50 Book Challenge 2.0.0.9

Last year I participated in a 50 book challenge and I fell a little short of the mark, but only cuz I started about 3 months into the year (ahem, yeah right). Several fellow nerdfighters wanted to join me in my quest, so here we are!

Start a thread with your personal goal for 2.0.0.9, and then add on as you read throughout the year. This way we get to see what everyone else is reading & keep each other in check. Feel free to add me as a friend, or you might get a friends request from me--so we keep each other in line!

Good Luck,
Allison :-)

P.S. YES, there will be a 50 Book Challenge 2.0.1.0!!

Added Note: Here's my list of what I have read so far for this year's challenge! http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-50-book-challenge-fo...

Tags: 2009, 50bookchallenge, 50bookchallengefor2.0.0.9

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Permalink Reply by Emily Armstrong on September 7, 2009 at 4:28pm: 1. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - Michael Braungart
2. Wake Up and Smell the Planet - Grist Magazine
3. Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir - Graham Roumieu
4. Bigfoot: I Not Dead - Graham Roumieu
5. General Ignorance - John Lloyd
6. Che: A Graphic Biography - Spain Rodriguez
7. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
8. You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
9. Lyrical Life -Casey Jones
10. What is the What - Dave Eggers
11. Mother, Come Home - Paul Hornschemeier (this was really sad and beautiful. I'd recommend it to Graphic Novel Nerdfighters)
12. Urban Homestead - Kelly Coyne
13. City of Glass: The Graphic Novel - Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli
14. My Most Secret Desire - Julie Doucet
15. A Primer of Happenings & Time / Space Art - Al Hansen
16. La Perdida - Jessica Abel
17. Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol
18. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
19. The Complete Handbook of Sewing Machine Repair - Howard Hutchison
20. Things I have learned in my life so far - Stefan Sagmeister
21. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art - Suzanne Lacy
22. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works - Erik Spiekermann
23. But Is It Art? - Nina Felshin
24. The Pleasures of Slow Food - Corby Kummer
25. Slow Food Nation - Carlo Petrini
26. Letters to a Young Artist - Shelly Bancroft
27. Made from Scratch - Jenna Woginrich
28. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
29. Unlikely - Jeffrey Brown
30. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology - Eric Brende (this is a really good, interesting and easy read)
30 a. (Audio Book) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
30 b. (AB) Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman
30 c. (AB) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
30 d. (AB) The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
30 e. (AB) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
30 f. (AB) Oil! - Upton Sinclair
31. Reenchantment of Art - Suzi Gablik
32. White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness - Maurice Berger
33. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
34. Looking for Alaska - John Green; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Oliver Schöggl on September 8, 2009 at 2:56pm: I started in February with the 50 Book challenge, and it's very hard. I got a few very boring books, so I got only 15 books by now. But I wont give up, Nerdfighters never give up!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gloria Elia on September 8, 2009 at 9:31pm: 27) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Zara on September 11, 2009 at 7:20am: 76. High Wizardry by Diane Duane (re-read)
77. Pretty Face by Mary Hogan
78. Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz
79. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (re-read)
80. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
81. Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
82. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
83. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
84. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
85. The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
86. Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
87. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (re-read)
88. The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (re-read)
89. The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (re-read); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by XOX on September 13, 2009 at 8:51pm: Add this:

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly Black (Editor), Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads author) (Editor), M.T. Anderson , Libba Bray , Cassandra Clare , David Levithan , Kelly Link , Barry Lyga; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Zara on September 15, 2009 at 6:42pm: 90. The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
91. The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
92. The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
93. The Screwtape Letters by Clive Staples Lewis; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gloria Elia on September 18, 2009 at 11:27pm: 28) Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gloria Elia on September 19, 2009 at 7:35pm: 29) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gloria Elia on September 19, 2009 at 10:53pm: 30) Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Penpusher on September 19, 2009 at 11:17pm: 23. The Seventh Tower: Above the Veil -- Garth Nix
24. The Seventh Tower: Into Battle -- Garth Nix
25. The Seventh Tower: The Violet Keystone -- Garth Nix
26. Ender in Exile -- Orson Scott Card
27. The Court of the Air -- Steven Hunt
28. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
29. Laughter: The Best Medicine -- Reader's Digest
30. The Plot Thickens: Eight Ways to Bring Fiction to Life -- Noah Lukeman
31. Oedipus Rex -- Sophecles

And working on Perdido Street Station.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Clover on September 21, 2009 at 3:58am: Oh I love reading other people's book lists. I've been keeping track of the books I'm reading this year as well. Didn't have a specific goal in mind, but am at 110 books so far.

http://michelle-says.blogspot.com/2009/01/books-read-in-2009.html; ▶ Reply to This