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Ah, another reading list. Here’s what I’ve read as of late and what’s on my agenda:

Drown by Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
On Writing by Stephen King
Kindred by Octavia Butler
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (third time’s the charm, I guess)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (half-way done)
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn (gotta restart it)
Letters To A Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke
Watchmen by Alan Moore
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – added 10.31.09

More on the way…

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