The 50 Book Challenge

[laventeli]

What do you think, do re-reads count? I'm tempted to take this challenge because summer is my reading time.

[midgetonfire]

Originally Posted by laventeli

What do you think, do re-reads count? I'm tempted to take this challenge because summer is my reading time.

Yeah re-reads count. As long as you read the whole book over again and not just skim through it or something. Also, definitely the best part of summer lol. Flea Markets in my area are just waiting to be purged of books by ME!!!!

[Cicada]

Hah. I started this thread ages ago, and since have only read a handful of books. Major fail. Still, I listen to audiobooks a lot, and have gone through five or six over the past couple of weeks, some more than once - but I often skip large segments, since I often listen while going to sleep and don't have the patience too keep finding my place rather than skip to the next track. Really hate when a whole book is just in one or two tracks. Wouldn't count them on a list like this though, since much of the time you're not giving them your full attention.

[gleipnir]

So I officially crossed the 50-book border about mid-May, but I'm continuing so that I can reach at least 100 books!

1. The Companion by Lorcan Roche - 313 pages
2. Patterns of Paper Monsters by Emma Rathbone - 206 pages
3. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna - 194 pages
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - 193 pages
5. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner - 277 pages
6. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker - 267 pages
7. Native Son by Richard Wright - 430 pages
8. Meeks by Julia Holmes - 189 pages
9. The Loved Dog by Tamar Gellar - 223 pages
10. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout - 241 pages
11. I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy - 204 pages
12. Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami - 192 pages
13. Hygiene and the Assassin by Amelie Nothomb - 167 pages
14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - 607 pages
15. Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich - 227 pages
16. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 581 pages
17. Miracles, Inc. by T.J. Forrester - 257 pages
18. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston - 209 pages
19. This is Paradise! by Hyok Kang - 164 pages
20. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 289 pages
21. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - 412 pages
22. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami - 334 pages
23. Georgic by Mariko Nagai - 149 pages
24. Dying by Rene Belletto - 165 pages
25. Self by Yann Martel - 331 pages

26. The Ultimate Tea Diet by Mark Ukra - 320 pages
27. Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - 342 pages
28. The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller - 272 pages
29. The Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara and Allan Pease - 385 pages
30. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua - 232 pages
31. Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen - 302 pages
32. No-No Boy by John Okada - 251 pages
33. Click by Ori and Rom Brafman - 190 pages
34. Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin - 352 pages
35. Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry by Christine Sneed - 154 pages
36. Educating Rita by Willy Russell - 84 pages
37. Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao - 260 pages
38. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin - 163 pages
39. Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg - 226 pages
40. The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier - 257 pages
41. Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter - 85 pages
42. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman - 245 pages
43. Gush by Yo Hemmi - 184 pages
44. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - 590 pages
45. Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker - 109 pages
46. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - 724 pages
47. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training by Pamela Dennison - 283 pages
48. Guinea Pigs by Virginia Parker Guidry - 134 pages
49. Guinea Pigs by Julie Mancini - 95 pages
50. The Old Man and the Swamp by John Sellers - 200 pages
51. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - 291 pages
52. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King - 368 pages
53. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - 314 pages

[laventeli]

Allright then.
1.Paholaisen kirjeopisto (The Screwtape Letters) by C. S. Lewis
2.Phantom of the opera by Gaston Leroux
3.Pimeyden tango (err the direct translation is "tango of darkness" but i don't know if it is the right name) by Reijo Mäki
4.Mort by Terry Pratchett

It isn't much but it's a start :)

[HasseRovdjur]

19. China Miéville - Kraken

[midgetonfire]

LIST FROM MAY 2010 TO DECEMBER 2010

1. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis and other short stories
2. M.T. Anderson - Feed
3. George Orwell - Animal Farm
4. Dave Stern - The Nature of the Beast
5. R.A. Salvatore - The Legacy
6. R.A. Salvatore - Starless Night
7. J.K. Rowling - The Order of the Phoenix
8. J.K. Rowling - The Half Blood Prince
9. J.K. Rowling - The Deathly Hallows
10. J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
11. Sharon Creech - Love That Dog
12. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
13. Joseph Heller - Catch 22
14. Lemony Snicket - The Slippery Slope
15. R.A.. Salvatore - Siege of Darkness
16. Lemony Snicket - The Grim Grotto
17. R.A. Salvatore - Passage to Dawn
18. Lemony Snicket - The Penultimate Peril
19. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
20. Lorrie Moore - Birds of America
21. J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan
22. John Green - Looking For Alaska
23. Shusaku Endo - Deep River
24. John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meaney

1. Jose Saramago - Death With Interruptions
2. Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
3. Lemony Snicket - The End
4. Max Brooks - World War Z
5. John Green - Paper Towns
6. Robert E. Howard - Conan(First of the series 221 pgs.)
7. Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet In Heaven
8. Marc Cerasini - Wolverine: Weapon X(Pocket Novels)
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
10. George Saunders - In Persuasion Nation
11. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland
12. Robert E. Howard - Conan of Cimmeria(Book 2 190pgs.)
13. Ward Churchill with Mike Ryan - Pacifism as Pathology

14. Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
15. A.J. Jacobs - The Guinea Pig Diaries

[HasseRovdjur]

20. Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

It's not a comic, therefore it should be a book. Right?

[eaper]

1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
3. Grendel - John Gardner
4. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
7. A tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.
8. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

10. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

[midgetonfire]

Originally Posted by HasseRovdjur

20. Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

It's not a comic, therefore it should be a book. Right?

Idk, I have also been reading Sandman but haven't put them in cause I didn't know how that counts? Either way, it's become one of my favorite things of all time. The last one I read was Book 7, Brief Lives.