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In a hustle to get this shit out of the way, I'm posting and have decided to omit a book since I did technically finish it in 2012, albeit only a few hours in. See the dedication I have to my own set challenges? Sometimes? At any rate, here's a wrap up of last year's Fifty Books Challenge!

Favorite Books:

A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name

Llewellyn's 2011 Witches' Companion: An Almanac for Everyday Living

The Guerilla Art Kit

You'll Never Know Book Two: Collateral Damage

Rose of No Man's Land

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Full Dark, No Stars

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir

Blankets

Habibi

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume II

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume I

V For Vendetta

Bunny Drop, Vol. 1

Bunny Drop, Vol. 2

Market Day

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Hark! A Vagrant


Least Favorite Books:


Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

Sing You Home: A Novel

In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

So Much Pretty: A Novel

Finding Marjorie West

The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years

Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook

The Little Endless Storybook

Mister Wonderful: A Love Story

Green River Serial Killer--Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife

Liar's Kiss


Books That Felt Like a Sisyphean Ordeal:


Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years


Books That Made Me Want to Smack the Author(s):

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook: Wonderfully Witchy Blessings, Charms & Spells

Sing You Home: A Novel

In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

Finding Marjorie West

The Help

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years

Green River Serial Killer--Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife

Liar's Kiss


Books That Helped Me Look at the World in a New Way:

A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name

Llewellyn's 2011 Witches' Companion: An Almanac for Everyday Living

The Guerilla Art Kit

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Full Dark, No Stars

Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Secrets in the Cellar: a True Story of the Austrian Incest Case That Shocked the World

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir

Blankets

Anya's Ghost

Habibi

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume II

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume I

V For Vendetta

The War Within: One More Step at a Time

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years

Bunny Drop, Vol. 1

Bunny Drop, Vol. 2

Green River Serial Killer--Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife

Market Day

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

American Splendor: Another Dollar


Books I've Already Recommended to People:

A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Full Dark, No Stars

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Habibi

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume II

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Volume I

Hark! A Vagrant


Most Disappointing Books:


Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

Paint it Black

Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook: Wonderfully Witchy Blessings, Charms & Spells

The Onion Presents A Book of Jean's Own!: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from The Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist

In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

So Much Pretty: A Novel

Finding Marjorie West

Anya's Ghost

The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)

Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years

Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook

The Little Endless Storybook

Green River Serial Killer--Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

Bunny Drop, Vol. 3

The Best American Comics 2010


Most Depressing (as in Sadness-Inducing) Books:


Paint it Black

Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Full Dark, No Stars

Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World

Secrets in the Cellar: a True Story of the Austrian Incest Case That Shocked the World

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir

Blankets

The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)

V For Vendetta

Market Day

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty


Most Uplifting Books:

Llewellyn's 2011 Witches' Companion: An Almanac for Everyday Living

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Habibi

V For Vendetta
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