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Below is the list of almost every book I've read since November 2000, just before I started college.  Hopefully the list gets less crappy as time goes on and will continue to do so.  Books I actually liked have links to Amazon so you can read more about it or get a copy or whatever. (R) means it's a repeat read, and (Audio) means I listened to it on tape.

Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan 11-00
I'm a Sranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson1-01
Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan 1-01
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom 1-01
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 1-01
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks 2-01
Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien 3-01
Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 3-01
King Lear, Shakespeare 3-01
Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson 3-01
Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings 4-01
Jerusalem: The Eternal City, Galbraith et al 4-01
On the Road, Jack Kerouac 4-01

Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson 5-01

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 7-01

Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek 7-01
Old Man and the Sea (Audio), Ernest Hemingway 7-01
Into Thin Air, John Krakauer (1/2 & 1/2) 8-01

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggars 8-01
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 8-01
(R) Animal Farm, George Orwell 8-01

Gandhi an Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth 1-02
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 3-02
Republic, Plato 3-02
How to Shit in the Woods, Kathleen Meyer 5-02
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, JK Rowling 5-02
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 6-02
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 7-02

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 9-02

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold 10-02
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo 10-02

Steal this Book, Abbie Hoffman 10-02

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 10-02
Why Marijuana Should Be Legal, Ed Rosenthal and Steve Kubby, 11-02
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger 11-02
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1-03

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 1-03

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli 1-03
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 2-03

Hiking the Triple Crown, Karen Berger 2-03
Seven Summits, Dick Bass 3-03
High Exposure, David Breashears 3-03
The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev 3-03
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest, Beck Weathers 3-03
? Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey, Goran Kropp 3-03 ?
Communist Manifesto, Marx 3-03

Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 5-03
(R) Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 5-03

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5-03

Beowulf 5-03
Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 6-03
Civil War Stories, Ambrose Bierce 6-03

The Great Divorce, CS Lewis 6-03
The Misanthrope, Moliere 6-03
Short Stories of Jack London, Jack London 7-03
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 7-03
Standing for Something, Gordon B. Hinckley 7-03
(R) Into the Wild, John Krakauer 7-03

PCT Hiker's Companion, Karen Berger and Daniel Smith 7-03
The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper 8-03
Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi 8-03
Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis 9-03
One Day All Children, Wendy Kopp 11-03
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (Audio) 12-03
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (Audio) 1-04
Journey Through Genius, William Dunham 1-04

Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud 2-04

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman 2-04

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 3-04

In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson (Audio) 3-04
Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer 3-04

Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus 3-04
Eiger Dreams, John Krakauer 4-04
The Stranger, Albert Camus 4-04

The Pacific Crest Trail Hiker's Handbook, Ray Jardine 4-04
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger 8-04
Endurance: Shackleton's Amazing Voyage, Alfred Lansing 8-04
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 8-04

Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston 9-04
A Walk across America, Peter Jenkins 9-04
DaVinci Code, Dan Brown 9-04
The 9/11 Commission Report, The 9/11 Commission 10-04
The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz 11-04
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 11-04

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, Stephen Ambrose (Audio) 11-04

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (Audio) 11-04
America (the book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, Daily Show, John Stewart 11-04

Life of Pi, Yann Martel 12-04
All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 1-05

My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir 1-05

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 2-05

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (Audio) 3-05
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank (Audio) 3-05
What Really Happened to the Class of '93?, Chris Colin 3-05
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig 4-05

Lyra's Oxford, Philip Pullman 4-05
Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama 5-05
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren 5-05

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 6-05
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson 6-05

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 6-05

Moneyball, Michael Lewis 6-05

Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell 7-05
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Philip Gourevitch 7-05

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 8-05

Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa 8-05
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays, Henry David Thoreau 8-05
Alive, Piers Paul Read 8-05
A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail, Angela & Duffy Ballard 8-05
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner 9-05

Batman: Year One, Frank Miller 9-05
Blankets, Craig Thompson 9-05

Watchmen, Alan Moore 9-05
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, Marjane Satrapi 9-05
American Splendor Presents Bob & Harvey's Comics, Harvey Pekar 9-05
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck (1/2 & 1/2) 9-05
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 9-05
The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Che Guevara 10-05

Faust, Goethe 11-05
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore & David Lloyd 11-05
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 11-05

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson 11-05

Nine Stories, JD Salinger 11-05
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis 12-05

High Odyssey, Gene Rose 12-05
Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut 12-05
Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton (Audio) 12-05
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver (Audio) 12-05
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (Audio) 1-06
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (Audio) 1-06

How to Be Alone: Essays, Jonathan Franzen 1-06
(R) 1984, George Orwell 1-06

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 3-06
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 4-06
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman 5-06

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, Bill Easterly 5-06
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 6-06

The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey 7-06

Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman 9-06

Catch-22, Joseph Heller 9-06
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris 9-06
The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff 9-06
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss 10-06
Out of Africa, Karen Blixen 10-06

In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul 10-06
Shadows on the Grass, Karen Blixen 10-06
Dear Exile, Hilary Liftin & Kate Montgomery 10-06
The Kite Runner, Kaled Hosseini 11-06

The Zanzibar Chest, Aiden Hartley 11-06

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence, Martin Meredith 12-06

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Sam Harris 12-06
Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene 12-06

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 12-06
The Places in Between, Rory Stewart 1-07
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad 1-07
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Story of Paul Farmer the Man Who Would Heal the World, Tracy Kidder 1-07
The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum 1-07
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth 2-07

Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway 2-07
The End of Poverty, Jeff Sachs 2-07
Mere Christianity, CS Lewis 2-07
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad 2-07
www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com, 2-07 (does that count?)
Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut 2-07
A Theft, Saul Bellow 2-07
(R) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitgerald 2-07

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life, Ryszard Kapuscinski 3-07

Chuck Klosterman IV, Chuck Klosterman 3-07

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Chuck Klosterman 4-07
The Golden Spruce, John Vaillant 4-07

Man without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut 4-07

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut 4-07

House, Tracy Kidder 10-07

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, Wallace Stegner 11-07


Travels with Charlie in Search of America, John Steinbeck 12-07

Walking with Pacence: A True Journey, Jarrett Krentzel 1-08

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris 1-08

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Wallace Stegner 1-08
 
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan 2-08
Black Hole, Charles Burns 2-08
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins 2-08