bookaddict's Profile

I read way too much...if that is possible...almost exclusively nonfiction (biographies, memoirs, history-of-science-y stuff) and some literary fiction...with a dash of pulp (chicklit, true crime) but that dash is getting smaller all the time.   Too many good nonfiction books on PBS!

Places* I have sent to: AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA , WI (38/55)

• Places left to send to: AL, AK, DC, GU, HI, ID, IN, ME, ND, OK, PR, SD, VI, VT, WV, WY , APO/FPO, VI (17)  

Places I have received from: AL, AR, AZ, DC, DE, GA, HI, IA, IL, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, ND, CA, CO, CT, IN, PA, NC, NH, NM, NY, NJ, FL, MO, LA, MS, NV, NE, OH, OK, OR, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY, APO/FPO (50/55)  

• Places left to receive from: AK, GU, PR, SC, VI (5)    

*"places" = US states + DC, PR, GU, APO/FPO, VI

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Bookaddict's List of Must-Reads (in no particular order)

Fiction:  

• Poisonwood Bible
• Bel Canto
• Life of Pi
• White Oleander
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Arrowsmith Spirits (Stories)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass
• A Woman of Independent Means
• The Old Forest (stories)
• Blindness
• A Prayer For the Dying
• The Plague
• A Map of the World
• Cat's Eye
• Lady Oracle
• Stones for Ibarra
• Too Late the Phalarope
• Lord of the Flies
• Brave New World
• Murder Must Advertise
• Dubliners (stories)
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Red Tent
• The Women's Room
• The Source
• Nine Stories (stories)
• Time and Again
• Gone With the Wind
• Great Expectations
• An American Tragedy
• Of Human Bondage
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The Narnia Books (in proper order, as published)
• The Human Factor
• The Hundred Secret Senses
• In the Lake of the Woods
• The Jungle
• The Moviegoer
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Lord Jim
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Dance of the Happy Shades (stories)
• The Chosen
• My Name is Asher Lev
• Shutter Island
• The Iliad
• The Once and Future King
• The Little Prince
• Rebecca
• Atonement
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Miss Pym Disposes
• Brat Farrar
• The Franchise Affair
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• The Velveteen Rabbit
• Watership Down
• Welcome to the Monkey House (stories)
• The Lovely Bones
• The Testament of Yves Gundren    

Nonfiction:  

• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
• Shadow Divers
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Seabiscuit
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Fast Food Nation
• Nickeled and Dimed
• The Glass Castle
• And the Band Played On
• Angela's Ashes
• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
• Spook
• My Own Country
• Man's Search for Meaning
• On Writing
• The Feminine Mystique
• The Emperor of Scent
• In a Different Voice
• Love's Executioner
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• It's Not About the Bike
• Devil in the Details
• Monster
• The Bell Curve
• In the Heart of the Sea
• Sleepers
• Stand Before Your God
• Truman
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
• Buddies
• Stolen Lives
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves
• Backlash
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Fifty Acres and a Poodle
• The Last American Man
• A Fortune-Teller Told Me
• The Man Who Ate Everything
• The Making of a Chef
• Let Me Hear Your Voice
• Next of Kin
• Expecting Adam
• Fatu-Hiva