Coral's comments

Coral's comments from the 100+ Book Challenge group.

Note: Coral is no longer a member of this group.

41. The Queen of the Tambourine - Jane Gardam
42. Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms - Nicolette Hahn Niman
43. Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq - Thomas J. Craughwell

31. Guide to Night-Singing Insects of the Northeast - John Himmelmann
32. Boca Knights - Steven M. Forman
33. A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Richmond - Jerry Uhlman
34. In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans - Harold Holzer, Joshua Shenk (editors)
35. The End: Natural Disasters Manmade Catastrophes and the Future of Human Survival - Marq de Villiers
36. Gotz and Meyer - David Albahari
37. Beautiful Bodies - Laura Shaine Cunningham
38. A Decade of Discovery - United States Department of Energy
39. The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers Musicians and Their Art - Tim Blanning
40. And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America - Mary Frances Berry

21. Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ - Richard Dooling
22. Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk Meat and Muscle Shaped the World - Andrew Rimas & Evan D. G. Fraser
23. I Hate Your Guts - Jim Norton
24. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
25. Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II - Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller
26. Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change from the Amazon to the Arctic from Darfur to Napa Valley - Stephen Faris
27. The Aztec World - Elizabeth M. Brumfiel & Gary M. Feinman, Editors
28. The War on Bugs - Will Allen
29. Margherita Dolce Vita - Stefano Benni
30. The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets Stops Innovation and Costs Lives - Michael Heller

11. Settlement: A Novel - Christoph Hein
12. Glimmer Palace - Beatrice Colin
13. Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm - Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
14. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
15. Magical Mushrooms Mischievous Molds - George W. Hudler
16. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel - Marina Lewycka
17. The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse - Richard Thompson Ford
18. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
19. Carry Me Down - M.J. Hyland
20. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters - Rose George

1. Atonement - Ian McEwan
2. Fox Girl - Nora Okja Keller
3. Measuring the World: A Novel - Daniel Kehlmann
4. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
6. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
7. The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel - Kiran Desai
8. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
9. Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis - Kingsley Amis
10. The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat - Eric Roston

131. The Snowman's Children: A Novel - Glen Hirshberg
132. Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship - Ken Silverstein

121. The Flowers: A Novel - Dagoberto Gilb
122. Congress Behaving Badly: The Rise of Partisanship and Incivility and the Death of Public Trust - Sunil Ahuja
123. How the Light Gets In - M.J. Hyland
124. Falling Man: A Novel - Don DeLillo
125. Animal's People: A Novel - Indra Sinha
126. Small Island: A Novel - Andrea Levy
127. It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living - Crissy Trask
128. Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire - Matthew Fraser
129. Blood and Circumstance - Frank Turner Hollon
130. Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest - Joan Maloof

101. The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel - Doris Lessing
102. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
103. Absurdistan A Novel - Gary Shteyngart
104. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel - Lisa Glatt
105. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
106. The Ethical Assassin a Novel - David Liss
107. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
108. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
109. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
110. Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

111. Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium - Dick Meyer
112. Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes - Jim Holt
113. Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto - Chuck Klosterman
114. There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story - Gary Larson
115. Tarzan's Tonsillitis - Alfredo Bryce Echenique
116. The Missing World - Margot Livesey
117. City of God: A Novel - E.L. Doctorow
118. The Body Artist: A Novel - Don Delillo
119. Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment - Jennifer A. Thomson
120. Suite Française - Irene Nemirovsky

81. Death in the Orchid Garden A Gardening Mystery - Ann Ripley
82. Correcting the Landscape A Novel - Marjorie Kowalski Cole
83. The Book of Dead Birds A Novel - Gayle Brandeis
84. The Origin of Satan - Elaine Pagels
85. Desolation - Yasmina Reza
86. Snitch Jacket - Christopher Goffard
87. Strawberry Fields A Novel - Marina Lewycka
88. The Mayor's Tongue - Nathaniel Rich
89. Strange Blood A Crime Novel - Lindsay Ashford
90. Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin


91. Hidden Moon An Inspector O Novel - James Church
92. The Learners A Novel - Chip Kidd
93. Last Last Chance A Novel - Fiona Maazel
94. The Silver Swan A Novel - Benjamin Black
95. Ice Trap A Novel of Suspense - Kitty Sewell
96. The Future of Nature Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine - edited by Barry Lopez
97. The Genius - Jesse Kellerman
98. Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11 - Alan M. Dershowitz
99. Draining the Sea - Micheline Aharonian Marcom
100. The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart

41. Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
42. Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coatzee
43. Blindness - Jose Saramago
44. Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
45. Factotum - Charles Bukowski
46. Why Is Sex Fun The Evolution of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
47. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
48. Guide to Getting It On - Paul Joannides
49. Under The Net - Iris Murdoch
50. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon


51. Wise Children - Angela Carter
52. Please Mr. Einstein - Jean-Claude Carriere
53. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
54. Timbuktu A Novel - Paul Auster
55. Rock Paper Scissors - Steve Samuel
56. Thief of Souls - Darian North
57. Dreaming in Cuban - Cristina Garcia
58. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
59. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
60. The Knife Man Blood Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery - Wendy Moore


61. The Sea of Tears A Novel - Nani Power
62. Wearing the Spider - Susan Schaab
63. Touch and Go - M. R. D. Meek
64. What Is Life Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology - Ed Regis
65. Something Might Happen - Julie Myerson
66. Translations of Beauty A Novel - Mia Yun
67. Voices from the Street - Philip K. Dick
68. Filthy Shakespeare Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns - Pauline Kiernan
69. The Long-Legged Fly A Crime Novel - James Sallis
70. Moth - James Sallis


71. Black Hornet - James Sallis
72. Eye of the Cricket - James Sallis
73. My Nine Lives Chapters of a Possible Past - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
74. The Last of Her Kind A Novel - Sigrid Nunez
75. The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff
76. The Dream Room - Marcel Moring
77. Gaming the Vote Why Elections Aren't Fair and What We Can Do About It - William Poundstone
78. The Toothpick Technology and Culture - Henry Petroski
79. Thirteen Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
80. Saved - Kate Morgenroth

1. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2. The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
3. Mermaids on the Moon - Elizabeth Stuckey-French
4. The American Lie Government by the People and Other Political Fables - Benjamin Ginsberg
5. Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime - Diane Leslie
6. Innocent as Sin - Elizabeth Lowell
7. Blind Spot - Judy Mercer
8. The Tenth Justice - Brad Meltzer
9. An Ordinary Spy - Joseph Weisberg
10. Life of Pi - Yann Martel


11. Legal Tender - Lisa Scottoline
12. The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
13. The Street of a Thousand Blooms - Gail Tsukiyama
14. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
15. Death Song - Michael McGarrity
16. Goodnight Nebraska - Tom McNeal
17. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England - Brock Clarke
18. God is Not Great How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
19. The Sound of Butterflies - Rachael King
20. Free For All Oddballs Geeks and Gangstas in the Public Library - Don Borchert


21. The Devil and Miss Prym A Novel of Temptation - Paulo Coelho
22. The Joy of Lex How to Have Fun with 860 341 500 Words - Gyles Brandreth
23. Insect Dreams The Half Life of Gregor Samsa - Marc Estrin
24. Eye Contact - Cammie McGovern
25. Slipping into Darkness - Peter Blauner
26. The Four Temperaments A Novel - Yona Zeldis McDonough
27. The Lambs of London A Novel - Peter Ackroyd
28. Passion Betrayal and Killer Highlights - Kyra Davis
29. Everything is Illuminated A Novel - Jonathan Safran Foer
30. Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam


31. Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
33. The Sea - John Banville
34. The Up and Up A Novel - Lee Irby
35. Daddy's Girl - Lisa Scottoline
36. Split Skirt - Agnes Rossi
37. Basket Case - Carl Hiassen
38. On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
39. The Book of Illusions A Novel - Paul Auster
40. Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart