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title = "Books Past and Present"
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Particular favorites are **bolded**, books I particularly despised are in *italics*.
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### 2020: currently reading
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- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff
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- The Long Utopia, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
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### 2020: read
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- The Long Mars, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
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- The Long War, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
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- The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
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- Makers, by Cory Doctorow
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- First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde
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- Something Rotten, by Jasper Fforde
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- The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde
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- Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
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- The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
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- A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, by Orlando Figes
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- La Conquête du Pain, by Peter Kropotkin
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- Anarchism, by Ruth Kinna
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- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow
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- Calypso, by David Sedaris
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- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas
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- The Telling, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- Four Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- **The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin**
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- **On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong**
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### 2019: read
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- Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward
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- The Mueller Report, by Robert S Mueller III
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### 2018: read
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- City of Illusions, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- Planet of Exile, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- Rocannon's World, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K Le Guin
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- **The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin**
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- Bloodchild and Other Stories, by Octavia E Butler
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- Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E Butler
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- **Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E Butler**
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- Fledgling, by Octavia E Butler
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- **Kindred, by Octavia E Butler**
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- The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
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- Towards Zero, by Agatha Christie
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- Ordeal by Innocence, by Agatha Christie
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- Murder is Easy, by Agatha Christie
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- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, by Michael Wolff
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### 2017: read
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- Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
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- Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov
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- Foundation's Edge, by Isaac Asimov
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- Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
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- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
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- *Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton*
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- The Sheperd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett
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- Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
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- Snuff, by Terry Pratchett
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- I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett
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- Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett
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- Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
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- Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
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- Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
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- Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
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- A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
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- Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett
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- Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett
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- Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams
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- The Truth, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
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- Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett
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- **Jingo, by Terry Pratchett**
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- Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
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- Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
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- Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome
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- Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett
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- Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett
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- Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
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- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- **Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett**
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- Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett
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- Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett
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- Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett
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- Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
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- Eric, by Terry Pratchett
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- Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett
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- Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett
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- Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett
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- Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett
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- Mort, by Terry Pratchett
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- Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett
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- The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett
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- A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
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- The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
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- Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie
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- Candide, by Voltaire
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- Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, by Bradley K Martin
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- The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
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- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brecht
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- **To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis**
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### 2016: read
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- **Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
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- **Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit**
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- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
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- Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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- I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
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- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
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- The Twelve, by Justin Cronin
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- The Passage, by Justin Cronin
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### 2015: read
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- Jia, by Hyejin Kim
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- Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
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- The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood
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- Poirot's Early Cases, by Agatha Christie
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- The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever, by Greg Sestero
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- The Dark and Hollow Places, by Carrie Ryan
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- The Dead-Tossed Waves, by Carrie Ryan
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- Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, by Jenny Lawson
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- Career of Evil, by Robert Galbraith
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- Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions, by Neil Gaiman
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- Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling
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- *That Hideous Strength, by CS Lewis*
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- *Perelandra, by CS Lewis*
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- *Out of the Silent Planet, by CS Lewis*
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- *The Last Battle, by CS Lewis*
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- *The Magician's Nephew, by CS Lewis*
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- *The Horse and His Boy, by CS Lewis*
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- *The Silver Chair, by CS Lewis*
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- *Prince Caspian, by CS Lewis*
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- *The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis*
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- *Lady Chatterley's Lover, by DH Lawrence*
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- *Sons and Lovers, by DH Lawrence*
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- *Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline*
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- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
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- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
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- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, by Agatha Christie
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- Five Little Pigs, by Agatha Christie
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- **Life after Life, by Kate Atkinson**
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- Curtain, by Agatha Christie
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- Elephants Can Remember, by Agatha Christie
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- Hallowe'en Party, by Agatha Christie
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- The Clocks, by Agatha Christie
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- Cat Among the Pigeons, by Agatha Christie
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- Dead Man's Folly, by Agatha Christie
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- Hickory Dickory Dock, by Agatha Christie
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- After the Funeral, by Agatha Christie
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- Mrs. McGuinty's Dead, by Agatha Christie
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- The Labours of Hercules, by Agatha Christie
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- Sad Cypress, by Agatha Christie
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- The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
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- **The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis**
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- **The Great Divorce, by CS Lewis**
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- The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder
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- Birdman, by Mo Hayder
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- The Hollow, by Agatha Christie
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- *Evil Under the Sun, by Agatha Christie*
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- *One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, by Agatha Christie*
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- Hercule Poirot's Christmas, by Agatha Christie
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- Appointment with Death, by Agatha Christie
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- Dumb Witness, by Agatha Christie
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- Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie
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- Murder in Mesopotamia, by Agatha Christie
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- Cards on the Table, by Agatha Christie
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- The ABC Murders, by Agatha Christie
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- Death in the Clouds, by Agatha Christie
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- Three Act Tragedy, by Agatha Christie
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- Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
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- Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie
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- Lord Edgware Dies, by Agatha Christie
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- The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
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- The Big Four, by Agatha Christie
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- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
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- Poirot Investigates, by Agatha Christie
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- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie
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- *Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace*
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- **Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel**
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- The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters, by BR Myers
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- Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
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- **Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami**
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- The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
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- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
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- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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- **Levels of Life, by Julian Barnes**
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- Miss Marple's Final Cases, by Agatha Christie
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- Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
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- *Nemesis, by Agatha Christie*
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- **Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick**
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- At Bertram's Hotel, by Agatha Christie
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- A Caribbean Mystery, by Agatha Christie
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- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, by Agatha Christie
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- 4:50 from Paddington, by Agatha Christie
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- A Pocket Full of Rye, by Agatha Christie
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- They Do It With Mirrors, by Agatha Christie
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- A Murder is Announced, by Agatha Christie
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- **Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened, by Allie Brosh**
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- The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, by Chol-Hwan Kang
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- The Moving Finger, by Agatha Christie
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- The Body in the Library, by Agatha Christie
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- *Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders, by Brandi Glanville*
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- The Thirteen Problems, by Agatha Christie
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- Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie
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- The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith
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- The Cuckoo's Calling, by Robert Galbraith
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- Landline, by Rainbow Rowell
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- The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese, by Kathe Lison
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- Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda, by Omar Nasiri
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- **Good Omens, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman**
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### 2014: read
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- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris
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- Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, by Lauren Drain
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- Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower
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- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, by Neil Gaiman
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- Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
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- **American Gods, by Neil Gaiman**
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- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
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- The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
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- The Ocean at the End of the Road, by Neil Gaiman
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- **Yes Please, by Amy Poehler**
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- *Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn*
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- A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
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- The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
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- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
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- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco
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- *Neuromancer, by William Gibson*
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- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
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- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, by Mindy Kaling
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- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
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- Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain
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- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
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- Silas Marner, by George Eliot
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- Roughing It, by Mark Twain
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- *The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain*
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- Goodbye Mr Chips, by James Hilton
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- Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, by Mark Twain
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- The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain
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- A Double Barrelled Detective Story, by Mark Twain
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- A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage, by Mark Twain
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- Tom Sawyer Abroad, by Mark Twain
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- Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
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- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
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- We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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- After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
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- After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami
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- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
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- Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours (Around the world in Eighty Days, read in French), by Jules Verne
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- Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
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- **Middlemarch, by George Eliot**
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- **The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde**
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- Burmese Days, by George Orwell
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- Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, by John Waters
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- Dear Leader, by Jang Jin-Sung
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- The Fault in our Stars, by John Greene
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- Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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- The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
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- Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme (Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman, read in French), by Stefan Zweig
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- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
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- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
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- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
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- *Bringing up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, by Pamela Druckerman*
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- Shadows in Flight, by Scott Orson Card
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- The Manson Murders, by Martin Fido
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- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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- Shadow of the Giant, by Scott Orson Card
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- Shadow Puppets, by Scott Orson Card
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- Shadow of the Hegemon, by Scott Orson Card
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- Ender's Shadow, by Scott Orson Card
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- Children of the Mind, by Scott Orson Card
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- Xenocide, by Scott Orson Card
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- Speaker for the Dead, by Scott Orson Card
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- Ender's Game, by Scott Orson Card
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- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
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- An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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- A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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- *When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro*
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- **Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro**
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- *Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell*
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- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
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- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
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- Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden
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- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
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- Re Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
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- Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
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- The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
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- The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
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- Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
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- The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks, by Amy Stewart
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### 2013: read
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- *Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
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- **The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, by Naoki Higashida**
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- Priestess of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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- Lady of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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- *Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler* (I am not a nazi kthx, I read this by historical curiosity - fwiw, even writing-wise it was absolutely terrible)
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- I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai
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- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
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- *One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
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- Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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- Hitler, by AN Wilson
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- The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
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- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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- The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
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- The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
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- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, by Simon Schama
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- The History of Witchcraft, by Lois Martin
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- MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood
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- Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
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- *Don't Get too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems, by David Rakoff*
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- Dress Your Family in Coruroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
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- When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris
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- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, by David Sedaris
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- The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
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- The Odyssey, by Homer
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- The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
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- Oh Myyy!, by George Takei
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- Up from Slavery, by Booker T Washington
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- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II, by Akeksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV, by Akeksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII, by Akeksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
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- The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt
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- Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell
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- The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson
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- **War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy**
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- The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- *Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk*
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- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
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- Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
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- Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë
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- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
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- Life and Times of Michael K, by JM Coetzee
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- The Iliad, by Homer
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- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
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- The Castle, by Franz Kafka
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- The Trial, by Franz Kafka
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- A Dance with Dragons, by George RR Martin
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- A Feast for Crows, by George RR Martin
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- *Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho*
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- At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson
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- *Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk*
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- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
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- The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
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- The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
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- *The Breast, by Philip Roth*
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- The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays, by Chinua Achebe
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- Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, by Bee Wilson
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- A Storm of Swords, by George RR Martin
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- A Clash of Kings, by George RR Martin
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- A Game of Thrones, by George RR Martin
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- **Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy**
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- *The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
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- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Bossypants, by Tina Fey
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- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, by Mark Twain
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- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
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- *Veronika Decides to Die, by Paulo Coelho*
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- A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe
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- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
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- I am America, by Stephen Colbert
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- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë
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- Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
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- The Forest House, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
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- **The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley**
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### 2012: read
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- I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, by Amy Sedaris
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- Zodiac, by Robert Graysmith
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- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
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- *World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooke*
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- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
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- The Casual Vacancy, by JK Rowling
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- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
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- La Chute, by Albert Camus
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- Amerika, by Franz Kafka
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- **Come September, by Arundhati Roy**
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- Wigfield: The Can-Do Town that Just May Not, by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello
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- *Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann*
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
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- **My Life in France, by Julia Child**
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- The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
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- American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
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- **Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood**
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- **The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood**
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- **Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe**
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- Moral Disorder and Other Stories, by Margaret Atwood
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- Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
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- Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
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- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
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### Books important to me that I read previously (in no particular order):
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- A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M Miller Jr
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- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
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- La peste, by Albert Camus
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- L'amant de la Chine du Nord, by Marguerite Duras
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- Hiroshima Mon Amour, by Marguerite Duras
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- Huis Clos, by Jean-Paul Sartre
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- The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
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- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
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- Gender Troubles, by Judith Butler
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- Feminism is for Everybody, by bell hooks
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- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
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- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
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- The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- Zazie dans le métro, by Raymond Queneau
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- Germinal, by Émile Zola
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- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
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- The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde
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- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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### Books I was unable to finish reading:
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- Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
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- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
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- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
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- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
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- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
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- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
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