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Tristen | 46 comments 1) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2) Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman
3) Hawkes Harbor by SE Hinton
4) Night and Day by Virgina Woolf
5) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6) Paradise by Toni Morrison
7) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
9) The Way Things Are by Lucretius
10) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
11) A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
12) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
13) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
14) Oskar Schindler by David M. Crowe
15) Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
16) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
17) The Trial by Franz Kafka
18) Clapton by Eric Clapton
19) Kent State by James A. Michener
20) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
21) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
22) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
23) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
24) The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
25) Pretty Things by Sarra Manning
26) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
27) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28) Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
29) The Hours by Michael Cunningham
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
31) Name All The Animals by Alison Smith
32) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
33) When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
34) A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones
35) The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
36) Misery by Stephen King
37) Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
38) The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
39) The World According to Garp by John Irving
40) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
41) Night by Elie Wiesel
42) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
43) The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
45) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
46) The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
47) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
48) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
49) Rx by Tracy Lynn
50) The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty


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Agnieszka T. (enga) | 727 comments You have a nice list of books... I read some of them already as well, but there are also quite some on your list which are on my TBR pile :)


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message 4: by Tristen (last edited Sep 12, 2009 01:44PM) (new)

Tristen | 46 comments The World of Christopher Robin The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition) by A.A. Milne
52+53) The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six by AA Milne



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Tristen | 46 comments Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
54) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


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Tristen | 46 comments Snow in August by Pete Hamill
55) Snow in August by Pete Hamill


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Tristen | 46 comments The Best of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
56) Alice in Wonderland
57) Through the Looking Glass
58) The Hunting of the Snark
59) Phantasmagoria
Only read half of A Tangled Tale (I do enough homework XD)
Nonsense from Letters
by Lewis Carroll


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Tristen | 46 comments [image error]
60) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley


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Tristen | 46 comments The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
61) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood


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Tristen | 46 comments The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
62) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Running with Scissors A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
63) Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
64) Luna by Julie Anne Peters


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Tristen | 46 comments Farthing (Small Change, #1) by Jo Walton
65) Farthing by Jo Walton


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Tristen | 46 comments Valiant A Modern Tale of Faerie (Book 2) by Holly Black
66) Valiant by Holly Black


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Tristen | 46 comments The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
67) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant


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Tristen | 46 comments Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
68) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres


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Tristen | 46 comments Hunted (House of Night, #5) by P.C. Cast
69) Hunted by PC and Kristen Cast
I was stuck at my sister's place with nothing else to read... why do I keep doing this to myself? *sigh*


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Tristen | 46 comments I Know This Much Is True  by Wally Lamb
70) I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb


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Tristen | 46 comments It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
71) It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini


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Tristen | 46 comments [image error]
72) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho


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Tristen | 46 comments A Home at the End of the World A Novel by Michael Cunningham
73) A Home At The End Of The World by Michael Cunningham


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Tristen | 46 comments Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
74) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson


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Tristen | 46 comments The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
75) The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck


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Tristen | 46 comments Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn
76) Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
77) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Another Kind Of Cowboy by Susan Juby
78) Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby

Wanted something lighter, so I've been working my way through some of my sister's teen books. :)


message 23: by Tristen (last edited Sep 12, 2009 01:39PM) (new)

Tristen | 46 comments The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
79) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon


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Tristen | 46 comments The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy) by Robertson Davies
80) The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies


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Tristen | 46 comments Ironside A Modern Faery's Tale (Book 3) by Holly Black
81) Ironside by Holly Black
Absolutely Positively Not (Sid Fleischman Humor Award) by David LaRochelle
82) Absolutely Positively Not by David LaRochelle
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
83) Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
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84) Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block



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Tristen | 46 comments Paper Towns by John Green
85) Paper Towns by John Green


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Tristen | 46 comments Funny Boy (Harvest Book) by Shyam Selvadurai
86) Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai


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Tristen | 46 comments A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, Book 3) by Gregory Maguire
87) A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire


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Tristen | 46 comments Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
88) Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones


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Tristen | 46 comments [image error]
89) Possession: A Romance by AS Byatt


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Tristen | 46 comments Talk by Kathe Koja
90) Talk by Kathe Koja
Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
91) Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
92) Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess


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Tristen | 46 comments The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  by Mark Haddon
93) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon


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Tristen | 46 comments The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
94) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie



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Tristen | 46 comments Beloved by Toni Morrison
96) Beloved by Toni Morrison


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Tristen | 46 comments [image error]
97) Uglies by Scott Westerfeld


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Tristen | 46 comments Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas by Gary Geddes
98) Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things by Gary Geddes


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Tristen | 46 comments Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1) by Melissa Marr
99) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr


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Tristen | 46 comments The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
100) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
All done!


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Tristen | 46 comments 101) A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
102) Love and Honor by Randall Wallace
103) Crow Stone by Jenni Mills
104) Sarah by Marek Halter
105) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
106) Kin by Holly Black
107) The Way He Lived by Emily Wing Smith
108) Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones
109) Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
110) The Giver by Lois Lowry
111) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
112) The Master by Colm Tóibín
113) Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
114) Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys by Francesca Lia Block
115) Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block
116) Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
117) The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
118) Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
119) An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
120) Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
121) Looking For Alaska by John Green
122) Dramarama by E. Lockhart
123) Click by Various Authors
124) Wide Awake by David Levithan
125) The Disrebutable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
126) Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger
127) Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman
128) Once Upon A Time In The North by Philip Pullman
129) On Beauty by Zadie Smith
130) Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
131) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
132 + 133) The World of Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
134) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
135) Atonement by Ian McEwan
136) Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
137) The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
138) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
139) Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
140) Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
141) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather


message 41: by Tristen (last edited Jan 02, 2010 09:36AM) (new)

Tristen | 46 comments 142) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
143) Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
144) Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
145) Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
146) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
147) Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
148) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
149) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
150) The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
151) Monster by Walter Dean Myers
152) Am I Blue? Edited by Marion Dane Bauer
153) Maus by Art Spiegelman
154) Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
155) Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
156) Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
157) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
158) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery
159) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
160) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
161) The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
162) When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
163) The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
164) A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott
165) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
166) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
167) We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
168) The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
169) Unless by Carol Shields
170) Making Mischief by Gregory Maguire
171) A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
172) 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!


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