50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Annu]

45. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
46. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

I remember that some of you read this and when I saw these on sale, I wanted to try too. I give up tv serie after one season but books was sligtly better.. I actually really loved the first one, not so much the second book but I guess I would still try to read the third book. I still didn't like tv show, I watched couple episodes from the first season again but theme song, casting and location was all I liked, and that wasn't enough to watch it more.

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 // The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
16 // Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
17 // Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
18 // Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett
19 // My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
20 // The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
21 // Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22 // All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
23 // Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
24 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
25 // Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
26 // Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
27 // Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
28 // A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
29 // Der Brenner und der liebe Gott by Wolf Haas
30 // Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
31 // Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
32 // Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
33 // The Road by Cormac McCarthy
34 // Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
35 // Palo Alto by James Franco
36 // All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

 

[tigerrouge]

I was really disciplined in my reading to get my fifty books out of the way, so I could start that novel writing challenge in November, but now that I don't have to do it as intensively, I already miss the routine of reading, because it's like being in another world for a while.

 

[mint condish]

^ Does the novel writing challenge have anything to do with TFS?

 

[tigerrouge]

Not directly, but it was this tfs thread that put the thought into my head. I doubt I would go as far as registering with the official site and posting stuff up for all to read, but as a personal challenge, I'll take it on. I haven't thought much about it - no plan for a plot - so I'm going to sit down on the day with a blank page, and take it from there...

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
2. Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
3. Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern: An Anthology by Jackie Hardy [Ed]
4. Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992 by Bown & Taylor [Eds]
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
6. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Vladimir Paperny
7. The Edifice Complex: how the rich and powerful shape the world by Deyan Sudjic
8. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
9. Plans, pragmatism and People: The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities by R. Antony French
10. Quicksilver (Vol.1 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
11. The Confusion (Vol.2 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
12. The System of the World (Vol.3 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
13. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
14. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
16. Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
17. Pandora by Anne Rice
18. The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
19. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
20. Conversations With Students by Rem Koolhaas
21. Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
22. Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
23. Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
24. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
25. Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin
26. The Politics of Utopia: A Study in Theory and Practice by Barbara Goodwin & Keith Taylor
27. The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood
28. Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
29. The Gentle Art of Persuasion: How to Argue Effectively by Chester Porter QC
30. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Schaffer
31. 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists Selected by Alex Danchev
32. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
33. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
34. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
35. Darkness Rising by Frank Tallis
36. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt
37. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
38. The Cat Inside by William S. Burrroughs
39. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
40. Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht
41. The Poems by Catullus
42. Imagist Poetry by assorted poets (edited by Peter Jones)
43. The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney
44. Wait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
45. Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis
46. Mortal Mischief by Frank Tallis
47. Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis (currently reading)

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
​

30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
31: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
32: Innocents by Cathy Coote 33: Spear of Destiny by Daniel Easterman
34: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35: Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
36: Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[iperlchen]

01) Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects
02) Albert Camus - The Stranger
03) Valerio Evangelisti - Magus, Il Presagio
04) Alain de Botton - Kiss & Tell
05) Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
06) Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
07) Joost Zwagerman - Duel
08) Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement
09) Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel
10) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
11) John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
12) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
13) Simon van Booy - The Secret Lives of People In Love
14) Alain de Botton - Essays on Love
15) J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace (one of my favorite books I read this year)
16) Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
17) Joris Luyendijk - Hello Everybody: One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
18) Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brain: from ovary to Alzheimer
19) Charles Darwin - The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
20) Ines de la Fressange - The Parisian Guide to Chic
21) Martin Bril - Girls
22) Hein van Dolen - Greek Mythology
23) Pol Craeynest - Social Psychology
24) Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
25) Rob Wijnberg & Stine Jensen - Ergo Sum
26) Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
27) Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja
41)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
42)Le plus bel age de la vie by Bernard Barokas

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
24: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
25: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
26: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
28: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
29: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
30: Room by Emma Donoghue
31: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33: From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
34: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
35: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
36: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
37: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
38: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
39: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
41: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
42: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
43: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

 

[mint condish]

Is anyone interested in doing a round up at the end of the year?
Like a Top 10 books they read?
Either it could just be a list, or a one sentence review, or a brief review.
It's hard to read the very lightly coloured lists
And it could be great for recommendations.

 

[Alvedansen]

^yeah, i'd love that, great idea

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse
13. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The battle of the labyrinth
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weg (original title: 'the hottest state')
17. Patrick Süskind - Der Kontrabaß (English title: 'the double-bass')
18. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran (English title: 'Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Qu'ran')
19. Eva Ibbotson - The secret of Platform 13
20. Justin Cronin - The Passage
21. Daniel Glattauer - Gut gegen Nordwind (English title: 'Love virtually')
22. George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
23. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The last Olympian
24. Hape Kerkeling - Ich bin dann mal weg (English title: 'I'm off then')
25. George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
26. Jay Asher - Thirteen reasons why
27. Fynn - Anna schreibt an Mister Gott (Original title: 'Anna's book')
28. Neal Shusterman - Unwind
29. Mark Haddon - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
30. Harry Mulisch - Augenstern (English title:'Pupil')
31. Liz Jensen - Endzeit (Original title: 'The Rapture')
32. Eva Ibbotson - Not just a witch
33. Erich Segal - Love story
34. George R. R. Martin - A storm of swords

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja
41)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
42)Le plus bel age de la vie by Bernard Barokas
43)Un passage dificile by Michel-Aime Baudouy

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja
41)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
42)Le plus bel age de la vie by Bernard Barokas
43)Un passage dificile by Michel-Aime Baudouy
44)The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by L. J. Smith

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
​

30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
31: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
32: Innocents by Cathy Coote 33: Spear of Destiny by Daniel Easterman
34: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35: Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
36: Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37: The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory

 

[Susann]

I'm so impressed by your discipline !!! I'm sorry I stopped updating, but I really slowed down since university started again.
I'm currently reading book nr. 20

 

[iperlchen]

01) Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects
02) Albert Camus - The Stranger
03) Valerio Evangelisti - Magus, Il Presagio
04) Alain de Botton - Kiss & Tell
05) Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
06) Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
07) Joost Zwagerman - Duel
08) Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement
09) Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel
10) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
11) John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
12) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
13) Simon van Booy - The Secret Lives of People In Love
14) Alain de Botton - Essays on Love
15) J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace (one of my favorite books I read this year)
16) Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
17) Joris Luyendijk - Hello Everybody: One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
18) Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brain: from ovary to Alzheimer
19) Charles Darwin - The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
20) Ines de la Fressange - The Parisian Guide to Chic
21) Martin Bril - Girls
22) Hein van Dolen - Greek Mythology
23) Pol Craeynest - Social Psychology
24) Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
25) Rob Wijnberg & Stine Jensen - Ergo Sum
26) Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
27) Dai Sijie - Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress
28) Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
29) Ernest van der Kwast - Stand-in

 

[purplethistle]

1. The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
2. A law text book, 600+ pages of dense reading, we'll leave it at that.
3. A really long case.
4. An even longer case.

Now I'm on holidays, I can now rip through some classics that I've always wanted to read.

 

[ChrissyM]

i'm on track, though the book i'm currently reading is a bit slow going...

but, i have to say i'm a little frustrated because there are a few loooong books that i want to read that i haven't picked up simply because i know they'll take too long and will keep me from achieving the 50 book goal...
and i don't want to jeopardize that since i'm so close and i know that i'm compulsive in a way that i'll make myself stay up until all hours of the night reading to make sure i reach 50 books
i'd rather not do that to myself

i definitely foresee reading fewer books overall next year just because i know i'm going to want to read these long books that i've been putting off.

i DO still like this challenge though... it's fun to set goals.