The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

By
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
2005 • 5h 1m

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100 books

100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century

hardcover
Hardcover
My Brilliant Friend
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Wolf Hall
The Known World
The Corrections
2666
The Underground Railroad

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49 books

The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

hardcover
Hardcover
Palimpsest
A Childhood
Patrimony
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
A Life's Work
Boyhood
Always Unreliable

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408 books

Gilmore Girls Reading List 🍂

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AmandaSupporter
1984
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All the President's Men
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
An American Tragedy

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100 books

Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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Mira
Demon Copperhead
All the Light We Cannot See
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Goldfinch
Pachinko
Educated: A Memoir
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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360 books

Owned

sami
Sam
The Vanishing Half
I Can't Think Straight
All the Bright Places
American Housewife
Ash
Boy Parts
Dear Martin

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997 books

List 1000 Books Mustich

Rkishu
Jan
Anne of Green Gables
Arabian Sands
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
Dune
Julius Caesar
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb

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122 books

Women

Louisa
Louisa
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Frankenstein
The Lais of Marie de France
Women & Power: A Manifesto

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368 books

Priority Reading List

Wilkinson88
Wilkinson88
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Niki: The Story of a Dog
Wake in Fright
The Country Girls
Chocky

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65 books

Books From The Gilmore Girls

rvanerdmama
Sarah Hackley
An American Tragedy
Backlash
Brick Lane
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
The Complete Poems
Complete Stories

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53 books

Creative Writing Study Plan Reading List

Virawolf
Kaitlyn
The Great Gatsby
Beloved
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cloud Atlas
The Time Traveler's Wife
Gone Girl
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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432 books

The End Is Not On The Last Page

kissyeskeys
innnmoanecklips
The Glass Castle
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Time Traveler's Wife
Dracula
The Lovely Bones

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300 books

Gilmore Girls

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Sarrah
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Damselfly
The Story of My Life
Freaky Friday
Ironweed
Terms of Endearment

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190 books

Nyt Top Ten

lsong
Linwan
Childhood / Youth / Dependency
The Yellow House
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
On Immunity
The Evolution of Beauty
War

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45 books

Read In 2022

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Ally
We Keep the Dead Close
White Hot Hate
Priestdaddy
We Own This City
Saint Mazie
Florida
Miracle Creek

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114 books

2019

jasminebluh
Jasmine
This Will Only Hurt a Little
Severance
Mallory and the Ghost Cat
Homesick for Another World
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories
How I Became a Nun
Convenience Store Woman

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40 books

Memoirs

juliaem
Julia
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
The Man Who Ate Everything
Object Lessons
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Holy Cow
The Year of Magical Thinking

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41 books

2022

annavardanyan
Anna
People We Meet on Vacation
Another Brooklyn
The Year of Magical Thinking
Blankets
On Tyranny Graphic Edition
The Incomplete Book of Running
1984

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19 books

2021 Books Read

adamfox
Adam Fox
Long Division
American Dirt
The Cult of Trump
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
The Doors of Perception
Something Deeply Hidden
The Immortality Key

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25 books

Memoir

ayyboddu
anulekha
Greenlights
Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Yearbook
Taste: My Life Through Food
Everything I Know About Love
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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43 books

Memoirs

sophie_isms
Sophie
Wildflower
Just Mercy
It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
The Glass Castle
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Crying in H Mart
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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2 books

Owned

sparrow
Kim
The Year of Magical Thinking
This Boy's Life: A Memoir

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822 books

Nonfiction

christinared
Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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40 books

2023 A To Z Challenge

sophie_isms
Sophie
Black Cake
Counterfeit
Verity
Small Things Like These
Every Summer After
Can't Look Away
Daisy Jones & The Six

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48 books

Memoir

dujyt
Judy
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Diary of a Young Girl
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Night
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
The Glass Castle
Uncle Tungsten

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111 books

2022

thehourofpearl
Jess
The House Across the Lake
When We Fell Apart
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Killers of a Certain Age
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
The Love of my Life
Sea of Tranquility
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