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NONFICTION
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Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer
The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.
Drinking: A Love Story
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Slash
Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Lessons from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer
Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

FICTION
Time's Child
Rex Mundi 1-4, FABLES 1-11 (graphic novels)
Thief
Joker
Tribute To Another Dead Rock Star
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories
An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel

Flee the Angry Strangers

Pop Tart

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: A Multiple Allegory: Attacking Religious Superstition in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Paradise Lost

Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery

Her Last Death: A Memoir

Opium

Have You Found Her: A Memoir

Junky (Penguin Modern Classics)

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

Shadow Puppets

Palimpsest

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature

Margaux with an X

Beauty Queen

Specials (Uglies Trilogy)

Absolutely Maybe

Notes from the Teenage Underground

The Parallel Universe of Liars

Dreamseller

The Whistling Toilets

Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned : A Novel

Into The Great Wide Open

Red: Teenage Girls Write About What Fires Up Their Lives Today

Sweet Blood

Run If You Dare

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

Caribbean Cruising

The Adventures of Michael MacInnes

Smack

Boy Proof

Street Pharm

Julian: A Novel

Watchmen

Dopefiend

Expiration Date

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Date: 2009-12-30 06:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kellwho.livejournal.com
Your book list reads like and episode of Intervention.

Date: 2009-12-30 09:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joblessmusician.livejournal.com
Dang, I've only read one of those. And, boy, did I ever hate An Instance Of The Fingerpost.

Date: 2009-12-30 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
If I were to go back to school, I'd write a dissertation on sociological and historical drug usage.

Date: 2009-12-30 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
You should read CUCKOO'S NEST!

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