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1. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
2. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
5. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
8. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
9. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
10. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
11. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
12. Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game by Stoker Hunt
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
14. The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons -- I've wanted to read this book ever since I heard that Season 1 of "Heroes" stole a lot of material from it. And the answer is yes, they did swipe a number of things from them. Let's see. You had one character that was a watchmaker and who, after an accident with a nuclear reactor, was said to be leaking radiation that caused those around him to develop cancer. It turns out that, in the book, that this last part wasn't true. You also had a plot to blow half of New York to bits. I found that I had a hard time getting into this book at first, but I stuck with it and eventually I was hooked. The ending was also quite unexpected. It makes sense that it had to end that way, but I was still thinking "Bzuh? What just happened there? And we're really okay with this?" And just who watches the watchmen anyway? :)

Also, there's a film version of the book coming out in March 2009. Hmmm...maybe I'm just going to have to see it in IMAX. :)