50 book challenge 2009 (Part 2)

[Some_Random_Chick]

(Might just about manage 400 before the end of the year).

That would be cool. How many people could say they've read 400 books in a year?

Many people won't read that many books in their entire lifetime . . . I like to call those people 'Americans.'

[Spinozasgalt]

1. Persuasion - Jane Austen
2. Paradise Lost - John Milton(re-read: 2nd time reading)
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
5. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
6. Atonement - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
7. Emma - Jane Austen
8. The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
9. Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen
10. Why I Am Not A Christian - Bertrand Russell
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(re-read: 6th or 7th time reading)
12. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. Animal Farm - George Orwell
15. The Routledge Companion To Postmodernism - Stuart Sim
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
18. The Birds and Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
19. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
21. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
22. The Poverty Of Historicism - Karl Popper
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
25. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
26. The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z - Ayn Rand
27. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
30. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
31. Picnic At Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
32. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
33. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. Faust Part 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. The Horse And His Boy - C.S. Lewis
37. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis

38. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham

Currently Reading: Faust Part 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(Might just about manage 400 before the end of the year).

That would be cool. How many people could say they've read 400 books in a year?

Many people won't read that many books in their entire lifetime . . . I like to call those people 'Americans.'

[Russell]

Audiobooks in italics

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Read by Mitch Benn (downloaded from iTunes)
2. The Origin of Species 6th Edition by Charles Darwin. Read by assorted people.
3. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
4. The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
5. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
6. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
7. We Will Not Fight...The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors by Will Ellsworth-Jones
8. River out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
9. The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology By Joseph Silk
10. The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language‎ by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáryand
11. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain‎ by Oliver Sacks
12. The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
13. Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils by Richard Cornfield.
14. A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins
15. The Invisible Enemy; A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy H. Crawford
16. How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk (1st edition)
17. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
18. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
19. Microcosm: E.coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
20. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach
21. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality‎ by Jared Diamond
22. Oxygen: the molecule that made the world‎ by Nick Lane
23. The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War, 1945-1970 by Peter Hennessy
24. Bugs in the System: insects and their impact on human affairs by May Berenbaum
25. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
26. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‎ by Jared Diamond
27. Haynes NASA Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual: 1969 (including Saturn V, CM-107, SM-107, LM-5)
by Christopher Riley and Philip Dolling
28. Abstract Art‎ by Anna Moszynska
29. Surrealism by Patrick Waldberg
30. Evolution‎ 3rd Edition by Mark Ridley
31. The fall of Hitler's fortress city: the battle for Königsberg, 1945 by Isabel Denny
32. God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick

Now reading The Greatest Show On Earth by Richard Dawkins

[Silent.Bomber]

351.) Today and Tomorrow by Isaac Asimov

[Stevie_B]

1. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
2. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code by Bart D. Ehrman
3. Before the Beginning by Martin J. Rees
4. Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
5. Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
7. Who Wrote the Bible by R.E. Friedman
8. Our town: A play in three Acts. by Thornton Wilder
9. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
10. The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman
11. A history of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
12. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
13. Night by Elie Wiesel
14. Imperium by Robert Harris
15. The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
16. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
17. Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
18. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
19. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams
20. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
21. Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy by Peter De Rosa
22. Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith by Charles Templeton
23. Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison
24. Jesus: A Life by A,N. Wilson
25. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
26. Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal
27. Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal
28. The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor
29. Putting Away Childish Things by Uta Ranke-Heinemann
30. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
31. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
32. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan
33. Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Giaconda Belli
34. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews.
35. Res Gestae Divi Augusti Edited by P.A. Brunt & J.M. Moore
36. Rare Birds by Edward Riche
37. Misreadings by Umberto Eco
38. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds by Donald Harman Akenson
39. Elle: A Novel by Douglas Glover
40. Fight for Your Money by David Bach
41. Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
42. Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon
43. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
44. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
45. How Jesus Became a Christian by Barrie Wilson
46. The Water Boy by Bobby Ackles with Ian Mulgrew
47. Summer of my amazing luck by Miriam Toews
48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's Court by Mark Twain
49. Paul: The MInd of the Apostle by A. N. Wilson
50. The Plague by Albert Camus
51. The Fall by Albert Camus
52. The stranger by Albert Camus
53. A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews
54. Candide by Voltaire
55. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
56. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
57. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
58. Creation: A Novel by Gore Vidal
59. Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
60. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Illustrated by P.J. Lynch
61. The Ten Commandments:Ten Short Novels of Hitler's War Against the Moral Code by Thomas Mann et al
62. Precious by Douglas Glover
63. Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann
64. Swing Low: a Life by Miriam Toews
65. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
66. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
67. The Penguin Stephen Leacock by Stephen Leacock
68. Timeline by Michael Crichton
69. Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Selected by Marvin Kaye
70. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
72. The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
73. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
74. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
75. God's Problem by Bart D. Ehrman
76. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories by Robert Aickman
77. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
78. Dracula by Bram Stoker
79. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

[Anwyl]

1. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

I have had this sitting on my shelf for a couple of months, is it worth reading?

[Stevie_B]

1. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

I have had this sitting on my shelf for a couple of months, is it worth reading?

I found the first half of the book quite interesting. Zimbardo gives an in depth look
at the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). It was amazing to follow the changes which occurred in the participants,
including Zimbardo himself, as the experiment continued.

The 2nd half of the book focuses on Abu Ghraib. I'm not saying this section of the book isn't interesting but
the situational conditions surrounding Abu Ghraib make it easier to understand how abuses could occur.
In comparison, the relatively safe and voluntary conditions of the SPE and the behaviour which follows leaves one scratching their head. Definitely worth the read. There is also a movie about the SPEdue for release in 2011. If you're interested, Zimbardo also delivers a short lecture on the SPE which can be found on TED.TV.

[Some_Random_Chick]

1. Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
3. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
-. Persepolis I & II- Marjane Satrapi
4. What I Believe - Bertrand Russell
5. House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Histories - Herodotus
8. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
9. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
11. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
12. Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
13. Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins -Robert Hazen
14. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
15. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
16. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
17. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
18. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
19. Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez
20. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
21. The Origins of the Second World War - AJP Taylor
22. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
23. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
24. The Second World War Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm - Winston Churchill
25. Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
26. The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo
27. The Trial - Franz Kafka
28. The Age of Reason & Common Sense - Thomas Paine
29. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
30. The Eye - Vladimir Nabokov
--. The Beats: A Graphic History - Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle 'and others'
31. The Heart Of A Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
32. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
33. Tom Paine: A Political Life - John Keane
34. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
35. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
36. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
37. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
38. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov
39. Doubt: A History - Jennifer Michael Hecht
40. An Honest Thief and Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoevsky
41. Sartre in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
42. Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
43. Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence
44. The Torrents of Spring - Ernest Hemingway
--. Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman
45. The Complete Works - Oscar Wilde
46. Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories - Vladimir Nabokov
--. AD: New Orleans After the Deluge - Josh Neufeld
47. The Stranger - Albert Camus
48. Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
49. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
50. Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
--. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi
--. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation - Tim Hamilton
51. Tales of Good and Evil - Nikolai Gogol
52. Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
53. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert


54. City of Glass - Paul Auster
55. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

[alphabec]

I'm currently reading book 50--The Satanic Verses

[Spinozasgalt]

1. Persuasion - Jane Austen
2. Paradise Lost - John Milton(re-read: 2nd time reading)
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
5. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
6. Atonement - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
7. Emma - Jane Austen
8. The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
9. Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen
10. Why I Am Not A Christian - Bertrand Russell
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(re-read: 6th or 7th time reading)
12. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. Animal Farm - George Orwell
15. The Routledge Companion To Postmodernism - Stuart Sim
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
18. The Birds and Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
19. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
21. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
22. The Poverty Of Historicism - Karl Popper
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
25. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
26. The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z - Ayn Rand
27. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
30. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
31. Picnic At Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
32. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
33. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. Faust Part 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. The Horse And His Boy - C.S. Lewis
37. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
38. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham


39. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis

Currently Reading: Faust Part 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[EquivoKate]

Book 33: Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw

[Anwyl]

1) My Swordhand is Singing Marcus Sedgwick
2) The Book of Dead Philosophers Simon Critchley
3) Books of Blood Vol. 4 Clive Barker
4) Tortilla flat John Steinbeck
5) The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan
6) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
7) Books of Blood Vol. 5 Clive Barker
8) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams
9) Books of Blood Vol. 6 Clive Barker
10) A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
11) Life, The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
12) Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins
13) Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer isn’t Worth Drinking Ed. Steven D. Hales
14) The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene
15) Death Message Mark Billingham
16) An Innkeeper’s Diary John Fothergill
17) The Thirsty Dragon Lyn Ebenezer
18) So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Douglas Adams
19) A History of Histories John Burrow
20) Uneasy Money P.G. Woodhouse
21) The Road Cormac McCarthy
22) The Inimitable Jeeves P.G. Woodhouse
23) Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
24) Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck
25) Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore
26) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
27) Brainwashing: The science of thought control Kathleen Taylor
28) The Hireling’s Tale Jo Bannister
29) The March of Folly Barbara W Tuchman
30) The Gallic War and other Writings Julius Caesar
31) Master of Middle Earth: The Achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien Paul Kocher
32) Narziss and Goldmund Herman Hesse
33) Propaganda Edward Bernays
34) Che Guevara Andrew Sinclair
35) The Love of Stones Tobias Hill
36) The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
37) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind
38) Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
39) The White Cutter David Pownall
40) Fat Land: How Americans Because the Fattest People in the World Greg Critser
41) Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
42) Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs
43) The Outsider Albert Camus
44) The Magus John Fowles
45) The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century Ed. Robert Etty
46) Rogue Male Geoffrey Household
47) The Journey to the East Hermann Hesse
48) Longitude Dava Sobel
49) Tiberius: A Novel Allan Massie
50) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
51) Chopper 7: Empire of the Gun Mark Brandon Read
52) Talk to the Hand: The Utter bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life Lynne Truss
53) The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
54) Centurion Simon Scarrow
55) Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells Joe Navarro
56) Solitary Fitness Charles Bronson with Stephen Richards
57) The Second Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories Ed. Alun Richards
58) The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy
59) A Passage to India E. M. Forster
60) The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein Peter Taylor
61) Clausewitz on Strategy Ed. Tiha Von Ghyczy, Bolko Von Oetinger & Christopher Bassford
62) Space Captain Smith Toby Frost
63) The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart
64) God Emperor of Didcot Toby Frost
65) The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré
66) The Clowns of God Morris West
67) The Summer of the Danes Ellis Peters
68) Blood is the Sky Steve Hamilton
69) Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
70) Flashman on the March George Macdonald Fraser
71) The Diary of Mr Pepys Samuel Pepys
72) Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean
73) Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Excellent literature, I have had this sitting on my shelf for over 10 years so I thought it was about time that I read it. I won't say too much since with this kind of book you want to come up with your own interpretations. I will say that it is well paced, has a brilliant depth of characterisation, the story pulls you in. Great, great stuff.

[Anwyl]

1. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

I have had this sitting on my shelf for a couple of months, is it worth reading?

I found the first half of the book quite interesting. Zimbardo gives an in depth look
at the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). It was amazing to follow the changes which occurred in the participants,
including Zimbardo himself, as the experiment continued.

The 2nd half of the book focuses on Abu Ghraib. I'm not saying this section of the book isn't interesting but
the situational conditions surrounding Abu Ghraib make it easier to understand how abuses could occur.
In comparison, the relatively safe and voluntary conditions of the SPE and the behaviour which follows leaves one scratching their head. Definitely worth the read. There is also a movie about the SPEdue for release in 2011. If you're interested, Zimbardo also delivers a short lecture on the SPE which can be found on TED.TV.

Cheers for that Stevie_B. I'll make some time for it in the future.

[Spinozasgalt]

1. Persuasion - Jane Austen
2. Paradise Lost - John Milton(re-read: 2nd time reading)
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
5. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
6. Atonement - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
7. Emma - Jane Austen
8. The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
9. Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen
10. Why I Am Not A Christian - Bertrand Russell
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(re-read: 6th or 7th time reading)
12. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. Animal Farm - George Orwell
15. The Routledge Companion To Postmodernism - Stuart Sim
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
18. The Birds and Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
19. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
21. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
22. The Poverty Of Historicism - Karl Popper
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
25. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
26. The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z - Ayn Rand
27. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
30. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
31. Picnic At Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
32. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
33. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. Faust Part 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. The Horse And His Boy - C.S. Lewis
37. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
38. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
39. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis

40. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

Currently Reading: Faust Part 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ugh, I'm looking at Ian McEwan's Atonement and thinking "Boy I'd like to read that again right now", but nah, I'll read it again next year.

[Stevie_B]

1. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
2. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code by Bart D. Ehrman
3. Before the Beginning by Martin J. Rees
4. Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
5. Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
7. Who Wrote the Bible by R.E. Friedman
8. Our town: A play in three Acts. by Thornton Wilder
9. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
10. The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman
11. A history of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
12. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
13. Night by Elie Wiesel
14. Imperium by Robert Harris
15. The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
16. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
17. Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
18. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
19. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams
20. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
21. Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy by Peter De Rosa
22. Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith by Charles Templeton
23. Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison
24. Jesus: A Life by A,N. Wilson
25. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
26. Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal
27. Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal
28. The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor
29. Putting Away Childish Things by Uta Ranke-Heinemann
30. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
31. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
32. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan
33. Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Giaconda Belli
34. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews.
35. Res Gestae Divi Augusti Edited by P.A. Brunt & J.M. Moore
36. Rare Birds by Edward Riche
37. Misreadings by Umberto Eco
38. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds by Donald Harman Akenson
39. Elle: A Novel by Douglas Glover
40. Fight for Your Money by David Bach
41. Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
42. Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon
43. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
44. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
45. How Jesus Became a Christian by Barrie Wilson
46. The Water Boy by Bobby Ackles with Ian Mulgrew
47. Summer of my amazing luck by Miriam Toews
48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's Court by Mark Twain
49. Paul: The MInd of the Apostle by A. N. Wilson
50. The Plague by Albert Camus
51. The Fall by Albert Camus
52. The stranger by Albert Camus
53. A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews
54. Candide by Voltaire
55. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
56. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
57. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
58. Creation: A Novel by Gore Vidal
59. Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
60. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Illustrated by P.J. Lynch
61. The Ten Commandments:Ten Short Novels of Hitler's War Against the Moral Code by Thomas Mann et al
62. Precious by Douglas Glover
63. Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann
64. Swing Low: a Life by Miriam Toews
65. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
66. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
67. The Penguin Stephen Leacock by Stephen Leacock
68. Timeline by Michael Crichton
69. Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Selected by Marvin Kaye
70. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
72. The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
73. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
74. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
75. God's Problem by Bart D. Ehrman
76. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories by Robert Aickman
77. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
78. Dracula by Bram Stoker
79. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
80. Needles by William Deverell

[Anwyl]

1) My Swordhand is Singing Marcus Sedgwick
2) The Book of Dead Philosophers Simon Critchley
3) Books of Blood Vol. 4 Clive Barker
4) Tortilla flat John Steinbeck
5) The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan
6) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
7) Books of Blood Vol. 5 Clive Barker
8) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams
9) Books of Blood Vol. 6 Clive Barker
10) A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
11) Life, The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
12) Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins
13) Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer isn’t Worth Drinking Ed. Steven D. Hales
14) The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene
15) Death Message Mark Billingham
16) An Innkeeper’s Diary John Fothergill
17) The Thirsty Dragon Lyn Ebenezer
18) So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Douglas Adams
19) A History of Histories John Burrow
20) Uneasy Money P.G. Woodhouse
21) The Road Cormac McCarthy
22) The Inimitable Jeeves P.G. Woodhouse
23) Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
24) Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck
25) Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore
26) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
27) Brainwashing: The science of thought control Kathleen Taylor
28) The Hireling’s Tale Jo Bannister
29) The March of Folly Barbara W Tuchman
30) The Gallic War and other Writings Julius Caesar
31) Master of Middle Earth: The Achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien Paul Kocher
32) Narziss and Goldmund Herman Hesse
33) Propaganda Edward Bernays
34) Che Guevara Andrew Sinclair
35) The Love of Stones Tobias Hill
36) The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
37) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind
38) Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
39) The White Cutter David Pownall
40) Fat Land: How Americans Because the Fattest People in the World Greg Critser
41) Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
42) Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs
43) The Outsider Albert Camus
44) The Magus John Fowles
45) The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century Ed. Robert Etty
46) Rogue Male Geoffrey Household
47) The Journey to the East Hermann Hesse
48) Longitude Dava Sobel
49) Tiberius: A Novel Allan Massie
50) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
51) Chopper 7: Empire of the Gun Mark Brandon Read
52) Talk to the Hand: The Utter bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life Lynne Truss
53) The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
54) Centurion Simon Scarrow
55) Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells Joe Navarro
56) Solitary Fitness Charles Bronson with Stephen Richards
57) The Second Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories Ed. Alun Richards
58) The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy
59) A Passage to India E. M. Forster
60) The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein Peter Taylor
61) Clausewitz on Strategy Ed. Tiha Von Ghyczy, Bolko Von Oetinger & Christopher Bassford
62) Space Captain Smith Toby Frost
63) The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart
64) God Emperor of Didcot Toby Frost
65) The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré
66) The Clowns of God Morris West
67) The Summer of the Danes Ellis Peters
68) Blood is the Sky Steve Hamilton
69) Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
70) Flashman on the March George Macdonald Fraser
71) The Diary of Mr Pepys Samuel Pepys
72) Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean
73) Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
74) Everyday Drinking Kingsley Amis - One for the booze hounds and those who like the occasional tipple alike. He is a bit reactionary in parts and there is some repitition but on the whole a fun look at drinking and some great ideas for cocktails aswell as a quiz at the end.

[Silent.Bomber]

Ugh, I'm looking at Ian McEwan's Atonement and thinking "Boy I'd like to read that again right now", but nah, I'll read it again next year.

I think ''ugh'' whenever I look at a book by Ian McEwan in general.

352.) The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

353.) The Power-House by John Buchan

354.) Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov

Graphic Fiction:

35.) The Sandman 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman and others

[Spinozasgalt]

Ugh, I'm looking at Ian McEwan's Atonement and thinking "Boy I'd like to read that again right now", but nah, I'll read it again next year.

I think ''ugh'' whenever I look at a book by Ian McEwan in general.

You're not wrong. Very few of his books bear rereading too. Atonement was the first I read of his books and I consider it his best. Elsewhere he's pretty predictable and somewhat dry too.

[EquivoKate]

Book 35 Paulo Friere 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'
I have to read 2 books a week to read to make target.

[Silent.Bomber]

Ugh, I'm looking at Ian McEwan's Atonement and thinking "Boy I'd like to read that again right now", but nah, I'll read it again next year.

I think ''ugh'' whenever I look at a book by Ian McEwan in general.

You're not wrong. Very few of his books bear rereading too. Atonement was the first I read of his books and I consider it his best. Elsewhere he's pretty predictable and somewhat dry too.

I think the first book of his I read was ''The Cement Garden'' which seemed a bit too sick for me. Then I read ''The Comfort of Strangers'' which must be the only novel I have ever read which made me feel genuinely ill. Then it was ''Enduring Love'' and ''On Chesil Beach'', two of the most contrived novels I have ever read. I capped this with the Booker Prize-winning ''Amsterdam'' which is one of the worst novellas I have ever read. So, I can't really say that I'm a fan: I don't plan on ever reading any of his books again.

355.) The Plot against America by Philip Roth

356.) The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

[Spinozasgalt]

I think the first book of his I read was ''The Cement Garden'' which seemed a bit too sick for me. Then I read ''The Comfort of Strangers'' which must be the only novel I have ever read which made me feel genuinely ill. Then it was ''Enduring Love'' and ''On Chesil Beach'', two of the most contrived novels I have ever read. I capped this with the Booker Prize-winning ''Amsterdam'' which is one of the worst novellas I have ever read. So, I can't really say that I'm a fan: I don't plan on ever reading any of his books again.

I read Atonement first, so I got his best right off. "The Comfort Of Strangers and "On Chesil Beach", I have a feeling they exist only for their endings; the main bodies of each are just too thin. And oh "Enduring Love" and "Amsterdam", they both make me think ugh. The latter was terribly excruciating to get through.

Strangely, I liked "The Cement Garden" and yet have no idea why.

[Spinozasgalt]

1. Persuasion - Jane Austen
2. Paradise Lost - John Milton(re-read: 2nd time reading)
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
5. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
6. Atonement - Ian McEwan(re-read: 3rd time reading)
7. Emma - Jane Austen
8. The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
9. Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen
10. Why I Am Not A Christian - Bertrand Russell
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(re-read: 6th or 7th time reading)
12. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. Animal Farm - George Orwell
15. The Routledge Companion To Postmodernism - Stuart Sim
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
18. The Birds and Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
19. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
21. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
22. The Poverty Of Historicism - Karl Popper
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
25. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
26. The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z - Ayn Rand
27. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
30. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
31. Picnic At Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
32. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
33. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. Faust Part 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. The Horse And His Boy - C.S. Lewis
37. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
38. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
39. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
40. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

41. The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis

Currently Reading: Faust Part 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Silent.Bomber]

357.) A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

Graphic Fiction:

36.) The Sandman 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman and others

[EquivoKate]

Book 35 Rousseau Discourse on Ineqaulity
Audiobooks in Italics.

[Some_Random_Chick]

Still having trouble with this whole "numbered list" thing, eh?