Colin's Booklist for 2009

[Colin]

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

[Colin]

16) The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
17) - The Alchemyst - Michael Scott

[Colin]

18) The book of the Die - Luke Rhinehardt
19) Walden - Henry David Thoreau

[Colin]

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

21) The Invisible Man - HG Wells

[Colin]

22) Around the World in 80 days - Jules Verne
23) Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
24) Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
25) U-turn - Bruce Grierson
26) FirstBorn - Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter
27) [image error] 50/50 Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days - Dean Karnazes

[Colin]

28) Emperor - Stephen Baxter
29) Conqueror - Stephen Baxter
30) [image error] Navigator - Stephen Baxter
31) Weaver - Stephen Baxter
32) In the Beginning - Neal Stephenson

[Colin]

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

33) Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan

34) [image error] Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

35) the Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

36) Myth : A biography of Belief

37) Socrates Way - Ronald Gross

38) Against a Dark Background - Iain M Banks

39) The Terror - Dan Simmons

40) The Diamond Age - Neil Stephenson

41) The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldemann