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: Books of the past 12 months (fairly chronological) :

Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The Atlantic Sound – Caryl Phillips
The Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
The Kiss of the Spiderwoman – Miguel Puis
Stupid White Men – Michael Moore
The Ladies #1 Detective Agency #1 – Alexander McCall Smith
First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung
Ironweed – William Kennedy
Monster – Sanyika Shakur
The General in His Labyrinth – Gabriel Garcνa Marquez
Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegut
The Windup Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Dude, Where’s My Country? – Michael Moore
Adventures of a Young Man – John Dos Passos
Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
The Centaur – John Updike
Falconer – John Cheever
The Last Voyage of the Somebody Sailor – John Barth
The Informant – James Grippando
The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
Zodiac – Neal Stephenson
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Herzog – Saul Bellow
Jump & Other Stories – Nadine Gordimer
Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Eugene O’Neil
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Marakami
Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game – William Kennedy
Very Old Bones – William Kennedy
East West – Salman Rushdie
A Canticle for Lebowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Widow for One Year – John Irving
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
Shopgirl – Steve Martin
Cascade Point – Timothy Zahn
The Day After Tomorrow – Allan Folsom
Zeitgeist – Bruce Sterling
Brain Droppings – George Carlin
White Man’s Grave – Richard Dooling
The Memory of Earth – Orson Scott Card
Assignment in Eternity – Robert A. Heinlein
Power Lines – Jason Carter
The Plague – Albert Camus
Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
The Black Obelisk – Erich Maria Remarque
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Stones for Ibarra – Harriet Doerr
Blott on the Landscape – Tom Sharpe
Conqueror’s Pride – Timothy Zahn
Holiday’s on Ice – David Sedaris
Under Milkwood – Dylan Thomas
The Dick – Bruce Jay Friedman
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
A Movable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
Lost Souls – Poppy Z. Brite
The Terminal Man – Michael Crichton
Jingala – Legsoa Kayira
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
Titan – John Varley
The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
The Big Needle – Ken Follett
Disclosure – Michael Crichton
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
The Partner - John Grisham
The Wind in the Willows –
Kenneth Grahame
How the Irish Saved Civilization – Thomas Cahill
Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Rebel – Bedinko Asarel
No Longer at Ease – Chinua Achebe
The Island – Peter Benchley
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Lamb – Christopher Moore
Beast – Peter Benchley
Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
“Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English?” – Edward Behr
Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
The Forge of God – Greg Bear
Dreamcatcher – Stephen King
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Chronicles Volume One – Bob Dylan
Sphere –
Michael Crichton
Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcνa Marquez
Stories From the Long Valley – John Steinbeck
I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
The Shape of Water – Andrea Camilleri
Slo-Mo – Rick Reilly
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Galactic Pot-Healer – Phillip K. Dick
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
I, Claudius – Robert Graves
Interior – Justin Cartwright
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life – John Lee Anderson
Abyssian Chronicles – Moses Isegawa
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcνa Marquez
How to Be Good – Nick Hornby
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle – Moritz Thomsen
Moneyball – Michael Lewis
All Tomorrow’s Parties – William Gibson

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