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message 1: by Colin (new)

1028886 Let's see if a 100 is possible for me. Here's year to date:

1) Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
2) The Hidden Masterpiece - Honore de Balzac
3) A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert
4) The Elixir of Life - Balzac
5) The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
6) The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
7) The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
8) Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
9) Moby Dick - Hermann Melville
10) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stephenson
11) Use of Weapons - Iain Banks
12) The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
13) The Year of Living Bibically - AJ Jacobs
14) Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
15) The Parsons Daughter of Oxnay Colme - Anthony Trollope


message 2: by Colin (last edited May 09, 2009 04:02PM) (new)

1028886 16) The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
17) The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)- The Alchemyst - Michael Scott


message 3: by Colin (new)

1028886 18) The book of the Die - Luke Rhinehardt
19) Walden, or Life in the Woods Walden - Henry David Thoreau


message 4: by Colin (new)

1028886 20) Mozart  A LifeMozart: A life - Maynard Solomon. I read this one earlier in the year but forgot about it

21) The Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics)The Invisible Man - HG Wells


message 5: by Colin (new)

1028886 22) Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics) Around the World in 80 days - Jules Verne
23) Singularity SkySingularity Sky - Charles Stross
24) Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
25) U-Turn  What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?U-turn - Bruce Grierson
26) FirstbornFirstBorn - Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter
27) 50/50  Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance! 50/50 Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days - Dean Karnazes


message 6: by Colin (new)

1028886 28) Emperor  Time's Tapestry (Book One)Emperor - Stephen Baxter
29) Conqueror  Time's Tapestry (Book Two)Conqueror - Stephen Baxter
30) Navigator (Gollancz S.F.)Navigator - Stephen Baxter
31) Weaver  Time's Tapestry, Book FourWeaver - Stephen Baxter
32) In the Beginning...was the Command LineIn the Beginning - Neal Stephenson


message 7: by Colin (new)

1028886 wow, I'm way behind in adding books but here's where I've gotten to so far this year:

33) Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan

34) Outliers Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

35) The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) the Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

36) Myth  A Biography of Belief Myth : A biography of Belief

37) Socrates' Way  Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates Way - Ronald Gross

38)Against A Dark Background Against a Dark Background - Iain M Banks

39) The Terror - Dan Simmons

40) The Diamond Age  Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) The Diamond Age - Neil Stephenson

41) The Accidental Time MachineThe Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldemann


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