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Just finished the Accidental billionaire - great read! Addicting and well-written - talks about Mark Zuckerberg in his early days and what he pulled to have FB be successful. They are making this into a movie soon with Aaron sorkin....here's my iphone pic below

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth

This book is for research. I am writing a pre-draft for a historical novel I am attempting to finish. Tons of biographies to read up coming for this project. This book is the first of many. It will be my first manuscript (hopefully). :)
 
Bought at a charity shop, Death is now my Neighbour. The Secret of Annexe 3. The Dead of Jerico. All by Colin Dexter. Inpector Morse thrillers. And, P.D. James's The Skull Beneath the Skin.
 
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Open by Andre Agassi
Asesinos sin rostro (Faceless Killers) by Henning Mankell
Aurora Boreal (Sun Storm) by Asa Larsson
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
My Life in France by Julia Child
Gabriel García Márquez, A Life by Gerald Martin
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
 
A Christmas Carol by Dickens.

I'm trying to shake off the bah-humbugs. The ghosts of christmas past, present and future need to come to my house.
 
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Penguin Dictionary) by J. A. Cuddon
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler
 
David Copperfield and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Idiot and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Doestevsky
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabakov
 
Trail of the Spanish Bit: Spanish Bit Saga, Number 1 by Don Coldsmith
Success to the Brave by Alexander Kent
 
Virginia Woolf - The Common Reader. Finally found it.

Thomas Pynchon - Vineland. On the off chance ...

Hubert Selby, Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn. Re-purchase of one of the greatest.

D. H Lawrence - Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America

David Mitchell - Black Swan Green

James Lee Burke - Dixie City Jam

James Lee Burke - Half of Paradise

John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Fowles - Daniel Martin

Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
 
Recent purcahses,
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl: the Time Paradox
Goeth- Faust (although I don't know why I bought it...... perhaps I'll finish reading it in couple of weeks)
E. B. White- One Man's Meat
Yann Martel- Life of Pi

I think that's about it...
 
The demise of Borders and the increased percentage discounts has resulted in quite a haul, and I've just been making a list of it to take stock. It's sizeable.
Refusal, Soazig Aaron
Götz And Meyer, David Albahari
The Ballad Of Johnny Sosa, Mario Delgado Aparain
Book Of Clouds, Chloe Aridjis
The Accordionist's Son, Bernardo Atxaga
Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
Correction, Thomas Bernhard
Teeth Under The Sun, Ignacia Loyala de Brandao
All Fires THe Fire and Other Stories, Julio Cortazar
The Devil's Larder, Jim Crace
The Circumcision, Dalos György
The Maytrees, Annie Dillard
A Certain Woman, Hala El Badry
Light, Eva Figes
Malvinas Requiem, Rodolfo Fogwill
Once, Two Islands, Dawn Garisch
Waiting, Ha Jin
The Wedding In Auschwitz, Erich Hachl
The Have-Nots, Katharina Hacker
Tale Of A Certain Orient, Milton Hatoum
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
Illuminations, Eva Hoffmann
Liquidation, Kertesz Imre
The Lake, Paola Kaufmann
The Fish Can Sing, Halldor Laxness
In Her Absence, Antonio Munoz Molina
Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom
The Silent Cry, Oe Kenzaburo
The Complete Short Stories, Agnes Owens
Sadak Chaap, Meher Pestonji
Death Of A Red Heroine, Qiu Xiaolong
Solo Faces, James Salter
Journey's End, R.C. Sherriff
Please Don't Call Me Human, Wang Shuo
Olivia, Dorothy Strachey
After The Fire, A Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld
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Plus some other acquisitions:
The Gourmet, Muriel Barberry
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog, Muriel Barberry
Nazi Literature In The Americas, Roberto Bolano
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
Sabra Zoon, Mischa Hiller
The Adventures Of A Cello, Carlos Prieto
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