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

[Ronja]

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (for the umpteenth time)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (for the umpteenth-2 time)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (for the umpteenth-2 time) <- not a typo: I've read it one extra time
4. The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins
5. The History of The Hobbit: Volume II: Return to Bag-End
6. The King's Speech
7. 84 Charing Cross Road

[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)

[macdoc]

Did you wimp out on Dragon two and three??

[anna09]

Did you wimp out on Dragon two and three??

Nope, I'm reading the second one now. Good so far!

[macdoc]

ah0 another multiple books at a time geek .....

[Clinton Huxley]

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

[macdoc]

30. Cloudstreet Tim Winton - different sure learning colloquial Aussie
31: Wool Omibus Edition Hugh Howey - raves by readers - me too -
in progresm
32 The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Vol 1 Gordon Dahlquist
33 The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Vol 2 Gordon Dahlquist THAT was a struggle.... - onward
34. Wool ...next round
35. The Crystal Spheres - David Brin
36. Diving into the Wreck - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

in progress this trilogy which will be pure escapist fun by a Hugo winner
37. City of Ruins - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38 Boneyards - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

39. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry

[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

[Ronja]

ah0 another multiple books at a time geek .....

Is there any other way?

[Ronja]

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (for the umpteenth time)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (for the umpteenth-2 time)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (for the umpteenth-2 time) <- not a typo: I've read it one extra time
4. The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins
5. The History of The Hobbit: Volume II: Return to Bag-End
6. The King's Speech
7. 84 Charing Cross Road
8. The Black Gryphon - interesting, engaging, a bit uneven as many of Mercedes Lackey's books that I've read
9. The White Gryphon - excellent bad guys, especially one of them
10. The Silver Gryphon - enjoyable, especially the prolonged suspense about the nature of the threat to the main characters
11. The Oathbound - read the first short story in "Oathblood" before this, and that was the right order for me
12. Oathbreakers - nicely developed story, and the characters grew, too, more than in The Oathbound. Liked both, though.

Can you tell that I've been ill for two days?

[Clinton Huxley]

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

[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

[Ian]

This is the 50-book challenge, not the 150-book challenge.

[macdoc]

and?