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About meEighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.
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What I'm Reading Now:
Sucker's Portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut

What I read in 2013:
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
Tobacco Road by Erksine Caldwell
Facing the Wave: a Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir
True North (organized by Jennifer Blessing; essay by Rebecca Solnit)

What I read in 2012:
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
The Darling by Russell Banks
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Under the Sea Wind by Rachael Carson
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: the private diary of a Victorian lady by Kate Summerscale
The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan by Stephen Gaines
Beach: A Book of Treasures by Josie Iselin
How Georgia became O'Keeffe by Karen Karbo
Life from Scratch by Melissa Harris
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Losing It: In Which An Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain by William Ian Miller
Miss Hargreaves: A Novel by Frank Baker
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Postcards from Nam by Uyen Nicole Duong
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: A Memoir by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A History of the Connecticut River by Wick Griswold
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay by David Foster Wallace
Stubborn and silent Finns with 'sisu' in Finnish-American literature by Raija Taramaa
The Humbling by Philip Roth
Sizzle by Lee McClain
The Starboard Sea: A Novel by Amber Dermont
The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton
The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton
The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton
The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Free Will by Sam Harris
The Third Child bt Marge Piercy
On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation
Private Gardens of Connecticut by Jane Garmey
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Finland: Lone Cultural Wolf by Richard D. Lewis
Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates
Finnish Lessons: what can the world learn from educational change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventure from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Strempek Shea

What I read in 2011:
*****Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
*****The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
Winter: Notes from Montana by Rick Bass
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Salt Water by Charles Simmons
Last Night by James Salter
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Man With a Pan edited by John Donahue
BossyPants by Tina Fey
*****To Siberia by Per Petterson
Blues by John Hershey
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
No Word From Winifred by Amanda Cross (Carolyn Heilbrun)
Perfectly Prep: Gender Extremes at a New England Prep School by Sarah A. Chase
Girls of Tender Age by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
Finnishness in Finland and North America: Constituents, Changes and Challenges edited by Paulina Raento
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott
True Prep by Lisa Birnbach with Chip Kidd
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Worst Fears by Faye Weldon
Oreo by Fran Ross
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life by Roxana Robinson
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Morality Tale: A Novel by Sylvia Brownrigg
Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge by Janice Holly Booth
I Curse the River of Time: A Novel by Per Petterson
The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
*****Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
*****Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts by Mark Kurlansky
The Year of the Hare: A Novel by Arto Paasilinna

What I Read in 2010, 2009 and 2008
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