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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:45 pm

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:22 pm

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
42) Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings Of George Leigh Mallory
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:51 am

1. Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them - RF Delderfield
2. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures - Easton & Hardy
3. God Bless America - Karen Stollznow
4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
5. The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - Michael Paterniti
6. To Hull and Back - Tom Chesshyre
7. Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
9. On the Beach - Nevil Shute
10. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
11. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
12. Empty Mansions:The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune - Dedman & Newell
13. The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
14. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
15. Stella Bain - Anita Shreve
16. One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson
17. The Tent, the Bucket, and Me - Emma Kennedy
18. Cream Teas, Traffic Jams, and Sunburn - Brian Viner
19. Plague Town - Dana Fredsti
20. Cooked - Michael Pollan
21. Half Empty - David Rakoff
22. The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex - Julie Peakman
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. You Are Now Less Dumb - David McRaney
25. The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
26. Women and Art: Contested Territory - Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:23 pm

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
42) Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings Of George Leigh Mallory
43) Chuchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
44) The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:40 pm

1) White Ninja by Eric Lustbader
2) The Kaisho , same author
3) Robert Howard Vol IV : Bran Mak Morn
4) Crime and Punishment in the Middle ages, by valérie Toureille.
5) Eldorados of the Americas, Myths, Mirages and Realities by Bernard Lavallé
6) Robert E Howard vol V Aeons of the Night[/quote]
7) Robert Howard Vol VI Trails in Darkness
8) Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
9) David Eddings The Diamond Throne
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:48 am

1. Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them - RF Delderfield
2. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures - Easton & Hardy
3. God Bless America - Karen Stollznow
4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
5. The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - Michael Paterniti
6. To Hull and Back - Tom Chesshyre
7. Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
9. On the Beach - Nevil Shute
10. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
11. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
12. Empty Mansions:The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune - Dedman & Newell
13. The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
14. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
15. Stella Bain - Anita Shreve
16. One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson
17. The Tent, the Bucket, and Me - Emma Kennedy
18. Cream Teas, Traffic Jams, and Sunburn - Brian Viner
19. Plague Town - Dana Fredsti
20. Cooked - Michael Pollan
21. Half Empty - David Rakoff
22. The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex - Julie Peakman
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. You Are Now Less Dumb - David McRaney
25. The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
26. Women and Art: Contested Territory - Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
27. The Post-Office Girl - Stefan Zweig
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:22 pm

]1) White Ninja by Eric Lustbader
2) The Kaisho , same author
3) Robert Howard Vol IV : Bran Mak Morn
4) Crime and Punishment in the Middle ages, by valérie Toureille.
5) Eldorados of the Americas, Myths, Mirages and Realities by Bernard Lavallé
6) Robert E Howard vol V Aeons of the Night[/quote]
7) Robert Howard Vol VI Trails in Darkness
8) Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
9) David Eddings The Diamond Throne
10) David Eddings The Ruby Knight
Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:32 pm

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
42) Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings Of George Leigh Mallory
43) Chuchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
44) The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter
45) Faster Than The Speed Of Light by Joao Magueijo
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Pappa » Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:22 pm

1. The Clean Coder
2. The Pragmatic Programmer
3. Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
4. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
5. Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games
6. Designing Modern Strategy Games
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:05 pm

1. Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them - RF Delderfield
2. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures - Easton & Hardy
3. God Bless America - Karen Stollznow
4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
5. The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - Michael Paterniti
6. To Hull and Back - Tom Chesshyre
7. Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
9. On the Beach - Nevil Shute
10. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
11. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
12. Empty Mansions:The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune - Dedman & Newell
13. The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
14. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
15. Stella Bain - Anita Shreve
16. One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson
17. The Tent, the Bucket, and Me - Emma Kennedy
18. Cream Teas, Traffic Jams, and Sunburn - Brian Viner
19. Plague Town - Dana Fredsti
20. Cooked - Michael Pollan
21. Half Empty - David Rakoff
22. The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex - Julie Peakman
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. You Are Now Less Dumb - David McRaney
25. The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
26. Women and Art: Contested Territory - Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
27. The Post-Office Girl - Stefan Zweig
28. I Drink for a Reason - David Cross
29. The Dreaming Suburb - RF Delderfield
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:01 am

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
42) Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings Of George Leigh Mallory
43) Chuchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
44) The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter
45) Faster Than The Speed Of Light by Joao Magueijo
46) Flashman And The Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
47) Scientists Confront I.D. and Creationism ed. Petty and Godfrey
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:38 am

1) The Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
2) The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
3) Catastrophe by Max Hastings
4) Third Man In Havana by Tom Rodwell
5) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman.
6) The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat
7) In The Blink Of An Eye by Andrew Parker
8) Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
9) The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
10) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
11) Filthy English:The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
12) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
13) Bomber Command by Max Hastings
14) The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
15) Interpreting Old Ironsides by various
16) The Vampyre by John Polidori
17) Spectator In Hell by Colin Rushton
18) The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
19) Rowing After The White Whale by James Adair
20) Gossip From The Forest by Sara Maitland
21) Sea Room by Alan Nicolson
22) To The Moon And Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
23) The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24) Dreams Of A Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
25) A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Capaldi.
26) Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace
27) Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
28) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre.
29) The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff
30) The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
31) The Stress Of Her Regard by Tim Powers
32) The Anvil of Ice by Michael Scott Rohan
33) Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne.
34) A Mind Of Its Own by Cordelia Fine.
35) Achilles In The Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
36) Higgs by Jim Baggott
37) Military Blunders by Saul David
38) Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search For The Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
39) The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
40) Songs Of The Rollling Earth by John Lister Kaye
41) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
42) Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings Of George Leigh Mallory
43) Chuchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
44) The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter
45) Faster Than The Speed Of Light by Joao Magueijo
46) Flashman And The Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
47) Scientists Confront I.D. and Creationism ed. Petty and Godfrey
48) Travels In West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:39 am

1. Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them - RF Delderfield
2. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures - Easton & Hardy
3. God Bless America - Karen Stollznow
4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
5. The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - Michael Paterniti
6. To Hull and Back - Tom Chesshyre
7. Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
9. On the Beach - Nevil Shute
10. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
11. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
12. Empty Mansions:The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune - Dedman & Newell
13. The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
14. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
15. Stella Bain - Anita Shreve
16. One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson
17. The Tent, the Bucket, and Me - Emma Kennedy
18. Cream Teas, Traffic Jams, and Sunburn - Brian Viner
19. Plague Town - Dana Fredsti
20. Cooked - Michael Pollan
21. Half Empty - David Rakoff
22. The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex - Julie Peakman
23. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
24. You Are Now Less Dumb - David McRaney
25. The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
26. Women and Art: Contested Territory - Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
27. The Post-Office Girl - Stefan Zweig
28. I Drink for a Reason - David Cross
29. The Dreaming Suburb - RF Delderfield
30. The Asylum - John Harwood
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Pappa » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:22 pm

1. The Clean Coder
2. The Pragmatic Programmer
3. Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2014

Post by Ayaan » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:31 am

1. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
2. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3. Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
4. Armor by John Steakley
5. The TV Detective by Simon Hall
6. The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson
7. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
8. The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
9. Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
11. I Bring the Fire by C. Cockel
12. The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
13. The Crime of Julian Well by Thomas H. Cook
14. The Origin of Species (6th London Edition) by Charles Darwin
15. Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
16. The Prince (trans. W. K. Marriott) by Nicolo Machiavelli
17. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
18. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
19. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
20. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
21. Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green
22. The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
23. Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
24. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
25. The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram
26. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green
27. Cat Fear No Evil (Joe Grey Series #9) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
28. Murder at Bridge by Ann Austin
29. Ghost in the Machine by Ed James
30. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
31. The Fur Country by Jules Verne
32. Leave No Stone Unturned (Lexie Starr Series #1) by Jeanne Glidewell
33. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
34. The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton
35. Head to Head by Linda Ladd
36. Life in a Thousand Worlds by William Shuler Harris
37. An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields by Jules Verne
38. Random by Craig Robertson
39. Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
40. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
42. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
43. Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
44. After Midnight by Richard Laymon
45. That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green
46. Concerning Cats by Helen M. Winslow
47. The Dragon of Wantley by Owen Wister
48. Its Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
49. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
50. Ringworld by Larry Niven
51. Billy Boyle by James R. Benn
52. Napoleon's Pyramids (Ethan Gage Series#1) by William Dietrich
53. Crome Yellow by Adolphus Huxley
54. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
55. The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
56. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
57. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
58. Sherlock Holmes in America by Various
59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
60. Einstein’s Cosmos by Michio Kaku
61. Hybrid by Brian O’Grady
62. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
63. The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
64. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
65. Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
66. The Serpent's Shadow by Mercedes Lackey
67. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
68. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
69. Pines by Blake Crouch
70. Involuntary Witness Gianrico Carofiglio
71. Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville
72. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
73. Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
74. The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
75. Jaws by Peter Benchley
76. The Strange Affair of Spring-heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
77. V-Wars by Jonathan Maberry (Editor)
78. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven
79. Greenthieves by Alan Dean Foster
80. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
81. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
82. The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
83. The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
84. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
85. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
86. 47 Ronin by John Allyn and Stephen Turnbull
87. The Zero Stone by Andre Norton
88. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
89. Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo
90. Ulysses by James Joyce
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