[ 50 books project ]
I'm off to a slow start with this year's challenge, but I figure after I graduate I'll have much more time for reading, especially if I head off to a farm. I've got about eleven books half-read, I just need to finish them (Werner Herzog, I will conquer those last fifty pages!). 2007/ 2008/ 2009
1. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
2. Sleepwalk and Other Stories - Adrian Tomine
3. Indian Summer - William D. Howells
4. The Great Crash 1929 - James K. Galbraith
5. The Big Book of Sex Toys - Tristan Taormino (for work!)
6. How to Sell Anything To Anybody - Joe Girard
7. All The Laws But One - William H. Rehnquist
8. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope - Jonathan Alter
9. Power and the Presidency - Robert Wilson, ed.
10. Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at JP Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed A Catastrophe - Gillian Tett
11. Unchecked and Unbalanced - Arnold Kling
12. The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government - Alasdair Roberts
13. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal - Robert Shogan
14. The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy
15. Fred & Edie - Jill Dawson
16. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
17. The Day the World Came To Town - Jim Defede
18. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World - Liaquat Ahmed
19. Delicate Edible Birds - Lauren Groff
20. Mariette in Ecstasy - Ron Hansen
21. Where I Was From - Joan Didion
22. How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
23. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
24. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick
25. The Outcry - Henry James
26. The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi
27. Marlene - Marlene Dietrich
28. Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - Colin Evans
29. Wolves At The Door - Judith L. Pearson
30. Wish Her Safe At Home - Stephen Benatar
31. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Charles Dodgson
32. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
33. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen
34. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
35. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
37. Atticus - Ron Hansen
38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen
42. Letters of a Nation - Andrew Carroll
43. And The Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould
44. Big Girls Don't Cry - Rebecca Traister
45. Clandestine in Chile - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46. Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay
47. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
48. Serena - Ron Rash
49. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
50. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
51. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
52. Death Is Not An Option - Suzanne Rivecca
1. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
2. Sleepwalk and Other Stories - Adrian Tomine
3. Indian Summer - William D. Howells
4. The Great Crash 1929 - James K. Galbraith
5. The Big Book of Sex Toys - Tristan Taormino (for work!)
6. How to Sell Anything To Anybody - Joe Girard
7. All The Laws But One - William H. Rehnquist
8. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope - Jonathan Alter
9. Power and the Presidency - Robert Wilson, ed.
10. Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at JP Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed A Catastrophe - Gillian Tett
11. Unchecked and Unbalanced - Arnold Kling
12. The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government - Alasdair Roberts
13. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal - Robert Shogan
14. The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy
15. Fred & Edie - Jill Dawson
16. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
17. The Day the World Came To Town - Jim Defede
18. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World - Liaquat Ahmed
19. Delicate Edible Birds - Lauren Groff
20. Mariette in Ecstasy - Ron Hansen
21. Where I Was From - Joan Didion
22. How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
23. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
24. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick
25. The Outcry - Henry James
26. The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi
27. Marlene - Marlene Dietrich
28. Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - Colin Evans
29. Wolves At The Door - Judith L. Pearson
30. Wish Her Safe At Home - Stephen Benatar
31. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Charles Dodgson
32. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
33. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen
34. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
35. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
37. Atticus - Ron Hansen
38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen
42. Letters of a Nation - Andrew Carroll
43. And The Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould
44. Big Girls Don't Cry - Rebecca Traister
45. Clandestine in Chile - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46. Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay
47. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
48. Serena - Ron Rash
49. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
50. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
51. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
52. Death Is Not An Option - Suzanne Rivecca