FictionThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz; "A nerdy Dominican-American struggles to escape a family curse"
Drood - Dan Simmons; "What if the scariest story ever told turned out to be real?"
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman; "This year's Newbery Medal-winner is about a boy who is raised by ghosts in a cemetery"
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini; "A friendship between two Afghan women against the backdrop of 30 years of war"
Non-FictionBeyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism - William H Goetzmann
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism - Geoff Nicholson
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan; "Tracking food from soil to plate"
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis - George Makari; "maps out the Freud family tree with all its thorny branches, its disciples and dissenters"
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell; "A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads"
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I've been trying to read the Tipping Point for a while now. It was one of the books on my list when I was pregnant, but every time I went to the library it said it was available, but it was never on the shelf. And then I just forgot about it.
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