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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Little Stranger
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The Sense of an Ending
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Complete Maus
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Man's Search for Meaning
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Siddhartha
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Don Quixote
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The English Patient
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
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4.27 avg rating — 13,195 ratings
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 420,320 ratings
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Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine
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Chris Baldick (Editor)
3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Infinite Jest
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Conceit
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Mary Novik (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
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Spiro Dimolianis (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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A Fine Balance
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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)
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The Magic Mountain
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Midnight’s Children
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 198,713 ratings
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Disgrace
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Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,827 ratings
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Half Blood Blues
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Steppenwolf
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Ethan Frome
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3.45 avg rating — 135,723 ratings
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The Gift of Asher Lev
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,713 ratings
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Mark Yarm (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 4,332 ratings
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Gentlemen of the Road
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Smut
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
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Brontë
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3.68 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Independent People
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
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When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
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Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1)
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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 11,529 ratings
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Asta’s Book
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Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, #1-3)
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Shirley
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Cloud Atlas
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The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
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The Naked Civil Servant
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
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Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
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3.81 avg rating — 31,946 ratings
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The Dissociation Of A Personality: A Biographical Study In Abnormal Psychology
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Chapman's Odyssey
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Flying Saucers and the Three Men
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Dorothea's Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postscripts
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Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
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Genus
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Selected Burns for Young Readers
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
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Parched
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At Last (Patrick Melrose, #5)
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The Wind in the Rose Bush: and Other Stories of the Supernatural
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Redeemed: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and the Peace That Passes AllUnderstanding
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Heather King (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 311 ratings
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My Name Is Asher Lev
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Chinaman: A Novel
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Shehan Karunatilaka (Goodreads Author)
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Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte
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A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War
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Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety
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Sacha Scoblic / Zimmerman (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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Lazarus Is Dead
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Venus in Fur
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The Tiger's Wife
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Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author)
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Old Men at Midnight: Stories
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Solomon Gursky Was Here, a novel
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Shadow Game
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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Noah's Compass
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
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There But For The
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
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Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
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The Maintenance of Headway
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Love Letters: An Anthology
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Antonia Fraser (Editor)
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I Am the Clay
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The Zurau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
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There are already at least two lists that cover this: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/82... (all ages; dominated by YA), and http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/83... (for those of us over 35; not so dominated by YA).
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Susanna wrote: "There are already at least two lists that cover this: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/82... (all ages; dominated by YA), and http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/833..."Well, so what? Maybe some of us want a list without an animated rocking chair gif on it.
'Too many books, remove one before you add another.'sigh.
Susanna wrote: "There are already at least two lists that cover this: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/82... (all ages; dominated by YA), and http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/833..."I thank you, Susanna, for pointing out the overlap, but I like to think my list is significantly different, though that difference might seem subtle or non-existent to others. I have posted here, without advocacy of any kind or any suggestion of age relation, the list of books I personally read cover to cover in the year 2011, and then invited my GR "friends" to do the same. If anyone else wishes also to post their list or invite their friends, that's fine too. I wish there was someway we could all post our respective lists "blind" of one another, then see what overlap occurs. One overall book comparison for the year 2011 . Oh, well, cyberspace is in its infancy.
Moira wrote: "Susanna wrote: "There are already at least two lists that cover this: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/82... (all ages; dominated by YA), and http://www.goodreads.c..."What, Moira, is a "gif" ?
It's a picture format.
Moira wrote: "This thing. http://s224.photobucket.com/albums/dd... It's at the top of that list."Wow. I would venture into some of the more esoteric perlieus of cyberspace, but I fear gettin stuff on me that won't wash off without the assistance of my grandchildren.. and I ask them for so much as it is.
I've already gone way over 100, so....
Anyone can add books to this list.
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