ellison
name: Aki
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1952
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13096809 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:41:26 -0800 <![CDATA[Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe]]> Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Aki
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1988
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, horror, mystery, poetry, short-stories
review:

]]> 13096625 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:39:04 -0800 <![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne : Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun (Library of America)]]> Nathaniel Hawthorne : Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun (Library of America)
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Aki
average rating: 3.42
book published: 1983
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, rx-factor
review:

]]> 13096489 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:36:25 -0800 <![CDATA[The Odyssey]]> The Odyssey
author: Homer
name: Aki
average rating: 3.77
book published: 600
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13096382 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:34:40 -0800 <![CDATA[Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]> Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Aki
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1601
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic, politics
review:

]]> 13096204 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:32:38 -0800 <![CDATA[Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)]]> Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Aki
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1602
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: classic
review:

]]> 13095966 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:29:48 -0800 <![CDATA[Macbeth]]> Macbeth
author: William Shakespeare
name: Aki
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1606
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/21/08
shelves: adventure, classic, mystery
review:

]]> 12875408 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:59:41 -0800 <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley]]> The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
author: Malcolm X
name: Aki
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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date added: 01/18/08
shelves: biography, history, politics
review:

]]> 12875294 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:57:03 -0800 <![CDATA[Homegirls and Handgrenades]]> <