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FIFTY YEARS OF READING
Started reading at age 3, and I'm now 53! Fifty Years of Reading! Let's see if I can even remember them all. When I see something I know I've read, I will add it to this list. IF I can remember, I will try a review; if not, I will simply do a THUMBS UP or a THUMBS DOWN. And finally, if I cannot do either of those things yet still remember the title and/or author, I simply shall have to re-read the book! SOMETHING inside its covers, obviously struck a memory somewhere in the curls of my mind.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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The Parasites
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Hungry Hill
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)
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Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia
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Chocolate Lenin
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Graham Diamond (Goodreads Author)
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Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel
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Waiting for Paint to Dry
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Lia Mack (Goodreads Author)
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The Aging Gap Between Species
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
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Undefended Love
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Jett Psaris (Goodreads Author)
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The Marlowe Conspiracy
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Dragon's Breath (The Tales of the Frog Princess, #2)
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E.D. Baker (Goodreads Author)
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In Cold Blood
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The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)
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The Blue Djinn of Babylon (Children of the Lamp, #2)
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Born Blue
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To Build a Fire
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The Snow Queen
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A Christmas Memory
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Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas
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Cold Comfort Farm
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Wise Owl's Story
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Margaret Tempest (Illustrator)
3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Emerald Peacock
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A Small Part of History
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
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Sprig Muslin
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You Might Be A Redneck If...
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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The Owl and the Pussycat
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By the Light of the Moon
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
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Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
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Angels, Miracles and Answered Prayers,Volume 1
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Wives and Daughters
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Persuasion
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The Hundredth Monkey
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Kendrick Frazier (editor)
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The Star Rover: The Great Reincarnation Novel
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Confessions of a Pagan Nun
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Kate Horsley (Goodreads Author)
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The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
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The Thanksgiving Visitor
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The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
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The Magic Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #2)
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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
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The Water Babies
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Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 177,339 ratings
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The Singing Fish
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Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
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Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
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Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
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The Speckledy Hen
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Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
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Sookie Stackhouse 7-copy Boxed Set (Sookie Stackhouse, #1-7)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Shakespeare's Trollop (Lily Bard, #4)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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The Julius House (Aurora Teagarden, #4)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Dead by Day (Sookie Stackhouse, #4-5)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Sweet and Deadly
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Fay
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Emma Hamilton
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Eleanor the Queen
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The House at Sunset (House, #3)
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Scent of Cloves
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The Day of the Butterfly
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Rupert Hatton's Tale
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Checkmate
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Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)
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The Winthrop Woman
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The Last Anniversary
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, #1)
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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King Lear
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Shakespeare in American Life
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Mar 31, 2011 04:48AM
WOW! you read a lot of great books.I voted for best of them. My favorite is Jane Eyre, which is one of my favorite books on earth. :) Keep reading, it'll do you good!
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I have never seen Forever Amber on any list. I used to read this book when I visited my grandmother. She had it in the side cupboard of her piano along with Tarzan The Terrible - which used to belong to my father. I wanted those books so badly after she passed away, but my grandfather let his daughter sell them all.
@TerryWe are more or less the same age :-) and I too have read lots and lots of books from the library, years and years ago. On GR however I only mentioned the books I own, as well as a few I can/could easily borrow (my mum owns those) and really want to read/have already read.
I voted for ten books on your list, even though I've read a couple more but as I didn't particularly like those, I haven't voted for them :-)
I have also been reading for 50 years and have forgotten so many.
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