Fifty book challenge 2008

[ska]

ohhh, sorry i thought we were suggesting, i shall rephrase my post then

[triggerhappy]

Originally Posted by ska

ohhh, sorry i thought we were suggesting, i shall rephrase my post then

Sorry! Didn't even realise that was what you were doing! The point is to try and read fifty books by the end of the year - I think most folk would be hard pushed to manage that in less than three months

[ska]

ive probably read over, i spend half my life travelling up and down the country on trains. i am a winner of this challenge

[triggerhappy]

Originally Posted by ska

ive probably read over, i spend half my life travelling up and down the country on trains. i am a winner of this challenge

Gies yer list then!

(I probably shouldn't get involved here... since finishing my literature degree I've probably only managed to read ten or fifteen books, despite being ecstatic about being free to choose my reading material again )

[ska]

1. little face by sophie hannah
2. we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver - this book made me so angry its fantastic
3. the time travellers wife by audrey niffenegger
4. the traveller
5. brotherhood of the holy shroud
6. rachels holiday
7. everybody worth knowing
8. the devil wears prada
9. the crystal skull- so much better than the indiana jones film
10. the beach
11. lord of the flies
12. the sanctuary
13. yes man
14. jpod
15. dice man
16. veronika decides to die
17. alice must die
18. call me elizabeth
19. diary of a call girl
20. the last templar
21. the double headed eagle
22. pig island
23. the death list
24. the bad wifes tale
25. i see you
26. spartan
27. the firm
28. the melancoly death of oyster boy
29. the husband
30. the taking
31. perfume- the story of a murderer
32. lucy sullivan is getting married
33. last chance saloon
34. the broker
35. the last juror- i burned this book out of principal.
36. the bourne ultimatum
37. my idea of fun- creepy ass book but brilliant
38. the death list
39. velocity
40. the innocent man
41. stick it up your punter
42. how to kill your husband
43. sexing the cherry
44. PS i love you - made me cry like a baby
45. a time to kill
46. eden close - such a lovely book
47. light on snow - not so good
48. anybody out there? - really nice sad book
49. the constant gardener - remains one of my favourite books
50. the very hungry caterpillar- found it whilst moving my stuff back to uni, still a fave


so there is my list, you have no idea how difficult it was to do that from memory. they dont have authors so if you want to know who its buy just ask

[guitarmankris]

House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)


Phenomenal book. Difficult at times, and hugely complex, but it's such an astounding book that it deserves a mention outwith any list.

[Will_Couper]

1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
2. The Hungry Moon - Ramsey Campbell
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Still-Watch - Mary Higgins Clark
5. Riverworld and Other Stories - Philip Jose Farmer
6. The Book of Philip Jose Farmer - Philip Jose Farmer
7. Graham Masterton Omnibus: The Hymn and Night Plague - Graham Masterton
8. Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
9. Me, Hood! - Mickey Spillane
10. The Body Lovers - Mickey Spillane
11. Out of Space and Time - Clark Ashton Smith
12. Tooth and Nail - Ian Rankin
13. Class Dis-Mythed - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
14. Myth-Gotten Gains - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
15. Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks
16. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M Banks
17. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
18. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
19. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
20. Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
21. Triad - Derek Lambert
22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
23. The Blue Max - Jack D. Hunter
24. Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
25. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
26. Mars - Ben Bova
27. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov

28. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Interesting book. Dunno if I liked it as such. Laughed at bits and it is thoughtful and odd. Still unsure.


Will

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Step approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introdcution to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

48. People with Autism behaving badly - Jonathan Clements

[xph0ria]

Originally Posted by xph0ria

1. Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
2. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
3. Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
4. Christopher Brookmyer - Quite Ugly One Morning
5. Christopher Brookmyer - Country of the Blind
6. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
7. Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
8. Stephen King - Duma Key
9. Stephen King - Insomnia
10. Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
11. Terry Pratchett - Thud!
12. Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
13. Stephen King - The Waste Lands
14. Stephen King - Wizard and Glass
15. Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla
16. Stephen King - Song of Susanna
17. Stephen King - The Dark Tower
18. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
19. Gregory McGuire - Wicked
20. Gregory McGuire - Son of a Witch
21. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
22. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
23. Brian King - Walking in on Mum and Dad
24. Bill Bryson - Shakespeare
25. Nicocolo Machiavelli - The Prince
26. Jodi Picoult - Salem Falls
27. Jodi Picoult - Tenth Circle
28. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
29. Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
30. Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan

31. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
32. Bateman - Orpheus Rising
33. William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
34. Terry Pratchett - Nation

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Step approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introdcution to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements

49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best

[Rowsbette]

Originally Posted by ska

*lots of books*

Damn, I thought I was winning this thread til you came along!

51. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
52. Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
53. Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve

54. J.M Coetzee - In The Heart of the Country

Really enjoyed this, although it's very confusing in places and just as brutal as the other two of his books that I've read. It's also kinda strange to think that the author's a man, as his first-person female narrative is so convincing.

[johnnie walker]

1. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
2. Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
3. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
4. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
5. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
6. China Miéville - The Iron Council
7. Ian Irvine - The Curse on the Chosen (Book Two of the Song of the Tears trilogy, part of the Three Worlds Cycle)
8. Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
9. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)
10. Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara (Book One of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
12. Richard Morgan - Broken Angels
13. Raymond E Fiest - Wrath of a Mad God (Book 3 of the Darkwar saga)
14. Stephen Donaldson - The Power that Preserves (The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 3)
15. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle)
16. Terry Brooks - The Elfstones of Shannara (Book Two of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
17. Cory Doctorow - Little Brother (Released on Creative Commons Licence - download for free )
18. Allen Carr - The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
19. John Gribbin - Science: A History
20. Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days
21. Dan Abnett - The Horus Heresy book 1: Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k)
22. Ian C. Esselmount - Night of Knives (A Novel of the Malazan Empire)
23. William Gibson - Idoru
24. Stephen Fry - Hippopotamus
25. Neal Stephenson - Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle)
26. Stephen Hunt - The Court of the Air
27. Naomi Novik - Temeraire (AKA His Majesty's Dragon) - Temeraire Book 1
28. Jack Vance - The Dying Earth
29. Naomi Novik - Throne of Jade - Temeraire Book 2
30. Steven Erikson - Toll the Hounds - A Malazan book of the Fallen Book 8
31. Naomi Novik - Black Powder War - Temeraire Book 3

[jondejonjon]

Originally Posted by jondejonjon

1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman
8. Starbucked - Taylor Clark
9. Eisenhower on Leadership - Alan Axelrod
10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bachs
11. Drop the Pink Elephant - Bill McFarlane
12. Choke - Chuck Palanuik
13. Thank you for arguing - Jay Heinrichs
14. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
15. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
16. The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
17. The Game - Neil Strauss
18. How to lose friends and alienate people - Toby Young
19. Down and Dirty Movies - Peter Biskind

20. Out of the Ordinary - Jon Ronson

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Step approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best

50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy

Can't believe that I finished on the back of a stupid amount of stats. books.

Spookily in almost exactly the same amount of days as last year...

[triggerhappy]

Originally Posted by endless psych

50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy

Can't believe that I finished on the back of a stupid amount of stats. books.

Spookily in almost exactly the same amount of days as last year...

Well done

(Although half of the books on your list look incredibly boring to a science avoider like me. Would have taken me years to get through them.)