Fifty book challenge 2009 - Page 14

Fiona_B · 21st June 2009, 9:53pm

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
19. beggars banquet - ian rankin
20. amber spyglass - philip pullman
21. completely unexpected tales - roald dahl
22. screen burn - charlie brooker

23. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon

endless psych · 22nd June 2009, 9:31am

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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
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown
19) Omnibus #1: At the mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
20) The Zombie Survival Guide - Max brooks
21) World War Z - Max Brooks
22) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Graham Smith

23) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M Pirsig

Rowsbette · 22nd June 2009, 9:54am

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
34. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
35. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
36. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
37. T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party
38. T. S. Eliot - The Family Reunion
39. D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love
40. Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
41. Ariel Levy – Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
42. Mireille Guiliano - French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
43. Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News?
44. Mollie Hunter - A Stranger Came Ashore
45. Agatha Christie - Evil Under the Sun

46. Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders
47. Italo Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
48. Ben Goldacre - Bad Science

Loved all three of them, although the first and third highlighted how little I know about maths/science. Was surprised at how ridiculously absorbing Bad Science was, I sped through it in three days.

Just realised how close I am to finishing. Gonna get my skates on and make this the 50 book challenge for 6 months, and try and hit a hundred by the end of the year.

the.definitive · 22nd June 2009, 5:58pm

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Just realised how close I am to finishing. Gonna get my skates on and make this the 50 book challenge for 6 months, and try and hit a hundred by the end of the year.

'Sake Sarah, looking at your list makes me feel totally inadequate! I really have to get back into reading mode, I've been spending all my nights in front of "Friends" re-runs.

Rowsbette · 22nd June 2009, 10:49pm

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'Sake Sarah, looking at your list makes me feel totally inadequate! I really have to get back into reading mode, I've been spending all my nights in front of "Friends" re-runs.

A lot of those books were part of my finals revision though, and I wasn't going out AT ALL for a good few weeks. In fact, my massive list just suggests to me that I'm too much of a hermit.

CHUCK LIDELOL · 22nd June 2009, 10:55pm

Two more since uni finished;
Homicide a Year on the Killing Streets (amazing)
Ten Days That Rocked Celtic Football Club (meh, no too bad. Easy read).

sylvianorth · 23rd June 2009, 10:03am

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6. 'Coraline'- Neil Gaiman
7. 'Billy' by Pamale Stevenson.

8. Ardal O Hanlon- Talk of the Town
9. J.K Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10. Girls Aloud- Dreams that Glitter.
11. Belle du Jour- Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

High brow stuff there

CHUCK LIDELOL · 23rd June 2009, 11:29am

What's Ardal's book? An autobiography? Any cop?

supernothing · 23rd June 2009, 3:32pm

1. Cormac McCarthy - The Blood Meridian
2. Ryzard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War
3. Ryzard kapuscinski - My African Life
4. JM G Le Clezio - Terra Amata
5. Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives
6. John Fante - The Road To Los Angeles
7. William Falconer - As I Lay Dying
8. Jean Claude Izzo - A Sun For The Dying
9. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
10. David Peace - GB84
11. Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
12. Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
13. Sudhir Vankatesh - Gang Leader for a Day
14. Roberto Bolano - Last Nights On Earth
15. Albert Camus - The Fall
16. Ryzard Kapuscinski - Another Day of Life
17. Mischa Glenny - McMafia Pretty decent look at global organised crime, was put off by the freakanomics/ladsmag look of the jacket but it's actually some pretty rigerous shit
18. Jean Claude Izzo - Total Chaos Some decent mediteranian noire. All set in Marseille and i love Marseille
19. Florrian Zeller - The Facination of Evil
20. Introducing Camus One of those study guide intro books with the pictures - actually had some pretty interesting factoids and stuff in it.

sylvianorth · 23rd June 2009, 5:15pm

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What's Ardal's book? An autobiography? Any cop?

Novel, the only one he's written as far as I can see. I enjoyed it, was funny and depressing by turns.

the.definitive · 23rd June 2009, 9:13pm

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9. The Best A Man Can Get - John O'Farrell. Was awright. Mildy amusing, bit of a neat ending.

10. Paperback Raita - Will Rhode

Runt · 23rd June 2009, 9:34pm

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1. Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. The restaurant at the end of the Universe - Douglas Adams
3. Life, the Universe and everything - Douglas Adams
4. The Violin - Anne Rice
5. Revolution in Eastern Europe - Peter Cipkowski
6. Minority Report - Philip K Dick
7. Sandman (The dream hunters) - Neil Gaiman
8. Anansi boys - Neil Gaiman

9. Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy (meh)
10. another Sandman (can't remember which) - Neil Gaiman
11. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien FUCKING ACE. I'd been missing out definitely, it's so lovely.

started reading Master of the Universe too but gave up coz it was dull.

stakhanovite · 24th June 2009, 12:20am

Eugh, it's halfway through the year, doubt I can be arsed typing up my list from another site. Good luck to all though!

Pretty Kitty · 24th June 2009, 8:32pm

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
2. Emma - Jane Austen
3. The secret garden - F. Hodgson Burnett
4. Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll
5. Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
6. The adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
7. What Katy did - Susan Coolidge
8. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
9. The call of the wild - Jack London
10. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
11. Round the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
12. The importance of being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
13. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
15. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
16. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A.C.Doyle
17. Duma Key - Stephen King
18. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
20. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
22. The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
23. A Midsummer Nights Dream - William Shakespeare

24. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
What a waste of time. It was essentially a very long, very tedious list of fish with a few characters thrown in.

Runt · 24th June 2009, 10:45pm

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24. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
What a waste of time. It was essentially a very long, very tedious list of fish with a few characters thrown in.

So all of his books are DULL then? (so dull that I actually got the title wrong up there ^ it's actually Master of the World that I couldn't finish).