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1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson - 1/11
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2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - David Sedaris - 1/11
3. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog - Dave Barry - 1/11
4. Welcome to Lovecraft (Locke & Key, Vol. 1) - Joe Hill - 1/11
5. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen - 1/11
6. Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder - Kenny Moore - 1/11
7. The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin - 1/11
9. Head Games (Locke & Key, Vol. 2) - Joe Hill - 2/11
10. The Bone Yard - Jefferson Bass - 2/11
12. Everything Matters - Ron Currie, Jr. - 2/11
13. Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell - 2/11
14. No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous - Trav S. D. - 2/11
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - 3/11
16. Crown of Shadows (Locke & Key, Vol. 3) - Joe Hill - 3/11
17. The Sisters Brothers: A Novel - Patrick deWitt - 3/11
18. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee - Karen Abbott - 3/11
20. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson - 4/11
24. Big-eyed Afraid - Erica Dawson - 4/11
25. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 4/11
26. Blood: A Tale - J.M. DeMatteis - 5/1127. The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference - Erin McHugh - 5/11
28. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel - 5/11
29. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson - 5/11
30. The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir - Josh Kilmer-Purcell - 5/11
31. The Long Run: One Man's Attempt to Regain His Athletic Career-And His Life-by Running the New York City Marathon - Matt Long - 5/11
32. Widows - Ariel Dorfman - 5/1133. The Quiet Girl - Peter Høeg - 5/11
34. If You Ask Me - Betty White - 5/11
35. The Bill From My Father - Bernard Cooper - 5/11
36. Y: The last man, Vol 4: Safeword - Brian Vaughan - 6/1137. Domestic Violets: A Novel - Matthew Norman - 6/11
38. The House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III - 6/1139. Y: The last man, Vol 2: Cycles - Brian Vaughan - 6/11
40. Y: The last man, Vol 3: One small step - Brian Vaughan - 6/11
41. Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin - Hampton Sides - 6/11
42. Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned - Brian Vaughan - 6/1143. Y: The Last Man Vol. 5: Ring of Truth - Brian Vaughan - 6/11
44. The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide - Jean Hatzfeld - 6/11
45. Y: The Last Man Vol. 6: Girl on Girl - Brian Vaughan - 6/11
46. Y: The Last Man Vol. 7: Paper Dolls - Brian Vaughan - 6/11
47. Bossypants - Tina Fey - 6/1148. Y: The Last Man Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons - 7/11
49. A Queer History of the United States - Michael Bronski - 7/11
50. Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel - Armistead Maupin - 7/1151. The Magic Finger - Dahl Roald - 7/11
52. The Arm of the Starfish - Madeleine L'Engle - 7/1153. Supermen!: The First Wave Of Comic Book Heroes 1939-41 - Greg Sadowski - 7/11
54. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 7/11
56. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder - Mark Nelson - 7/11
57. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - 7/1158. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh - 7/11
60. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - 8/11Beautiful. Magical. Haunting. Thrilling.
The circus arrives at night in a new city unannounced.
Two people are chosen in their youth to be opponents in an undescribed match.
Never wanted the story to end. Read it.
61. Leviathan - Scott Westerfield - 8/11Steampunk! Reimagine the events leading up to WWI with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria) having developed industrial machines for transportation, fighting, etc. and the Allies (England) having developed Darwinist creatures crossbreeding and joining animals into transportation, fighting, etc. Now imagine a girl disguised as a boy to fight with the British soldiers, the only son heir of Franz Ferdinand on the run and a doctor with a box full of a living secret. Wonderful story. First of the trilogy.
62. Night - Elie Wiesel - 8/11Wow. Wiesel's first hand account of his neighborhood being turned into a ghetto, transfer to Auschwitz, he and his father's separation from his mother and sister, and his time spent in several concentration camps. I can't believe I never heard of this book. It should be required reading in all schools.
63. Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg - 8/11I recommend this if you are a Pegg fan. There is a lot of insight into many artistic and personal influences that led him to his status of funny nerd man that he is today. I really liked the chapters on Star Wars which were a huge influence to him as they were to me. I liked Pegg a lot before reading this and now feel I know him better (not stalkishly) and we should totally hang out because we would be great friends. I bet he's never heard that before. I heart Simon Pegg (not in that creepy way).
64. Dawn - Elie Wiesel - 8/11Wow, this was amazing.
It's the 2nd book in Wiesel's trilogy...Night. Dawn. Day.
Two prisoners - each on opposing sides - will be killed at Dawn. This story is the hours leading up to dawn. Very gripping and moving.
65. Behemoth - Scott Westerfeld - 8/11Second of the Leviathan trilogy. Story picks up exactly where it left off, feels like it was all written at the same time. Can't wait for the third book to come out!
66. The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson - 9/11
This was so much fun! Mother and father performance artists that force their children to create improv performance pieces to create public experiences. Hilarious.
67. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan - 9/11
This is so well written. Each chapter is from the perspective of a different character and takes place sometimes in the future, sometimes in the past. Egan leaves it to you to figure out who the character is in relation to the others in the book. It's great!
68. Day - Elie Wiesel - 9/11
Third in the Night trilogy. An amazing story of a holocaust survivor who is hit by a taxi in NYC, while going in and out of consciousness in the hospital he remembers relatives and experiences. Very moving.
