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[foolsgold]

1. 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
2. History of Love - Nicole Kraus
3. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Awake in the Dark - Shira Nayman
5. Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
6. Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser
7. Guv'nor - Lenny McLean
8. Tales From the Red's Dugout - Tom Browning
9. Joe: Rounding Third and Headed For Home - Greg Hoard
10. Slam - Nick Hornby
11. Bad versus Worse - Joshua Piven
12. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million - Daniel Mendelson
13. The 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Champion and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide - Brian Mulligan
14. Loser - Jerry Spinelli
15. Boy With Loaded Gun - Lewis Nordan
16. In the Penny Arcade - Steven Millhauser
17. Dusklands - JM Coetzee
18. The Human Fly and Other Stories - TC Boyle
19. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights 1945-75 - Jason Sokol
20. Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook - Todd Brown
21. Flashman: A Novel - George MacDonald Fraser
22. Praise - Andrew McGahan
23. 1988 - Andrew McGahan
24. Black Ajax - George MacDonald Fraser
25. Flashman in the Great Game - George MacDonald Fraser
26. Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
27. Age of Iron - JM Coetzee
28. Kent Airfields of the Second World War - Robin Brookes
29. In the Heart of the Country - JM Coetzee
30. The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
31. This Republic of Suffering - Drew Gilpin-Faust
32. Last Night At the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
33. Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian - Scott Douglas
34. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
35. Last Drinks - Andrew McGahan
36. Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Dan Savage
37. The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven - Alan Warner
38. Bright, Shiny Morning - James Frey
39. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
40. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
41. Join Me - Danny Wallace
42. The Darling - Russell Banks
43. In Search of the La's: A Secret Liverpool - MW Macefield
44. When You're Engulfed By Flames - David Sedaris
45. Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks
46. The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
47. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
48. Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks

49. House of Widows - Askold Melnyczuk

[redbobsled]

77.  Circle the Soul Softly - Davida Wills Hurwin - pretty good book about adolescent PTSD, by the author of A Time for Dancing, which was made into a Lifetime-y movie starring Larissa Oleynik (I think that's her name) of Nickelodeon's Alex Mack fame.  I kept waiting for her to turn into a silver puddle and escape the cancer.

[whigsgeek]

1. Invisible Prey, John Sandford
2. Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad, Mike Greenberg
3. Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
4. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
5. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin
6. Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, Laurie Notaro
7. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield
8. Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, James Blake
9. Play Dead, David Rosenfelt
10. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Simon Reynolds
11. Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense, Gina Arnold
12. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
13. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller
14. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, Pattie Boyd
15. Death at Chappaquiddick, Richard L. Tedrow and Thomas L. Tedrow
16. Black Curtain, Cornell Woolrich
17. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive, Laurie Notaro
18. Too Much, Too Soon, Diana Barrymore
19. In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema, Gerrie Lim
20. Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Cass Elliot, Eddi Fiegel
21. Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion, Jennifer Saginor
22. Band Fags!, Frank Anthony Polito
23. His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina, Danielle Steel
24. Rear Window and Four Short Novels, Cornell Woolrich
25. Hairstyles of the Damned, Joe Meno
26. Boyos, Richard Marinick
27. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
28. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
29. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
30. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
31. You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom, Phil Rosenthal
32. Swan Peak, James Lee Burke
33. Song Is You, Megan Abbott
34. Phantom Prey, John Sandford

35. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple, Deborah Layton

A gripping, powerful, profoundly disturbing read. Hard to believe that November 18 will mark the 30th anniversary of Jonestown.

[redbobsled]

Ooo!  Jonestown books.  I wrote this ginormous research paper for my American Studies class in college on Jonestown and Jim Jones.  When I found out my freshman year college roommate's father was from Guyana, one of the first things I said to her was, "Jim Jones!  Jim Jones!  Did your dad know him??"  (having been obsessed with Jim Jones for a long time before college). 

I might have to check this out. 

[whigsgeek]

rbs, I also devour anything related to Jones and Jonestown. Can't recommend this book highly enough, even at its most distressing. Couldn't put it down.

[whigsgeek]

Can't edited my previous post by phone, but I wanted to add that what made Layton's story even more compelling is that her mother and brother were also members, and her mother of a survivor of Nazi Germany. Surviving the Holocaust only to die in Jonestown was horrifying to me. The mother's life story was haunting.

[trixi]

1.  Room for Love--Andrea Meyer
2.  Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland--Jan Gross
3.  Betwixt--Tara Bray Smith
4.  Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List--Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
5.  A Bridge to the Stars--Henning Mankell
6.  Finding Daddy--Louise Plummer
7.  The Outcasts--L.S. Matthews
8.  There's No Place Like Here--Cecelia Ahern
9.  When I Crossed No-Bob--Margaret McMullan
10.  The Realm of Possibility--David Levithan
11.  Beanball--Gene Fehler
12.  The Appeal--John Grisham
13.  The Heartbreakers--Pamela Wells
14.  Snitch--Allison Van Diepen
15.  Big Boned--Meg Cabot
16.  7th Heaven--James Patterson
17.  Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet--Sherri L. Smith
18.  Secrets of My Suburban Life--Lauren Baratz-Logsted
19.  I Heart You, You Haunt Me--Lisa Schroeder
20.  Jinx--Meg Cabot
21.  Lucky--Cecily Von Ziegesar
22.  Queen of Babble in the Big City--Meg Cabot
23.  Big Fat Manifesto--Susan Vaught
24.  Another Kind of Cowboy--Susan Juby
25.  Tennyson--Lesley M.M. Blume
26.  Fake Boyfriend--Kate Brian
27.  Girl Overboard--Justina Chen Headley
28.  Blue Like Friday--Siobhan Parkinson
29.  Poseur--Rachel Maude
30.  Wednesday Wars--Gary D. Schmidt
31.  Year My Sister Got Lucky--Aimee Friedman
32.  Project 17--Laurie Faria Stolarz
33.  Kiss Me Kill Me--Laurie Henderson
34.  Girl Barely 15:  Flirting for England--Sue Limb
35.  How They Met and Other Stories--David Levithan
36.  Life Is Fine--Allison Whittenberg
37.  Ringside, 1925 : Views From the Scopes Trial--Jennifer Bryant
38.  White Darkness--Geraldine McCaughrean
39.  Good Enough--Paula Yoo
40.  The Redheaded Princess--Ann Rinaldi
41.  Where Are You Now?--Mary Higgins Clark
42.  Sundays at Tiffanys--James Patterson
43.  The Missing Girl--Norma Fox Mazer
44.  The Winter War--William Durbin
45.  Three Little Words: a memoir--Ashley Rhodes-Courter
46.  A Curse Dark As Gold--Elizabeth C. Bunce
47.  Spin the Bottle--Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
48.  Wake--Lisa McMann
49.  Comeback Season--Jennifer E. Smith
50.  Swine Not?: a novel pig tale--Jimmy Buffett
51.  You Know Where to Find Me--Rachel Cohn
52.  Princess Mia--Meg Cabot
53.  Skin Deep--E.M. Crane
54.  My Life, the Musical--Maryrose Wood
55.  Imaginary Enemy--Julie Gonzalez
56.  Fortunes of Indigo Skye--Deb Caletti
57.  Circle of Blood: a forensic mystery--Alane Ferguson
58.  My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank--Jacqueline van Maarsen
59.  The Opposite of Love--Julie Buxbaum
60.  Seeing Me Naked--Liza Palmer
61.  Wish You Were Here--Catherine Clark
62.  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks--E. Lockhart
63.  Pretty Face--Mary Hogan
64.  Pirates of the Retail Wasteland--Adam Selzer
65.  How to Be Bad--E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle
66.  And Sometimes Why--Rebecca Johnson
67.  Like A Thorn--Clara Vidal
68.  Audrey, Wait!--Robin Benway
69.  Sweethearts--Sara Zarr
70.  The Death of Jayson Porter--Jaime Adoff
71.  Sail--James Patterson
72.  Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine--April Lurie
73.  Queen of Babble Gets Hitched--Meg Cabot
74.  The Carlyles--Annabelle Vestry
75.  LoveHampton--Sherri Rifkin
76.  Walk of the Spirits--Richie Tankersley Cusick
77.  Beach House--Jane Green
78.  When You Wish--Kristin Harmel
79.  Beneath My Mother's Feet--Amjed Qamar
80.  Strong and Sexy--Jill Shalvis
81.  Last Writes--Laura Levine
82.  Adoration of Jenna Fox--Mary E. Pearson
83.  Suck It Up--Brian Meehl
84.  The Final Warning--James Patterson
85.  The Fold--An Na
86.  The Last Single Woman in America--Cindy Guidry
87.  Don't You Forget About Me--Jancee Dunn
88.  Debbie Harry Sings in French--Meagan Brothers
89.  Rumors: a Luxe novel--Anna Godbersen
90.  Airhead--Meg Cabot
91.  Any Way You Want It--Kathy Love
92.  Frenemies--Megan Crane
93.  My Most Excellent Year:  A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park--Steve Kluger
94.  Scream For Me--Karen Rose
95.  Lock and Key--Sarah Dessen
96.  Confessions of a Serial Kisser--Wendelin Van Draanen
97.  The Lost: a Search for Six of Six Million--Daniel Mendelsohn

98.  Rose By Any Other Name--Maureen McCarthy
99.  Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian--Scott Douglas
100.  Looks--Madeleine George

[foolsgold]

1. 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
2. History of Love - Nicole Kraus
3. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Awake in the Dark - Shira Nayman
5. Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
6. Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser
7. Guv'nor - Lenny McLean
8. Tales From the Red's Dugout - Tom Browning
9. Joe: Rounding Third and Headed For Home - Greg Hoard
10. Slam - Nick Hornby
11. Bad versus Worse - Joshua Piven
12. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million - Daniel Mendelson
13. The 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Champion and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide - Brian Mulligan
14. Loser - Jerry Spinelli
15. Boy With Loaded Gun - Lewis Nordan
16. In the Penny Arcade - Steven Millhauser
17. Dusklands - JM Coetzee
18. The Human Fly and Other Stories - TC Boyle
19. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights 1945-75 - Jason Sokol
20. Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook - Todd Brown
21. Flashman: A Novel - George MacDonald Fraser
22. Praise - Andrew McGahan
23. 1988 - Andrew McGahan
24. Black Ajax - George MacDonald Fraser
25. Flashman in the Great Game - George MacDonald Fraser
26. Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
27. Age of Iron - JM Coetzee
28. Kent Airfields of the Second World War - Robin Brookes
29. In the Heart of the Country - JM Coetzee
30. The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
31. This Republic of Suffering - Drew Gilpin-Faust
32. Last Night At the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
33. Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian - Scott Douglas
34. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
35. Last Drinks - Andrew McGahan
36. Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Dan Savage
37. The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven - Alan Warner
38. Bright, Shiny Morning - James Frey
39. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
40. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
41. Join Me - Danny Wallace
42. The Darling - Russell Banks
43. In Search of the La's: A Secret Liverpool - MW Macefield
44. When You're Engulfed By Flames - David Sedaris
45. Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks
46. The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
47. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
48. Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
49. House of Widows - Askold Melnyczuk

50. Underground - Andrew McGahan
51. Perfect From Now On - John Sellers

[foolsgold]

99.  Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian--Scott Douglas

What did you think?

[trixi]

I enjoyed the book because I have seen/can see the very same things happening at PLCH.  I think anyone who has worked in a public library could easily write such a book.  I found him to be very cynical early on in his career.  But he seems to have a dry sense of humor, which I appreciate.  I read some online reviews of people that think he's misogynistic, but I didn't see that at all.  What'd you think?

[c-lando]

1. The Green Glass Sea - Ellen Klages
2. Money Wanders - Eric Dezenhall
3. Good Dog. Stay - Anna Quindlen
4. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck Klosterman - I loved this until the last 2 chapters. But, it's highly quotable in the beginning. Love + Modern Rock + Road-Trip-Brained Philosophy = Yay
5. The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind - Ken Foster
6. Echo Park - Michael Connelly
7. Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos
8. LoveHampton - Sherri Rifkin
9. Lush Life - Richard Price
10. Dedication - Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
11. The Spare Wife - Alex Witchel
12. Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - Phoebe Damrosch
13. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
14. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
15. Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon - Nick Trout

16. One Dangerous Lady - Jane Stanton Hitchcock

[MissKitty]

1. Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
2. Overtreated:Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker by Shannon Brownlee
3. Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen.
4. Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkeybrain! by Scott Adams
5. Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See by Bill Shapiro
6. Apronisms by EllynAnne Geisel
7. Union 1812 by A.J. Langguth
8. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee by Thomas William Humes
9. Portraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War by Richard B. McCaslin
11. Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis
12. Transmetropolitan Vol. 2 - Lust For Life by Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis
13. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd
14. Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson
15. Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka
16. Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
17. The American Resting Place by Marilyn Yalom
18. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
19. Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived World War One by Michele Barrett
20. Creepers by Joanne Dahme
21. The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
22. All the Way Home by David Giffels
23. Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
24. Mantids by Ron Dakron
25. Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
26. Echoes of a Native Land by Serge Schmemann
27. Honeysuckle House by Andrea Cheng
28. King's Mountain and It's Heroes by Lyman Draper.

Adding:
29. How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
30. Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by Fergus Fleming
31. 31 Songs by Nick Hornby
32. Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont
currently reading:
33. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

[foolsgold]

I enjoyed the book because I have seen/can see the very same things happening at PLCH.  What'd you think?

I didn't really care for it.  The stories were amusing and reminiscent of my days in public services, but I thought he was really snide and that was pretty off-putting. 

[trixi]

101.  Dishes--Rich Wallace
102.  Lucky One--Nicholas Sparks

[redbobsled]

78.  Madapple - Christina Meldrum  (frustrating book)