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Favorite authorsChinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Ian A. Baker, Jorge Luis Borges, C. J. Cherryh, Colin Dexter, Neil Gaiman, Graham Greene, Martha Grimes, Sergei Lukyanenko, Karin Muller, Haruki Murakami, Dervla Murphy, Clara Parkes, Tahir Shah, Paul Theroux (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarefoot Books, Garden District Book Shop, Globe Corner Bookstore, Harvard Book Store, Kate's Mystery Books, Lorem Ipsum Books, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (Cambridge, MA), MIT Press Bookstore, Port In A Storm Bookstore, Porter Square Books, Raven Used Books, Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, The Book Rack: Arlington, MA, The Harvard Coop

Favorite librariesBoston Public Library (Central Library, Copley Square), Cambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Houghton Library, MIT - Hayden Memorial Library (Building 14), Needham Free Public Library, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Robbins Library, Arlington, Somerville Public Library, Southwest Harbor Public Library

Other favoritesAbbe Museum, Candlewick Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Museum of Fine Arts (museum and shop), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)

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Currently readingLong Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Kyudo: The Art of Zen Archery by Hans J. Stein
In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Radical Simplicity by Dan Price
The Garden Primer: Second Edition by Barbara Damrosch
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor
Waiting for Coyote's Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff by Jerry Wilson
On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds
The Murals of John Pugh: Beyond Trompe l'Oeil by Kevin Bruce
Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World by Amy Seidl
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Vintage Departures) by Pico Iyer
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland by Pete Mccarthy
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne by Ben Hills
City Adrift: New Orleans Before & After Katrina by Jenni Bergal
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
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