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Sobre mimEighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008...
And then there's me.

What I'm Reading Now:
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich
Wives & Lovers by Richard Bausch

What I've read (so far) in 2009:
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend
Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence by Anne D. Leclaire
It's Not That I'm Bitter: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World by Gina Barreca
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Wife of the Chef by Courtney Febbroriello
At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
Joanna and Ulysses by May Sarton
The Mistress by Philippe Tapon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
Shop Girl by Steve Martin
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
How to Be a Good Atheist by Nick Harding
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Unformed Landscape by Peter Stramm
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
Terrorist by John Updike
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach by Laurence Leamer
Class Matters: (compilation of) Correspondents of the New York Times
When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen
Wandering Monday & Other Days in Old Bergen by Ragnhild Chevalier
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times
Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus
The Spare Wife by Alex Witchell
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays by Steve Martin
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
America's Child: A Woman's Journey through the Radical Sixties by Susan Sherman
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
Testimony by Anita Shreve
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Theater of the Stars: A Novel of Physics and Memory by N. M. Kelby
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
(From the Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne: Viking Ships at Sunrise; Winter of the Ice Wizard; Revolutionary War on Wednesday. And yes, they are children's books but the series is highly recommended by my good friend Kate with her Ph.D. in history)
Celebrating WASP Style: A Privileged Life by Susanna Salk
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell
Books: a memoir by Larry McMurtry
To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
The Sand Castle by Rita Mae Brown
Indignation by Philip Roth
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

What I read in 2008:
A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties by Bill Eppridge
365 Ways to Live Cheap: Your Everyday Guide to Saving Money by Trent Hamm
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and other essays by Anais Nin
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Quirkyalone by Sasha Cagen
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction by Susan Cheever
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina
Epilogue by Anne Roiphe
The End of America: Letter to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
How to Hepburn by Karen Karbo
Not a Drop to Drink: America's Water Crisis by Ken Midkiff
The People Speak edited by Howard Zinn
On Women Turning 60: Embracing the Age of Fulfillment by Cathleen Rountree
[one love affair]" by Jenny Boully
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class by Robert H. Frank
Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy by Anne Dufourmantelle
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America by Susan Faludi
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
All The Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Surprised by God by Danya Ruttenberg
Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Rapture by Susan Minot
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War by Joe Bageant
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bananas, Beaches & Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia Enloe
Lust & Other Stories by Susan Minot
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation by Elizabeth Berg
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Fair Play by Tove Jannson
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Everyman by Philip Roth
Age by Hortense Calisher
Long Ago in France by M.F.K. Fisher
Dreaming up America by Russell Banks
Gluttony by Francine Prose
The Insufficiency of Maps: A Novel by Nora Pierce
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph Persico
Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival by Nadejda Marques
Presenting Sister NoBlues by Hattie Gossett
The Immigrant Suite: hey xenophobe who you calling a foreigner? by Hattie Gossett
Lust in Translation by Pamela Druckerman
The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures by Noah Adams
Finland: Champion of Independence by Leonora Curtin Paloheimo
Looking for Work by Susan Cheever
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel by Bailey White
Fields of Dreams: Travels in the Wildflower Meadows of North America by Tim Fitzharris
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Kyra by Carol Gilligan
The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on feminism by Emma Goldman
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Experience by T.C. McLuhan
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by inga muscio
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

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