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[stands2reason]

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[Grimner]

1) Matter - Iain M. Banks
2) Pale blue Dot - Carl Sagan
3) Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
4) On Deception - Harry Houdini
5) Dust of Dreams  -  Steven Erikson
6) Why people believe weird things - Michael Shermer
7) How to be idle - Tom Hodgkinson
8 ) Soldier Five - Michael Coburn
9) Harens år - Arto Paasilinna
10) Off Armageddon Reef - David Weber
11) The greatest show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
12) House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
13) The Gremlins: The lost Walt Disney production - Leonard Martin/Roald Dahl
14) How the Mind works - Steven Pinker
15) By Schism rent asunder - David Weber
16) Kjeltringer - Thomas Ergo
17) God is not great - Christoffer Hitchens
18) By heresies distressed - David Weber
19) Jotnenes hjemkomst - Andreas Bull-Hansen
20) Death by Black Hole - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
21) The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
22) The Big Short - Michael Lewis
23) One Bullet away - Nathaniel Fick
24) House to House  - David Bellavia
25) The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
26) Generation Kill - Evan Wright
27) Født sånn eller blitt sånn? - Harald Eia & Ole-Martin Ihle
28) Gone tomorrow - Lee Child
29) Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos
30) Hobbiten - J.R.R. Tolkien
31) Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
32) Tre i Norge ved to av dem - W.J. Clutterbuck & J.A. Lees
33) A mighty fortress - David Weber
34) The Fuller memorandum - Charles Stross
35) I den skogen - Harlan Coben
36) Dypet  - Tom Kristensen

[mickal777]

1. Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card 1/1/2010
2. The Last Theorum - Arthur C. Clarke <11/1/2010
3. Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card 11/1/2010
4. The men who stare at goats - Jon Ronson 19/1/2010
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle 23/01/2010
6. Shadow Of the Giant - Orson Scott Card 24/01/2010
7. Nation - Terry Pratchett 29/01/2010
8. Death from the skies - Phil Plait 5/02/2010
9. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman 18/02/2010

[willz]

Read so far:

1. Penguin history of New Zealand, Michael King
2. World War Z, Max Brooks
3. Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
4. Death from the Skies!, Phil Plait
5. South, Ernest Shackleton
6. Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan (reading)

To be read:
7. Philosophy: The Classics, Nigel Warbourton

[Gaffer]

Read in 2010 -
01. Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
02. Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
03. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
04. Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
05. The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock
06. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
07. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
08. The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
09. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
10. The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
11. Charlatan by Pope Brock
12. Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
13. The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan
14. The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
15. Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
16. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
17. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, etc.
18. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
19. River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
20. A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins
21. Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
22. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
23. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
24. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
25. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
26. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
27. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
28. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
29. Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
30. Mort by Terry Pratchett
31. God's Problem by Bart Ehrman
32. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
33. The Qur'an
34. Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
35. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
36. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
37. Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade
38. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
39. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
40. What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
41. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
42. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
43. Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
44. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
45. I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 by Alton Brown
46. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
47. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
48. The Crucible of Consciousness by Zoltan Torey
49. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
50. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
51. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
52. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
53. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate by Anthony Lewis
54. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
55. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
56. The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading by Ian Rowland
57. Collapse by Jared Diamond
58. Media Mythmakers by Benjamin Radford
59. Common Nonsense by Alexander Zaitchik
60. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
61. The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

5.25.10 - Fifty!

[alitta]

My List (Hopefully I'll be good at updating this ):

01-The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
02-Does God Hate Women by Ophelia Benson (almost finished)
03-The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (starting next)

[Jayhox]

So far in '10:

Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson  (excellent)
Greatest Show on Earth - Dawkins (currently reading.  Important book, but meh.)
In Defense of Food - Pollan  (excellent)
Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan (just started it)
Making Sense of Statistics - Pryczak (can't wait for the movie)
The Punch - John Feinstein  (great sports book)

[spacemonkey]

Saw the thread last year and I think this is an awesome way of sharing book recomendation and of getting some readin' done. Here I go:

Read:
1. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne | good
2. All Around the Moon by Jules Verne | very boring
3. Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson | excellent
4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman | excellent

Reading:
1. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman

To be read in 2010:
1. The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
2. God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger
3. Contact by Carl "the man" Sagan
4. Broca's Brain by Carl "the turtle neck sweater wearing" Sagan
5. The Sky is Not the Limit by Neil deGrasse Tyson
6. Classic Feynman by Richard Feynman
7. Dune by Frank Herbert
8. Ringworld by Larry Niven
9. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
10. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
11. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

[Karyn]

I did bad last year.  Hopefully, it will be a little better this year.

1.  The Ancestor's Tale - Dawkins
2.  Who Wrote the Bible
3.  A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
4.  Manic: A Memoir
5.  A Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
6.  The Unlikely Disciple - Kevin Roose

Working on:
You Suck (A Love Story) - Christopher Moore
The Paperback Apocalypse - Robert Price  (This book is going to take me forever because I keep having to reference passages in the bible.  It's taken me about 12 hours of reading to get to page 80.)

[ziggysden]

For 2010

Read
01. Lord Peter Views The Body - Dorothy L Sayers
02. Smile or Die - Barbara Ehrenreich
03. The Trial of Henry Kissenger - Christopher Hitchens
04. 59 Seconds - Prof Richard Wiseman
05. The Hell Of It All - Charlie Brooker

Reading
01. The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens
02. This Sentence Is False - Peter Cave

To Be Read
01. Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer
02. The Beautiful and Damned - F Scott Fitzgerald
03. An Essay on the Principle of Population - Malthus
04. Colossus - Neil Ferguson
05. The Blackpool High Flyer - Andrew Martin
06. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
07. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
08. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
09. Essays - George Orwell
10. Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin
11. Seeing Further - ed Bill Bryson
12. The 2nd Rumpole Omnibus - John Mortimer
13. The White Lioness - Henning Mankell
14. Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russell
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
17. Wolf Winter - Clare Francis
18. The Naming of the Dead - Ian Rankin
19. The Blind Assassin - Margret Atwood
20. Logic, A very Short Introduction - Graham Priest

[Tatyana]

Read
1. The Times Going Underground - Paris by Metro
2. The Rough Guide to Paris
(I'm going to Paris for the second time this weekend, I love the city)

3. The God Delusion - Dawkins
4. European City Breaks (Footprint)
5. Arnold-The Education of a Bodybuilder - Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. Most of the New Scientist and British Medical Journal, bits that interest me out of The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine

Reading

7. Politics - a very short introduction - Kenneth Minogue
8. Quirkology

I would also love a fun and interesting read on quantum mechanics if anyone can recommend one.

Ta

[SnarlPatrick]

Read:

1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

[Tatyana]

Read
1. The Times Going Underground - Paris by Metro
2. The Rough Guide to Paris
(I'm going to Paris for the second time this weekend, I love the city)

3. The God Delusion - Dawkins
4. European City Breaks (Footprint)
5. Arnold-The Education of a Bodybuilder - Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. Most of the New Scientist and British Medical Journal, bits that interest me out of The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine

Reading

7. Politics - a very short introduction - Kenneth Minogue
8. Quirkology

I would also love a fun and interesting read on quantum mechanics if anyone can recommend one.

Ta

Read:


7. Quirkology
8. The Missionary Position
9. The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby

Still reading:
Politics, a short introduction
The Canon, the beautiful basic of science (which is great BTW)

I re-joined the library, I have a stack of books. It is fantastic, I can basically request just about everything my little heart desires.

[Knight VII]

Tragedy and Hope - Carroll Quigley
The Anglo-American Establishment - Carroll Quigley
End the Fed - Ron Paul
Memiors - David Rockefeller
Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
The Grand Chessboard - Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Bilderberg Group - Daniel Estulin

I'm part of the way through all of these so I hope to finish them all this year for sure.

[kb]

I spend to much time reading on the internet and wasting my life on other kinds of time consuming nonsense so reaching 50 books in a year is not gonna happen as it is now, but listing them here might at least give me a kick in the behind from time to time.  I also listen to audiobooks a lot so I might as well list them too out of "competition".

Read in 2010 IIRC:

• 1. Gödel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadler (9/10)
• 2. Döda Vita Män (Dead White Men)- Johan Hakelius (7/10)
• 3. Kvarken och Jaguaren (The Quark and the Jaguar)- Murray Gell Mann (7/10)
• 4. Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Sean B. Carroll (8/10)
• 5. Dvärgen (The Dwarf) - Pär Lagerkvist (10/10)
• 6. På Västfrontent Intet Nytt (All Quiet on the Western Front) - E.M. Remarque (10/10)
• 7. Hundra år av Ensamhet (One Hundred Years of Solitude) - Gabriel García Márquez
• 8. Bödeln (The Hangman) - Pär Lagerkvist
• 9. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and why it Matters - Donald R. Prothero
• 10. Nässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettles) - Harry Martinson
• 11. Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins - Robert M. Hazen
• 12. Kallocain - Karin Boye
• 13. Phantoms in the Brain -  V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
• 14. Geniernas Återkommst (Return of the Geniuses) - P.C. Jersild
• 15. Before the Big Bang - Brian Clegg
• 16. Gäst hos verkligheten (Guest of Reality) - Pär Lagerkvist
• 17. Och solen har sin gång (The Sun Also Rises) - Ernest Hemingway
• 18. Efter floden (After the Flood) - P.C. Jersild
• 19. Aniara - Harry Martinson
• 20. Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse

Currently reading:

• Så talade Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)- Friedrich Nietzsche
• Don Quijote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Audiobooks:

• Animal Farm - George Orwell (9/10)
• Kallocain - Karin Boye (8/10)
• Anthem - Ayn Rand (6/10)
• På slagfältet vid Verdun (At the Battlefield of Verdun) - Peter Englund (8/10)
• Stridens skönhet och sorg (The Beauty and Sorrow of Combat) - Peter Englund (9/10)
• Preludium Till Stiftelsen (Prelude to Foundation) - Isaac Asimov (8/10)
• Den Gamle Och Havet (The Old Man and the Sea) - Ernest Hemingway (9/10)
• H.P. Lovercraft
• /Colour From out of Space
• /The Lurking Fear
• /Re-Animator
• /Under the Pyramids
• /In the Walls of Eryx
• /The Other Gods
• /The Cats of Ulthar
• /Dagon
• /The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• /The Thing on the Doorstep
• /The Call of Cthulhu
• /At the Mountains of Madness
• /Rats in the Walls
• /The Dunwich Horror
• /The Haunter of the Dark
• /The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• /From Beyond
• /Shadow Out Of Time
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Island of Dr Moreau - H. G. Wells (7/10)
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (9/10)
• Mörkrets Hjärta (Heart of Darkness) - Joseph Conrad (7/10)
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (8/10)
• The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodeouse
• TMS: Discovering the Philosopher in You - Colin McGinn
• TTC: Early, High and Late Middle Ages - Philip Daileader
• TTC: History of Ancient Egypt - Bob Brier
• TTC: History of Ancient Rome - Garrett G. Fagan
• TTC: Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism - A History of 20th-Century Russia - Gary M. Hamburg
• TTC: Tools of Thinking - James Hall
• TTC: World War I- The ''Great War'' - Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
• TTC: World War II - Military & Social History - Thomas Childers
• Den Hemlighetsfulla Ön (The Mysterious Island) - Jules Verne
• The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
• TTC: Mathematics, Philosophy, and the "Real World" - Judith V. Grabiner
• The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
• The Code of the Woosters  - P. G. Wodehouse
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P. G. Wodehouse
• Jeeves in the Offing - P. G. Wodehouse
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
• From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time  - Sean Carroll
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Mary Roach
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
• Uncertainty; Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science - David Lindley