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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,296 ratings · 114 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shanghai Encounter 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Robert Isenberg (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet American Rockies by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Anthony Ham, Liza Prado really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Shanghai Encounter Paperback April 1, 2010 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shanghai 5 Pap/Map edition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China 5. Tianjin y Hébei (Guías de País Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Alberto Delgado Castro (translator), Roser Soms Tramujas (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China 5. Hénán (Guías de País Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Alberto Delgado Castro (translator), Roser Soms Tramujas (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	París 7_3. Campos Elíseos y Grands Boulevards (Guías de Ciudad Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Elena García Barriuso (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urban Vertical Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Favorite books from my extremely relevant one-person corner of the internet.

Best Fiction: The Financial Lives of the Poets

Best Nonfiction: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Best Historical: Comanche Moon

Best Book Club: No-No Boy

Honorable Mention: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

by Edward Abbey

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Glacé

by Bernard Minier

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Sidelights on Peking Life

by Robert W. Swallow

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Christopher Pitts wants to read The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Christopher Pitts rated a book it was amazing Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Christopher Pitts did not finish Barkskins by Annie Proulx	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Interesting story, but it's just really, really long. That said, I do love the way Annie Proulx writes. ...more
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Christopher Pitts rated a book it was amazing Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2) by Keigo Higashino	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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