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2009.12.22

100(ish) Books

98 of the 100-ish books I’ve read since I started keeping a list in TypePad:

Yann Martel: What Is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes William Gibson: Pattern Recognition J. M.(Author) Coetzee: Disgrace [DISGRACE] Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) Joseph O'Neill: Netherland: A NovelDon DeLillo: Cosmopolis: A NovelPatricia Marx: Him Her Him Again The End of Him Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)

David Benioff: City of Thieves: A Novel Marty Cagan: Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love Truman Capote: In Cold Blood Zadie Smith: On Beauty Paul Auster: Man in the Dark: A Novel William Langewiesche: The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion: Where I Was From Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four 

Joan Didion: The White Album Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) Jean Vanier: Becoming Human Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel Ann Patchett: Bel Canto A. M. Homes: Music for Torching : The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  Don DeLillo: Falling Man: A Novel 

Paul Auster: Oracle Night: A Novel Abigail Thomas: A Three Dog Life Deborah Copaken Kogan: Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War Viktor E. Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel Douglas Coupland: The Gum Thief: A Novel Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Paul Collins: Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey into the Lost History of Autism Don DeLillo: White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)  Don DeLillo: Underworld: A Novel 

Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals John Darnielle: Black Sabbath's Master of Reality: 33 1/3 Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Mark Haddon: A Spot of Bother (Vintage) Joshua Ferris: Then We Came to the End: A Novel Adam Gopnik: Paris to the Moon Katrina Firlik: Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside John Wood: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children 

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia William Gibson: Spook Country A. M. Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Alexandra Fuller: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel 

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green: A Novel Allegra Goodman: Intuition David Mitchell: Ghostwritten Po Bronson: "Why Do I Love These People?": Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family Debbie Weil: The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right : Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises (Ingenuity Project, The) Tobias Wolff: Old School Po Bronson: The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley : QI: The Book of General Ignorance Scott Adams: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment 

Douglas Coupland: JPod: A Novel Dalai Lama: The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy (Contemporary American Fiction Series) Kate Ascher: The Works: Anatomy of a City Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (Vintage International) Steven Kotler: West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, And the Origin of Belief Stephen Lewis: Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) (Cbc Massey Lecture Series) Ronald Wright: A Short History of Progress Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A Novel Adrian Tomine: Summer Blonde 

Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan: Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity  James O'Reilly: Travelers' Tales San Francisco: True Stories Jose Saramago: Blindness (Harvest Book) Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) : The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Best American) John Perkins: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man David Mitchell: Number9Dream Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe 

Garland Alex: The Coma Gregory Berns: Satisfaction : The Science of Finding True Fulfillment Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Colson Whitehead: The Colossus of New York Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty Aldous Huxley: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Perennial Classics) Ellen J. Langer: Mindfulness David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas : A Novel

I say 100-ish  because I know there are a few I’ve missed and there are probably one or two here that I didn’t finish. The two missing thumbnails:

  1. Paul Auster: Timbucktu
  2. Michael Chabon: Mysteries of Pittsburg

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