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In Progress:
~The Persians by Aeschylus
~Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
~The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
~Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
~The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
~The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
~The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
~Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
~The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
~In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West -
Reading Challenges:
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
~Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici
~Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
~Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
~Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust
~Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
~House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Jan 2008 - dec 2008
~Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
~The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
~Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
~The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold by Gretel Ehrlich
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