Books I read in 2005 (not incl. poetry or academic texts)

A Listmania! list by M. Willett "Mischa" (Seattle, WA United States)
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1.  Trowel and Error by Alan Titchmarsh
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  "Call me sentimental, or call me an Anglophile (crosses I gladly bear) but I love every minute of it."
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 (4)

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2.  My Life by Bill Clinton
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Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5 stars 699 (699)

3.  Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
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4.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling
$19.79   Used & New from: $0.48
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars 5,164 (5,164)

5.  Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez
$10.88   Used & New from: $6.63
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars 12 (12)

6.  The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$18.25   Used & New from: $2.20
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars 42 (42)

7.  How To Read and Why by Harold Bloom
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Average Customer Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars 58 (58)

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8.  The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
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Average Customer Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,202 (1,202)

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9.  Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus
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Average Customer Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars 123 (123)

10.  Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
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  "Enchanting, though mostly due to its subject"
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Average Customer Rating: 3.3 out of 5 stars 139 (139)

11.  Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust
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  "The best prose there is"
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 (13)

12.  Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: From Boom to Bust in the Number One City of the Future by Fred Moody
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  "Why we don't have streetcars, and other failures"
$12.44   Used & New from: $2.70
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 (2)

13.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
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  "The best of the lot!"
$47.25   Used & New from: $37.48
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars 5,865 (5,865)

14.  The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christie Mellor
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  "How not to become a soccer mom"
$10.36   Used & New from: $0.84
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars 54 (54)

15.  Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban
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  "The best of the year! Erudite and moving."
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Average Customer Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars 50 (50)

16.  Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency by Robert C. Byrd
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  "Brave book by a congressman, on bullying."
$17.96   Used & New from: $0.01
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars 64 (64)

17.  Creativity (pb reprint) by Matthew Fox
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  "Smart ideas mixed with laughable absurdities"
$11.86   Used & New from: $3.31

18.  Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays by John A. Haines
$24.95   Used & New from: $4.98

19.  The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken
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  "Who can argure with these facts? These laughs?"
$9.00   Used & New from: $0.01
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 486 (486)

20.  Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J. V. Hart
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  "Fun, even Shelleyan"
$12.47   Used & New from: $0.33
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars 27 (27)

   
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