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Currently reading (3)
The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt
The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms by The Paris Review, Richard Powers
50 Great Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, William Saroryan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Harry Gideon Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, V. S. Pritchett, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, John Collier, H. H. Munro, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

Mainly reads nonfiction books that are reflective, informative, and emotional.

Typically chooses slow-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
Personal History by Katharine Graham
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
My Cubs: A Love Story by Scott Simon

To-Read Pile
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You Gotta Play Hurt by Dan Jenkins
Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports by John Branch
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Owned books

Challenges

2023 Reading Goal

36 books

25% (9 books)

2023 Pages Goal

10,000 pages

46% (9 books), 4,601 pages

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