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Post your lists and recommend any good books that you read this year.

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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Last Juror - John Grisham
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
The Street Lawyer - John Grisham

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The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Ultimatum - Robert Ludlum
Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
Dark Tower III: Wastelands - Stephen King
Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Halo: The Fall of Reach - Eric Nylund
The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Chronicles, Vol. 1 - Bob Dylan

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Hobbitt - J.R.R. Tolkien

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The last book I read was Spanking the Donkey by Matt Taibbi. Excellent collection of articles spanning from the build up to Iraq to the Democratic primaries and through to the end of the 04 election. It would probably go over better in N&D, but it's an excellent read for those not happy with the current state of politics, but not pleased with the direction (or non-direction) of the Democratic party or "liberals" in general.

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Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling

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I've read too many to remember. My favorites:

Underworld-Don DeLillo
Survival In Auschwitz-Primo Levi
Delivered From Evil: The Complete Saga of World War II-Richard Leckie

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V - Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
You Can't Be Neutral - Howard Zinn
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Survivor - Palahniuk
Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

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man, it's so hard... these are the ones i remember:

Bradbury – martian chronicles :!: (a sci-fi classic)
Heller – closing time
Ballard – drowned world
Ballard – high rise :!: (disintegration of our pseudo-civilized shell, nice!)
Rand – virtue of selfishness :!: (a bible of all objectivists)
Marquez – 100 years of solitude :!: (what to say, it's marquez...)
Faulkner – sanctuary
Faulkner – Absalom Absalom
Rice – mummy
Eco – baudolino
Brown – angels and demons
Brown – the da Vinci code
Camus – the plague
XII hawkes – traveler
Martel – self :!: (a quest for sexual identity)
Kundera – joke
Blixen – out of Africa
Christie – and then there was none
Remarque – all quiet on the western front
Graves – I, Claudius
Jones – from here to eternity
Steinbeck – tortilla flat
Vonnegut – cat’s cradle
Lem – mortal engines
Lem – the invincible
Lysiak – flet z mandragory

i have found ALMOST all of the books worth reading (or re-reading) and i should probably recommend more of them... so i guess it's been a nice as far as books are concerned.


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I read more than previous years, but not nearly enough.

1984- George Orwell
Catch-22- Joseph Heller
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
"Master Harold"...and the boys- Athol Fugard
Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Flatbellies- AB Hollingsworth
Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
All The King's Men- Robert Penn Warren
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm- George Orwell

Out of those, All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren was my favorite, and wiht 1984 in there, that's saying a lot. It's a mammoth of a novel and sort of difficult to get into for a while, but the style and the story and how complicated and intertwined everything is is absolutely breathtaking, and I recommend that everyone read it.

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Vonnegut- mother night
vonnegut-slaughterhouse 5
paluhniuk-lulluby
paluhniuk-invisiblemonsters
paluhniuk-fight club
orwell-1984
go ask alice
paolini-eragon
paolini-eldest
king-running man
jd salinger-catcher in the rye
a rasin in the sun
tolkein- fellowship of the rings
night


thats everything ive read in the past 4 months, i forgot everything that i read earlier this year

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The Death of Ivan Ilych-Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks-Leo Tolstoy
Daisy Miller-Henry James
Slaughter house-five-Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway-
The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Journal of a novel(The East of Eden Letters) John Steinbeck
The Beautiful and Damned-Fitzgerald
The Idiot-Dostoevsky
A Pale View of Hills-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro
Father And Sons-Ivan Turgenev
God Knows-Heller
Picture this-Heller
Collective short stories of Pushkin
Collected short stories of Chekhov

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Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night-Fitzgerald
Catch-22-Heller
I'd recommend the work of Ishiguro, though it may be slow, the guy is a wonderful writer. The East of Eden letters are interesting, a look into the mind of a writer as a work develops. The Idiot as well, if one can find the time, dark, morbid, and enjoyable and God Knows is hilarious.

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From the top of my head, might have forgotten some:

Salinger - Catcher in the rye
Miller - Death of a salesman
Cotta Vaz - The Lost Chronicles
Kushner - Angels in America
Williams - A streetcar named desire
Albee - Who's afraid of V.W.
Roy - The Checkbook and the cruise missile


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