50 Book Challenge 2.0.0.9

[Allison in Wonderland]

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...

[Zara]

95. Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

[LJ Kessels]

There has been a similar thread going on on the woxy.com message board for a couple of years now, and I've been actively part of that since 06, so by now I'm an experienced reader of 50 books a year....

And this past week I've finished my 50th book, so here is my entire list:

1. Boy - James Hanley
2. When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
3. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
4. The American - Henry James
5. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway *
6. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
7. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre *
8. And the Hippos were Boiled in Their Tanks - William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac *
9. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
10. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
13. Dry - Augusten Burroughs
14. Minor Characters - Joyce Johnson
15. Jazz - Toni Morrison
16. Go - John Clellon Holmes
17. Literature and Evil - Georges Bataille *
18. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
19. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
20. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
21. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
22. The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
23. Dubliners - James Joyce
24. The Virgin and the Gipsy - D.H. Lawrence
25. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
26. The Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts *
27. The Chauffeur - Howard Norman
28. Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol (Flemish) - Dimitri Verhulst
29. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
30. Cocaine Nights - JG Ballard
31. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
32. Tender is the Night - F.Scott FitzGerald
33. The Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
34. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith *
35. A Mercy - Toni Morrison
36. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller *
37. The Rhetoric of Fiction (Second Edition) - Wayne C. Booth
38. The Tears of Eros - Georges Bataille
39. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
40. The Island at the Center of the World - Russell Shorto *
41. Truth and Existence - Jean-Paul Sartre
42. Shoplifting from American Apparel - Tao Lin *
43. Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
44. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters/and Seymour:an introduction - J.D. Salinger
45. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
46. Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller *
47. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
48. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman *
49. The Delivery Man - Joe McGinniss Jr.
50. Of Human Bondage - W.Somerset Maugham

* means that I think everyone should read it....

[Melissa Joy]

Oh wow, I would say that I'm learning about this late, but I've read so many books this summer because I was so utterly bored. Lets see...

1. Looking For Alaska-
2. An Abundance of Katherines-
3. Paper Towns-
4. Graceling
5.Black Pearls
6. Evernight
7. Night World- Book One
8.Night World- Book Two
9.Night World- Book Three
10. East
11. City of Masks[Stravaganza]
12.All of the Chronicles of Narnia books[I feel like its cheating to put them as more than one bullet]
13. Tales of Beedle the Bard
14. The Looking Glass Wars
15. Seeing Redd
16. Wicked
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone[I've read the American edition many, many times though.]
18.Seachange
19. Deep Wizardry
20.Fire Arrow


There are a few more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. My summer just seems like one long endless reading marathon when I look back.

[Gloria Elia]

31) A Lifetime of Secrets by Frank Warren

[Zara]

96. Geektastic by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

[Alex]

Okay what have I read this year . . .

1. An Abundance of Katherines
2. Looking for Alaska
3. Paper Towns
4. Speak
5. Go Ask Alice
6. Catching Fire
7. The Secret Hour
8. Touching Darkness
9. Blue Noon
10. Being Nikki
11. Carrie
12. Bag of Bones
13. Sundays at Tiffany's
14. The Secret Garden
15. The Princess Bride
16. City of Bones
17. City of Ashes
18. City of Glass
19. The Notebook
20. Along for the Ride
21. Waiting for You
22. The Supernaturalists
23. The Giver
24. Forever Princess
25. Ready or Not
26. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
27. Inkdeath
28. Love and Peaches
29. Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
30. Jinx
31. Pants on Fire
32. Romeo and Juliet
33. Hamlet
34. Much Ado About Nothing
35. The Tempest
36. The House of Dies Drear
37. Nothing but the Truth
38. MAX
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
40. Coraline
41. Driver's Ed


Those are all the ones I can remember at the moment. I'm sure I've read 50, but I'll just say I need 9 more.

[Gloria Elia]

32) Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

[Nephtys80]

Help. I'm soooooooo in trouble. Only 29 books on my list, and one of them I never finished eek!!!!

1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
2. The Dark Bride - Laura Restrepo
3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saffran Foer
4. Flat Earth news - Nick Davies
5. Red sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee (haven't finished it yet... hope I will before the end of the year!)
6. Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
7. The history of Love - Nicole Krauss
8. Looking for Alaska - John Green
9. The end of mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
10. THUD! - Terry Pratchett (re-read)
11. Going postal - Terry Pratchett (re-read)
12. Making Money - Terry Pratchett (re-read)
13. Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett (re-read)
14. Men at Arms - Terry pratchett (re-read)
15. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett (re-read)
16. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
17. The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
18. A Personal Anthology - Jorge Luis Borges
19. Midnight in the garden of good and evil - John Berendt
20. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
21. Regeneration - Pat Barker (re-read)
22. The eye in the door - Pat Barker (re- read)
23. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (re-read)
24. Double Vision - Pat Barker (re-read)
25. Making War: Embodied interactions, meaning-making and the war in Iraq - Jesse Paul Crane-Seeber (a friend's absolutely fascinating PhD thesis)
26. Orwell in Spain - George Orwell
27. Kushiel's Mercy - Jacqueline Carey (this series is my guilty reading pleasure :))
28. White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
29. The Other Hand - Chris Cleave .... good lord. What a stunning book. a MUST read for everyone!

[Zara]

What did you think of The Yiddish Policemen's Union? I read it this year, as well.

[Nephtys80]

Oops, missed this, sorry!
I liked it a LOT. I don't usually go for murder mysteries, but with the alternative history and Jewish mysticism thrown in, I loved this. Also probably one of the most atmospheric books I have read this year. What did you think?

[Zara]

I wasn't sure at first, but by about halfway through I started to really enjoy it. And by the end I LOVED it. :)

[Chris Bristol]

This year I read:
1-2.The Iliad and The Odyssey (Homer)
3. Black Boy (Richard Wright)
4. Tortilla Curtain (T.C. Boyle),
5. Rain of Gold (Victor Villasenor)
6. Iron and Silk (Mark Salzman [I think])
7. Republic (Plato)
8-9. Angels and Demons and The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)
10. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
11-13. The Divine Comedy (Dante Allegheri)
14.Paper Towns (John Green)
15-22. Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling) [re-read]
23-25. Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) [re-read]
26. Biography on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
27-29. The Bartemaeus Trilogy
There are a few more but I can not remeber them at the moment. When I do I will be sure to post it
P.S- I am currently reading Crime and Punishment by Frodor Dostoevsky