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2008 New Year's Resolution #1: Read even more. Write. My reading wanders. Usually it's non-fiction history, but lately I'm discovering more of that so-called "literary fiction". (I generally can't stomach the mass-market stuff.) I read about books almost as much as I read the books themselves, regularly perusing the NY Times Book Reviews or the shelves at Northtown Books in Arcata. If you really care to know my reading tastes, check out my book lists below (cuz I will register and release books I never intend to read.) Reading now...April '08 The Savage Detectives --Roberto Bolano Waiting patiently on my bedside table... The Assault on Reason --Al Gore The Book of Other People --Zadie Smith, editor Death Comes for the Archbishop --Willa Cather Two Years Before the Mast --Richard Henry Dana A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus --Charles C. Mann Consider the Lobster --David Foster Wallace Read in '08 The Reluctant Fundamentalist --Mohsin Hamid Moby Dick --Herman Melville The God Delusion --Richard Dawkins The Iowa Baseball Confederacy --W.P. Kinsella In Defense of Food --Michael Pollan Out Stealing Horses --Per Petterson All the King's Men --Robert Penn Warren Blood and Thunder --Hampton Sides Read in '07 Shakespeare: The World as Stage --Bill Bryson A Crack at the Edge of the World --Simon Winchester Quarantine --Jim Crace Founding Myths --Ray Raphael One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez Everyman --Philip Roth The World Without Us --Alan Weisman The Omnivore's Dilemma --Michael Pollan The End of Faith --Sam Harris The Yiddish Policemens' Union --Michael Chabon Letter to a Christian Nation --Sam Harris On Chesil Beach --Ian McEwan How To Be Free --Tom Hodgkinson God is Not Great --Christopher Hitchens The Grapes of Wrath --John Steinbeck Slaughterhouse-Five --Kurt Vonnegut Absurdistan --Gary Shteyngart The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth --Thomas Jefferson The Wild Trees --Richard Preston What is the What --Dave Eggers The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop --Lewis Buzbee Cloud Atlas --David Mitchell The Metamorphosis --Franz Kafka The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid --Bill Bryson Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Worst Hard Time --Timothy Egan The Old Man and the Sea --Ernest Hemingway Jesus Land --Julia Scheeres All the Pretty Horses --Cormac McCarthy Read in '06 Istanbul --Orhan Pamuk Memories of My Melancholy Whores --Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Innocent Man --John Grisham The Road --Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men --Cormac McCarthy The Bookseller of Kabul --Asne Seierstad City of My Dreams --Pers Anders Fogelstorm Mayflower --Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex --Nathaniel Philbrick American Theocracy --Kevin Phillips Reading Lolita in Teheran --Azar Nafisi State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration --James Risen Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln --Doris Kearns Goodwin In Harm's Way --Doug Stanton The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey --Candice Millard Read in '05 Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis --Jimmy Carter The Sea --John Banville A Man Without a Country --Kurt Vonnegut City of Falling Angels --John Berendt Mark Twain, A Life --Ron Powers How To Be Idle --Tom Hodgkinson What's the Matter with Kansas --Thomas Frank How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization --Franklin Foer Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking --Malcolm Gladwell Skinny Dip --Carl Hiaasen The Devil's Teeth --Susan Casey 1776 --David McCullough The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream --H.W. Brands Faithful: Two Die-Hard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season --Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan The Plot Against America --Philip Roth The Historian --Elizabeth Kostova Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation --Lynne Truss Wait 'Til Next Year --Doris Kearns Goodwin The Kite Runner --Khaled Hosseini

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