The Fifty Book Challenge

[johnnie walker]

1. Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors
2. J.R.R tolkien: The Hobbit
3. Willam Gibson: Pattern Recognition
4. Raymond E Feist: Krondor the betrayal
5. Larry Niven: Ringworld
6. Rick Dakan - Geek Mafia (free pdf download)
7. Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
8. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire
9. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Servant of the Empire
10. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Mistress of the Empire
11. Raymond E Feist - Krondor: The Assasins.
12. Raymond E Feist - Krondor: Tear of the Gods
13. Raymond E Feist - Legends of the Riftwar - Honoured Enemy
14. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy Book 1)
15. Robin Hobb - Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy Book 2)
16. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy Book 3)
17. Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
18. Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders Book 1)
19. Robin Hobb - The Mad Ship (The Liveship Traders Book 2)
20. Robin Hobb - Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders Book 3)
21. David & Leigh Eddings - Crystal Gorge (The Dreamers Book 3)
22. Robin Hobb - Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 1)
23. Robin Hobb - Golden Fool (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 2)
24. Robin Hobb - Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 3)
25. Peter F Hamilton - Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga Part 2)
26. Robin Hobb - Shamans Crossing (Soldier Son Trilogy Book 1)
27. David Gemmell - Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
28. Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar
29. Terry Goodkind - Phantom (Sword of Truth Series, Book 10)
30. Trudi Canavan - The Magicians Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 1)
31. James Barclay - Dawnthief (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 1)
32. Anne McCaffery - Dragonflight (The first chronicle of Pern)
33. Trudi Canavan - The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 2)
34. Trudi Canavan - The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 3)
35. Frank Herbert - Dune
36. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
37. Raymond E Feist - Into a Dark Ream (Darkwar Series Book 2)
38. George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1)
39. Trudi Canavan - Priestess of the White (Age of the Five Book 1)
40. George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 2)
41. George R.R. Martin - A Storm Of Swords: 1. Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3: Part 1)
42. Trudi Canavan - Last of the Wilds (Age of the Five Book 2)
43. George R.R. Martin - A Storm Of Swords: 2. Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3: Part 2)
44. George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 4)
45. Ian Irvine - Fate of the Fallen (The Song of the Tears Book 1)
46. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes
47. Robert Harris - Fatherland
48. Micheal Moorcock - Elric of Melniboné
49. Micheal Moorcock - Sailor on the seas of fate
50. Raymond E Feist - Magician (Riftwar Trilogy Book 1)
51. Raymond E Feist - Jimmy the Hand (Legends of the Riftwar Series)
52. Raymond E Feist - Silverthorn (Riftwar Trilogy Book 2)
53. Raymond E Feist - A Darkness at Sethanon (Riftwar Trilogy Book 3)
54. James Barclay - Noonshade (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 2)
55. Alastair Reynolds - Galactic North
56. Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
57. James Barclay - Nightchild (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 3)
58. Inazo Nitoboe - Bushido - The Soul of Japan
59. Stephen Baxter - Evolution - a novel
60. Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
61. Isaac Asimov - Foundation
62. James Barclay - Elfsorrow (The Legends of the Raven Book 1)
63. James Barclay - Shadowheart (The Legends of the Raven Book 2)
64. James Barclay - Demonstorm (The Legends of the Raven Book 3)

What an ending I loved these 2 series of books, The Raven are just brilliant.

I reckon that will be my last book i put on this list, im currently reading George RR Martin's Dreamsongs - a RRetrospective. Its a beast of a book, it covers the last 30 years of his short stories, i doubt ill finish it this year. (It has something like 1/2 a million words according to amazon).

[supernothing]

1. The spirit of terrorism or a requiem to the twin towers - Jean Baudrillard
2. Introducing Foucault
3. A Very Short Intorduction to Neitzsche (it didn't really drum in the spelling)
4. Allison Miller - Demo
4. Soren Keirkegaard - Fear and Trembling
6. Haruki Murakami - Norweigan Wood
7. Simon Blackburn - Think (that is for uni though)
8. Rene Descartes - mediatations and principles (same, what a load of shit)
9. Auldus Huxley - The Doors of Perception
10. Don DeLillo - White Noise
11. Johnathon Wolff - An Introduction to Political Philosophy
12. Bertrand Russel - The Problems of Philosophy
13. Albert Camus - The myth of Sisyphus
14. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
15. Albert Camus - Summer in Algiers
16 Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
17. Don't stick your head out the window: An inter-rail adventure
18. Douglas Coupland - Elenor Rigby
19. Allen Ginsburg - Howl and a few other poems. (more of a pamphlet but i'm couting it)
19. Simone De Bouvioir - An ethics of ambiguity
20. Charles Bukowski - Burning in water drowning in flame
21. Albert Camus - Exile and the Kingdom
22. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
23. Hunter S. Thompson - Curse Of Lono
24. Orhan Pamuk - The Black Book
25. Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran
26. Introducing Lacan
27. A Very short introduction to Foucault
28. A very short introduction to Post Structuralism
29. Jean Paul Sartre - Existentialism is humanism
30. Umberto Eco and Football: Postmodern encounters
31. Neitzsche - Why I Am so Wise
32. Voltaire - Miracles and Idolatry
33. A very short introduction to Existentialism
34. A very short introduction to Wittgenstein
35. Richard Appignanesi - What do existentialists beleive?
36. David Edwards and David Cromwell - Guardians of power: the myth of the liberal media
37. Mark Curtis - Unpeople: Britains secret human rights abuses
38. Steven D. Levitt - Frekonomics
39. Mark Thomas - As used on the famous Nelson Mandela
40. Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels
41. Jack Kerouac - On the Road
42. Charles Bukowski - Post Office
43. Joseph Heller - Catch 22
44. David Mitchel - Cloud Atlass
45. Issiah Berlin - Four Essays On Liberty
46. John Rawls - A Theory Of Justice (Kind of)
47. Critical Thinkers: Luis Althusser
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Jean Paul Sartre - Modern Times: Selected Non fiction


..one more

[spoonie]

Originally Posted by spoonie

16....

17. i, lucifer - glenn duncan
18. american tabloid - james ellroy

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[XMachina]

since I last posted I've read Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. There's other stuff but I've prob. done the challenge.

[Zhorakly]

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[supernothing]

1. The spirit of terrorism or a requiem to the twin towers - Jean Baudrillard
2. Introducing Foucault
3. A Very Short Intorduction to Neitzsche (it didn't really drum in the spelling)
4. Allison Miller - Demo
4. Soren Keirkegaard - Fear and Trembling
6. Haruki Murakami - Norweigan Wood
7. Simon Blackburn - Think (that is for uni though)
8. Rene Descartes - mediatations and principles (same, what a load of shit)
9. Auldus Huxley - The Doors of Perception
10. Don DeLillo - White Noise
11. Johnathon Wolff - An Introduction to Political Philosophy
12. Bertrand Russel - The Problems of Philosophy
13. Albert Camus - The myth of Sisyphus
14. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
15. Albert Camus - Summer in Algiers
16 Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
17. Don't stick your head out the window: An inter-rail adventure
18. Douglas Coupland - Elenor Rigby
19. Allen Ginsburg - Howl and a few other poems. (more of a pamphlet but i'm couting it)
19. Simone De Bouvioir - An ethics of ambiguity
20. Charles Bukowski - Burning in water drowning in flame
21. Albert Camus - Exile and the Kingdom
22. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
23. Hunter S. Thompson - Curse Of Lono
24. Orhan Pamuk - The Black Book
25. Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran
26. Introducing Lacan
27. A Very short introduction to Foucault
28. A very short introduction to Post Structuralism
29. Jean Paul Sartre - Existentialism is humanism
30. Umberto Eco and Football: Postmodern encounters
31. Neitzsche - Why I Am so Wise
32. Voltaire - Miracles and Idolatry
33. A very short introduction to Existentialism
34. A very short introduction to Wittgenstein
35. Richard Appignanesi - What do existentialists beleive?
36. David Edwards and David Cromwell - Guardians of power: the myth of the liberal media
37. Mark Curtis - Unpeople: Britains secret human rights abuses
38. Steven D. Levitt - Frekonomics
39. Mark Thomas - As used on the famous Nelson Mandela
40. Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels
41. Jack Kerouac - On the Road
42. Charles Bukowski - Post Office
43. Joseph Heller - Catch 22
44. David Mitchel - Cloud Atlass
45. Issiah Berlin - Four Essays On Liberty
46. John Rawls - A Theory Of Justice (Kind of)
47. Critical Thinkers: Luis Althusser
48. Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
49. Jean Paul Sartre - Modern Times: Selected Non fiction
50. Kevin MacNeil - The Stornoway Way

done.

[Purplerose]

1. A. McArthur, H.Kingsley Long - No Mean City
2. Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
3. Hugo Hamilton - The Speckled People
4. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
5. Kevin Lewis - The Kid: A True Story
6. Sean Boyne - Sold into Marriage: One Girl's Living Nightmare
7. Beatrice Sparks - It Happened to Nancy
8. Frank W.Abignale - Catch Me If You Can
9. Jean Plaidy - Uneasy Lies the Head
10. Marion Zimmer Bradley - Lady of Avalon
11. H. G. Wells - The Shape of Things to Come
12. Nicki Defago - Child Free and Loving It
13. Jean Plaidy - The Shadow of the Pomegranate
14. Jean Plaidy - Katharine the Virgin Widow
15. Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
16. Sayo Masuda - Autobiography of a Geisha
17. Anchee Min - Empress Orchid
18. Anchee Min - Becoming Madame Mao
19. Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella
20. Xinran - The Good Women of China
21. Arnost Lustig - Waiting for Leah
22. Jean Plaidy - The Kings Secret Matter
23. Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
24. Anne Rampling - Exit to Eden
25. Elisabeth Hyde - The Abortionists Daughter
26. Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
27. Jean Sasson - Princess
28. Celia Rees - Witch Child
29. Clive Barker - Imajica
30. Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada
31. Alice Walker - The Color Purple
32. Robert Turner - Future echoes in the dark
33. Raymond Briggs - When The Wind Blows
34. Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
35. Toni Morrison - Beloved
36. John Baxter - De Niro: A Biography
37. Anne Rice - Cry To Heaven
38. Manda Scott - Boudica: Dreaming The Eagle
39. Greg Egan - Luminous
40. Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

Didn't hit 50 but 40 is no bad, we gonna do this again next year?

[johnnie walker]

1. Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors
2. J.R.R tolkien: The Hobbit
3. Willam Gibson: Pattern Recognition
4. Raymond E Feist: Krondor the betrayal
5. Larry Niven: Ringworld
6. Rick Dakan - Geek Mafia (free pdf download)
7. Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
8. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire
9. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Servant of the Empire
10. Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Mistress of the Empire
11. Raymond E Feist - Krondor: The Assasins.
12. Raymond E Feist - Krondor: Tear of the Gods
13. Raymond E Feist - Legends of the Riftwar - Honoured Enemy
14. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy Book 1)
15. Robin Hobb - Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy Book 2)
16. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy Book 3)
17. Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
18. Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders Book 1)
19. Robin Hobb - The Mad Ship (The Liveship Traders Book 2)
20. Robin Hobb - Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders Book 3)
21. David & Leigh Eddings - Crystal Gorge (The Dreamers Book 3)
22. Robin Hobb - Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 1)
23. Robin Hobb - Golden Fool (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 2)
24. Robin Hobb - Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 3)
25. Peter F Hamilton - Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga Part 2)
26. Robin Hobb - Shamans Crossing (Soldier Son Trilogy Book 1)
27. David Gemmell - Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
28. Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar
29. Terry Goodkind - Phantom (Sword of Truth Series, Book 10)
30. Trudi Canavan - The Magicians Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 1)
31. James Barclay - Dawnthief (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 1)
32. Anne McCaffery - Dragonflight (The first chronicle of Pern)
33. Trudi Canavan - The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 2)
34. Trudi Canavan - The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy Book 3)
35. Frank Herbert - Dune
36. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
37. Raymond E Feist - Into a Dark Ream (Darkwar Series Book 2)
38. George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1)
39. Trudi Canavan - Priestess of the White (Age of the Five Book 1)
40. George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 2)
41. George R.R. Martin - A Storm Of Swords: 1. Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3: Part 1)
42. Trudi Canavan - Last of the Wilds (Age of the Five Book 2)
43. George R.R. Martin - A Storm Of Swords: 2. Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3: Part 2)
44. George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 4)
45. Ian Irvine - Fate of the Fallen (The Song of the Tears Book 1)
46. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes
47. Robert Harris - Fatherland
48. Micheal Moorcock - Elric of Melniboné
49. Micheal Moorcock - Sailor on the seas of fate
50. Raymond E Feist - Magician (Riftwar Trilogy Book 1)
51. Raymond E Feist - Jimmy the Hand (Legends of the Riftwar Series)
52. Raymond E Feist - Silverthorn (Riftwar Trilogy Book 2)
53. Raymond E Feist - A Darkness at Sethanon (Riftwar Trilogy Book 3)
54. James Barclay - Noonshade (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 2)
55. Alastair Reynolds - Galactic North
56. Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
57. James Barclay - Nightchild (The Chronicles of the Raven Book 3)
58. Inazo Nitoboe - Bushido - The Soul of Japan
59. Stephen Baxter - Evolution - a novel
60. Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
61. Isaac Asimov - Foundation
62. James Barclay - Elfsorrow (The Legends of the Raven Book 1)
63. James Barclay - Shadowheart (The Legends of the Raven Book 2)
64. James Barclay - Demonstorm (The Legends of the Raven Book 3)
65. James Barclay - Cry Of a Newborn (The Ascendants of Estorea Book 1)
66. George RR Martin - Dream Songs (A RRetrospective)

I actually started Dream Songs just after christmas, finished it on the 3rd, so ive put it in this list.

[spiritedflame]

hey
anyone out there has a pdf version of the legend of the raven series?
especially for elfsorrow.
pls reply or send me a message
thanks!