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What were the last 3 books you purchased?

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders, Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Stretching My Mind, Edward Albee

Madras on Rainy Days, Samina Ali

Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Life, David P. Appleby

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, Isaac Babel

The Size of Thoughts, Nicholson Baker

Long, Long Way, Sebastian Barry

The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter

Shadow Play: A Novel, Charles Baxter

How It Is, Samuel Beckett 

La Rebelion Del Instante, Diana Bellessi

The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, Ted Berrigan

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Journey through the Inferno, Adam Boren

Maizal Del Gregoriano, Arnaldo Calveyra

How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Stanislavsky in Focus, Sharon Marie Carnicke

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson

Poems of Paul Celan, Paul Celan

Half-Lit Houses, Tina Chang

Natural History, Dave Chiasson

Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee

A Child Again, Robert Coover

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo Da Vinci

Drown, Junot Diaz

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Diane di Prima

The Last Thing He Wanted, Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

Vintage Didion, Joan Didion

The Brothers Karamozov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot

Glyph, Percival Everett

The Women of Tijucopapo, Marilene Felinto

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir, Nick Flynn

A Million Little Pieces, James Frey

First Confession, Montserrat Fontes

The Magus, John Fowles

Veronica, Mary Gaitskill

Petroleum Hat, Drew Gardner

Misales, Marosa Di Giorgio

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell 

Isaac Newton, James Gleick

This Gun for Hire, Graham Greene

Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto

Waiting, Ha Jin

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, Jonathan Harr

Greene on Capri, Shirley Hazzard

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, Tony Hendra

What Begins with Bird, Noy Holland

A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby

A Doll's House and Other Plays, Henrick Ibsen

Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala

Never Let Me Go, Kazou Ishiguro

The Interpreter, Alice Kaplan

Kim, Rudyard Kipling

The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch, Kenneth Koch

Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War, Deborah Copaken Kogan

Telling Tales and Other New One-Act Plays, Eric Lane 

Omaha Blues : A Memory Loop, Joseph Lelyveld

The Monkey's Wrench, Primo Levi

The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch

Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Ed. Ben Marcus

Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vrs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink, David Margolick

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Hilda and Pearl, Alice Mattison

Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel

Tears of Autumn, Charles McCarry

The Cowboy Way, David McCumber

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Maximum City, Suketu Mehta

The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

Collected Essays, Michel de Montaigne

The Diviners,
Rick Moody

Crossing Three Wildernesses, U Sam Oeur

The Assassins' Gate, George Packer

Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins

Shoot!, Luigi Pirandello

Furtherance, J.H. Prynne

Dancing on Tisha b'Av, Lev Raphael

Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr.

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991, Adrienne Cecile Rich

Occasional Work and 7 Walks from the Office for Soft Architechture, Lisa Robertson

Charlie's World: The Improbable Adventures of a Hong Kong Cockatoo and his American Family, Audrey Ronning Topping

Blindness, Jose Saramago

The Cave, Jose Saramago

Persepolis I & II, Marjane Satrapi

The Handwriting on the Wall, Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Open Doors and Three Novellas, Leonardo Sciascia

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton

Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems (American Poetry Project), Karl Shapiro

Ferlinghetti: The Artist in his Time, Barry Silesky

Salt Water Amnesia, Jeffrey Skinner

On Beauty, Zadie Smith

The Finishing School, Muriel Spark

On Borrowed Words, Ilan Stavans

American Fried, Calvin Trillin

Wagner on Conducting, Richard Wagner

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, David Foster Wallace

Mad Science in Imperial City, Shanxing Wang

Eating Well for Optimum Health, Andrew Weil

The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West

A Married Man, Edmund White

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

Honored Guest, Joy Williams

Europe Central, William T. Vollman

Candide, Voltaire 

Nedjma, Kateb Yacine

Girls for Breakfast, David Yoo

Marie Antoinette, Stefan Zweig


What was the best book you read this year?

Mother's Milk, Edward St. Aubyn

Madras on Rainy Days, Samina Ali

Spectrum: From Left to Right in the World of Ideas, Perry Anderson

Case Histories, Kate Atkinson

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

The Sea, John Banville

The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter

The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, Ted Berrigan

Goodbye, Goodness, Sam Brumbaugh

2666, Roberto Bolaņo

Tattoo for a Slave, Hortense Calisher

How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines, Kazimiera Janina Cottam

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir, Nick Flynn

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Howards End, E.M. Forster

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

Curzon: Imperial Statesman, David Gilmour

No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

Ralph Ingersoll: A Biography, Roy Hoopes

The World According to Garp, John Irving

The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek

War Trash, Ha Jin

The Known World, Edward P. Jones

Lapis: Poems, Robert Kelly

Independent People, Halldor Laxness

The Knight, Death and the Devil, Ella Leffland

De Kooning's Bicycle, Robert Long

Property, Valerie Martin

Saturday, Ian McEwan

Enough : Staying Human in an Engineered Age, Bill McKibben

Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

New and Selected Poems : Volume Two, Mary Oliver

When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka

Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Five Days in Philadelphia, Charles Peters

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

The Crocodile Bird, Ruth Rendell

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

A Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories, Roxana Robinson

Last Night, James Salter

Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi

Austerlitz, Winfried Georg Sebald

Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen

The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Angel of Forgetfulness, Steve Stern

In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World, John Thackara

The Saddest Pleasure : A Journey on Two Rivers, Moritz Thomsen

Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945, Seymour Topping

Stone Bow Prayer, Amy Uyematsu

New and Collected Poems, Richard Wilbur
 
Stoner, John Edward Williams

That Special Place: New World Irish Stories, Terence Winch

The Particulars of Rapture : Reflections on Exodus, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

Kindsight: Images and Words From the Flow, Robert Zuckerman
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