50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

[anna09]

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)

[macdoc]

37. City of Ruins - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38 Boneyards - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
in progress this trilogy which will be pure escapist fun by a Hugo winner - crackerjack space opera
39 Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James

42. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry

[Clinton Huxley]

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.

[Ronja]

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins
5. The History of The Hobbit: Volume II: Return to Bag-End
6. The King's Speech
7. 84 Charing Cross Road
8. The Black Gryphon
9. The White Gryphon
10. The Silver Gryphon
11. The Oathbound
12. Oathbreakers
13. Oathblood - liked it, both because I like the two main characters and because the adventures are entertaining
14. By the Sword - I liked this one the best of the Valdemar series so far, but I haven't read the "Arrows", the "Winds", the "Storms" or the "Owls" yet

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway (I was so happy when Catherine died. She finally stopped talking!)

[macdoc]

37. City of Ruins - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38 Boneyards - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Trilogy which IS pure escapist fun by a Hugo winner - crackerjack space opera
39 Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James
Okay that was different

in progress - back to the 15th century

42. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan (This was )

[Ronja]

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins
5. The History of The Hobbit: Volume II: Return to Bag-End
6. The King's Speech
7. 84 Charing Cross Road
8. The Black Gryphon
9. The White Gryphon
10. The Silver Gryphon
11. The Oathbound
12. Oathbreakers
13. Oathblood
14. By the Sword
15. Arrows of the Queen - due to the protagonist it reminded me of Heinlein's Friday (of all things!) so of course I liked it
16. Arrow's Flight - uneven pacing, but that was IMO motivated by the story. I liked the development of the main character.
17. Arrow's Fall - liked it a lot, but because I had already read By the Sword, the plot seemed a bit too inevitable - I doubt it would have seemed that way if I had followed the chronology

[macdoc]

37. City of Ruins - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38 Boneyards - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
pure escapist fun by a Hugo winner - crackerjack space opera
39 Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James
hmmmmm- perhaps a bit too potboiler but the sex was pretty decent....and frequent...
nice to have a woman's viewpoint

in progress another trilogy
42. One: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway

43. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan (This was )
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan

[Clinton Huxley]

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.

[Ronja]

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins
5. The History of The Hobbit: Volume II: Return to Bag-End
6. The King's Speech
7. 84 Charing Cross Road
8. The Black Gryphon
9. The White Gryphon
10. The Silver Gryphon
11. The Oathbound
12. Oathbreakers
13. Oathblood
14. By the Sword
15. Arrows of the Queen
16. Arrow's Flight
17. Arrow's Fall
18. Winds of Fate - definitely interesting: the story takes a genuinely new turn, IMO
19. Winds of Change - a believable antagonist and several believable supporting characters (the main ones aren't bad either), and the story definitely picks up even more steam
20. Winds of Fury - a bit predictable, but there are surprises as well. Another read-worthy trilogy this was.

[macdoc]

37. City of Ruins - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38 Boneyards - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
pure escapist fun by a Hugo winner - crackerjack space opera
39 Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James
hmmmmm- perhaps a bit too potboiler but the sex was pretty decent....and frequent...
nice to have a woman's viewpoint
in progress

42 What came After - near term dystopian US - pretty dire....interesting premise.
on hold
43 One: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway ( on hold - not sure it's my cuppa and that's unusual

44. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry

[Clinton Huxley]

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.