brett's 2010 book challenge!!!

[Brett]

here we go!

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1.Await Your Reply: A Novel - Dan Chaon

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2.Normal People Don't Live Like This - Dylan Landis

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3. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore

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4. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace

[Nicole]

Brett wrote: "3. Anagrams"

Anagrams sounds interesting, did you like it?

[Brett]

Nicole wrote: "Brett wrote: "3. Anagrams"

Anagrams sounds interesting, did you like it?"

i did like it.
i didn't love it.
lorrie moore is one of my favorite authors.
and i think this is probably my least favorite of her books.
[which still is heads and shoulders over most crap out there:]
i suggest "birds of america" and "like life"

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5. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart

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6. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us - Laura van den Berg

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7. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann

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8. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh

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9. The Clean House - Sarah Ruhl

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10. Questions About Angels: Poems - Billy Collins

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11. Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau

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12. The Beautiful Room Is Empty - Edmund White

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13. The Freeing of the Dust - Denise Levertov

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14. Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies

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15. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

[Carol]

Who is the author (Heart is a lonely hunter)? I saw the movie with Alan Arkin, so sad. Loved it anyway.

[Brett]

Carol wrote: "Who is the author (Heart is a lonely hunter)? I saw the movie with Alan Arkin, so sad. Loved it anyway."

Carson McCullers. Worth a read!

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16. Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories - Justin Taylor

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17. Brooklyn Boy: A Play - Donald Margulies

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18. Love in Infant Monkeys - Lydia Millett

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19. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - Raymond Carver

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20. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen

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21. I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated - Julie Klausner

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22. The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week - Summer Pierre

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23. A Model World and Other Stories - Michael Chabon

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24. Too Much Happiness: Stories - Alice Munro

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25. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

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26. Selected Poems - Frank O'Hara

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27. Stitches: A Memoir - David Small

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28. What I'd Say To the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats - Jack Handey

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29. All We Read Is Freaks - William S. Bowers

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30. On Beauty - Zadie Smith

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31. Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion

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32. Venus Drive - Sam Lipsyte

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33. The Ask: A Novel - Sam Lipsyte

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34. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

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35. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee

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36. A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories about Human Love - Ben Greenman

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37. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

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38. How Did You Get This Number - Sloane Crosley

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39. Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen

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40. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill

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41. Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell

[Amanda]

Brett wrote: "Carol wrote: "Who is the author (Heart is a lonely hunter)? I saw the movie with Alan Arkin, so sad. Loved it anyway."

Carson McCullers. Worth a read!"

If y'all like Heart is a Lonely Hunter, maybe you'd like The Wedding, also by Carson McCullers. I didn't particularly like it (had to read it for college English) but that doesn't mean that you won't .

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42. Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts

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43. Superbad - Ben Greenman

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44. Coming & Crying