non-fiction (used to be autobiography/biography)
1. Measure of a Man. Sidney Poitier
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Barbara Kingsolver
3. A Long Way Gone. Ishmael Beah
4. Spycatcher. Peter Wright
5. The Places in Between. Rory Stewart (completed January 19th 2008)
6. Infidel. Ayaan hirsi Ali
7. Glass Castle.
8. Fish:
Young Adult Fiction
1. The Canning Season. Polly Horvath
2. Godless. Pete Hautman
3. Autobiography of my Dead Brother. Walter Dean Myers
4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian Selznick
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Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides (Completed January 21st 2008)
2. Gilead. Marilynne Robinson (Completed January 13th 2008)
3. The Known World. (currently reading)
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From the NYT Bestseller list. (I don’t want to limit myself to books that have already been written. There might be some good ones published this year)
1. Bleeding Kansas. Sarah Paretsky. #15 January 13 2008
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Banned or "challenged" books
1. Go Ask Alice
2. The Lorax.
3. The Well of Lonliness
4. Steal This Book. Abbie Hofmann
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Books already on my Bookshelf
1. I am counting these three books as one. They were already on my shelf and I had never read them but they are young adult books(and totally predictable).
Gordon Korman. Island: Book one "Shipwreck" (completed February 1 2008)
Gordon Korman. Island: Book two "Survival" (completed February 1 2008)
Gordon Korman. Island: Book Three "Escape" (completed February 1 2008)
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School reading assignments
I am back in school and I have readings I am assigned to do throughout the term. I know that each of them is not a "book" but there will a lot more than 8 of them over the course of the year. Since I have to do the reading for class I will keep track of it here because having it be a part of this process will be added motivation for me to actually read the stuff.
1. Campus response to a student gunman. Asmussen K. & Creswell, J. (1995) 16 pages. Completed January 11 2008
2. Motivation of parent involvement in secondary-level schooling. Bertrand, R. & Deslandes, R. (2005) 11 pages. Completed January 11 2008
3. Constructions of survival and coping by women who have survived chilhood sexual abuse. Morrow, S. & Smith, M. 20 pages.
4. Enlightenment in chemical dependency treatment programs: a grounded theory. Feen-Calligan (199) 14 pages.
5. Reflecting on columbine high:Ideologies of privilege in "standardized" schools. Tonso, K. (2002) 14 pages.
Books on my "to be read" list.
1. Saturday. Ian McEwan (completed January 27 2007)
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