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Catch-22 is such a great book! :)

Right now I'm reading several travel books b/c I have to apply to study abroad programs in the fall, so I figure I should get a head start!

I plan on re-reading the DaVinci Code and Catcher in the Rye next week.

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***Books read this Winter and Spring***

1. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (completed)

2. Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Post Partum Depression by Brooke Shields (completed)

3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (completed)

4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (3/4 of the book)

5. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (completed)

6. The Encyclopedia of Magic & Witchcraft by Susan Greenwood (1/2)

7. Living Issues in Philosophy by Harold Titus, Marilyn Smith, Richard Nolan (approximately 1/2)

8. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey via Oprah ;)

9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (completed)

10. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (completed)

11. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (completed)

12. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (completed)

13. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (zoned out approximately 1/2 way)

14. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (completed)

15. The Case for Hillary Clinton by Susan Estrich (completed)

16. Blood Brother: 33 Reasons Why My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty by Anne Bird (completed)

17. Angela Davis: An Autobiography (2/3 completed)

18. Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge by William A. Haviland, et. all

19. Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior by Dennis Coon (1/2 to 2/3 completed)

20. Art History by Marilyn Stokstad (1/2 to 2/3 completed)

21. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (completed)

22. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America by Dr. Rose (completed and w/autograph)

23. Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy by Dr. Rose (completed and w/autograph)

24. Feminism (completed and w/Angela Y. Davis autograph)

25. The Complete All My Children Family Scrapbook by Gary Warner (completed and w/autograph from Mr. Warner)

26. The Broker by John Grisham (completed)

27. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (completed)

28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (completed)

29. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (completed)

***Texts I plan on starting soon***

1. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter

2. Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice--And How You Can Win Your Own Battles by Gloria Allred with Deborah Caulfield Rybak

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

5. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

6. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

7. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

8. Not One More Mother's Child by Cindy Sheehan

9. Chief Red Fox Is Dead: A History of Native Americans, since 1945 by James J. Rawls

10. California: An Interpretive History w/Map Poster by James J. Rawls

11. Introduction to Physical Anthropology by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan

12. Nature's Perfect Food by E. Melanie DuPuis

13. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

14. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

15. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Clayborne Carson

16. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

17. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

18. King Lear by William Shakespeare

19. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

20. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

21. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

22. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

23. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

24. Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

25. Beloved by Maya Angelou

26. The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim

27. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

28. Two Treatises on Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, Ian Shapiro (editor)

29. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

30. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (Volume I) by Rene Descartes, et al

31. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

32. About Behaviorism by B.F. Skinner

33. Principles of Political Economy (Great Mind) by John Stuart Mills

34. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

35. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

36. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber, et al

37. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice by Craig Reinarman (Editor) and Harry G. Levine (Editor)

38. Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harrassment Law by Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler (if you do not have time to read this, I suggest watching North Country)

39. The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken

40. Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken

41. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

42. Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and The Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein

43. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History) by Juan Williams, Julian Bond (introduction)

44. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, et al

45. Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, no 8) by Gina Dent

46. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

47. My Life by Bill Clinton

Magazines:

*Entertainment Weekly

*Time

*TV Guide

*ESPN

*People

Newspapers:

*local*

***The New York Times***

***San Francisco Chronicle***

***The Boston Globe***

***USA Today***

***The Washington Post***

***The Los Angeles Times***

The Da Vinci Code is just splend-oar-ific

Catcher in the Rye is too depressing

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Books:

-Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Gregory Maguire)

-The Broker (John Grisham)

-El Zahir (Paulo Coelho)

-Half of "Mirror Mirror" (Gregory Maguire)

-Currently reading "Oakdale Confidential"

Magazines:

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-Entertainment Weekly

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