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Wow... color me way impressed! I may have 54 on my list but yours is by far more impressive. Like 2666 is close to 900 pages right. This is a great list so far. An all while going to school. So what are you going to school for If you don't mind me asking?
Kittiya, I've decided to go back for my Master's in English, so I'm taking the pre-reqs. I only had 3 cr in English so I need at least 12 cr in 200 level or higher. So I'm reading a lot of short stories as well as the novels I read in my spare time.
Erin, I liked "The Hour I First Believed" but I kind of felt like he saw how long it was and he just rushed the ending. Once you got to the Columbine shootings is got pretty good, but I didn't really like all the stuff about his family history, but he did tie it all in at the end. I really liked his book "This Much I Know is True" that's one of my favorite novels.
13)A Mercy by Toni Morrison14)Free Range Chickens by Simon Rich
15) Summer's Path by Scott Blum16) The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
17) Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson
Erin wrote: "How did you like The Reader? It was one of my favorite books from last year."I liked it a lot. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year. I'm interested in looking for more books about that time. I read the "Gurensey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" this year as well, and found that to be a very good book about WWII as well.
18) Darkly Dreaming Dexter19) The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger)
20) The Caged Virgin (Hirsi Ali)
21) The Swallows of Kabul
22) Ghosts Among Us (Van Praagh)
23) In Our Time (Hemingway)
24) The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantum of Death
25) Their Eyes Were Watching God
26) Fine Just the Way It Is (Annie Proulx)
27) A-Rod
1) Dewey (The library cat)
2) The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
3) Gurnsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
4) The Sound & the Fury by Faulkner
5) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Wroblewski
6) The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
7) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshid?
9) Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
10) 2666 by Roberto Bolano
11) Testimony by Anita Shreve
12) UR by Stephen King