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Old 01-02-09, 10:08 PM
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I'm in too, of course! I'm going to try for two per genre!
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Biography:
1. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
2. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands


Chick lit:
1. Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
2. Addition by Toni Jordan
3. Friday Night Cocktails by Allison Rushby
4. The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman
5. LoveHampton by Sherri Rifkin
6. Mommy by Mistake by Rowan Coleman


Children's/Young Adult:
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. I Know it's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
5. The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
6. The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney


Classics:
1. Silas Marner by George Eliot
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne


General non-fiction:
1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Find Your Groove: A Guide to Discovering Your Scrapbook Style by Kitty Foster and Wendy McKeehan
3. The Scrapbook Designer's Workbook by Kari Hansen
4. Rubies in the Orchard by Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson
5. Faithful by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King
6. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
7. The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll be Dead by David Shields


History:
1. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by A.J. Langguth
2. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed


Horror:
1. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
2. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill


Literary fiction:
1. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
2. The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
3. Three Junes by Julia Glass
4. Serena by Ron Rash
5. Ancient Highway by Bret Lott
6. Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
7. The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
8. The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
9. Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
11. The Slide by Kyle Beachy
12. Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
13. I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman
14. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
15. I Loved You All by Paula Sharp
16. Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
17. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows


Memoir:
1. The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
2. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres


Mystery/Suspense:
1. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
2. Intent to Kill by James Grippando
3. Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
4. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn


Romance:
1. The Pre-nup by Beth Kendrick
2. Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips


Short Stories/Essays:
1. The Deportees: Stories by Roddy Doyle
2. Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett
3. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
4. We're All in This Together by Owen King


COMPLETED 7/29/09

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Old 01-06-09, 03:55 PM
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Biography:
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber



Chick lit:
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner


Children's/Young Adult:
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
The Uninvited by Tim Wynne Jones


Classics:


General non-fiction:

Why Do Men Have Nipples? By Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
The woman who swallowed a toothbrush : and other bizarre medical cases by Rob Myers.
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? By Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

History:
Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott

Horror:

Literary fiction:
The end of east by Jen Sookfong Lee
The Outlander by Gill Adamson
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Shack by WM Paul Young
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill



Memoir:
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
Tears in the Desert by Halima Bashir
Blue Genes: a memoir of loss and survival by Christopher
Lukas
A Fractured Mind by Robert B. Oxnam


Mystery/Suspense:
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
Seduction in Death by JD Robb
Dark Harvest by Karen Harper

Romance:
Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie



Short Stories/Essays:
Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer

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