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This year my goal is to read and then release 50 books off of my book shelf and find an additional 50 books that I have read and can bear to part with and find loving homes for them. I am not allowed to purchase ANY MORE books in 2010. I also will try
to abstain from book rings/rays in order to focus on uncluttering my own collection. The Challenge is on........
(258/100)- Woo Hoo - surpased it!
Depite the above resolve to unclutter my bookshelf this year...I just signed up at rabck.com (what a great idea cliff1976 - you are always ahead of the rest of us)
Books I've Read In 2010
1)Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw
2)Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird 3)Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies
4)Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog...
5)Lois Lowrey, Gathering Blue 6)Jonathan Ames, Wake Up Sir
7)Pat Barker, Ghost Road 8)Richard Powers, Three Farmers On The Way to A Dance
9)Patrick McGrath, Martha Peake 10)Larry Crab, Shattered Dreams
11)Bill Harris, Thresholds of the Mind 12)Crowley and Lodge, Younger Next Year/option>
13)Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints 14)Donald Miller, Prayer and the art of volkswagen maintenance
15)David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
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Books I've Read In 2009
1)Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
2)Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl 3)Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
4)Jill Dawson, fred & edie 5)Elissa Wall, Stolen Innocence
6)Mister Pip 7)The Long Love, Pearl S. Buck
8)Blackbird, Jennifer Lauck 9)Biggest Loser, 30-Day Jump Start
10)James Levine, Move a Little, Lose a Lot 11)Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life
12)Eric Scholsser, Fast Food Nation 13)Thomas BcGuane, The Bushwhacked Piano
14)Stephen Cherninski, The Metabolic Plan 15)Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
16)Kate Atkinson, Case Histories 17)Louise Hay, You can Heal Yourself
18)Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl 19)Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
20)Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth 21)Monica Ali, Brick Lane
22)Sharyn Fellenz, Fetal Alcohol, Sharing experiences.
23)Barbara Trapido, The Travelling Hornplayer 24)Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negros
25)Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness
26)Laurie Notaro, I Love Everybody 27)J.M Cotzee, Disgrace
28)Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World 29)Judy Blume, Superfudge
30)Carol Burnett, One More Time 31)Jose Saramago, All The Names
32)Carol Windley, Home Schooling 33)Thomas McGuane, The Bushwhacked Piano
34)Lisa See, On Gold Mountain 35)Paul Yee, The Bone Collector's Son
36)Erskine Caldwell, Deep South
Books I've Read In 2008
1)Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is The New Black
2)Michael Dibdin, Thanksgiving 3)Joy Fielding, Don't Cry Now
4)Sara S. Mitter, Dharma's Daughters 5)Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
6)Thomas Verny, M.D. , The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
7)Sue Miller, The Good Mother 8)Bette Bao Lord, Legacies
9)Beth Powning, Shadow Child 10)Aukai Collins, My Jihad
11)Bryce Courtenay, Smoky Joe's Cafe 12)Roald Dahl, Matilda
13)Gwen Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks 14)Dr. Amen, Sex on the Brain
15)Joyce Carol Oates, We Were The Mulvaneys 16)Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
17)Wayne Johnston, The Divine Ryans 18)Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
19)ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 20)Saul Rubinek, So Many Miracles
21)Billie Letts, Shoot The Moon 22)Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
23)Alice Hoffman, Second Nature 24)Dave Pelzer, A Man Named Dave
25)Lynn Coady, Strange Heaven 26)Christy Ann Conlin, Heave
27)Alexandra Robbins, Pledged 28)James Michael Pratt, Ticket Home
29)John Sedgwick, The Education of Mrs Bemis 30)Susan Isaacs, Any Place I hang my Hat
31)George Young, Ancient Peoples and Modern Ghosts
32)Ashley Montagu, Touching 33)Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Manager
34)Mason and Kreger, Stop Walking on Egshells 35)Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splended Suns
36)Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day 37)Arlene Chai, The Last Time I Saw Mother
38)Levitt and Dubner, Freakonomics 39)Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
40)Alice Walker, The Temple of My familiar 41)Richard Carlson, Don't Worry, Make Money
42)Darin Strauss, Chang & Eng 43)Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
44)Tobias Wolf, This Boy's Life 45)Tracy Chebalier, Falling Angels
46 Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life) 47)Eleaor H. Porter, Pollyana
48)Chris Bohjalian, The Law of Similars 49)Sue Grafton, "O" Is for Outlaw
50)Fraser Mooney Jr, Jerome. Solving the Mystery of NS's silent castaway
51)Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits 52)Lois Lowry, The Giver
53)Anne Donovan, Buddha Da 54)James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
55)Martin Amis, Time's Arrow 56)Ed Butts, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries
Books I've Read In 2007
1)Anne Rice, Jesus The Christ Out of Egypt
2)Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
3)David Olive, Gender Babble 4)Derek Prince, Blssing or Curse
5)Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day 6)John Irving, Until I find You
7)Don Basham, Deliver Us From Evil 8)David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
9)Shaine Claiborn, Irresistible Revolution 10)David M. Voth, 10 Secrets Revenue Canada
11)Edmund J. Pankau, Hide Your Assets and Disappear
12)Raymond Carver, Cathedral 13)Lalita Tademy, Cane River
14)Chris Bohjalian, Midwives 15)Sights Unseen, Kaye Gibbons
16)Aaron Roy Even, Bloodroot 17)Percy Janes, House of Hate
18)Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of 19)Phillip L. Berman, The Journey Home
20)Jeffrey Archer, Honour Among Thieves 21)Maeve Binchy, Tara Road
22)Abraham Boyarsky, A Gift of Rags 23)John Stossel, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity
24)Carl Hausman, Lies We Live By 25)Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower
26)Rebecca Wells, Ya-Yas in Bloom 27)Dorothy Rabinowitz, No Crueler Tyrannies
28)Barbara G. Walker, Feminist Fairy Tales 29)Wendy Northcutt, The Darwin Awards II
30)Anna Quindlen, Blessings 31)Nancy Newton Verrier, The Primal Wound
32)Chaim Potok, The Chosen 33)Victor Pelevin, Homo Zapiens
34)Joanna Lumley, No Room for Secrets 35)Matthew Sharpe, The Sleeping Father
36)John Paul II, Crossing the Trheshold of Hope
37)Alice Munroe, Lives of Girls and Women 38)Naomi Wolfe, The Beauty Myth
39)Jean Sasson, Mayada, Daughter of Iraq 40)Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
41)Ursula Hegi, Unearned Pleasures 42)Jennifer Rothschild, Lessons I Learned in the Dark
43)Alice Munroe, Open Secrets 44)Colin and Damon Wilson, The World's Most Evil Murderers
45)Peter Haining, The World's Most Evil Cults 46) Randall Silvis, Heart So Hungry
47)Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
48)Anthony Robbins, Awaken The Giant Within 49)Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
50)Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies 51)Ian McEwan, Atonement
52)Susan Powter, Stop The Insanity 53)Ursula Hegi, The Worst Thing I've Done
54)Jack Holland, Misogyny. The World's Oldest Prejudice
55)Nancy Thomas, When Love is Not Enough 56)Nancy Thomas, When Love Is Not Enough. A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD
Books I've Read In 2006
1)James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy
2)Donald E. Westlake, Just One of those Days 3) Jeffrey Archer, A Matter of Principle
4)James Finn Garner, Apocalypse Wow! 5)Jill Bialosky, House Under Snow
6)Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees 7)Janet F. Kitz, Survivors. Children of the Halifax Expl.
8)Jaon Baxter, THe Hermit of Gully Lake 9)Fabienne Marsh, Long Distances)
10)Miriam Towes, A Complicated Kindness 11)Miriam Towes, A Boy Of Good Breeding
12)Alice Munroe, Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You
13)Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements 14)Danielle Steele, Vanished
15)Andrew M. Greeley, All About Women 16)Danielle Steele, Jewles
17)Elizabeth Berg, Open House 18)Elizabeth Buchan, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
19)Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups 20)Irish Women Authors, Irish Girls About Town
21)Danielle Steel, Fine Things 22)Elie Wiesel, Night
23)Ami MacKay, The Birth House 24)Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
25)A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill 26)Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
27)Melissa Bank, A Girls Guide.... 28)Elizabeth Berg, Never Change
29)Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking 30)David Sedaris, Naked
31)Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming 32)Margaret Atwood, The Labrador Fiasco
33)Roizen and Oz, You The Owners Manual 34)Walter Dean Myers, Monster
35)Rona Jaffee, The Room-mating Season 36)Faber & Mazlish, Siblings Without Rivalry
37)Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives 38)Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
39)Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
40)Bret Lott, Jewel 41)Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
42)Agate Nesaule, A Woman In Amber 43)Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
44)Robert James Waller, Slow Waltz on Cedar Bend
45)Robert James Waller, Border Music 46)William Martin, Cape Cod
47)Garrison Keillor, WLT A Radio Romance 48)Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
49)Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada 50)Robert Fulghum, All I Really Needed to Know....
51)Deborah Lida, Middle Son 52)Ursula Hegi, The Vision of Emma Blau
53)Ursula Hegi, Stones From The River 54)Pete Earley, Prophet of Death
55)Hanan al-Shaykh, The Story of Zahra 56)Ann Rule, The Want-Ad Killer
57)Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children 58)Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street.
59)Brendon Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel 60)Amy Tan, Saving Fish From Drowning
61)Alice McDermott, Charming Billy 62)Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed
63)Stephen Williams, Karla A Pact with the Devil
64)Brendan O'Carroll, Agnes Browne 65)Pat Hancock, Haunted Canada
66)Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy 67)David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
Books I've Read In 2005
1) Maeve Binchy, Silver Wedding
2)Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth 3)Linn Ullman, Before you sleep
4)Tawnie O'Dell, Back Roads 5)Sue Townsend, The Queen and I
6)Olivia Goldsmith, The Bestseller 7)Olivia Goldsmith, Young Wives
8)He's just not that Into You. 9)Anthony Bourdain, Typhoid Mary
10)Annie Proulx, The Shipping News 11)Jean Kilbourne, Can't Buy my Love
12)Karen Grigsby Bates, Plain Brown Wrapper 13)Don DeLillo, The body Artist
14)Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man 15)Richard Paul Evans, The Carousel
16)Alice Hoffman, Local Girls 17)L.J. Braun, The Cat Who Said Cheese
18)Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue 19)Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water
20)Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon 21)William Styron, Darkness Visible, A Memoir of Madness
22)Margaret Sweatman, Fox 23)Olivia Goldsmith, Switcheroo
24)Susan Minot, Evening 25)Elizabeth Evans, The Blue Hour
26)Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It" 27)Max Haines, Canadian Crimes
28)Betty J. Eadie, Embraced By The Light 29)Claudine Cullimore, Lola Comes Home
30)Pamela Morsi, Doing Good 31)Janet Evanovich, Four To Score
32)Katy Hayes, Gossip 33)Janet Evanovich, High Five
34)Sidney Sheldon, Nothing Lasts Forever 35)Janet Evanovich, Hot Six
36) Ann Rule, Bitter Harvest 37) Haywood Smith, Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch
38) Jennifer Crusie, Faking It 39) Richard Paul Evans, The Letter
40) Anne Heche, Call Me Crazy 41) Christina Schwarz, Drowning Ruth
42) David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, On South Mountain
43) Nate Hendley, The Black Donnellys. 44) Trading spaces: Behind the Scenes.
45) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary 46) Helen Fielding, Cause Celeb
47) Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From The Sea 48) Ernest J. Gaines, Catherine Carmier
49) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover 49) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
50) Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir 51) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
52) Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me 53) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Ceders
54) Will Aitken, Relia 55) Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife.
56)Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky, Adopting the Hurt Child
57) Trish Maskew, Our Own, Adopting and Parenting the Older Child
58) Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul 59) Sheila Wray Gregoire, Honey, I don't have a headache tonight
60) Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth 61) Banana Yoshimoto, N.P.
62) Marla Cilley, Sink Reflections 63) John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him. The Boy who was Raised as a Girl
64) Robb Foreman Dew, Fortunate Lives 65) Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder
66) Elisabeth Harvor, Excessive Joy Injures The Heart