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1. THE ALCHEMIST, Paulho Coelho
2. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE, James Kelman
4. THE SOUND AND THE FURY, William Faulkner
5. GLAMORAMA, Bret Easton Ellis
6. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, Evelyn Waugh
7. CATCH-22, Joseph Heller
8. SATURDAY, Ian McEwan
9. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, Tim O’Brien
10. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie
11. THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath
12. HERZOG, Saul Bellow
13. MARCH, Geraldine Brooks
14. THREE CUPS OF TEA, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
15. IN COLD BLOOD, Truman Capote
16. WE WERE THE MULVANEYS, Joyce Carol Oates
17. CHOKE, Chuck Palahniuk
18. THE HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON, Jose Saramago
19. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers
20. THE HA-HA, Dave King
21. ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Mona Simpson
22. WHITE NOISE, Don DeLillo
23. SARAH’S KEY, Tatiana De Rosnay
24. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Cormac McCarthy
25. PALACE WALK, Naguib Mahfouz
26. SNOW, Orhan Pamuk
27. THE SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, Dalia Sofer
28. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, James Baldwin
29. AT SWIM, TWO BOYS, Jamie O’Neill
30. WEST OF THE JORDAN, Laila Halaby
31. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Ernest Hemingway
33. PREP, Curtis Sittenfeld
34. WHEN THE EMPORER WAS DIVINE, Julie Otsuka
35. 1984, George Orwell
36. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, Jonathan Safran Foer
37. KAFKA ON THE SHORE, Haruki Murakami
38. I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, Bill Bryson
39. PEACE LIKE A RIVER, Leif Enger
40. SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME, Mary McGarry Morris
41. STUPEUR ET TREMBLEMENTS, Amelie Nothomb
42. THE KNOW-IT-ALL, A.J. Jacobs
43. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde
44. THE NAME OF THE ROSE, Umberto Eco
45. FAHRENHEIT 451, Ray Bradbury
46. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, Robert A. Heinlein
47. THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, Michael Pollan
48. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, Dave Eggers
49. PERE GORIOT, Honore de Balzac
50. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, Lionel Shriver
51. JE VOUDRAIS QUE QUELQU’UN M’ATTENDE QUELQUE PART, Anna Gavalda
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States I’ve lived in:

Louisiana (New Orleans)
Illinois (Chicago)
Wisconsin (Madison)
Washington D.C. (where I live now…not a state but it’s gotta count)

States I’ve visited:

Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Minnesota
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
California
Oregon
North Carolina

States left to visit-
Maine
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Kentucky
Oklahoma
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Alaska
Hawaii
New Mexico