~~The 100 Most
Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000:~~
~~Also see below (or click here)
for the 10 most challenged books of 2006~~
(There's a book
symbol beside the books that I have read.
My goal was to read all of these before December 31st, 2005 Sooo didn't happen
lol).
Some of these books I have read before, but I was reading them again especially
for my goal.
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Wish List of Books ~ or ~ Which
Books are Next on My List to Buy...
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| Title | Author | Genre | |
| Besides this list ~ Any book that doesn't have a book beside it to denote that it's been read (list below this one) Bold = Reallllly want. Strikethrough = have now. | If it's a series, just the first book will do... | All | |
| "The Subtle Knife" & "The Amber Spyglass" (I already have "The Golden Compass") | Phillip Pullman | Fantasy | |
| Witches' Brew (I have the rest of the series...) | Terry Brooks | Fantasy | |
| David Eddings | Fantasy | ||
| The Tamuli Series (Comes after the Eleniam Trilogy) ~ including
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David Eddings | Fantasy | |
| Secrets, Vol. 13: The Best in Women's Erotic Romance (Paperback) |
by Rachelle Chase (Author), Amber Green (Author), Charlotte Featherstone (Author), Calista Fox (Author) | Fantasy? Romance? Erotic? | |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | ??? | |
| Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | Fantasy? | |
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I have it. 8) PapaBear reserved it for me. 8) Through reading it ~ awesome book!!!!!!!! JK Rowling |
Fantasy | ||
| The Primal Scream (I have The Primal Revolution) | Arthur Janov, Ph.D. | Therapy Theories? Self-Help? | |
| Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever | Roger Gould | Dieting/Self-Help | |
| Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics |
Sasha Cagen | ||
| Sorcery Hall Trilogy: The Bronze King (1), The Silver Glove (2) & The Golden Thread (3) | Suzy McKee Charnas | Urban Fantasy | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia including " |
C. S. Lewis | Fantasy | |
| The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone [BOX SET] (Paperback) | Susan Cooper | Fantasy | |
| The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1); The Shadow in the North (book 2) & The Tiger in the Well (book 3) | Philip Pullman | Fantasy | |
| Lyra's Oxford | Philip Pullman | Fantasy | |
| The Time Quartet Box Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters) | Madeleine L'Engle | Fantasy | |
| The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | Fantasy | |
| "Sabriel," "Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr" & "Abhorsen" | Garth Nix | Fantasy | |
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | ??? | |
| Fuck These Postcards (Cards) | by Bodhi Oser | Comedy? | |
| Evil Thoughts: 22 Postcards (Naughty, Naughty) (Cards) | by David Shrigley | Comedy? | |
| The Maximum Ride series ~ Recommended by Becky | James Patterson | Fantasy | |
| Circle Trilogy - Morrigan's Cross, Dance of the Goods, Valley of Silence ~ Recommended by Becky | Nora Roberts | Fantasy | |
| The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All That Not-So-Funny-Stuff" | Jollytologist Allen Klein | Self-Help | |
| Living with P.C.O.S.: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome... | ? | Self-Help | |
| Loving someone with Bipolar Disorder | Julie A Fast & John D. Preston Psy.D | Self-Help | |
| The Essence of Style | Joan Dijon? | ? | |
| Sensuous Magic | Patrick Califia-Rice | ? | |
| Scre the Roses, Send Me the Thorns | Philip Miller & Molly Devon | ? | |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaimen | ? | |
| One for Sorrow Two for Joy | Clive Woodall | ? | |
| The Porition(?) | Meg Wolitzer |
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| Nymphos of Rocky Flats | Mario Acevedos | ? | |
| Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart | Robert Westbrook | ? | |
| "Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as King of the Hobos" | Maurice Graham | Autobiography? | |
| More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics | Steven E. Landsburg | ? | |
| Crooked Little Vein | Warren Ellis | ? | |
| A Bright Red Scream | . | . | |
| 99 Questions You must Ask a Man Before Sleeping w/Him | . | . | |
| Burlesque & the Art of the Tease/Fetish & the Art of the Tease | Dita VonTeese | . | |
| Photographing Faeries | . | . | |
| Validation Breakthrough | Naomi Feil | Sr. Citizen Guru | |
| Down Memory Lane | . | . | |
| The Positive Interactions: Program of Activities for People w/Alzheimers Disease | . | . | |
| Daily Dose of Nostalgia | . | . | |
| Alzheimers Activities | . | . | |
| Successful Communication w/Persons w/Alzheimers Disease | . | . | |
| File of Fun - 200 Activities @ your fingertips | . | . | |
| The Good Practice Guide to Therapeutic Activities w/Older People in Care | . | . | |
| Creative Games in Groupwork | . | . | |
| Learning Differences in Mental Health | . | . | |
| Ye old book of Humorous Short Stories | . | . | |
| It's Time for Laughter | . | . | |
| Humorama! | . | ||
| Drama Activities w/Older Adults | . | . | |
| Going Sane | Adam Phillips | . | |
| Walk Like a Chameleon | Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D | . | |
| The Zen of Listening | Rebecca Z. Shafir | . | |
| Influencing People | Jenny Rogers | . | |
| ...So Little Time | Mike Hippler | . | |
| Help, The Original Human Dilemma | Garret Keizer | . | |
| Upside Down | Eduardo Galeano | . | |
| Belly Dancing | Pina Coluccia, Anette Paffrath, etc | . | |
| Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs | Margaret Bradford Boni | . | |
| Bel Bay's Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Book | Stefan Grassman | . | |
| Rockabilly Rebels | Roy Zimmerman | . | |
| Monty Python Song Book | Published by Harper Perennial | . | |
| "aftermath" the philosophy of the beat generation" | |||
| rubyfruit jungle | |||
| eat, pray, love | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| Killing Yourself to Live | |||
| Fargo Rock City | |||
| "Mig Pilot" | John Barron | ||
| (Seen on CSI) "To Walk Among Us", "Serpents of the Universe," - reptillian conspiracy | |||
| Cosmic Journey | Hartman | ||
| Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture | Leslie Simon & Trevor Kelley | ||
| How to Give Your Mother a Hangover | |||
| Pants on Fire | Meg Cabot | ||
| Blasphemy's Art That Offends | Brent Plate | ||
| "Notes From The Underground" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| The Social Work & Human Services Treatment Planner | Arthur E. Jongsma et, al. | ||
| Journal of Brief Therapy | |||
| Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology | |||
| Professional Psychology: Research & Practice (peer reviewed journal) | |||
| Short Stories "From the Brains of Geeks" |
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Check out These Sites!
www.ala.org "[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me.
Click here for Some information on Why books are banned or Challenged... Banned Books Week ~ Click Here! 10 Most Challenged Books of 2006
Click HERE to find a very useful list of books that I'd like to also read. 8) Click HERE for my Book Passport - an incomplete listing of book fairs & other shindig's I've been to or participated in partaining to books...
Buy Books:
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100 Most Frequently Challenged Books:
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| 1 | Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz | |
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2 | Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite (2/2004) |
| 3 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou | |
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4 | The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (03/2004) |
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5 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (05/2004) |
| 6 | Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | |
| 7 | Forever by Judy Blume | |
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8 | Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (03/2004) (Now a movie! 2007) |
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9 | Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman (02/2004) |
| 10 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | |
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11 | The Giver by Lois Lowry (Oct, 2003) |
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12 | My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (02/2004) |
| 13 | It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris | |
| 14 | Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Including: "The Agony of Alice," "Alice in Rapture, Sort Of," "Alice in the Know," "Dangerously Alice," "Alice on Her Way," "Lovingly Alice," "Including Alice," etc. | |
| 15 | Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine | |
| 16 | A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck | |
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17 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Nov, 2003) |
| 18 | Sex by Madonna | |
| 19 | Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel | |
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20 | The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (03/2004) |
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21 | In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (02/2004) |
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22 | The Witches by Roald Dahl (08/2004) |
| 23 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle | |
| 24 | The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein | |
| 25 | Go Ask Alice by Anonymous | |
| 26 | The Goats by Brock Cole | |
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27 | The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard (02/2004) |
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28 | Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry ("At Your Service" 02/2004) |
| 29 | Final Exit by Derek Humphry | |
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30 | Blubber by Judy Blume (02/2004) |
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31 | Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam (02/2004) |
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32 | Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (03/2004)***Very Good! |
| 33 | Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane | |
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34 | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (03/2004) |
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35 | What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras (03/2004) |
| 36 | Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers | |
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37 | The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (02/2004) |
| 38 | The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (need to re-read) | |
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39 | The Pigman by Paul Zindel (09/2004) Also Pigman's Legacy - (09/2004) |
| 40 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | |
| 41 | We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier | |
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42 | Deenie by Judy Blume (08/2004) |
| 43 | Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes | |
| 44 | Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden | |
| 45 | Beloved by Toni Morrison | |
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46 | The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar (02/2004) |
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47 | Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz (02/2004) |
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48 | Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling (04/2003) |
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49 | Cujo by Stephen King (02/2004) |
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50 | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (02/2004) |
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51 | A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (02/2004) |
| 52 | Ordinary People by Judith Guest | |
| 53 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis | |
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54 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (03/2004) |
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55 | Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) (02/2004) |
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56 | Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard (02/2004) |
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57 | Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole (02/2004) |
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58 | What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras (03/2004) |
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59 | The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell (07/2004) |
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60 | Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (Oct, 2003) |
| 61 | Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy | |
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62 | Crazy Lady by Jane Conly (02/2004) |
| 63 | Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher | |
| 64 | Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan | |
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65 | Fade by Robert Cormier (07/2004) |
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66 | Guess What? by Mem Fox (02/2004) |
| 67 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 68 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding | |
| 69 | Native Son by Richard Wright | |
| 70 | Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday | |
| 71 | Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen | |
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72 | On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (02/2004) |
| 73 | The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende | |
| 74 | Jack by A.M. Homes | |
| 75 | Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge | |
| 76 | Family Secrets by Norma Klein | |
| 77 | Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole | |
| 78 | Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya | |
| 79 | Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle | |
| 80 | The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney | |
| 81 | Carrie by Stephen King | |
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82 | The Dead Zone by Stephen King (Dec 10th 2003) |
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83 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Nov, 2003) |
| 84 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | |
| 85 | Always Running by Luis Rodriguez | |
| 86 | Private Parts by Howard Stern | |
| 87 | Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford | |
| 88 | Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene | |
| 89 | Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume | |
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90 | Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman (02/2004) |
| 91 | Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett | |
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92 | Running Loose by Chris Crutcher (09/2004) |
| 93 | Sex Education by Jenny Davis | |
| 94 | Jumper by Steven Gould | |
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95 | Christine by Stephen King (Dec. 01, 2003) |
| 96 | The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene | |
| 97 | That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton | |
| 98 | Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy | |
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99 | The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain (02/2004) |
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100 | Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (02/2004) |
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See below for another list of books I have read
(or am reading) besides the above books.
What's on my bookshelf? Click here for an incomplete list... (xls) |
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April 26, 2003
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Castle Perilous by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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April 27, 2003
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Castle For Rent by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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May 03, 2003
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Castle Kidnapped by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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May 25, 2003
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Castle War by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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May 29, 2003
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Castle Murders by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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June 01, 2003
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Castle Dreams by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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June 06, 2003
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Castle Spellbound by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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June 13, 2003
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Bride of the Castle by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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June, 2003
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Magic Kindom of Landover series by Terry Brooks, including "Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold (1)," "The Black Unicorn (2)," "Wizard at Large (3)," & "The Tangle Box (4)." | Fantasy |
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June 19, 2003
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The Kruton Interface by John DeChancie | Fantasy |
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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy ed. by Mike Ashley | Fantasy |
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | Fiction |
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien | Fantasy |
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien | Fantasy |
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The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien | Fantasy |
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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien | Fantasy |
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Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster by Mary E. Jones Parrish | Documentary |
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Feb. 14, 2004
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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (02/2004) | Fiction |
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Feb. 13, 2004
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Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (recommended by Sheila - wonderful book.) | Childrens |
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August, 2004
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Oz: Behind These Walls, the Journal of Augustus Hill (was an HBO series) | Fiction |
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August, 2004
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Flash Fiction - many authors - Wonderful book! | Fiction |
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Timeline break due to me not putting the books I've read on this page... | ... |
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4/2006
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Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander | Personalities |
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6/2007
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Nasty People by Jay Carter, Psy.D. | Self-Help/Psych |
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6/2007
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Understanding Your Therapist or Why is This Taking So Long? by Robert H. Pilpel | Self-Help/Psych |
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6/2007
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The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt | Self-Help? |
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2nd Reading
7/2007 |
Phillip Pullman's "Dark Materials" series (3 books) | Fiction |
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7/2007
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Clyde Reid's "Celebrate the Temporary | Self-Help? |
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7/2007
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"Cracked" by Dr. Drew Pinsky | Autobiographical |
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7/2007
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"...Hooker" by Terri Randall | Autobiography |
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7/2007
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"Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling | Fantasy |
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"The Undesired Princess & The Enchanted Bunny" by L. Sprague De Camp & David Drake | Fantasy | |
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"That Hideous Strength" by C. S. Lewis | Fantasy | |
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"Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen | ||
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"Still Lickin' the Spoon and Other Confessions of a Grown-Up Kid" by Becky Freeman | Inspirational? | |
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"The Love Workbook" by David R. Lima | Self-Help | |
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"Don Quixote Cervantes" by Walter Starkie | Autobiography? | |
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7/2007
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"101 Nights of Grrreat Sex" by Laura Corn | Self-Help? |
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7/2007
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"The Modern Drunkard" by Frank Kelly Rich | Humor |
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7/2007
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"The Child Within" | Self-Help |
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"Tongue Fu! How to Deflect, Disarm, and Defuse Any Verbal Conflict" by Sam Horn | Self-Help |
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I absolutely LOVE John DeChancie! I think I have a
crush on him (not really lol)! He's soooo hilarious!!! "Castle
Dreams" is by FAR the BEST book in my opinion- I laughed so hard
my eyeballs flooded!!! I's goooood... 8)
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Some Book Awards I've Heard Of.... Check this site for some great information concerning awards. 8) Click on the medals below to see much more information about different book awards. 8) 8) 8)
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