Number of pages: 40,762
Mean pages/book: 250.07
Books of the world (first book for the country, and read in 2009): 57 + indigenous Australia
1. Outhine Bounyavon; Bounheng Inversin and Daniel Duffy (Eds.): Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos (Laos)
2. Dar Penney, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler (photographer): The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
3. Marjane Satrapi: Embroideries
4. M. T. Anderson: The Game of Sunken Places
5. M. T. Anderson: The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
6. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (Philippines)
7. Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
8. Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book
9. M. T. Anderson: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves
10. Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
11. Warren Fellows with Jack Marx: The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison (Thailand)
12. Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
13. François Bizot: The Gate
14. Banana Yoshimoto: N.P.
15. Nakagawa Kasumi: Gender-based Violence During the Khmer Rouge Regime: Stories of Survivors from the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) (2nd ed.)
16. Richard Totman: The Third Sex: Kathoey--Thailand's Ladyboys
17. Somaly Mam: The Road of Lost Innocence
18. Nophea Sasaki: Walking away from the Killing Fields: How a Hopeless Boy Became a University Professor in Japan
19. Nakagawa Kasumi: More Than White Cloth? Women's Rights in Cambodia
20. Daniel Mont: A Different Kind of Boy: A Father's Memoir about Raising a Gifted Child with Autism
21. Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
22. Cullen Thomas: Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons (South Korea)
23. Stephen Levine: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
24. Michael Webster and Chew Yen Fook: A Photographic Guide to Birds of Thailand
25. Peter Davidson: A Photographic Guide to Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
26. Elinor Burkett: So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places
27. Chingiz Aïtmatov: Jamilia (Kyrgyzstan)
28. Barbara Cervone (Ed.): In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba through the Eyes of Its Youth
29. Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time (Pakistan)
30. Max Barry: Jennifer Government
31. Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves: Interworld
32. Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
33. Robert Mankoff (Ed.): The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book
34. Orson Scott Card: Ender in Exile
35. Ron Kovic: Born on the Fourth of July
36. Stanley Karnow: Vietnam: A History
37. Bertil Lintner and Michael Black: Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle
38. Bibish: The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom (Uzbekistan)
39. Abdourahman A. Waberi: In the United States of Africa (Djibouti)
40. Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London. Never Made Public Before
41. Nu Nu Yi: Smile as They Bow (Burma/Myanmar)
42. Alexandre Najjar: The School of War (Lebanon)
43. Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The Fugitive (Indonesia)
44. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
45. M. T. Anderson: Thirsty
46. Fanj Andriamialisoa, Ian Sinclair, and Olivier Langrand: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros (Madagascar)
47. Eve Brown-Waite: First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
48. Dave Eggers: What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel (Sudan)
49. Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto: Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer (Belize)
50. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
51. Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
52. Stephenie Meyer: New Moon
53. Jaan Kaplinski: The Wandering Border (Estonia)
54. Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino; Paul Collins (Ed.): English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook of the English Language, Written by Men to Whom English Was Entirely Unknown
55. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
56. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977 (Vatican City)
57. Doris Pilkington: The Rabbit-proof Fence (indigenous Australia)
58. Nancy Mankins: Hostage: The Incredible True Story of the Kidnapping of Three American Missionaries (Panama)
59. Anne Best: The Monk, the Farmer, the Merchant, the Mother: Survival Stories of Rural Cambodia
60. Unknown: Guida fotografica di San Marino ( San Marino)
61. Albert Wendt (Ed.): Some Modern Poetry from the Solomon Islands (Solomon Islands)
62. Hisham Matar: In the Country of Men (Libya)
63. Black Stone: Grace Mera Molisa (Vanuatu)
64. Dreams of a Rainbow (Moemoea a te Anuanua): Kauraka Kauraka (Cook Islands)
65. Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love: Myron Uhlberg
66. Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
67. Vartan Derounian (Photographer) and Alidz Jebijian-Agbabian: Dzalabadig: Images of Survival (Armenia)
68. Blaga Dimitrova: Because the Sea Is Black (Bulgaria)
69. Ts. Bold (Ed.): Some Short Stories from Mongolia (Mongolia)
70. Julie Phillips: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
71. Emerson Spartz & Ben Schoen with Jeanne Kimsey: Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died: Controversial Views from the #1 Fan Site
72. Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson: Peter and the Starcatchers
73. Zayd Mutee' Dammaj: The Hostage (Yemen)
74. Dalai Lama XIV: How to See Yourself As You Really Are (Tibet)
75. Kathryn Davis: The Thin Place
76. Elvia Alvarado: Don't Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado (Honduras)
77. Mohja Kahf: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Syria)
78. Alois Kayser: Nauru One Hundred Years Ago: 3. Games and Sports (Nauru)
79. Helene Cooper: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (Liberia)
80. Semisi Nau: The Story of my Life: A Tongan Missionary at Ontong Java (Tonga)
81. Jonathan Stroud: Heroes of the Valley
82. Angelina Jolie: Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
83. Ammon Shea: Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
84. Sarah Vowell: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
85. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn
86. Yoko Tawada: The Bridegroom Was a Dog
87. Stephenie Meyers: Midnight Sun
88. Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore (Eds.): The Best American Comics 2006
89. William Alexander: The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
90. Ismail Kadare: The Palace of Dreams (Albania)
91. Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts
92. David Standish: The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World
93. Michael Scott: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
94. Alain Mabanckou: African Psycho (Congo-Brazzaville)
95. David Shipley and Will Schwalbe: Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
96. Palau: Republic of Palau Ministry of Education: Education Master Plan 2006-2016, Republic of Palau (Palau)
97. Lev Grossman: The Magicians
98. Richardo Keens-Douglas and Annouchka Galouchko: The Nutmeg Princess (Grenada)
99. Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One)
100. Solly Ganor: Light One Candle A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem (Lithuania)
101. Kris Holloway: Mali: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (Mali)
102. Edward Steichen: The Family of Man (Luxembourg)
103. Rick Riordan: The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two)
104. Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
105. Philip Roth: The Ghost Writer
106. John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
107. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
108. Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
109. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground
110. Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
111. Amy Tan: Saving Fish from Drowning
112. Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
113. Dan Brown: Deception Point
114. Grigore Vieru: Bread and Dew: Stories by a Moldavian Writer (Moldavia)
115. Susan Jane Gilman: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
116. Nathacha Appanah: Blue Bay Palace (Mauritius)
117. Anthony Bourdain: Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
118. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
119. Lev Grossman: The Magicians
120. Bamboté: Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui (Central African Republic)
121. Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
122. Miriam H. Huggins: Miriam Gone Home: The Life of Sister Huggins (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
123. Princess Grace of Monaco: My Book of Flowers (Monaco)
124. Brian Preston-Campbell: Cool Waters: 50 Refreshing, Healthy Homemade Thirst-Quenchers
125. Rick Riordan: The Titan's Curse ((Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three)
126. Gertrude "Cleo" Lythgoe: The Bahama Queen: The Autobiography of Gertrude "Cleo" Lythgoe (Bahamas)
127. Hergé: Tintin in America (Belgium)
128. Thomas Beattie: Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy
129. Sholom Aleichem: The Tevye Stories and Others (Ukraine)
130. Rick Riordan: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Four)
131. Norma Khouri: Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern Day Jordan
132. Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit: Prehistoric Malta: Tarxien Temples and Saflieni Hypogeum (Malta)
133. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar Understanding Philosophy through Jokes
134. Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
135. Samad Beh-Rang: The Little Black Fish
136. Vivian Child: City of Arches: Memories of an Island Capital, Kingstown, St. Vincent and The Grenadines (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
137. Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Queen of Bhutan: Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan (Bhutan)
138. Joseph Brahim Seid: Told Starlight in Chad (Chad)
139. Peter Chapman: Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
140. Benjamin Nugent: American Nerd: The Story of My People
141. Rick Riordan: The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five)
142. Gita Mehta: Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
143. Liz Banks: Maldives Musings (Maldives)
144. Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
145. Samantha Weinberg: A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Comoros place-holder)
146. Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
147. J. Maarten Troost: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Kiribati place-holder)
148. Robin McKinley: Sunshine
149. Slavko Janevski: The Bandit Wind Poems (Macedonia)
150. Michael Bell: Scouts in Bondage and Other Violations of Literary Propriety
151. Andy Behrman: Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
152. Henry Nalaielua: No Footprints in the Sand: A Memoir of Kalaupapa
153. Terri Cheney: Manic: A Memoir
154. Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
155. George W. Staples and Robert H. Cowie: Hawai'i's Invasive Species: A Guide to Invasive Plants and Animals in the Hawaiian Islands
156. Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack: Our Cancer Year
157. Oni Vitandham: On the Wings of a White Horse: A Cambodian Princess's Story of Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide
158. Meng-Try Ea and Sorya Sim: Victims and Perpetrators? Testimony of Young Khmer Rouge Comrades (Documentation Series No. 1)
159. Arif K. Abukhudairi: Thoughts of the Times: Introduction to Arabic Literature (Brunei)
160. Gregory Moiseyevich Levin: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden (Turkmenistan)
161. Thomas Hollowell: Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert (Western Sahara)
162. Kevin Kelly: Entertaining Your Indoor Cat: 50 Fun and Inventive Amusements for Your Cat
163. Michael Chabon: Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
Reading goals for 2010:
*104 books
*20 books already in hand as of 1/1/10
*34 Books of the World
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