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About Me
- Ms. Mona
- A mere accountant with a love of books and poetry and Shakespeare.
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Last 50 (or so) Books Read
- The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga
- Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
- Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
- Free Food For Millionaires - Min Jin Lee
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- On Beauty - Zadie Smith
- The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
- Endymion - Dan Simmons
- The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- My French Whore - Gene Wilder
- The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
- Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
- The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) - Peter Sagal
- Space Opera - Jack Vance
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Bill Bryson
- If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
- Variable Star - Heinlein/Robinson
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree, Jr.
- The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
- The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
- The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
- The Brambles - Eliza Minot
- Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
- Adverbs: A Novel - Daniel Handler
- Freddy and Fredericka - Mark Helprin
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sea - John Banville
- Refiner's Fire - Mark Helprin
- The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets - Ted Kooser
- Everyman - Philip Roth
- Saturday - Ian McEwan
- How to be Alone: Essays - Jonathan Franzen
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- How to Be Good - Nick Hornby
- The Fall of a Sparrow - Robert Hellenga
- Murther and Walking Spirits - Robertson Davies
- Break, Blow, Burn : Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems - Camille Paglia
- Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry - Billy Collins
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror - CHristopher Moore
- The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
- Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
- Chasing Shakespeares - Sarah Smith
- The Calligrapher - Edward Docx
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit - Alan Lightman
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