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Kurt Vonnegut

Barbara Kingsolver

Jane Austen

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I couldn't put this book down. I devoured all 500 pages in 3 days.
A tad bit sci-fi but mostly a love story.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Great general science book. It's about how we know what we know.
It's also about what we don't know, which is kinda scary...
I also enjoyed reading about all the scientists and their quirks and rivalries.

Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Great fun, but not great literature. Similar to one of those guilty
pleasure, "popcorn movies" that you hate to admit you like. I enjoyed
playing along with my art history book and Rome travel guide.

Recent Reads

Being unemployed has ONE benefit - I read all of these books in 2005...
Click here to see an impressive list of books (with mini-reviews)!
And I don't even get credit for them...

Other books that I would recommend (in no particular order):

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (I read it every Christmas)
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (good movie, too)
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Cherry by Mary Karr
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (very clever!)
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Minn
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
The Second Greatest Story Ever Told by Gorman Bechard (that's gotta be a made-up name...)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley
Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen

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