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Wow... Tashishka, I think you win!

Anyway, I have to slide one sideways in here because I forgot to add it earlier!

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. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait

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

I'm catching up, but I'm still behind :(

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So far...

1. Poison Study

2. Magic Study

3. Fire Study

4. Storm Glass

5.Sea Glass

6. Veronika Decides To Die

7. Dune

8. Dune Messiah

I definitely recommend the Study/Glass seris by Maria V Snyder, her site's at www.mariavsnyder.com. The first chapter of Poison Study is up :)

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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
  12. Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - Various Authors

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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 - religious rom./susp. ( :wacko: )

11. Rupture - Simon Lelic - British detective mystery and social commentary

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I can only remember 3 novels that I've finished this year

The anomolies Joey Goebel

Disgrace JM Coetzee

Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsey

I have a habbit of getting to about 50 pages and deciding to either stop completley, put off, or carry on. I probably only finish about 10% of books that I start so the chances of me getting to 50 this year are astronomical.

I'm just about to start The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, anyone read it and reckon it'll be worth my while?

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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

5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait

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

8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates

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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 Paolo Bacigalupi

The Iron Heel Jack London

The Chrysalids John Wyndham

Sun of Suns Karl Schroeder

Pump Six Paolo Bacigalupi

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I've read 57 books since September 2009 so that averages out to about 114 books a year. I should mention that I haven't been in school for the past 3 months and haven't started officially working yet. And 45 of the 57 books I mentioned were read during these 3 months. Lol. A disproportionately large number of these books have been about deafblind people, which is why I didn't bother listing them. (If anyone has a Helen Keller fetish, I'd be more than happy to list them for you. ;))

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I've read 57 books since September 2009 so that averages out to about 114 books a year. I should mention that I haven't been in school for the past 3 months and haven't started officially working yet.

Nika

Yeah I will only read books when I'm on the bus. At home there's tv, movies and games and everywhere else I'm doing things.

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I've read 57 books since September 2009 so that averages out to about 114 books a year. I should mention that I haven't been in school for the past 3 months and haven't started officially working yet.

Nika

Yeah I will only read books when I'm on the bus. At home there's tv, movies and games and everywhere else I'm doing things.

That's another thing. You do a whole lot more reading when TV and video games aren't an option, lol. I do go online a lot though, but I can only go online so much before I've replied to every thread on every forum and replied to every email and chatted in every chat room till it's died out, though. That's when I go over to reading mode. Lol.

Nika

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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)

9. Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson

*plods along*

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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

5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait

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

8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates

9. The Ring goes South - J.R.R. Tolkien

10. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell

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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 ****

6. A very short introduction to the Celts - Barry Cuniffe***

broke the streak of bad books with that one .

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Wohoo. My first addition to the list :P

1. Dean Koontz - Velocity

I found a mentioning of asexuality in it!

"His parents have always seemed to him to be asexual, attractive but indifferent to such desires.

If he had ever wondered about his conception, he would have attributed it to marital duty and to a desire for family rather than to passion."

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Wohoo. My first addition to the list :P

1. Dean Koontz - Velocity

I found a mentioning of asexuality in it!

"His parents have always seemed to him to be asexual, attractive but indifferent to such desires.

If he had ever wondered about his conception, he would have attributed it to marital duty and to a desire for family rather than to passion."

reminds me of a stand up bit from seinfeld :)

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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
  12. Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - Various Authors
  13. Communism: A Very Short Introduction - Leslie Holmes

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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)

9. Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson

10.The Lying Ape - Brian King

Yay! 1/5 of the way done! In, um... A quarter of the available time. Yep, still gotta hurry.

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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 - religious rom./susp. ( :wacko: )

11. Rupture - Simon Lelic - British detective mystery and social commentary

12. Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King - YA fantasy adventure

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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

5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait

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

8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates

9. The Ring goes South - J.R.R. Tolkien

10. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell

11. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham

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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 - religious romance/susp.

11. Rupture - Simon Lelic - British detective mystery and social commentary

12. Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King - YA fantasy adventure

13. Shootout at Picture Rock - Joseph A. West - western

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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
  12. Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - Various Authors
  13. Communism: A Very Short Introduction - Leslie Holmes
  14. John Dies at the End - David Wong

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I'm starting this too.

So far this year I read these (not much but...)

1.Iliad

2.The Catcher in the Rye

3.Goldsmith's gold

4.Antigone (Sophocles)

5.Aulularia by Plautus

6.Dead Until Dark

7.Living Dead in Dallas

8.Club Dead

9. Dead to the World

10.Dead as a Doornail

11.Definitely Dead

12.All Together Dead

13.From Dead to Worse

14.Lord of the Flies

15.Fathers and Sons

16.Anna Karenina

17.Three Sisters

Ah, damn it. And it's April already. :(

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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
  12. Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - Various Authors
  13. Communism: A Very Short Introduction - Leslie Holmes
  14. John Dies at the End - David Wong
  15. The Book of Tea - Okakura Tenshin

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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 - religious romance/suspense

11. Rupture - Simon Lelic - British detective mystery and social commentary

12. Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King - YA fantasy adventure

13. Shootout at Picture Rock - Joseph A. West - western

14. Texas - James A. Michener - epic historical fiction of Texas land & people

15. A Boy Called Bracken - Elizabeth Webster - fiction; nature and philosophy

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Oh! I almost forgot comic books count, as long as they're 50 pages or more.

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)

9. Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson

10.The Lying Ape - Brian King

11. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 8, volume 5 (graphic novel)

12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 8, volume 6 (graphic novel)

13. Farthing - Jo Walton

14. Speaking of Faith - Krista Tippett

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Gaahhh!! I really have to catch up! I'm still wading through a book I started over two weeks ago about Mesopotamia! It's a good book, but I just haven't had any time to dedicate to just finishing it.

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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
  12. Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe - Various Authors
  13. Communism: A Very Short Introduction - Leslie Holmes
  14. John Dies at the End - David Wong
  15. The Book of Tea - Okakura Tenshin
  16. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Excellent book. Read it in 4/5 days.

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Oooo! I'm doing this on another thread and I would love to do it here as well, especially since I'm hardly on that forum anymore (and there it's only 30).

I haven't had much time to read so far this year so it's a bit puny (And I forget some book's I've read. First four are copied and pasted):

1: Stardust- Neil Gaiman (Not sure if I started this in 2010...)

2: I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to kill you- Ally Carter (Ugh, kinda sorta liked it but mostly irritating)

3: Beowulf

4: 1984- George Orwell (Good)

5. The Hobbit

6. Raising Kane

7. The Fellowship of the Ring- Reading right now.

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Yay! Good game :)

1. The Translator - Daoud Hari.

2. Without Apology - Leah Hager Cohen.

3. Screwed - Joanna Kenrick.

4. The Sea - John Banville. (Does it count if I skipped half cause it sucked?)

5. Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala.

6. Deogratias - Jean-Philippe Stassen.

7. The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television - Steven Pinker.

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