BOOK WEIGHT PROJECT 2004-2007 IS FINISHED!!!!
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Title |
Author |
Weight |
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All that's holy: A young guy, old car and the search for God in America |
Tom Levinson |
1 lb |
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Mauve: How one man invented a color that changed the world |
Simon Garfield |
1 lb |
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Zines! Volume 1 |
V. Vale |
1 lb, 5 oz |
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White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
14 oz |
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Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban |
J.K. Rowling |
2 lb |
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Jitterbug Perfume |
Tom Robbins |
1 lb |
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The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings |
Thich Nhat Hanh |
8 oz |
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Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society |
Sulak Sivaraksa |
8 oz |
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Birds of America: stories |
Lorrie Moore |
10 oz |
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth |
Donna M. Gershten |
8 oz |
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Skinny Legs and All |
Tom Robbins |
14 oz |
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Haymarket |
Martin Duberman |
1lb, 7 oz |
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Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of women's Liberation |
Mary Daly |
6 oz |
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Feed |
M.T. Anderson |
12 oz |
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West of the Jordan |
Laila Halaby |
8 oz |
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Why I wake early: poems |
Mary Oliver |
12 oz |
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Canticle for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller |
12 oz |
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Rape: A love story |
Joyce Carol Oates |
9 oz |
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Truth and Beauty: A friendship |
Ann Patchett |
1 lb |
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The First Desire |
Nancy Reisman |
1 lb, 6 oz |
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Equus |
Peter Shaafer |
11 oz |
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How we survived Communism and even laughed |
Slovenka Drakulic |
15 oz |
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Oranges are not the only fruit |
Jeanette Winterson |
13 oz |
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Before we were free |
Julia Alvarez |
9 oz |
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How the Garcia girls lost their accents |
Julia Alvarez |
10 oz |
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One hundred years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1 lb, 12 oz |
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Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myths, and the Politics of the Body --New Paths to Power and Love |
Riane Eisler |
1 lb, 8 oz |
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Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics |
bell hooks |
6 oz |
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In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
12 oz |
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At the Bottom of the River |
Jamaica Kincaid |
5 oz |
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Stripping and other stories |
Pagan Kennedy |
8 oz |
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Cunt: A declaration of independence |
Inga Muscio |
14 oz |
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Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities |
Robert Heasley & Betsy Crane |
2 lb, 1 oz |
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That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation |
Ed. by Matt Bernstein Sycamore |
1 lb, 3 oz |
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Are prisons obsolete? |
Angela Davis |
4 oz |
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Across The Wire: Life and Hard Times in Tijuana |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
7 oz |
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Caramelo |
Sandra Cisneros |
12 oz |
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Public Power in the Age of Empire |
Arundhati Roy |
2 oz |
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War Talk |
Arundhati Roy |
7 oz |
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The woman who watches over the world: A Native Memoir |
Linda Hogan |
12 oz |
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The exception to the rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media that Love Them |
Amy Goodman |
1 lb, 2 oz |
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Guarding the moon: A Mother's First Year |
Francesca Lia Block |
11 oz |
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The Cost of Living |
Arundhati Roy |
5 oz |
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Breathing Between the Lines: poems |
Demetria Martínez |
5 oz |
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Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee |
Dee Brown |
1 lb, 8 oz |
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The Book of Medicines: poems |
Linda Hogan |
4 oz |
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Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands |
Barbara Kingsolver |
3 lb, 5 oz |
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The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World |
Ed. Linda Hogan & Brenda Peterson |
1 lb, 4 oz |
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Prodigal Summer |
Barbara Kingsolver |
2 lb |
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Another America: poems |
Barbara Kingsolver |
1 lb |
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Meadowlands: poems |
Louise Glück |
12 oz |
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The Narrow Road to the Interior |
Basho |
8 oz |
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Selected Poems |
Marilyn Hacker |
1 lb |
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Fox: poems |
Adrienne Rich |
8 oz |
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Invisible Cities |
Italo Calvino |
8 oz |
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The Keepsake Storm: poems |
Gina Franco |
6 oz |
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Century of the Wind |
Eduardo Galeano |
1 lb, 8 oz |
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One stick song: poems |
Sherman Alexie |
8 oz |
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Overlord: poems |
Jorie Graham |
13 oz |
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos |
Anne Carson |
12 oz |
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Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems |
Pattiann Rogers |
1 lb |
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Said the Shotgun to the Head |
Saul Williams |
12 oz |
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Another Way of Telling |
John Berger and Jean Mohr |
1 lb, 6 oz |
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The Wild Iris: poems |
Louise Glück |
5 oz |
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Supernatural Love: Collected Poems |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg |
11 oz |
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Deepstep Come Shining: poems |
C.D. Wright |
14 oz |
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Sleeping with the Dictionary: poems |
Harryette Mullen |
13 oz |
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A Palace of Pearls: poems |
Jane Miller |
6 oz |
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Power Politics |
Arundhati Roy |
12 oz |
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Plastic Angel |
Nerissa Nields |
13 oz |
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The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: poems |
Gabrielle Calvocoressi |
4 oz |
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The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
12 oz |
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The Country Between Us: poems |
Carolyn Forche |
12 oz |
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom |
bell hooks |
1 lb, 3 oz |
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Bessie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Billie Holiday |
Angela Davis |
1 lb, 13 oz |
| A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye | Melvyn Goldstein, Dawei Sherap and William Siebenschuh | 1 lb, 12 oz |
| Temporary Homelands | Alison Hawthorne Deming | 12 oz |
| Where I Was From |
Joan Didion |
1 lb |
| Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 |
Barbara Kingsolver |
12 oz |
| Ocean Power: Poems From the Desert |
Ofelia Zepeda |
8 oz |
| The Lammas Hireling: poems |
Ian Duhig |
10 oz |
| Tantalus in Love: poems |
Alan Shapiro |
8 oz |
| Fierce Attachments: A memoir |
Vivian Gornick |
1 lb |
| Running in the Family |
Michael Ondaatje |
1 lb |
| Shoreline Series | Barbara Cully | 4 oz |
| Helen Groves | Olga Broumas and T. Begley | 4 oz |
| I could tell you stories: Sojourns in the land of memory |
Patricia Hampl |
11 oz |
| Confessions of a Berlitz Tape Chicana | Demetria MartÍnez | 9 oz |
| Autobiography of a Face | Lucy Grealy | 9 oz |
| The Throne of Labdacus: poems | Gjertrud Schnackenberg | 11 oz |
| The Batteries: poems | G.C. Waldrep | 1 oz |
| What the Living Do: poems | Marie Howe | 11 oz |
| In the Shadow of Memory | Floyd Skloot | 1 lb, 2 oz |
| The Errant Thread: poems | Elline Lipkin | 8 oz |
| Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes | Peter Lamborn Wilson | 9 oz |
| Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
12 oz |
| Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father |
Richard Rodriguez |
9 oz |
| Forms of Distance: poems |
Bei Dao |
10 oz |
| Rapture: poems |
Susan Mitchell |
8 oz |
| Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A memoir |
Nick Flynn |
1 lb, 4 oz |
| Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean |
Ed. Kamala Kempadoo |
1 lb, 4 oz |
| Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution |
Agnes Smedley |
12 oz |
| Blind Huber: poems |
Nick Flynn |
11 oz |
| Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric |
Claudia Rankine |
12 oz |
| The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private |
Susan Bordo |
1 lb |
| While Light is Built: poems |
Tedi López Mills |
4 oz |
| The Devil's Workshop: poems |
Demetria Martínez |
7 oz |
| Shake Loose my Skin: New and selected poems |
Sonia Sanchez |
8 oz |
| What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in America |
Dave Zirin |
12 oz |
| Sexing the Cherry |
Jeanette Winterson |
8 oz |
| Homework |
Suneeta Peres da Costa |
11 oz |
| Bananeras: Women Transforming the Latin-American Banana Unions | Dana Frank | 8 oz |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 11 oz |
| Columbus in the Bay of Pigs | John Curl | 5 oz |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | 4 oz |
| Soul on Ice | Eldridge Cleaver | 8 oz |
| I Wish I Were a Wolf: The New Voice in Chinese Women's Literature | Ed. by Diana B. Kingsbury | 15 oz |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 8 oz |
| Later the Same Day | Grace Paley | 9 oz |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 12 oz |
| Doghouse Roses | Steve Earle | 9 oz |
| Spring Essence |
Hô Xuận Hu'o'ng |
6 oz |
| Gathering the Desert | Gary Paul Nabhan | 1 lb, 1 oz |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 9 oz |
| Speaking of Empire and Resistance |
Tariq Ali |
11 oz |
| The Survival of the Bark Canoe |
John McPhee |
5 oz |
| Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood |
Sandra Steingraber |
1 lb, 8 oz |
| Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones |
Sue Hubbell |
1 lb, 3 oz |
| Ravens in Winter |
Bernd Heinrich |
1 lb, 6 oz |
| Consider the Oyster |
MFK Fisher |
6 oz |
| Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle |
Margaret Randall |
13 oz |
| Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark |
Barbara Hurd |
1 lb |
| The Straight Mind and other essays |
Monique Wittig |
5 oz |
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White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture |
Chrys Ingraham |
15 oz |
| Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales from North America and England |
Ed. Jack Zipes |
11 oz |
| Beginning with O: poems |
Olga Broumas |
4 oz |
| The Awful Rowing Towards God: poems |
Anne Sexton |
5 oz |
| A Small Place |
Jamaica Kincaid |
8 oz |
| Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes |
Julie Powell |
1 lb, 3 oz |
| Why Buffy Matters | Rhonda Wilcox | 13 oz |
| Making Peace | Denise Levertov | 2 oz |
| Who Opens | Jesse Seldess | 8 oz |
| Knowledge, Forms, The Aviary | Karla Kelsey | 9 oz |
| United States | Dan Featherston | 6 oz |
| The Magic Whip | Wang Ping | 9 oz |
| Macnolia | A. Van Jordan | 9 oz |
| Transformations | Anne Sexton | 12 oz |
| The Cost of Privilege | Chip Smith | 1 lb, 8 oz |
| Oh! Dem Golden Slippers | Charles E. Welch | 1 lb, 8 0z |
| Loveliest Grotesque | Sandra Lim | 8 oz |
| Diving into the wreck | Adrienne Rich | 12 oz |
| Nest | Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge | 8 oz |
| Various modes of departure | Deborah Fries | 6 oz |
| The Botany of Desire | Michael Pollan | 8 oz |
| The Secret Knowledge of Water | Craig Childs | 12 oz |
| Live From Death Row! |
Mumia Abu-Jamal |
11 oz |
| Total | 119 lb, 8 oz |
Breakdown:
156 books
3.5 years (January 2004 to May 2007)
An average of 44.5 books a year
Each weighing an average of 12.25 ounces