Fifty book challenge 2009

[endless psych]

1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman

11) Emergency - Neil Strauss

[ElegantlyRotten]

1. The Distance Between Us - Maggie O'Farrell
2. Anybody out There? - Marion Keyes
3. My Friend Leonard - James Frey
4. The Leisure Seeker - Micheal Zadoorian
5. Marley & Me - John Grogan
6. Knots & crosses - Ian Rankin

7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell

[Kenny]

Haha, well done. Didn't realise you could do a law masters without a law degree, that's pretty cool. (Y)

Yeah, you can't, in theory, but they pulled a cool scam - they let me do the PgCert, which is basically the first two modules of the Masters, and then when I'd done that said, cool, you have law experience now, carry on with the rest of the Masters.

1. Philip Pan - Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
2. William Boyd - Any Human Heart
3. James Mann - About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China
4. Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
5. Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
6. Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
7. Christopher Meyer - DC Confidential
8. Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
9. Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
10. Joshua Kurlantzick - Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World
11. Duncan Hewitt - China: Getting Rich First: A Modern Social History
12. Frances Wood - The First Emperor of China
13. Conor Foley - The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War
14. Andrew Nathan and Robert Ross - The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security

15. Will Hutton - The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century

[sylvianorth]

15. Will Hutton - The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century

Man, you LOVE China!


Falling way behind with this, currently reading Ardal O'Hanlon's 'Talk of the Town'. Was soooooooooo wary of giving it a go cos I obviously loved him as Dougal and didn't want to taint that, but so far it's been very funny

[Kenny]

Yeah, last dissertation was on China so I was reading about it for ages and just seem to sort of have... carried on. Current book's not on China though and neither are the next three!

[PrincessGarnet]

1. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
2. The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
3. The Bell Jar - Silvia Plath
4. The funeral party - Ludmilla Ultitskaya

It makes me wish I was going to Russia. I love most Russian writers i come across.

[Fiona_B]

1. piercing - ryu murakami
2. cross country - james patterson
3. in the miso soup - ryu murakami
4. darkly dreaming dexter - jeff lindsay
5. dearly devoted dexter - jeff lindsay
6. dexter in the dark - jeff lindsay
7. the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
8. the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
9. american psycho - bret easton ellis
10. after dark - haruki murakami
11. dexter by design - jeff lindsay
12. three and out - tom henry
13. coraline - neil gaiman
14. fleshmarket close - ian rankin
15. too weird for ziggy - sylvie simmons
16. the runes of the earth - stephen donaldson
17. how the dead live - will self

18 anansi boys - neil gaiman

[Rowsbette]

Yeah, you can't, in theory, but they pulled a cool scam - they let me do the PgCert, which is basically the first two modules of the Masters, and then when I'd done that said, cool, you have law experience now, carry on with the rest of the Masters.

Sneaky indeed.

1. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
2. Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
3. Angela Carter – Heroes and Villains
4. Angela Carter – Shadow Dance
5. Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
6. Sarah Gamble – The Fiction of Angela Carter
7. Angela Carter – Several Perceptions
8. D. M. Thomas – The White Hotel
9. John Berger – Ways of Seeing
10. William Leith – The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
11. Hanif Kureishi – My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign
12. Christine Geraghty – My Beautiful Laundrette
13. Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
14. Emma Smith – The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
15. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
16. William Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus
17. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
18. William Shakespeare – Othello
19. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
20. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
21. Bram Stoker – Dracula
22. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
23. William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure
24. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. William Shakespeare – King Lear
26. William Shakespeare – Macbeth
27. William Shakespeare – The Winter's Tale
28. S. L. Bethell – The Winter's Tale: A Study
29. Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
30. Chistina Rossetti – Goblin Market and Other Poems

31. William Shakespeare – The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
32. Simone de Beauvoir – The Woman Destroyed
33. T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962

The Woman Destroyed was amazing.

[xph0ria]

1. Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
2. Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
3. Gregory Maguire - A Lion Among Men
4. Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle
5. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
6. Michael Crichton - The Lost World
7. Jesse Kellerman - The Brutal Art
8. Gregory Maguire - Mirror, Mirror
9. Stephenie Meyer - New Moon
10. Ryu Murakami - Audition
11. Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
12. Matthew Pearl - The Last Dickens
13. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
14. Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse
15. Christopher Ranson - The Birthing House
16. Terry Pratchett - Mort
17. Kerry Cohen - Loose Girl

18. Stephen King - Cycle of the Werewolf
19. John Connelly - The Killing Kind
20. Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn

[Kenny]

2. William Boyd - Any Human Heart
3. James Mann - About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China
4. Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
5. Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
6. Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
7. Christopher Meyer - DC Confidential
8. Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
9. Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
10. Joshua Kurlantzick - Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World
11. Duncan Hewitt - China: Getting Rich First: A Modern Social History
12. Frances Wood - The First Emperor of China
13. Conor Foley - The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War
14. Andrew Nathan and Robert Ross - The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security
15. Will Hutton - The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century

16. Brian Clark - The Scottish Legal System

I got fed up with people expecting me to know stuff about law.

[endless psych]

1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss

12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland

[princessoPUNK]

1. Diary of a Wife - Anias Nin
2. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
3. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding
4. The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
5. A Wedding in December- Anita Shreve
6. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
7. Love, Etc. - Julian Barnes
8. Vienna - Eva Menasse
9. The Family Way - Tony Parsons
10. A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy - Charlotte Grieg
11. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
12. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
13. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
14. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
15. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
16. Class, The Secret diary of a Teacher in Turmoil - Jane Beaton
17. Those Faraday Girls - Monica McInerney
18. Stories we Could Tell - Tony Parsons
19. My Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
20. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
21. Q and A - Vikas Swarup
22. Testimony - Anita Shreve
23. The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
24. P.S. I love You - Cecilia Ahern
25. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
26. How to be Good - Nick Hornby
27. Art Therapy with Children on the Autistic Spectrum - Kathy Evans, Janet Dubowski

28. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
29. Plan B - Emily Barr

I have also read all the Twilight books again. It's exam time, so I need something I don't have to concentrate on when I'm having a wee read!

[Rowsbette]

On Sunday it dawned on me that I'd really benefit from rereading all the modernist texts I'm planning to use in my exams (in addition to all the corresponding criticism) and that I hadn't really left myself enough time. So since Monday I've been reading manically, and will continue to do so. Just started another 500-page monster, sob.

34. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
35. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
36. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent

The second two were pretty short, but not the sort of books you can easily speed through.

[endless psych]

1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland

13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies

[ElegantlyRotten]

1. The Distance Between Us - Maggie O'Farrell
2. Anybody out There? - Marion Keyes
3. My Friend Leonard - James Frey
4. The Leisure Seeker - Micheal Zadoorian
5. Marley & Me - John Grogan
6. Knots & crosses - Ian Rankin
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
8. Novel about my Wife - Emily Perkins