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Cannonball Read (July 2009 - July 2010)

  1. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  2. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
  3. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
  4. American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
  5. Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
  6. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
  7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
  8. Bradbury: Stories (Ray Bradbury)
  9. Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)
  10. The Children’s Hospital (Chris Adrian)
  11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
  12. Icelander (Dustin Long)
  13. Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) (Lewis Carroll)
  14. The Ruins (Scott Smith)
  15. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
  17. The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
  18. Cell (Stephen King)
  19. Frank Sinatra: An American Legend (Nancy Sinatra)
  20. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  21. Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh)
  22. World War Z (Max Brooks)
  23. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
  24. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
  25. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
  26. The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
  27. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory Maguire)
  28. Little Children (Tom Perrotta)
  29. The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
  30. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
  31. Lowboy (John Wray)
  32. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (G.K. Chesterton)
  33. The Frog King (Adam Davies)
  34. Lost in a Good Book (Jasper Fforde)
  35. Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)
  36. Infected (Scott Sigler)
  37. My Custom Van … and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face (Michael Ian Black)
  38. The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)
  39. House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
  40. What the Dog Saw (Malcolm Gladwell)
  41. Shades of Grey (Jasper Fforde)
  42. My Horizontal Life (Chelsea Handler)
  43. Snow Angels (Stewart O’Nan)
  44. Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin (Kathy Griffin)
  45. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser
  46. The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov)
  47. Children of God (Mary Doria Russell)
  48. Tender Morsels (Margo Lanagan)
  49. Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)
  50. We Need to Talk Abut Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
  51. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Lydia Millet)
  52. Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane)
  53. Goodbye Lemon (Adam Davies)
  54. The Well of Lost Plots (Jasper Fforde)
  55. Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis)
  56. Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
  57. Hell (Robert Olen Butler)
  58. A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
  59. Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
  60. 1984 (George Orwell)
  61. The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
  62. God is Dead (Ron Currie, Jr.)
  63. It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It (Robert Fulghum)
  64. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
  65. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
  66. City of Thieves (David Benioff)
  67. Hey Nostradamus! (Douglas Coupland)
  68. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
  69. Tell-All (Chuck Palahniuk)
  70. The Little Friend (Donna Tartt)
  71. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Jeff Lindsay)
  72. Generation A (Douglas Coupland)
  73. Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
  74. Downtown Owl (Chuck Klosterman)
  75. Monster Island (David Wellington)
  76. About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
  77. Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde)
  78. The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)
  79. How it Ended (Jay McInerney)
  80. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
  81. Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
  82. The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
  83. The Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd)
  84. Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry (Leanna Shapton)
  85. Madeleine is Sleeping (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
  86. Rules for my Unborn Son (Walker Lamond)
  87. The Last of the Savages (Jay McInerney)
  88. For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers (Ken Sparling)
  89. How the Dead Live (Will Self)
  90. Topics About Which I Know Nothing (Patrick Ness)
  91. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Nick Hornby)
  92. The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
  93. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
  94. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  95. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)
  96. First Among Sequels (Jasper Fforde)
  97. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  98. The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus (Charles Wilkins)
  99. Monster Nation (David Wellington)
  100. The Wild Things (Dave Eggers)

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Posted on Saturday, July 31 2010. Tagged with: cannonball readbookreadreadingchallenge
from m.e to you I'm McKenzie. I have a linguistics degree. I read 100 books in a year once. I love reading, though not always at such a ridiculous pace.

Cannonball Read 2009/2010

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