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fired too many shots at her
Cause she falls in love too often
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This page chronicles my annual goal to read as many books as my age.


BOOKS I READ AT 21
1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
2. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
3. Killing Yourself To Live, Chuck Klosterman
4. Breakfast At Tiffany's, Truman Capote
5. The Good Body, Eve Ensler
6. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Madeleine Is Sleeping, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
8. A Year In Japan, Kate T. Williamson
9. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
10. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
11. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Nieffenegger

BOOKS I READ AT 20 (pitiful)
1. Kissing In Manhattan
2. He's Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
3. The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom
4. The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler
5. 4 Blondes, Candace Bushnell
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
7. Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
8. Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
9. Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
10. Necklace of Kisses, Francesca Lia Block
11. Willful Creatures, Aimee Bender
12. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

BOOKS TO READ
1. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
2. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
3. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
4. Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
5. Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce
6. Cider House Rules, John Irving
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
8. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
9. Heart of Darness, Joseph Conrad 10. Milkrun, Sarah Mlynowski
11. A Fairly Honourable Defeat, Iris Murdoch
12. The Next American Essay, edited by John D'Agata
13. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
14. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
16. The Rules of Attraction, Brett Easton Ellis
17. Atonement, Ian McEwan
18. The Famished Road*, Ben Okri
19. Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
20. Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim, David Sedaris
21. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
> 22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
23. Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
24. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho