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(On my list of 100 things to do before I turn 25, #99 is to read one book a month, purely for pleasure.)

October 2009:

• The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, by Bill Bryson

September 2009:

• The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

August 2009:

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
• The White Tiger, by Arvind Adiga

July 2009:

• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk

June 2009:

• Women In Love, by DH Lawrence

May 2009:

• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• Bronx Masquerade, by Elisa Carbone

April 2009:

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
• The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

March 2009:

• Learning to Breathe, by Alison Wright

February 2009:

• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken
• Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, by Mitchell Zuckoff
• The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides

January 2009:

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
• My Life in Dog Years, by Gary Paulsen
• Invitation to the Game, by Monica Hughes
• Voluntary Madness, by Norah Vincent
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

December 2008:

• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
• The Cay, by Theodore Taylor
• The Warrior Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima

November 2008:

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
• If the Heart Is Lean, by Margaret Luongo

October 2008:

• Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary
• Something Upstairs, by Avi
• Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord

September 2008:

• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
• Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen

August 2008:

• The Constant Princess, by Philippa Gregory
• All of the Chronicles of Narnia

July 2008:

• Trading Up, by Candace Bushnell
• The Quest, by Wilbur Smith
• Discworld: Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
• Cold Service, by Robert B. Parker
• What Is The What, by Dave Eggers

June 2008:

• Spies, by Michael Frayn
• Sons of Fortune, by Jeffrey Archer
• Exodus, by Leon Uris

May 2008:

• Coming Up For Air, by George Orwell

April 2008:

• Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

March 2008:

• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

February 2008:

• The Two Towers, by Tolkien
• Return of the King, by Tolkien

January 2008:

• Native American Mythology, by Hartley Burr Alexander
• The Qur’an, translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
• The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot
• The Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
• Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
• Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
• Uglies, by Scott Westerfield
• Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez
• The World According to Garp, by John Irving

December 2007:

• tons of travel books. tons. I could almost quote Rick Steves now.
• Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
• Shadow of the Giant, by Orson Scott Card

November 2007:

• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card.
• L’Identite, by Milan Kundera. I struggled through the French text. My brain hurts.
• Baltasar & Blimunda, by Jose Saramago
• I Am America (And So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert

October 2007:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon.
• Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis.

September 2007:

• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold.