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33. “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy
A father must protect his son as they try to scrape together a life in this sparse post-apocalyptic tale. I think it is pretty well established that I get a little too involved with dystopic novels an… more →
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33. "The Road," Cormac McCarthy
wrote 1 year ago: A father must protect his son as they try to scrape together a life in this sparse post-apocalyptic … more →
32. "Room," Emma Donoghue
wrote 1 year ago: I would seriously read a book of every moment of Ma’s and Jack’s life from kidnapping to … more →
31. "Wasted" Marya Horbacher
wrote 1 year ago: A wrenching read. Page count: 289 Page total: 10,165 … more →
30. "The Know-it-all," AJ Jacobs
wrote 1 year ago: Subtitle is: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Page count: 371 … more →
29. "The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook," Deborah Bray Haddock
wrote 1 year ago: Page count: 265 Page total: 9,505 … more →
28. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," JK Rowling
wrote 1 year ago: Page count: 652 Page total: 9,340 … more →
27. "Hary Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," JK Rowling
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s sort of weird how Umbridge disappears for like half the book? And is it just me, or does … more →
26. "The Uglies," Scott Westerfield
wrote 1 year ago: It Tally’s world, everyone becomes pretty on their sixteenth birthday, and are whisked away fr … more →
25. "The Magicians," Lev Grossman
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wrote 1 year ago: Think “Chronicals of Narnia” with cynicism and self-hatred instead of Christianity. Page … more →
24. "Bossypants," Tina Fey
wrote 1 year ago: I read this book in a few hours, which is something I have not been able to do for a while. Somewher … more →
19. "Spider Bones," Kathy Reichs
wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know why I keep reading these books. The prose style does nothing for me, and the Temp … more →
18. "The Number One Lady's Detective Agency," Alexander McCall Smith
wrote 1 year ago: Page count: 235 Page total: 5,084 … more →
17. "Ender's Shadow," Orson Scott Card
wrote 1 year ago: I remembered liking this one more, too. Page count: 469 Page total: 4,849 … more →
16. "Me Talk Pretty One Day," David Sedaris
wrote 1 year ago: I remember this being funnier. Page count: 272 Page total: 4,380 … more →
15. "I am Not A Serial Killer," Dan Wells
wrote 2 years ago: Fifteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver is not a serial killer– but he feels the monster deep insi … more →
14. "Ender's Game," Orson Scott Card
wrote 2 years ago: Six-year-old Ender Wiggins has already been identified as the last hope of human kind in the final w … more →
13. "Barrel Fever," David Sedaris
wrote 2 years ago: This book really isn’t ha-ha funny like “Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim” … more →
12. "White Tiger," Aravind Adiga
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wrote 2 years ago: Took me a while to get into it because it is “tricky.” The narrator is slick and dances … more →
11. "Butch is a Noun," S. Bear Bergman
wrote 2 years ago: Memoirs of butchness. This took me a very long time to read, especially for such a slim book. It rea … more →
