50 books-One Year

[⊕ Owen Pearson]

How much does everyone here read?

I decide to challenge myself with a 50 book challenge. I began at the beginning of this year and will conclude it at the end of 2009. If anyone else would like to participate or discuss the books that I have read I would appreciate it.

To join in the challenge, just post your list below and modify it when you read another book. It is as simple as that. Please just place the numbers as you go. It saves some space.

If you'd like to include links to amazon or the like, you can use this coding:
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Owen's 50 Books
1. Paper Towns by John Green
2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
3. Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
4. The Clumsiest People in Europe by Todd Pruzan
5. Watchmen by Alan Moore
6. Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher
7. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
8. Everlost by Neal Shusterman
9. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
10. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
11. Next by Micheal Crichton
12.Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
13.--there are a few that I can't remember--
14. The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
15. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
16. A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
17. Columbine by Dave Cullen
18. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
21. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
22. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
23. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
24. Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
25. Diversion Point by Dan Brown
26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
27. Friend's Winning NaNoWriMo Novel (Out of order...read it during the summer...)
28.

Books I am working on:

• The Bourne Identity
  

[Dieter "Iceman" Rentz]

I started a 75 book challenge at LibraryThing in March, but I very much doubt I'm going to make the 75 book goal by the end of the year.. But I'm still going to try, maybe I can make the 50.

Here's my list for this year:

1. The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species by L. David Mech
2. Dragons at War by Margaret Weis
3. Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
4. The Serpent and the Rainbow and Magic by Wade Davis
5. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
6. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
7. The Reckoning by Jeff Long
8. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
9. Dragons Of The Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis
10. Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis
11. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
13. Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas F. Madden
14. Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
15. Myytillisiä tarinoita by Lauri Simonsuuri (sorry, in Finnish only!)
16. The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
17. The Knight Templar by Jan Guillou
18. The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer
19. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
20. Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
21. The Eagle's Conquest by Simon Scarrow
22. Rommel in North Africa by D. A. Lande
23. 21st Panzer Division: Rommel's Afrika Korps Spearhead by Chris Ellis
24. The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
25. Handbook on German Military Forces by U. S. War Department
26. Panzer Commander by Colonel Hans von Luck
27. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
28. Gestapo: The Truth Behind an Evil Legend by Rupert Butler
29. The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
30. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
31. The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945 by Gerald Reitlinger
32. Pohjoinen Valtakunta by Jan Guillou
33. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
34. The Good Old Days by Ernst Klee
35. The Shark Chronicles by John Musick
36. Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans by Eric Johnson
37. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
38. Master Plan, The: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
39. Knight of the Black Rose by James Lowder
40. Darkness & Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter
41. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
42. On Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard A. Hunt
43. The Gestapo and SS manual by Carl Hammer
44. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
45. Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe
46. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
47. Earth Hive (Aliens, Book 1) by Mark Verheiden
48. Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
49. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
50. An Illustrated History of the Gestapo by Rupert Butler

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1. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles books 1)
2. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles book 2)
3. Lord of the North by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles book 3)
4. Sword Song: The Battle for London by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles book 4)
5. Archers Tale by Bernard Cornwell (Grail Quest book 1)
6. Rebel by Bernard Cornwell (Starbuck Chronicles book 1)
7. Copperhead by Bernard Cornwell (Starbuck Chronicles book 2)
8. Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell (Starbuck Chronicles book 3)
9. Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell (Stand-alone book)
10. Something by Karen Traviss
11. Bloodlines by Karen Traviss.

[Nathan Whyte]

19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

No such book. Now, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, thats one I can recognise.

[⊕ Owen Pearson]

The American Version uses Sorcerer instead of Philosopher for some reason, and that was the version I read...sadly...

[Moritz Erichsen]

Owen, I have read Sophie’s World, it was quite interesting. The film was good, also. Nothing extraordinary or thrilling, but I think it’s worth the time.

As for Deathly Hallows, at first I liked it, but in retrospect it was messy all over, rushed, and what is worse, had a horrible sappy ending. For those who say it’s a children’s book, well, that’s insulting for them. Children aren’t stupid. In fact, they’re smarter than most adults.

So, here is my list. I hope to have completed this challenge by 2037. It only features (mostly classic) literature and essays (minus some exceptions), as the list of books I am reading for University is simply endless.

Unlinked numbers have no Amazon page.



1. The Karamazov Brothers, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
5. Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
6. Demian, by Hermann Hesse
7. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
8. Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Esse
9. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
10. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
11. Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin
12. Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
13. The Complete Short Stories, by Franz Kafka
14. The Robbers, by Friedrich Schiller
15. Goodbye to All That, by Robert Graves
16. The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World, by David Priestland
17. Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, by André Breton (with Leon Trotsky)
18. The Surrealist Manifesto, by André Breton
19. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
20. Immortality, by Milan Kundera
21. Slowness, by Milan Kundera
22. Identity, by Milan Kundera
23. Ignorance, by Milan Kundera
24. The Farewell Waltz, by Milan Kundera
25. The Stolen West, or the Tragedy of Central Europe, by Milan Kundera
26. Monologues, by Milan Kundera
27. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
28. Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov
29. The Age of Reason / The Reprieve / Troubled Sleep, by Jean-Paul Sartre (The Roads to Freedom: trilogy)
30. The Respectful Prostitute (and other plays), by Jean-Paul Sartre
31. Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre
32. Reflections on the Jewish Question, by Jean-Paul Sartre
33. The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
34. Ulysses, by James Joyce
35. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
36. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
37. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
38. The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. The Living Corpse, by Leo Tolstoy
40. The Cossacks, by Leo Tolstoy
41. Black Dogs, by Ian McEwan
42. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
43. Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov
44. The Terrible News: Russian Stories from the Years Following the Revolution, by Mikhail Bulgakov
45. The Fatal Eggs and other Soviet Satire, 1918-1963, by Mikhail Bulgakov
46. A Dead Man’s Memoir, by Mikhail Bulgakov
47. Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol
48. Diary of a Madman, by Nikolai Gogol
49. The Road Back, by Erich Maria Remarque
50. The Dawns Here Are Quiet, by Boris Vasilyev

That's right. Dostoevsky is mah bitch.

[∬: Attila Anday]

"Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann"

Of course, it's just my very opinion on it, but we've read that one book back in my literature classes in school and it's probably the weirdest and worst book I ever read.

Basically it's all about a quiet aged writer, who does spent his holidays in Venice and there falls in love with a little boy. The highlight is a five pages long paragraph, where the writer describes the beauty of the young boy playing in the sand .

Do yourself a favour and spare that one out, it's not worth 5 minutes of your time.

[Moritz Erichsen]

Really? Just one more reason to read it, I guess. You hate it. Then I can tease you about it.