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What we've read, are reading, and are about to read

Not necessarily in that order.

Next Book

Napoleon's Buttons by Penny Le Couteur (September 2010)

Current Book

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill (August 2010)

MonkeyMeter™ Ratings

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Great       Good    Mediocre    Poor       Awful     Unrated

Past Books

NeutralFood Politics by Marion Nestle (July 2010)
FairThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (June 2010)
NeutralThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (May 2010)
NeutralSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson (April 2010)
NeutralThe Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul (March 2010)
FairThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (February 2010)
FairSuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Decanuary 2009/2010)
NeutralThunderstruck by Erik Larson (November 2009)
NeutralThe Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti (October 2009)
NeutralThe Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (September 2009)
NeutralBonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach (August 2009)
NeutralIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan (July 2009)
NeutralUntil I Find You by John Irving (June 2009)
NeutralThe Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor (May 2009)
FairThe Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick (April 2009)
NeutralPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (March 2009)
NeutralThe Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (February 2009)
FairThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Decanuary 2008/2009)
FairA Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas (November 2008)
FairThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (October 2008)
NeutralThe Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey (September 2008)
FairA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Byrson (August 2008)
FairAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (July 2008)
FairThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (June 2008)
FairThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak (May 2008)
NeutralThe Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of A K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective by Kathy Albrecht (April 2008)
GoodNerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them by David Anderegg (March 2008)
UndecidedThe Old Put: New York Central Putnam Division by Joe Schiavone and Brian Vangor (February 2008)
FairThe Road by Cormac McCarthy (interim February 2008)
NeutralHandmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Decanuary 2007/2008)
GoodWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen (November 2007)
FairThe Game by Neil Strauss (October 2007)
GoodBeware of God by Shalom Auslander (September 2007)
FairAssassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (August 2007)
Bad The Story of O by Pauline Reage (July 2007)
FairA Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson (June 2007)
NeutralThe Gunslinger by Stephen King (May 2007)
FairStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (April 2007)
FairThe Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (March 2007)
Not GoodJust So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (February 2007)
GoodEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Decanuary 2006/2007)
FairRunning With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (November 2006)
FairStranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (October 2006)
FairThe Devil In The White City by Erik Larson (September 2006)
NeutralThe Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara (August 2006)
UndecidedShopgirl by Steve Martin (July 2006)
UndecidedThe Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel (June 2006)
GoodMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (May 2006)
FairWatership Down by Richard Adams (April 2006)
FairNaked by David Sedaris (March 2006)
FairFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (February 2006)
FairAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman (Decanuary 2005/2006)
FairThe Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
by Bob Woodward (November 2005)

Not GoodMeeting Across the River by various authors (October 2005)
FairThe Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman (September 2005)
FairThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (August 2005)
BadThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (July 2005)
NeutralWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire (June 2005)

FairA Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton (May 2005)
FairThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the
Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (April 2005)

NeutralGood Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (March 2005)
GoodThe Descent of Man by T. C. Boyle (February 2005)
FairSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Decanuary 2004/2005)
NeutralThe Alienist by Caleb Carr (November 2004)
GoodMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (October 2004)
NeutralThe Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (September 2004)
GoodThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (August 2004)
FairThe Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (July 2004)
FairBrave New World by Aldous Huxley (June 2004)
Not GoodThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin (May 2004)
Fair1984 by George Orwell (April 2004)
FairThe Stranger by Albert Camus (March 2004)
Bad Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (February 2004)
GoodLife of Pi by Yann Martel (Decanuary 2003/2004)
NeutralNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich(November 2003)

NeutralA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller (October 2003)
FairThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (September 2003)
UndecidedThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (August 2003)
FairThe Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (July 2003)

Future Books?

The Proposed Book List takes the form of an Amazon Wish List. Nobody is promising that we will read all of those books. See the Info & FAQs page for more information.