50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler
110. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan (Loved this!)
111. King, Queen, Knave- Vladimir Nabokov

[macdoc]

90 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: The Silkstream IV
91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon
93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie damn can I count this as 6 books?!!!! Movie tonight
94 If at First.... Peter Hamilton
in progress
95 Dirt Music Tim Wintom

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler
110. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan (Loved this!)
111. King, Queen, Knave- Vladimir Nabokov
112. Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth

[Clinton Huxley]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up

51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
52) Jerusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
53) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
75) The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1 by Tony DiTerizza and Holly Black
76) Boneland by Alan Garner
77) The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History Of Mistra And The Peloponnese by Steven Runciman.
78) Parades End by Ford Madox Ford
79) Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And The Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens.
80) The Monarchy: A Critique Of Britain's Favourite Fetish by Christopher Hitchens
81) World War One: History In An Hour by Rupert Colley.
82) The Universe Below by William Broad.

[klr]

That's a might impressive list, but less readin', more postin'

[macdoc]

90 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: The Silkstream IV
91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon
93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie damn can I count this as 6 books?!!!! Movie tonight
94 If at First.... Peter Hamilton
95 Dirt Music Tim Wintom <<< what a rush
in progress
96 Breath - Tim Winton - getting a serious dose of Australia before I get back there.

[macdoc]

0 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: The Silkstream IV
91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon
93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie damn can I count this as 6 books?!!!! Movie tonight
94 If at First.... Peter Hamilton
95 Dirt Music Tim Wintom <<< what a rush
96 Breath - Tim Winton - getting a serious dose of Australia before I get back there.
in progress
97 That Eye, The Sky - Tim Winton

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler
110. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan (Loved this!)
111. King, Queen, Knave- Vladimir Nabokov
112. Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth
113. Under the Net- Iris Murdoch

[Clinton Huxley]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up

51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
52) Jerusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
53) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
75) The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1 by Tony DiTerizza and Holly Black
76) Boneland by Alan Garner
77) The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History Of Mistra And The Peloponnese by Steven Runciman.
78) Parades End by Ford Madox Ford
79) Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And The Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens.
80) The Monarchy: A Critique Of Britain's Favourite Fetish by Christopher Hitchens
81) World War One: History In An Hour by Rupert Colley.
82) The Universe Below by William Broad.
83) Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson.
84) The Wizard Of Oz by Frank Baum.
85) The Walking Dead Vol 1.
86) The Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills.

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler
110. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan (Loved this!)
111. King, Queen, Knave- Vladimir Nabokov
112. Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth
113. Under the Net- Iris Murdoch
114. Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million- Martin Amis

[klr]

...

69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)

...

One of the most engrossing history books of the past few years.

On the strength of it (and his book on the Siege of Constantinople), I recently bought his new book on Venice - City of Fortune.

[macdoc]

91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon
93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie damn can I count this as 6 books?!!!! Movie tonight
94 If at First.... Peter Hamilton
95 Dirt Music Tim Wintom <<< what a rush
96 Breath - Tim Winton - getting a serious dose of Australia before I get back there.
97 That Eye, The Sky - Tim Winton
in progress
98 The Omega Command (Blaine McCracken)

[Clinton Huxley]

...

69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)

...

One of the most engrossing history books of the past few years.

On the strength of it (and his book on the Siege of Constantinople), I recently bought his new book on Venice - City of Fortune.

Siege of Constantinople is excellent. Will have to let me know what you think of the Venice one.

[Clinton Huxley]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up

51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
52) Jerusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
53) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
75) The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1 by Tony DiTerizza and Holly Black
76) Boneland by Alan Garner
77) The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History Of Mistra And The Peloponnese by Steven Runciman.
78) Parades End by Ford Madox Ford
79) Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And The Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens.
80) The Monarchy: A Critique Of Britain's Favourite Fetish by Christopher Hitchens
81) World War One: History In An Hour by Rupert Colley.
82) The Universe Below by William Broad.
83) Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson.
84) The Wizard Of Oz by Frank Baum.
85) The Walking Dead Vol 1.
86) The Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills.
87) Remarkable Creatures by Sean Carroll
88) For The Joy Of Letters by John O'Connell
89) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[macdoc]

91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon
93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie damn can I count this as 6 books?!!!! Movie tonight
94 If at First.... Peter Hamilton
95 Dirt Music Tim Wintom <<< what a rush
96 Breath - Tim Winton - getting a serious dose of Australia before I get back there.
97 That Eye, The Sky - Tim Winton
98 The Omega Command (Blaine McCracken) - dated and too Amurican
in progress
99 Ship's Boy (The David Birkenhead Series ) Phil Geusz... hmmmm good reviews - strange genre - at least it's a freebie.