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Fiction: Right in the Middle

Date Finished	Title	Author	Theme	Rating
7/3/09	Divisadero	Michael Ondaatje	Fiction	2.5
6/19/09	Outcasts United	Warren St. John	Refugee Youth Soccer Team in Georgia	3.5
6/19/09	The Best American Sports Writing 2008	William Nack (ed.)	See title	3
5/25/09	Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness	Thaler and Sunstein	See title	4
5/11/09	The Friday Night Knitting Club	Kate Jacobs	Fiction	2.5
4/5/09	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	Fiction	4
3/11/09	Slam	Nick Hornby	Fiction	1.5
3/1/09	The Brief Wondrous LIfe of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz	Fiction	2.5
12/11/08	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	Fiction	4
11/22/08	Absurdistan	Gary Shteyngart	Fiction	3.5
11/14/08	The Man of My Dreams	Curtis Sittenfeld	Fiction	2.75
11/7/08	Three Cups of Tea	Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin	Building Schools in Pakistan	4
10/26/08	The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	Fiction	2.5
09/16/08	Better	Atul Gawande	Doctorin'	3
07/25/08	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	Fiction	4
07/16/08	Until I Find You	John Iriving	Fiction	3.25
06/29/08	Land of a Thousand Hills	Rosamond halsey Carr and Ann Howard Halsey	Life in Rwanda	2.5
06/18/08	Unaccustomed Earth	Jhumpa Lahiri	Short Stories	3
06/10/08	In Defense of Food	Michael Pollan	Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.	4
06/01/08	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	Michael Chabon	Fiction	4
05/15/08	God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything	Christopher Hitchens	Take a guess	2
04/14/08	The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	Fiction	3
04/03/08	On Chesil Beach	Ian McEwan	Fiction	2.5
03/27/08	Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Marisha Pessl	Fiction	2
03/13/08	Thunderstruck	Erik Larson	Marconi and a Murderer	3
03/03/08	Eat, Pray, Love	Elizabeth Gilbert	Travel	3.5
01/31/08	The Best American Sports Writing	David Maraniss (ed.)	Sports Writing	3
01/26/08	What is the What	Dave Eggers	Fiction	3.5
01/01/08	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	Fiction	1
12/14/07	The Omnivore's Dilemma	Michael Pollan	What we eat	4
12/10/07	Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown	Paul Theroux	Travel	4
12/7/07	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	Fiction	2
10/14/07	The Professor and the Madman	Simon Winchester	Making of the OED	3
9/6/07	The History of Love	Nicole Krauss	Fiction	2
8/24/07	Not on our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond	Done Cheadle and John Prendergast	Darfur	4
8/1/07	Put Out More Flags	Evelyn Waugh	Fiction	1
07/21/07	Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman	Yvon Chouinard	Autobio/Patagonia	3
07/15/07	Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	Fiction	3
07/10/07	Indiscretions of Archie	P.G. Wodehouse	Fiction	4
02/18/07	The Best American Sports Writing 2006	ed. Michael Lewis	Sports	3
02/07/07	The Tender Bar	JR Moehringer	Growing up in a bar	3
12/31/06	Illicit: How smugglers, trafickers, and copycats are hijacking the global economy	Moises Naim	Illicit Trade	3
12/22/06	Goodnight Nobody	Jennifer Weiner	Fiction	2
12/16/06	Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor	Sudhir Venkatesh	...in Chicago	3
11/21/06	Back When We Were Grownups	Anne Tyler	Fiction	2
10/21/06	There are Jews in My House	Lara Vapnyar	Fiction	1
10/07/06	The Devil Wears Prada	Lauren Weisberger	Fiction	2.5
9/27/06	Covering	Kenji Yoshino	Identity/Civil rights	3.5
9/22/06	Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	4
9/14/06	Wisdom of Crowds	James Surowiecki	See title	2
07/20/06	White Teeth	Zadie Smith	Fiction	1
06/30/06	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Jonathan Safran Foer	Fiction	3
06/23/06	Autograph Man	Zadie Smith	Fiction	3
06/09/06	You Shall Know our Velocity	Dave Eggers	Fiction	2
05/29/06	Salt: A World History	Mark Kurlansky	Guess	3
04/27/06	Prep	Curtis Sittenfeld	Fiction	3
04/19/06	Eats, Shoots and Leaves	Lynn Truss	Punctuation	3
04/16/06	Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble	Lester Brown	Global environment	3
03/7/06	I am Charlotte Simmons	Tom Wolfe	Fiction	3
01/22/06	Prague	Arthur Phillips	Fiction	2
01/07/06	Confederates in the Attic	Tony Horwitz	The Confederacy lives on	3
12/19/05	Blink	Malcolm Gladwell	Instant judgment psychology	3
12/11/05	The Other Boleyn Girl	Philippa Gregory	Fiction	2
11/12/05	Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life	Jon Lee Anderson	Che	3
09/15/05	Freakonomics	Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner	Daily life economics	3
07/10/05	My Brother	Jamaica Kincaid	Her brother, death, AIDS	3
07/04/05	Diary	Chuck Palahniuk	Fiction	2
06/22/05	The Pardox of Choice	Barry Schwartz	Maximizers and Satisficers	2
06/14/05	Nobody's Fool	Richard Russo	Fiction	4-
05/31/05	Tortilla Flat	John Steinbeck	Fiction	2
05/24/05	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat	Oliver Sacks	Clinical Neurology Cases	2
05/17/05	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	Chicago World's Fair	2
05/10/05	The Moon is Down	John Steinbeck	Fiction	3
05/03/05	On the Take	Jerome P. Kassimer	Medical conflicts of interest	3
04/26/05	The Bookseller of Kabul	Asne Seierstad	A family in kabul	3
04/22/05	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man	John Perkins	Corporatocracy	3
04/11/05	To Know a Woman	Amos Oz	Fiction	3
04/05/05	The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	Fiction	2
03/26/05	The Known World	Edward P. Jones	Fiction	2
03/03/05	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Fiction	3
02/17/05	Feminism is for Everybody	bell hooks	white supremacist capitalist patriarchy	2
02/10/05	The Working Poor	David K. Shipler	The Edge of Poverty	4
02/01/05	Slim's Table	Mitchell Duneier	Ethnography of Urban Blacks in Chicago	3
01/28/05	Karma Cola	Gita Mehta	India in the hippy days	2
01/24/05	Random Family	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (ed.)	A Struggling Family in NY	4
01/18/05	The Best American Sports Writing 2004	Richard Ben Cramer (ed.)	Take a Guess	3
01/13/05	Atonement	Ian McEwan	Fiction	3
01/06/05	The Verificationist	Donald Antrim	Fiction	1
01/04/05	Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels	Anne Garrels	Like the Title Says	3
12/31/04	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	Fiction	3
12/11/04	Killing Pablo	Mark Bowden	Hunting Pablo Escobar	4
11/28/04	Fury	Salman Rushdie	Fiction	2
11/17/04	House of Sand and Fog	Andre Dubus III	Fiction	3
11/09/04	Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee	Fiction	3
10/15/04	Fargo Rock City	Chuck Klosterman	80s Metal	3
09/29/04	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	Fiction	2
09/23/04	Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	Paul Farmer/Public Health	4
09/06/04	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	Fiction	3
08/30/04	The Namesake	Jhumpa Lahiri	Fiction	3
08/20/04	Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar Nafisi	Books and Iran	3
07/30/04	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly	Anthony Bourdain	Restaurant Biz	3
07/27/04	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim	David Sedaris	Humor	2
07/25/04	My Name is Red	Orhan Pamuk	Fiction	2
07/09/04	Everything is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer	Fiction	2
07/05/04	The Mystic Masseur	V.S. Naipaul	Fiction	2
07/03/04	Miguel Street	V.S. Naipaul	Fiction	2
06/21/04	My Name is Asher Lev	Chaim Potok	Fiction	2 "Little short of a work of genius" - NYT Book Review
06/18/04	Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science	Atul Gawande	Uncertainty of Medicine	3
06/14/04	The Winter of our Discontent	John Steinbeck	Fiction	3
06/09/04	Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right	Al Franken	Political Humor	3.25
06/02/04	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	Fiction	3.25
05/26/04	Crossing to Safety	Wallace Stegner	Fiction	3
05/18/04	The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd	Fiction	3
05/12/04	Bengal Nights	Mircea Eliade	Fiction	3.5
05/08/04	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	Fiction	3.25
05/05/04	From Empire to Community	Amitai Etzioni	International Relations	3
04/20/04	The Piano Tuner	Daniel Mason	Fiction	3.25
03/28/04	Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	Fiction	3.25
03/15/04	The Best American Sports Writing 2003		Sports	2.5
02/13/04	The Best American Travel Writing 2003		Travel	2.5
01/03/04	Haroun and the Sea of Stories	Salman Rushdie	Fiction	1.5
12/12/03	Waiting	Norman Rush	Fiction	3.5
11/09/03	Under the Banner of Heaven	Jon Krakauer	Mormonism	3
10/20/03	Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition	Ed Regis	Technology, space	3
10/07/03	Stupid White Men	Michael Moore	See title	2
10/04/03	The Russian Debutante's Handbook	Gary Shteyngart	Fiction	3.5
09/25/03	Native Speaker	Change-Rae Lee	Fiction	2.5
09/18/03	Tomcat in Love	Tim O'Brien	Fiction	3.75
09/14/03	The Cheating of America	Charles Lewis, Bill Allison	Tax Evasion	3
09/06/03	In Her Shoes	Jennifer Weiner	Fiction	3.25
08/27/03	The Alchemist	Paolo Coelho	Fiction	4
08/26/03	Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food	Kathleen Hart	Bioengineered foods	3
08/22/03	East of Eden	John Steinbeck	Fiction	3.5
08/14/03	The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad	Fareed Zakaria	Global Democracy Trends	3.5
08/11/03	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	Fiction	2.25
08/08/03	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Fiction	3.2
07/20/03	Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out	Mike Gray	U.S. Drug Policy	3.5
07/06/03	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	Fiction	2.5
07/04/03	Cider House Rules	John Irving	Fiction	3.5
06/24/03	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	Fiction	3
06/15/03	Walking the Bible	Bruce Feiler	Bible, History, Travel	3
06/08/03	Reefer Madness	Eric Schlosser	Dope, Labor, Porn	3
06/05/03	To the Grassroots with Bill Clinton	Paul Root (editor)	Governor Clinton	1.5
06/02/03	Family Matters	Rohinton Mistry	Fiction	3
05/23/03	The Human Stain	Philip Roth	Fiction	3.5
05/12/03	Ravelstein	Saul Bellow	Fiction	1.5
05/2/03	We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda	Philip Gourevitch	Rwanda	2.5
04/22/03	No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies	Naomi Klein	Globalization	2.5
04/21/03	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	Fiction	The Bomb
04/05/03	Balzac and the Little Chinese Princess	Dai Sijie	Fiction	3
04/02/03	How to Overthrow the Government	Arianna Huffington	Politics	2
3/30/03	Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-day Jordan	Norman Khouri	Honor Killings	3.5
3/26/03	Confessions of a Union Buster	Martin Jay Levitt	Union Busting	3.5
3/24/03	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	Fiction	3.5
3/17/03	The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s	Paul Krugman	Economics	2.5
3/11/03	The News about the News	Leonard Downie and Robert Kaiser	Media	3
03/08/03	Paradise	Toni Morrison	Fiction	2
2/22/03	Coyotes	Ted Conover	Immigration	3.5
2/19/03	Best American Sports Writing 2002		Sports	2
2/17/03	How to Be Good	Nick Hornsby	Fiction	2.5
2/13/03	John Adams	David McCullough	Biography	4
02/10/03	The Pickup	Nadine Gordimer	Fiction	3
1/23/03	Best American Travel Writing 2002		Travel	3
12/22/02	Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	Short Stories	3
12/22/02	Crashing the Party	Ralph Nader	Campaign 2000	2.5
12/12/02	Tipping the Velvet	Sarah Waters	Fiction	2
12/4/02	From Beirut to Jerusalem	Thomas Friedman	Middle East	4
11/12/02	Amerika	Franz Kafka	Fiction	3.5
10/15/02	Bastard out of Carolina	Dorothy Allison	Fiction	3
9/17/02	Love and Longing in Bombay	Vikram Chandra	Short Story	2.5
9/17/02	Bel Canto	Ann Patchett	Fiction	2.5
9/11/02	Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen	International Development	3
	Tunnel Vision	Keith Lowe	Fiction	1
	Soros on Globalization	George Soros	Globalization	2
	Empire Falls	Richard Russo	Fiction	4
	Fast Food Nation	Eric Schlosser	Meat Industry	3
	The Food Revolution	John Robbins	Plant-Based Diets	4
	Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver	Fiction	4