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Running list of good books I've read since I started reading for fun again:

  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards (fiction)

  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (fiction)

  • No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Miranda July (fiction; short stories)

  • Company, by Max Barry (fiction)

  • My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (fiction)

  • The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss (fiction)

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer (fiction)

  • Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller (religious non-fiction)

  • The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (fiction)

  • Pitching My Tent, by Anita Diamant (memoir)

  • The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction)

  • The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman (non-fiction)

  • Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson (fiction)

  • Complications and Better, by Atul Gawande (non-fiction)

  • The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (memoir)

  • Round Ireland with a Fridge, by Tony Hawks (travelogue/humor)

  • Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)

  • Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett (memoir)

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (non-fiction)

  • The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer (fiction)

  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (sci-fi)

  • Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (non-fiction)

  • The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

  • The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd (fiction)

  • Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace (fiction)

  • Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (nonfiction)

  • The Lovely Bones and Lucky, by Alice Sebold (fiction and memoir, respectively)

  • Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (fiction)

  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Edward Hutchings, Ralph Leighton, Richard Phillips Feynman (memoir)

  • What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson (feel-good true stories)

  • Last Days of Summer and Almost Like Being in Love, by Steve Kluger (fiction)

  • The Chosen, by Chaim Potok (fiction)

  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells (fiction)

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, by Helen Fielding (fiction)

  • Into That Darkness, by Gitta Sereny (non-fiction)

  • Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain (non-fiction)

  • Warchild, by Karin Lowachee (sci-fi)

  • The Golden Compass, The Amber Spyglass, and The Subtle Knife, all as part of His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (fantasy)

  • Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, by Sophie Kinsella (fiction)

  • Candy and Me, by Hilary Liftin (memoir)

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling (fantasy)

  • MAUS I and MAUS II, by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)

In-Progress books that I plan to finish:

  1. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (classic fiction)

  2. The World According to Garp, by John Irving (fiction)

  3. Catch 22, by Joseph Heller (fiction)

  4. The Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (geek)


"Okay" books I've read somewhat recently:

  1. Slow Man, by J.M. Coetzee (fiction)

  2. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction)

  3. Rats, by Robert Sullivan (non-fiction)

  4. Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (fiction)

  5. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (sci-fi)

  6. The Devil Always Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger (fiction)


Books in the queue:

  1. Ambassador of Lindy Hop, by Frankie Manning (memoir)
Last updated: February 2008