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1. A Promise Kept - Elise Crawford - short autobiography

2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - epic Indian-subcontinent adventure

3. Down There By the Train - Kate Sterns - gothic romance set on an island

4. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King - fourth installment of the Dark Tower series

5. Guns of the Timberlands - Louis L'Amour - western

6. The Surrendered - Chang-Rae Lee - cross-cultural introspective

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Another to the list...

  1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
  2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
  3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
  4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
  5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
  6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
  7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins

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I'm not sure I can read 50 this year, but my goal is 29 and a half. I started Dragon Slippers on New Year's Eve, and read until I finished it at 2 A.M. on January 1st! My mom thought it was funny that I missed ringing in the new year.

½) Last half of Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-1-10)

1) Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-20-10)

2) Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George (Finished on 2-8-10)

3) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-16-10)

4) Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-18-10)

I'm currently reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

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Adding on:

1. Cat in a Tangerine Tango: A Midnight Louie Mystery -- Carole Nelson Douglas

2. Blood Game -- Iris Johansen

3. Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth -- Alanna Mitchell

4. U Is For Undertow -- Sue Grafton

5. Razor Sharp -- Iris Johansen

6. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us -- Daniel H Pink

7. The Scarpetta Factor -- Patricial Cornwall

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½) Last half of Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-1-10)

1) Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-20-10)

2) Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George (Finished on 2-8-10)

3) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-16-10)

4) Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-18-10)

5) Meow is for Murder by Linda O. Johnston (Finished on 3-1-10)

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1. bicycle diaries - david byrne *****

2. story of a shipwrecked sailor - gabriel garcia marquez ****

3. The Holy City - Patrick McCabe *

4. Superfreakonomics - Stephen Levitt & Steven Dubner **

5. The Irish (and Other Foreigners) - Shane Hegarty ****

broke the streak of bad books with that one .

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Another to the list...

  1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
  2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
  3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
  4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
  5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
  6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
  7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
  9. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson

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½) Last half of Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-1-10)

1) Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-20-10)

2) Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George (Finished on 2-8-10)

3) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-16-10)

4) Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-18-10)

5) Meow is for Murder by Linda O. Johnston (Finished on 3-1-10)

6) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Finished on 3-3-10)

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1. A Promise Kept - Elise Crawford - short autobiography

2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - epic Indian-subcontinent adventure

3. Down There By the Train - Kate Sterns - gothic romance set on an island

4. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King - fourth installment of the Dark Tower series

5. Guns of the Timberlands - Louis L'Amour - western

6. The Surrendered - Chang-Rae Lee - cross-cultural introspective

7. Riders From Long Pines - Ralph Cotton - western

8. Legends - [collection] - science fiction/ fantasy novellas

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A bunch more:

The murder in the vicarage - Agatha Christie

Deathnote volumes 1-4 (they're short so they'll count as one) - by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

Slaves of the mastery - William Nicholson

The day of the triffids - John Wyndham

a history of modern russia - Robert Service.

The Big Sleep - By someone whose name I forget.

The Black Dahlia - By James Ellroy

Paradise Found - Milton

Solis - A.A. Atkinson.

Hyperion- Dan Simmons

Fall of Hyperion- Dan Simmons

Romania under Communist rule - Dennis Deletant

Beyond the Deepwoods - Chirs Riddell and someone else.

Next planned for thr list is that latest Pratchett book- Unseen Academicals - and 'She came too late' by Mary Wings. I guess being on a Literature course helps with the reading encouragement-ness. Doesn't help with much else though.

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1. Axis - Robert Charles Wilson

2. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett

3. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray (and Three Stories) - Oscar Wilde

5. What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been - Robert Cowley (ed.)

6. Mother Aegypt - Kage Baker (collection of short stories)

Also an issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a whole bunch of back issues of New Scientist and online stuff but none of that counts 'cause it's not books. Ok. I gotta get a move on.

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So far...

1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - had to for my coursework, but I quite like it as a book in general

2. The World of Jeeves by PG Wodehouse - compilation of Jeeves stories, dashed hilarious I can tell you!

3 + 4. Othello, Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare - Eh.

5. Robin Hoodie by Hans Christian Asboson (or something like that) - mockery of chavs, it was alright

6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Alright, I suppose. Skipped a lot of it, hahaha.

7. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - Even better than the film, although the film is still quite 'nomworthy'. Oh Howl, I wish you were real...

8. Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy - in progress

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Just finished my first real book this year. I've been reading only scientific studies for my dissertation. Reading a real book felt soooo good. I intend to read a lot more after I've finished the dissertation.

1. Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

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50? you're having a chuckle! as much as i'd like to - that wouldnt happen

so far it is...

1. Ozzy Osbourne biography (an xmas pressie - i really enjoyed)

2. Lord of the Flies (never read before - wasn't that impressed. i must of left it too long)

3. Brief History of Time (awesome - tho still on it...)

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I've got one a week under my belt....even if I finish the one, before the week is out, I don't start another until the next week. I've started others but I've disliked and stopped reading those.

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

Jango William Nicholson

The Morningstar Strain

High King's Tomb Kristen Britain

I am the New Black Tracy Morgan

Catching Fire Suzanne Collins

Essays Wallace Shawn

The Wind up Girl

The Iron Heel Jack London

The Chrysalids John Wyndham(working progress)

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Another to the list...

  1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
  2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
  3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
  4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
  5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
  6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
  7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
  9. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
  10. Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Various Authors, trans. Giles Murrary

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Another to the list...

  1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
  2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
  3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
  4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
  5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
  6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
  7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
  9. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
  10. Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Various Authors, trans. Giles Murrary

Is Alistair Reynolds any good?

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½) Last half of Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-1-10)

1) Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George (Finished on 1-20-10)

2) Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George (Finished on 2-8-10)

3) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-16-10)

4) Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 2-18-10)

5) Meow is for Murder by Linda O. Johnston (Finished on 3-1-10)

6) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Finished on 3-3-10)

7) The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (Finished on 3-6-10)

8 ) The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff (Finished on 3-7-10)

9) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Finished on 3-8-10)

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I'm still deciding whether I should try this. I had a bit of a setback at the start wading through an incredibly thick, tedious book that I just didn't have the motivation to pick up. (And I was too pig-headed to just give up) In the end I did learn a lot, but god it was difficult!

Ayway,

1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen

2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking

Let's see how I go. I've got a bunch of (hopefully) engaging and relatively short books to get me back on track, if I find the time to read them.

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I'm still deciding whether I should try this. I had a bit of a setback at the start wading through an incredibly thick, tedious book that I just didn't have the motivation to pick up. (And I was too pig-headed to just give up) In the end I did learn a lot, but god it was difficult!

Which one was the incredibly thick, tedious one?

Anyway:

1. Axis - Robert Charles Wilson

2. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett

3. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray (and Three Stories) - Oscar Wilde

5. What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been - Robert Cowley (ed.)

6. Mother Aegypt - Kage Baker (collection of short stories)

7. The Elements of Reasoning: Fifth Edition - Ronald Munson and Andrew Black. Sure, it's a textbook, but I've read that thing cover to cover now! So it totally counts.

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That would have been "After the Ice". The other two I practically finished in an afternoon!

Funny, it gets pretty good reviews on Amazon...

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Another to the list...

  1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
  2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
  3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
  4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
  5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
  6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
  7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
  9. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
  10. Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Various Authors, trans. Giles Murrary
  11. Absolution Gap - Alistair Reynolds

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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

Jango William Nicholson

The Morningstar Strain

High King's Tomb Kristen Britain

I am the New Black Tracy Morgan

Catching Fire Suzanne Collins

Essays Wallace Shawn

The Wind up Girl

The Iron Heel Jack London

The Chrysalids John Wyndham

Child Thief, Brom (in progress) not sure I'll continue this one

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1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen

2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking

4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (Does it count if I've already read it a million times before?)

5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

Still way behind, but I'm trying bloody hard to catch up!

AVEN ate a whole bunch of this thread's posts, but I know we had a discussion about LOTR. Did it end up counting as one book, three or six?

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1. A Promise Kept - Elise Crawford - short autobiography

2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - epic Indian-subcontinent adventure

3. Down There By the Train - Kate Sterns - gothic romance set on an island

4. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King - fourth installment of the Dark Tower series

5. Guns of the Timberlands - Louis L'Amour - western

6. The Surrendered - Chang-Rae Lee - cross-cultural introspective

7. Riders From Long Pines - Ralph Cotton - western

8. Legends - [collection] - science fiction/ fantasy novellas

9. Silversword - Phyllis A. Whitney - Hawaiian mystery/romance/suspense

10. The Kidnapping of Kenzie Thorn - Liz Johnson - spiritual rom./susp. ( :wacko: )

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1. Axis - Robert Charles Wilson

2. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett

3. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray (and Three Stories) - Oscar Wilde

5. What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been - Robert Cowley (ed.)

6. Mother Aegypt - Kage Baker (collection of short stories)

7. The Elements of Reasoning: Fifth Edition - Ronald Munson and Andrew Black

8. Ever Since Darwin - Stephen Jay Gould (essay collection)

Eesh, I'm still only halfway to where I should be. *tries to get a move on*

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Okay, since I didn't get an answer I'm going to make an executive decision and say that LOTR counts as 6 books! :P

1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen

2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking

4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

6. The Ring Sets Out - J.R.R. Tolkien

To be fair, I've got an edition in which it is actually separated into 6 individual books. And mind you, each book is a good 180 or so pages in itself! And I also don't plan on reading them all in one go.

That's my rationalization and I'm sticking to it!

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Book~! *__* *runs to her book...pile to see what she's read*

P.s., Tell me I'm not the only one who finds an interesting author and does a book-version of an archive-binge? XD

I admit that I do that. I always have even as a child. Now I'm a gownup and I am lucky enough to work in a library, a tiny one in a small exceedingly rural town. We have patrons who are such prolific readers that a big part of our job is finding new books / authors for them. They are all different ages, abilities, interests, dislikes and preferences. Our library is so small that we visit our main branch to get books to rotate through our library as well as borrowing them from other libraries via the mail. Our prolific readers often will find a book they consider good enough to pique their interest in reading everything else that author has written. We are always thrilled when we find books for our patrons that they like enough to request more. We spend a lot of time and effort not to mention the sheer weight of dozens of books to tote back and forth so it makes us librarians happy to find something that our patrons love.

In fact I was on this thread reading the posts specifically so I could find new authors and books to write on my list for my patrons. We really do spoil them and we know they appreciate it. So i really appreciate everyone who is posting here because you make my job a bit easier. Oh how I wish we had more patrons like you. Seems that so many kids and teens today only want to come use the internet and books are foreign objects to them.

Ok, back to the original topic. I read hundreds of books a year but don't write them down or even keep track so i don't know a lot of the author's names. There may be mistakes so correct me if needed. I'll get a more concise list later. But here are some.

Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy ( Reread but this one of the best books I have read. If only his other books were the same. But that's just me.

The Nineteenth Wife -

Memoirs of a Geisha by Andrew Golden ( I think)

Except for me and thee - Jessamyn West

The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan ( her books are usually good)

Hawaii - James Michener ( reread but it is such a big books with hundreds of years of Hawaii History that it is worth a reread).

Thanks to my fellow bookworms ! Nola

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Adding to my list having not updated it for a couple of months:

. Tickling the English - Dara O Briain

2. My Shit Life So Far- Frankie Boyle

3. Look Back in Hunger: the Autobiography- Jo Brand

4. The Clockwise Man- Justin Richards (New Series Doctor Who Adventure)

5. The Monsters Inside- Stephen Cole (New Series Doctor Who Adventure)

6. Winner Takes All- Jacqueline Rayner (New Series Doctor Who Adventure)

7. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien

8. The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey

10.The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian - Raul Hilberg

11. Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in New Germany- Klaus Neumann

12 Holocaust Writing and Research Since 1945- Martin Gilbert.

13.Atonement- Ian McEwan

14. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

15. Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien (For probably the 200th time :P)

16. Northern Lights- Philip Pullman

17. The Subtle Knife- Philip Pullman

18. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Volumes 1, 2 and 3.)

19. The Deviant Strain- Justin Richards

20. Only Human- Gareth Roberts

21: Stealers of Dreams- Steven Lyons

22. The Stone Rose- Jacqueline Rayner

23. The Feast of the Drowned- Stephen Cole

24. The Mermaids Singing- Val McDermid

25. The Wire in the Blood- Val McDermid

26. The Last Temptation- Val McDermid

27. The Torment of Others- Val McDermid

28. Beneath the Bleeding- Val McDermid

29. Fever of the Bone- Val McDermid

(Decided to read through the Carol Jordan/ Tony Hill books in order :))

30. Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography- Jo Brand

31. The Magicians Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy book 1- Trudy Canavan

32. The Novice: The Black Magician Trilogy book 2- Trudy Canavan

33. The High Lord: The Black Magician Trilogy book 3- Trudy Canavan

34. Inkheart- Cornelia Funke

35. Inkspell- Cornelia Funke

36. Inkdeath- Cornelia Funke

37. Bullet Poins- Mark Watson

38. A Light Hearted Look at Murder- Mark Watson

39. Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris

40. Living Dead in Dallas- Charlaine Harris

41. Club Dead- Charlaine Harris

42. Dead To The World- Charlaine Harris

43. Dead as a Doornail- Charlaine Harris

44. Definately Dead- Charlaine Harris

45. All Together Dead- Charlaine Harris

46. From Dead to Worse- Charlaine Harris

47. Dead and Gone- Charlaine Harris

48. The Bee Keeper's Apprentice- Laurie R. King

49. A Monstrous Regiment of Women- Laurie R. King

50. A Letter of Mary- Laurie R. King

51. The Moor- Laurie R. King

52. O Jerusalem - Laurie R. King

53. Justice Hall - Laurie R. King

54. The Game- Laurie R. King

55. Locked Rooms - Laurie R. King

56. The Language of Bees- Laurie R. King

Clearly I have no life...

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