Challenge: 50 Books discussion

1. Marvel Chronicle by Tom Brevoort
2. Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan
3. Andrew Jackson His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
4. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
7. Drake The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero by Stephen J. Coote
8. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
10. Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies
11. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
12. The Ascent Of Money by Neill Ferguson
13. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
14. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
15. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
16. The Giver by Lois Lowry
17. 1984 by George Orwell
18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
20. No Direction Home The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton
21. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid A Memoir by Bill Bryson
22. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
23. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
24. The Mayor of Macdougal Street A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk
25. Light in August by William Faulkner
26. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
27. Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
28. John A The Man Who Made Us by Richard Gwyn
29. Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver W. Sacks
30. The Elegant Universe Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
31. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard
32. The Great Bridge The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
33. The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
34. Philosophy Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
35. The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
36. We the Living 60th Anniversary Edition
by Ayn Rand
37. Citizen of the World The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One 1919-1968 by John English
38. For the New Intellectual The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
39. Myths To Live By by Joseph Campbell
40. Clapton The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
41. Fragile Things Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
42. Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
43. Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
44. Riel A life of revolution by Maggie Siggins
45. Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
46. The trial of Louis Riel Justice and mercy denied a critical legal and political analysis by George R. D Goulet
47. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

That's it so far!

48. Krakatoa The Day the World Exploded August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
49. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
50. Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Done!! On to the bonus books ;)

51. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Are we supposed to keep going after 50? Haha..

52. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler

53. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

54.Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft

55. The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

56. Animal Farm by George Orwell

57. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
58. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

59. Winnipeg 1912 Diary of a City by Jim Blanchard
60. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
61. Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard

62. An Old Babylonian Version Of The Gilgamesh Epic On The Basis Of Recently Discovered Texts by Morris Jastrow

63. The Egyptian Book of the Dead The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum by E.A. Wallis Budge

64. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

65. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

You done passed the 50 books a year! dang. congrats!

Rachel wrote: "You done passed the 50 books a year! dang. congrats!

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Thanks ;)

66. Deep Ancestry Inside the Genographic Project by Spencer Wells

67. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

And that is where I will finish for 2009! I guess we move these over to the completed area?