[ 50 books challenge ]
I attempted the 50 books challenge last year but I started really late (August) and only made it up to 27. I'm not sure if I plan on reading fifty this year, but keeping a list was a really good motivator for reading a lot, so I'll make one for this year too. I am including books I read for school as long as they were legitimate books (not textbooks or long journal articles) and as long as I finished them.
AS OF 4/13/08:
1. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The United States of Arugula - David Kamp
3. Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II - Joseph Rothschild
4. Preying On The State: The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 - Venelin I. Ganev
5. Poland's Jump To The Market Economy - Jeffrey Sachs
6. Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor - Elizabeth C. Dunn
7. Paris To The Moon - Adam Gopnik
8. We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
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9. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (4/26/08)
10. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
11. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (5/24/08)
12. Atonement - Ian McEwan (5/25/08)
13. From Widgets to Digits - Katherine Stone (5/15/08)
14. The Corrosion of Character - Richard Sennett (5/19/08)
15. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Barbara Kingsolver (6/18/08)
16. A Problem From Hell - Samantha Power (6/19/08)
17. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (6/23/08)
18. A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (6/23/08)
19. So Brave, Young, and Handsome - Leif Enger (6/29/08)
20. The Seas - Samantha Hunt (6/29/08)
21. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes (7/3/08)
22. Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (7/3/08)
23. A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain (7/5/06)
24. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander (7/6/08)
25. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters - Chip Kidd (7/7/08)
26. A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut (7/8/08)
27. A Short History of Tractors In Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (7/11/08)
28. Seven Ages of Paris - Alistair Horne (7/16/08)
29. Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories - James Thomas (ed.) (7/17/08)
30. The New Kings of Nonfiction - Ira Glass (ed.) (7/18/08)
31. In The Gloaming - Alice Elliott Dark (7/19/08)
32. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong - Jean-Benoît Nadeau, et al. (7/22/08)
33. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers (7/26/08)
34. California Uncovered - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (ed.) (7/31/08)
35. The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt (8/5/08)
36. The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas (9/2/08)
37. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac (9/11/08)
38. La Cantatrice Chauve - Eugene Ionesco (9/27/08)
39. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (10/28/08)
40. Flat, Hot and Crowded - Thomas Friedman (11/3/08)
41. Ethnicity/Equality: France In The Balance - Azouz Begag (11/8/08)
42. What Is The What - Dave Eggers (12/17/08)
43. Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier (12/20/08)
44. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (12/25/08)
45. Peace Like A River - Leif Enger (12/27/08)
46. A Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner (12/28/08)
47. A Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich (12/29/08)
48. I FORGET???
49. A Handmaid's Tale - Margeret Atwood (12/31/08)
50. How Water Feels to the Fishes - Dave Eggers (12/31/08)
The problem is that I have soooo many books that I haven't finished reading:
+ Written On The Body - Jeannette Winterson
+ Seven Years In Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
+ The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
+ Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
+ Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
+ The Alchemist - Pablo Coelho
+ Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
And then the ones I'm reading for school! Aggghhh. I really need to get on it, and also make a definite list somewhere of books I am interested in reading.
AS OF 4/13/08:
1. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The United States of Arugula - David Kamp
3. Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II - Joseph Rothschild
4. Preying On The State: The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 - Venelin I. Ganev
5. Poland's Jump To The Market Economy - Jeffrey Sachs
6. Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor - Elizabeth C. Dunn
7. Paris To The Moon - Adam Gopnik
8. We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
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9. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (4/26/08)
10. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
11. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (5/24/08)
12. Atonement - Ian McEwan (5/25/08)
13. From Widgets to Digits - Katherine Stone (5/15/08)
14. The Corrosion of Character - Richard Sennett (5/19/08)
15. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Barbara Kingsolver (6/18/08)
16. A Problem From Hell - Samantha Power (6/19/08)
17. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (6/23/08)
18. A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (6/23/08)
19. So Brave, Young, and Handsome - Leif Enger (6/29/08)
20. The Seas - Samantha Hunt (6/29/08)
21. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes (7/3/08)
22. Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (7/3/08)
23. A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain (7/5/06)
24. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander (7/6/08)
25. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters - Chip Kidd (7/7/08)
26. A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut (7/8/08)
27. A Short History of Tractors In Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (7/11/08)
28. Seven Ages of Paris - Alistair Horne (7/16/08)
29. Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories - James Thomas (ed.) (7/17/08)
30. The New Kings of Nonfiction - Ira Glass (ed.) (7/18/08)
31. In The Gloaming - Alice Elliott Dark (7/19/08)
32. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong - Jean-Benoît Nadeau, et al. (7/22/08)
33. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers (7/26/08)
34. California Uncovered - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (ed.) (7/31/08)
35. The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt (8/5/08)
36. The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas (9/2/08)
37. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac (9/11/08)
38. La Cantatrice Chauve - Eugene Ionesco (9/27/08)
39. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (10/28/08)
40. Flat, Hot and Crowded - Thomas Friedman (11/3/08)
41. Ethnicity/Equality: France In The Balance - Azouz Begag (11/8/08)
42. What Is The What - Dave Eggers (12/17/08)
43. Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier (12/20/08)
44. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (12/25/08)
45. Peace Like A River - Leif Enger (12/27/08)
46. A Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner (12/28/08)
47. A Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich (12/29/08)
48. I FORGET???
49. A Handmaid's Tale - Margeret Atwood (12/31/08)
50. How Water Feels to the Fishes - Dave Eggers (12/31/08)
The problem is that I have soooo many books that I haven't finished reading:
+ Written On The Body - Jeannette Winterson
+ Seven Years In Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
+ The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
+ Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
+ Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
+ The Alchemist - Pablo Coelho
+ Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
And then the ones I'm reading for school! Aggghhh. I really need to get on it, and also make a definite list somewhere of books I am interested in reading.