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50 Book Challenge

50 Book Challenge

Posted 01-15-2010 at 02:18 AM by Chexala
Updated 02-14-2015 at 11:15 AM by Chexala
[FONT="Century Gothic"][SIZE="2"]So, I've decided to take up the [url=http://www.menewsha.com/forum/community/menewsha-nation/82667-50-book-challenge-do-you-dare.html]Book Challenge[/url] this year. Since I have been neglecting my recreational reading for far too long and I have far too many unread books on my shelves, I've decided to go for 100 books this year, rather than 50, which should be quite exciting.

[b]Update - 05.26:[/b] I gave my list a major over-haul since there were many books on it that I knew I was never going to actually read; I cut them all out and replaced them with new ones. Also, I had had a few empty slots at the end of my list, but they're all filled now, so I've got a clean 100 books. ^__^

And without further ado, here is my list:

[CENTER][b]100 Books to Read in 2010[/b]
[[COLOR=Magenta]pink[/COLOR]=in progress] [[COLOR=Green]green[/COLOR]=finished]

[b]Status:[/b] 11 finished; 9 in progress[/CENTER]

[COLOR=green]1. Dragondrums by Anne McCaffery
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3. Orlando by Virginia Woolf[/COLOR]
4. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
[COLOR=green]5. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin[/COLOR]
[COLOR=magenta]6. Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin[/COLOR]
7. Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Malafrena by Ursula K. Le Guin
10. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
11. Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
[COLOR=green]13. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
14. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
15. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens[/COLOR]
16. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
[COLOR=green]17. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad[/COLOR]
18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
19. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
20. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
21. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
22. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
[COLOR=green]23. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde[/COLOR]
24. The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde
25. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
26. Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin
27. Stewart Little by E.B.White
28. Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
29. By Way of Water by Charlotte Gullick
30. World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
31. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
32. The Autobiography of Alice Tolkas by Gertrude Stein
33. The Rebel by Albert Camus
34. Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
35. Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
36. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
37. Black Boy by Richard Wright
38. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Key Kesey
39. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
[COLOR=magenta]40. Maia by Richard Adams[/COLOR]
41. Shardik by Richard Adams
42. Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
[COLOR=magenta]43. The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce[/COLOR]
44. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
45. Utopia by Thomas Moore
46. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
47. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
48. The Postman by David Brin
49. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
50. Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
51. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
52. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
53. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
54. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
55. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
56. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
57. Nausea by Jean Paul Sarte
58. Jaguars and Electric Eels by Alexander Von Humboldt
59. Forbidden Fruit - From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise
60. The Bizenghast Series by Alice LeGrow
[COLOR=green]61. Screw Heaven, When I Die I’m Going To Mars by Shannon Wheeler[/COLOR]
62. On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
63. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
[COLOR=green]64. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan[/COLOR]
[COLOR=magenta]65. The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
66. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan[/COLOR]
67. What To Eat by Marion Nestle
[COLOR=magenta]68. Grow Great Grub by Gayla Trail[/COLOR]
69. The Party's Over by Richard Heinburg
70. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
71. The New Utopian Politics of The Dispossessed edited by Laurence Davis
72. Unspeak by Steven Poole
73. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
74. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande
75. The World’s Great Speeches edited by Lewis Copeland, Etc.
76. Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by J. Richard Gott
77. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
78. We by Robert A. Johnson
79. Ecstasy by Robert A. Johnson
80. The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock
81. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
82. Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch
83. The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Cambell
84. Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
85. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
[COLOR=magenta]86. The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
87. Shyness by Philip Zimbardo
88. Existentialism edited by Walter Kaufmann[/COLOR]
89. The Foundation of Empirical Knowledge by A.J. Ayer
90. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Neitzshche
91. The Blue and Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
92. The Varieties of Religious Experience By William James
93. Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
94. Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
95. The City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
96. On The Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
97. Habit by William James
98. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle
99. The Book of the Law by Alestor Crowley
100. The Holy Bible[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Old Comment Posted 02-07-2010 at 03:06 AM
Wow good luck.
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