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[I Doubt It]

I only got to 40 in 2008.

Finished
1. Neglected Geological Anomalies: A catalog of geological anomalies by W. Corliss.
I have a collection of these books that are just a blast to browse and find all sorts of weird natural anomalies (kinda my thing).

2. Science Askew - D. Simanek and J. Holden
A collection of quotes, limericks, silly stories about the scientific world. I especially enjoyed the stupid quotes like "Support bacteria - it's the only culture some people have." and the terrific drawings such as the Ace Novelty catalog's Frictionless Plane ("How do you get off this thing?")

3. The Borderlands of Science - M. Shermer
Didn't hold the premise of the book. Looked pieced together from related and unrelated parts. Good info but not a coherent read overall.

4. Death from the Skies - P. Plait
I'll never look at the sun and sky the same way again. Thanks, Phil.

5. Towing Jehovah - J. Morrow
Not recommended.

6. Longitude - D. Sobel
Very good. I did not know this story and really learned something.

7. Politics of Earthquake Prediction - R.S. Olsen
Fascinating. Excellent example of the ramifications of earthquake prediction - one of my personal interests. Older but great. Recommended.

8. Scientific Inquiry - Klee
Read for a class. Difficult but some may like it.

9. Raising Freethinkers - D. McGowan
Inspirational. Highly recommended for everyone with kids. Full of ideas.

10. Coraline - N. Gaiman
Got for my daughter but it would probably be too scary for her. Disturbing but with an underlying life lesson for parents and kids. Liked. Easy read. Entertaining. Now, I'll see the movie.

11. Free Culture - L. Lessig
Recommended. You can read it free via Creative Commons on the web. Makes you hate Disney and Sonny Bono - greedy bastards.

12. Worldviews: An Intro to the History and Philosophy of Science - R. Dewitt
Recommended. So readable and easy to understand, that is, until they got to the Einstein part. Go beyond Newton and I get lost.

13. Ghost Hunters Field Guide: Gettysburg and Beyond - M. Nesbitt
Awful paranormal blather. However, GB is a creepy place. Title page has 5 EXCLAMATION points!!!!! So, you know the rest...


I'm not making 50 for sure, gunning for 40 

[KarenX]

Finished
1. The Nature of Blood (Caryl Phillips)
2. The Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers)
3. City of Golden Shadows (Tad Williams)
4. World Without Us (Weisman)
5. City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
7. Mars Lives (Ben Bova)
8. The Origins of Gender Inequality (Joan Huber)
9. The Mind of the Market (Michael Shermer)
10. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
11. Before the Dawn (Nicholas Wade)
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
13. The Language Police (Diane Ravitch)
14. The Monsters of Templeton (Lauren Groff)

In Progress/On Deck
Anathem (Neal Stephenson)


For what it's worth, I do comment on my books at GoodReads: Karen's Profile

[TalkingBook]

Finished:
1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
   Interesting book, I don't agree with Rand's philosophy, but I'm glad I read it.
2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
   I've viddied the film so many times it was hard not to visualize Malcolm McDowell throughout.  The book and movie both have their own merits and I'd recommend both, O my brothers.
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
   I don't know, this thing won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but I didn't really get into it. Just a bunch of gray, ashy depression.
4. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
   This was a fun read, Robinson's struggles with faith are highlighted here much more than in any movie version I've seen. The last 15 pages or so are entirely superfluous.
5. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Simon Blackwell
    This is a short introductory guide to the biggest questions in Philosophy, which in my opinion does a great job of laying out some of the basics in clear (usually layman's) terms. Of course it is nowhere near comprehensive, but it's a great starting point for people with more interest than time. (Me.)
6. The Book of Dave - Will Self
    A depressed, crazy London cabbie writes a crazed revelatory text to his son, which is found several centuries later and used as the basis of post-apocalyptic England's state religion. Sound interesting? It is. A great novel that also serves as a satire on blind faith. Very highly recommended.
7. I Am Legend - Robert Matheson
    The first modern vampire novel. Almost more interesting than the vampires themselves is the portrayal of Robert Neville's struggle with loneliness. The ending is awesome. Read it.
8. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
    [audiobook] Can't decide if I like the book or the movie better. They're both very interesting.
9. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    [audiobook] I had to read this in High School and didn't entirely 'get it' at the time, it was definitely a good idea to reread it. A very touching story about friendship, hard times, and loneliness. Recommended reading.
10. World War Z - Max Brooks
    [audiobook] Would I be more interested in my grandpa's war stories if he had been waging war against the living dead? I can't say for sure, but wow, this was a great listen. Ok, ok, so the one guy's Chinese accent was kind of lame. But other than that, this is a first class audiobook. I've just read that a movie is in the works, I just hope they do it right.
11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
    [audiobook] The title says it all. A no-nonsense Northerner is somehow sent back in time to King Arthur's court, where he becomes the kingdom's magician (displacing Merlin) by use of modern science. Mark Twain's satire on both contemporary life and especially medieval chivalry is highly entertaining, though it does drag at some points. Still, I'd suggest reading it if you're a fan of Twain or just satire in general.
12. No Country for Old Men [audiobook] - Cormac McCarthy
13. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
14. Wunder einer Winternacht (German) [audiobook] - Marko Leino
15. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
16. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
17. The Last Man - Mary Shelley
18. Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys - Will Self
19. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
20. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
21. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
22. Ulverton - Adam Thorpe
23. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
....
50.

[Robin_Goodfellow]

1.  The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 4/5
2.  God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens - 5/5
3.  Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein - 4/5
4.  Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris - 3/5
5.  Blink - Malcolm Gladwell - 3/5
6.  M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman - 4/5
7.  Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken - 4/5
8.  So Long, and Thanks for all the fish - Douglas Adams - 4/5

[pandamonium]

For what it's worth, I do comment on my books at GoodReads: Karen's Profile

you are totally my friend on goodreads now.  my profile is definitely in need of updating.  <-_->

[koebes]

I hope this thread creates enough peer pressure to make me finally pick up at least some of the books I bought over the last year.

Reading

Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
James Randi - Flim Flam

Planning to read

Christopher Hitchens - The Portable Atheist
Christopher Hitchens - God is not Great
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors Tale
Paul Davies - Superforce
Peter Coveney - Arrow of Time
Marina Lewiycka - Two Caravans
Chris Anderson - The Long Tail
Carl Sagan - Cosmos
Carl Sagan - Broca's Brain
Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World
Donald Prothero - Evolution
Doyle Brunson - Super System
tbc ...

And a few German ones aswell (Which - I guess - are not of particular interest to this crowd )

[stands2reason]

1. Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded
3. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
4. Douglas Adams - The Long, Dark Tea Time of the Soul
5. Douglas Adams, et al. - The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
6. Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two
7. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
8. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
9. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
10. Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
11. John Linder, Neil Boortz - The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
12. Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
13. Sun Tzu (maybe) - The Art of War
14. Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
15. Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
16. Steven Weinberg - Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
17. Malcolm Gladwell -  Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
18. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear
19. Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
20. Arthur C. Clarke - Imperial Earth
21. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
22. Ian Stewart - Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
23. John Hodgeman - The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by myself, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in The Areas of My Expertise, which Include: Matters Historical, Matters Literary, Matters Cryptozoological, Hobo Matters, Food, Drink & Cheese (a Kind of Food), Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels, Haircuts, Utopia, What Will Happen in the Future, and Most Other Subjects
24. Milton Friedman - Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
25. John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge - The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
26. Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
27. P. J. O'Rourke - Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
28. Stefan Molyneux - Everyday Anarchy: A philosophical examination of our ambivalence towards spontaneous order, political compulsion and the liberty of the everyday
29. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
30. Arthur C. Clarke - 2061: Odyssey Three
31. Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Work Week
32. Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
33. Arthur C. Clarke - 3001: The Final Odyssey
34. Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
35. Mark Alpert - Final Theory
36. Jeff Hawkins - On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
37. P. J. O'Rourke - Driving Like Crazy
38. Robert L. Heilbroner - The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers
39. Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
40. Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
41. Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
42. The Onion - Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
43. Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
44. Scott Stevens, The Teaching Company - Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond (actually a DVD lecture, but sufficiently book-like IMO)
45. Paul Krugman - The Return of Depression Economics (2nd edition) and the Crisis of 2008
46. William Gibson - Neuromancer
47. Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
48. Thomas Sowell - The Housing Boom and Bust
49. Eion Colfer - And Another Thing
50. Timothy Taylor, The Teaching Company - Contemporary Economic Issues

[reevesAstronomy]

Finished Reading:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. Brain - Robin Cook
3. Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
4. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
5. Marker - Robin Cook

Audiobook(s):
1. The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Light in the Dark - Carl Sagan

Currently reading:
1. Crisis - Robin Cook

Planning to read:
1. Death from the skies - Phil Plait
2. The God Dillusion - Richard Dawkins
3. Twilight
4. Some of the book: The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
5. The Cosmic Onion - Frank Close
6. Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait
7. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
8. Contagion - Robin Cook

[JuniperB]

I really enjoyed lastyear's lists!! Here is the beginning of my new year, entered as I request them from the library or read:

1. Phantom - Goodkind
2. Confessor - Goodkind
3. It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News
4. Cosmos - Sagan

[Mark7300]

So far so good...

1. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven)

2. Belching out the Devil (adventures with Coca Cola) - Mark Thomas

3. Hell Island - Matthew Reilly

4. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

5. Isaac Newton.... in progress.

[Frank]

I achieved a solid 41 in 2008. Shouldn't be too difficult to push beyond that this time.

01. Betrayal by Aaron Allston
02. Wine of Dreams by Brian Craig
03. I am Legend by Richard Matheson
04. Nagash the Sorceror by Mike Lee
05. Malekith by Gav Thorpe
06. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (READING)
07. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (READING)
08. Bloodlines by Kathy Traviss
09. Cat Amongst the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (READING)
10. Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn
11. Dark Apostle by Anthony Reynolds (READING)
12. Tales of Heresy edited by Kyme & Lindsey
13. Honourkeeper by Nick Kyme (READING)

9/1/9: Finished Wine and started Legend
27/1/9: Finished Legend and Nagash, midway through Maleky & Pride whilst started Cities and Bloodlines.
12/2/9: Finished Malekith, started reading Cat Amongst the Pigeons and working through the rest.
4/3/9: Finished Bloodlines and started two more!
9/3/9: Finished Outbound Flight and Tales of Heresy. The former was highly enjoyable. The latter was terrific. It includes the short story The Last Church which was a pedestrian, if endearing, outlook at the 'triumph' of secular reason in the grim darkness of the far future! A fine read.  Started Honourkeeper, I do enjoy Kyme as an author, hopefully this should be some more good fantasy from the man.

[funda62]

1. Frommer's South Korea 
2. Never Ending Story by Michael Ende
3. Good Girls Gone Bad by Jillian Medoff
4. Septimus Heap: Physik by Angie Sage (I love this series!)
5. The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
6. Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
7. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
8a. The Seance by Joan Nixon
8b. Minority Reporty by Philip Dick
9. The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
10. The Host by Peter Emshwiller
11. Homeschool Book of Answers by Linda Dobson
12. How to Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day by Teri Crane
13. Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
14. The Homeschool Reader
15. Atheist Universe by David Mills
16. Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clarke
17. The Marriage Game by Fern Michaels
18. The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
19. Overcoming Childhood Obesity
20. Help! I'm a Military Spouse by Hightower and Cherer
21. Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer best book this year!
22. Terribly Twisted Tales edited by Jean Rabe
23. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
24. The Grey King by Susan Cooper
25. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
26. Good Book by David Plotz (highly recommend!)
27. Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
28. The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
29. A Crack in the Line by Mark Lawrence
30. Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
31. This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
32. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 
33. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
34. White Teacher by V.G. Paley
35. Leapfrog by Steve Hendry
36. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
37. Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
38. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
39. Tulipomania by Mike Dash
40. Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire
41. Communist Manifesto etc by Marx and Engles
42. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
43. Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
44. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
45. Utopia by Thomas More
46. B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
47. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
48. Carpe Diem by Harry Mount
49. Death Masks by Jim Butcher
50. Ready or Not by Chris Manby
51. Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
52. The Boggart by Susan Cooper
53. Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
54. Eldest by Christopher Paolini
55. Cross by James Patterson
56. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Megan Cabot
57. Educating English Learners by James Crawford
58. Brisinger by Christopher Paolini
59. Crossroads by Belva Plain
60. Fine Just the Way it Is by Annie Proulx
61. The Quilters Kitchen by Jennifer Chiaverini
62. Language It's Structure and Use by James Finegan
63. The Critical Pedagogy Reader
64. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
65. What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
66. Harry a History by Melisa Anelli
67. The Magician's Death by P.C. Doherty
68. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
69. Foundational Perspectives in Multicultural Education Duarte & Smith (Eds.)
70. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
71. The Crack in the Lens by Steve Hockensmith
72. The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book One by Janothan Stroud
73. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
74. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

1-25 Note
I'm finally catching up!
1-29 Note
I promise to try to read more solid things once we find an apartment in Korea and things are little more settled.  Right now I am so stressed that I have to have some escape.
2-21 Note
I seem to be behind again.  Moving has not been kind to my reading schedule.
4-16 Two crap books in a row.  I am reading Origin of Species but have to take it in spells as my mind starts to drift. 
5-31 Nearly caught up again.  I'm still reading Origin and also reading Portable Atheist on the side.   
6-22 On a bit of a JF kick but #29 was an awesome intro to multiverse theory in the guise of JF.   So glad to be a bit ahead as I'm starting my master's in September.
7-10-09 With White Teacher I finally have one of my school books read.  Now if only the others would arrive.  I'm so nervous about going back to school.
7-27-09 I highly recommend Fortune Cookie Chronicles especially if you like Mary Roach.  Very entertaining non-fiction. 
9-08-09 Yeah I hit 50!
11-8-09 I hardly have time to read any more.
12-10-09 Somehow I managed to, move to a new country, finish my first semester of grad school and surpass my list from last year.

[nocturnous]

Doubt I'll make it but So far

1 The spirit Molecule- Rick Strassman
2 Physics of the Impossible- Michio Kaku
3 Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
4 I Am Not Spock- Leonard Nimoy
5 The stupidest Angel- Christopher Moore
6 E=mc^2- David Bodanis
7 A brief History of time- Stephen Hawking
8 IT- Stephen King

[mickal777]

I plan more reading this year than last year.

Reading:

01. Genshiken (1-9) (@6) - Kio Shimoku
02. Yotsuba to (1-) (@3 (-1))
03. Strawberry Panic (1-) (@3 (-1))
04. Japanese for everyone (@ch15)
05. Minerals Text book

Plan to Read:
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Finished:

01. Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke (4/5)
02. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (5/5) [23/1/2009] ??m {361p}
03. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (4.5/5) [23/1/2009] 164m {190p}
04. A Game Of Thrones - George R.R. Martin (4/5)  [29/1/2009]  {833p}
05. the strange case of Dr Jerkyl & Mr Hide - Robert Louis Stevenson (2/5) [29/1/2009] {88p}
06. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card (5/5) [31/1/2009] {382p}
07. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card (5/5) [2/1/2009] {692p}
08. Temple - Mathew Reily (3/5) [2/1/2009] - [4/1/2009] {697p}
09. Magician - Raymond E. Reist (5/5) [4/1/2009] - [9/1/2009] {680p}
10. EarthSea - Ursula K. Le Guin (3/5) [9/1/2009] - [9/1/2009] {169p}
11. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (4/5) [26/2/2009]
12. Children of the mind - Orson Scott Card (5/5) [1/4/2009]
13. Unseen Acidemicals - (5/5) Terry Pratchett
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[Jim S]

01. The Whole Truth - David Baldacci
02. Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World - Marybeth Hicks
03. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul - Kenneth Miller
04. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams