It's that time of the year: the book poll. I've gotten in 41 for the year. I couldn't quite reach my goal of 50, but with a new baby, reaching any goal is a challenge. Of course, lots of my reads are related to pregnancy and babyhood this year. I can't say the hypnobirthing worked. I was cursing that book when I found it impossible to relax during labor. I was very grateful, though, for the thinking woman's guide to pregnancy.
Which of these post-apocalyptic fiction books have you read?
Ghost Country by Patrick Lee
0(0.0%)
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
7(24.1%)
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
9(31.0%)
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
0(0.0%)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
13(44.8%)
Nomansland by Lesley Hauge
0(0.0%)
Which of these other fiction books have you read?
Room by Emma Donoghue
1(4.8%)
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
12(57.1%)
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
0(0.0%)
Juliet by Anne Fortier
2(9.5%)
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
0(0.0%)
Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
0(0.0%)
Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda
0(0.0%)
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliot
1(4.8%)
Life After God by Douglas Coupland
3(14.3%)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
2(9.5%)
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
0(0.0%)
The Changeling by Kate Horsely
0(0.0%)
The Influenza Bomb by Paul McCusker
0(0.0%)
Which of these books of short stories have you read?
The Courage Consort by Michael Faber
0(0.0%)
About Time: 12 Short Stories by Jack Finney
1(4.8%)
The Gift of the Magi & Other Short Stories by O. Henry
13(61.9%)
Wasteland: Stories of the Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams
3(14.3%)
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
4(19.0%)
Which of These Books of Poetry Have You Read
Ballistics by Billy Collins
0(0.0%)
Poems by Hermann Hesse
1(100.0%)
Which of these pregnancy-related books have you read?
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer
2(18.2%)
And Baby Makes Four: A Trimester-by-trimester Guide to a Baby-friendly Dog by Penny Scott-Fox
0(0.0%)
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy by the Mayo Clinic
1(9.1%)
The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine
3(27.3%)
100,000 + Baby Names by Bruce Lansky
3(27.3%)
HypnoBirthing: the Mongan Method by Marie F. Mongan
1(9.1%)
Ina May's Guide to Child Birth by Ina May Gaskin
1(9.1%)
Which of these babyhood-related books have you read?
Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing for Baby by Lotta Jansdotter
0(0.0%)
What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff
4(57.1%)
Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Complete Common Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year - from a Pediatrician/Dad by Scott W. Cohen
2(28.6%)
The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
1(14.3%)
Parenting: Love in Spoonfuls by the Editors of Parenting Magazine
0(0.0%)
Which of these other types of non-fiction books have you read?
Blind Descent: the Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
0(0.0%)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
6(100.0%)
It's that time of the year again. Here are my 50 books read in 2009. I slacked off a bit at the end, or I would have read more. How many of these have you ever read?
Which of the following books have you ever read?
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
1(0.5%)
How to Say Goodby in Robot by Natalie Standiford
0(0.0%)
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
0(0.0%)
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
1(0.5%)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
4(2.1%)
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
1(0.5%)
Days of Little Texas by R.A. Nelson
0(0.0%)
Fragment by Warren Fahy
1(0.5%)
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
0(0.0%)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradford
23(12.1%)
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
4(2.1%)
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
1(0.5%)
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
0(0.0%)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
1(0.5%)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
29(15.3%)
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller
0(0.0%)
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
0(0.0%)
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
0(0.0%)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
18(9.5%)
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
15(7.9%)
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
0(0.0%)
US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by US Dept of Defense
1(0.5%)
American 24-Karat Gold by Yvonne Collioud Sisko
0(0.0%)
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
0(0.0%)
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant
0(0.0%)
Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
19(10.0%)
Wish her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
0(0.0%)
Faces in the Fire by T.L. Hines
0(0.0%)
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
0(0.0%)
Sprout by Dale Peck
0(0.0%)
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
0(0.0%)
The Ruins by Scott B. Smith
3(1.6%)
The Roar by Emma Clayton
1(0.5%)
A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell
0(0.0%)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
9(4.7%)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
0(0.0%)
The Foodie Handbook by Pim Techamuanvivit
0(0.0%)
Ill Wind: Weather Warden #1 by Rachel Caine
6(3.2%)
The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne
1(0.5%)
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
0(0.0%)
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
1(0.5%)
Many Waters: Time #4 by Madeleine L'Engle
12(6.3%)
Panama by Shelby Hiatt
1(0.5%)
The Midnight Charter by David Whitley
0(0.0%)
The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities by Gregg Braden
0(0.0%)
With Fate Conspire: Destiny Makers #1 by Mike Shupp
0(0.0%)
The Clan of the Cave Bear: Earth's Children by Jean M. Auel
25(13.2%)
Under My Roof by Nick Mamatas
0(0.0%)
Little Fingers by filip Florian
0(0.0%)
Masters of Verse: Thirty Poems from Late, Great Poets by Poets and Writers
0(0.0%)
None of these
12(6.3%)
I tried for 50 books this year and actually read 73.
PLEASE MARK ANY OF THESE BOOKS THAT YOU'VE EVER READ
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
23(5.1%)
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
10(2.2%)
Doctor Who: The Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner
3(0.7%)
The People of Sparks: The Second Book of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
7(1.5%)
Torchwood: Another Life by Peter Anghelides
7(1.5%)
Poems by Hermann Hesse (Selected & Translated by James Wright)
0(0.0%)
Tea: Blends, Origins, Rituals by Rob Alcraft
0(0.0%)
The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
3(0.7%)
Torchwood: Border Princes by Dan Abnett
6(1.3%)
Torchwood: Slow Decay by Andy Lane
6(1.3%)
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
7(1.5%)
A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak
3(0.7%)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
37(8.1%)
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
0(0.0%)
The Secret Tree-House by Ruth Chew
2(0.4%)
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
3(0.7%)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
14(3.1%)
March by Geraldine Brooks
4(0.9%)
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
8(1.8%)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
11(2.4%)
Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night by Jim Hensley
0(0.0%)
Ironweed by William Kennedy
2(0.4%)
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
5(1.1%)
The Lost Zoo by Christopher Cat & Countee Cullen
0(0.0%)
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
4(0.9%)
Xenogenesis: Dawn by Octavia Butler
3(0.7%)
Destiny Doll by Clifford D. Simak
2(0.4%)
Blind Speed by Josh Barkan
0(0.0%)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
27(5.9%)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
47(10.3%)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
13(2.9%)
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
17(3.7%)
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
2(0.4%)
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
1(0.2%)
There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson
7(1.5%)
On Writing by Stephen King
17(3.7%)
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts
0(0.0%)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
24(5.3%)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
10(2.2%)
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
9(2.0%)
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
6(1.3%)
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
8(1.8%)
Visit Me in California by Cooley Windsor
0(0.0%)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
8(1.8%)
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
5(1.1%)
Nation by Terry Pratchett
9(2.0%)
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
2(0.4%)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
2(0.4%)
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
0(0.0%)
Tiling 1-2-3 by The Home Depot
1(0.2%)
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
1(0.2%)
Handwriting: Poems by Michael Ondaatje
1(0.2%)
The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy by Greg Cox
0(0.0%)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
4(0.9%)
The Tsar's Dwarf by Peter H. Fogtdal
0(0.0%)
The Army of the Republic by Stuart Archer Cohen
1(0.2%)
Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout
0(0.0%)
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
0(0.0%)
The Stranger by Albert Camus
25(5.5%)
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) by Mark Bauerlein
2(0.4%)
The Collected Stories of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers
2(0.4%)
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal
0(0.0%)
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
1(0.2%)
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
0(0.0%)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
0(0.0%)
Taking the Mystique Out of Learning Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Literacy Tutors by Ricki Goldstein
0(0.0%)
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
0(0.0%)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2(0.4%)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
21(4.6%)
Treat Your Own Back by Robin McKenzie
1(0.2%)
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem
1(0.2%)
The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb
0(0.0%)
The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling
1(0.2%)
None of these
7(1.5%)
Which of these books have you read?
About Time by Jack Finney
4(2.1%)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
54(27.7%)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
16(8.2%)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
8(4.1%)
Under the Skin by Michael Faber
1(0.5%)
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
3(1.5%)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
9(4.6%)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
47(24.1%)
You're All Alone by Fritz Leiber
2(1.0%)
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
5(2.6%)
6xH: Six Stories by Robert Heinlein
6(3.1%)
After the Plague by T.C. Boyle
0(0.0%)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
14(7.2%)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
18(9.2%)
Marley and Me by John Grogan
8(4.1%)
How about these?
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
1(0.3%)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
61(19.2%)
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
2(0.6%)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
47(14.8%)
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
4(1.3%)
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure by Michael Chabon
2(0.6%)
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
0(0.0%)
Dead Bird by Verian Thomas
1(0.3%)
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
42(13.2%)
The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson
2(0.6%)
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
0(0.0%)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
65(20.4%)
The World Wtithout Us by Alan Weisman
1(0.3%)
City by Clifford D. Simak
8(2.5%)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
82(25.8%)
Perhaps some of these?
The BFG by Roald Dahl
32(8.6%)
The Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction & Steven Sanders
2(0.5%)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2(0.5%)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
67(18.1%)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
96(25.9%)
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
3(0.8%)
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
3(0.8%)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
1(0.3%)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
75(20.2%)
Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space by Phillip Reeve
3(0.8%)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
38(10.2%)
Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
44(11.9%)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
5(1.3%)
The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literature Edited by Christopher Edgar & Gary Lenhart
0(0.0%)
Bifocal by Deborah Ellis & Eric Walters
0(0.0%)
These perchance?
The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk by Philomena Keet
0(0.0%)
Candide by Voltaire
42(58.3%)
The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It by Eric A. Finkelstein & Laurie Zuckerman
2(2.8%)
The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
1(1.4%)
Run by Ann Patchett
1(1.4%)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
9(12.5%)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
17(23.6%)
This has been a pretty popular poll at the 
librarything community lately. I'm curious to see which books I've read this year have been read by other people on my friendslist.
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librarything community lately. I'm curious to see which books I've read this year have been read by other people on my friendslist.Please check the books that you have also read (not necessarily in 2006).
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time -- mark haddon
6(10.5%)
Mr. Machine Gun (The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, 7) -- Michael Chabon
0(0.0%)
6 Ways From Sunday -- Bren Collins
0(0.0%)
The Blue Notebook -- Andre Juillard
0(0.0%)
Black Elk in Paris -- Kate Horsley
0(0.0%)
V For Vendetta -- Alan Moore
6(10.5%)
The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
0(0.0%)
The Sooterkin -- Tom Gilling
0(0.0%)
Night and the Enemy -- Harlan Ellison
0(0.0%)
Loving Little Egypt -- Thomas McMahon
0(0.0%)
The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
2(3.5%)
From the Dust Returned -- Ray Bradbury
3(5.3%)
Diary -- Chuck Palahniuk
5(8.8%)
Absurdistan -- Gary Shteyngart
0(0.0%)
Winesburg, Ohio -- Sherwood Anderson
2(3.5%)
Three by Finney -- Jack Finney
0(0.0%)
Memoir from Antproof Case -- Mark Helprin
0(0.0%)
Nine Princes in Amber -- Roger Zelazny
5(8.8%)
The Guns of Avalon -- Roger Zelazny
3(5.3%)
Sign of the Unicorn -- Roger Zelazny
4(7.0%)
The Hand of Oberon -- Roger Zelazny
3(5.3%)
The Courts of Chaos -- Roger Zelazny
4(7.0%)
The Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood
2(3.5%)
Oryx And Crake -- Margaret Atwood
2(3.5%)
Falling Angels -- Tracy Chevalier
2(3.5%)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safran Foer
1(1.8%)
A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage -- Mark Twain
0(0.0%)
The Poe Shadow -- Matthew Pearl
1(1.8%)
Summerland -- Michael Chabon
0(0.0%)
The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova
3(5.3%)
Pigs in Heaven -- Barbara Kingsolver
3(5.3%)
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