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- This Is Where I Leave You
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- The Girl on the Train
- Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- God Bless the Squirrel Cage
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- Another Kind of Monday
- White Bird in a Blizzard
- Love is a Dog From Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
- Grace’s Guide: The Art of Pretending to be a Grown-Up
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
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- The Devil’s Game
- When I Was Five I Killed Myself
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- Luckiest Girl Alive
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- Ten Days in a Mad-house
- We All Looked Up
- Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
- Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together
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- Animal Farm
- Dear Committee Members
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- Sea of Trees
- Matilda
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- Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour
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Eleventh Stack 
I don’t think you failed at all. You spent your year reading, learning new things and finding new favorites.
That’s a nice way of looking at it. :) Thanks for reading!
–Ross
I’m sure reading 70 books is an achievement in itself. Okay so you fell 30 short of your target but don’t beat yourself up over that. I have to agree with the “follow up” to Mockingbird, it was very disappointing. Neither wonder then that it took so long to be published.
I’m not the avid reader I once was, partly my eyes and partly lack of time. Your list contains a few books I have read and others I wouldn’t mind reading at some point. Thank you for your views and the list.
You should definitely check out some of the ones you want to read at some point.
Thanks for reading!
–Ross
You’re welcome 😄
Thanks for posting.. I’m gonna read some Bukowski now thanks to your selection of his poetry. I used to think he wasn’t my speed but I perhaps I was too young then to really make that decision.
Sometimes age can totally impair the enjoyment of a book. Enjoy Bukowski and thanks for reading!
–Ross
I find it hard enough to get through about 50 a year, let alone writing up reviews of them all…
The joys of working in a library/enjoying writing. ;)
Thanks for reading!
–Ross
I found “Watchman” worth reading, though it was much less sophisticated than “Mockingbird”. It does require that we acknowledge the clay feet of our idols, does it not? It also reads much more like a graduate student writing exercise than “Mockingbird”, so I found it jarring, but also enlightening about the not-so-subtle racism of that time and, because we have not so adroitly addressed it and all that follows, of our present time.
True that novels like this are always interesting as portals to the past, but I think the “jarring” aspect you mention is one of the reasons the novel didn’t land for me.
Thanks for reading!
–Ross
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Tried to read Roth: hated it. Can’t even remember which one, but supposedly one of the “best.” Enjoyed your post very much! Inspires me to write my own 2015 review….
Glad to see I’m not alone. :)
Thanks for reading!
–Ross