Hypatia and the Optimistic 75

[Jayme]

Hi everybody! I'm brand new to Goodreads, and I would like to join in here and maybe meet some fellow book lovers.My goal for 2008 is at least 75 books, and as busy as this year is promising to be, it's going to be tough!

I hope it's okay to start with books I've read already this year, not just since joining?

If so, then it's

1.The Lovers-Philip Jose Farmer

2.The Chamber of Secrets-J.K. Rowlings

3.Must Love Dogs--Claire Cook

4.Mutiny on the Bounty--C. Nordhoff/J.N. Hall

5.The Looking Glass War--Frank Beddor

6.Owls well that Ends Well--Donna Andrews

7.Quite a Year for Plums--Bailey White

8.Called Out--A.G> Mojitbai

9. The Ides of March--Thornton Wilder


If not, then just ' The Ides of March"

Other goals for the year include at least ten classics I've never read, some philosophical texts, and a few re-reads of classics I read when I was only ten or eleven and can't remember as well.

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10. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink

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11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Muriel Spark

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12. Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden

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13. Gertrude and Claudius--John Updike

14. Frankenstein Unbound--Brian W. Aldiss

15. Ice Station Zebra--Alistair MacLean

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16. American Psycho

17. The Owl and the Pussycat

18. The Deerhunter

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19. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire


20. Communion---Whitley Strieber

21. Deliverance--James Dickey

22.Tobacco Road--Erskine Caldwell

23.Atonement--IanMcEwan

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24. West of the Moon-J. Nasaw

25. Ladies of Missalonghi--C. McCullough

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26. Hatchet--Gary Paulsen

27. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald

28. Goodbye Mr. Chips--James Hilton

29. Lord of the Flies--William Golding

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30.Life of Pi--Yann martel

31.Silverhill--Phyllis A. Whitney

32. The Adam Experiment--Geoffrey Simmons

33. The Book of Fred--Abby Bardi

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34. Born For Love--Leo Buscaglia

35. The Rag Nymph--Catherine Cookson

36. Tanner's Twelve Swingers--Lawrence Block

( Hilarious, that one!)

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37. All Quiet on the Western Front

38. The Field Guide to Chickens--Pam Percy

39.At Wit's End--Erma Bombeck

40.Oh, Kentucky!--Betty Layman Receveur

41.Woman's Doctor--Dr. William J. Sweeney

42.Forever--Judy Blume

43.Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes

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44. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams

45. Practical Demonkeeping--Christopher Moore

46. The Neverending Story--Michael Ende

47. Cheaper By The Dozen--Frank Gilbreth, Jr.

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48. The Shadow Riders--Louis L'Amour

49. A Boy Called Hopeless--David Melton

50. The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse--Nancy Butcher


50/75! And sooooo many more in my TBR stack.

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51.Beneath the Wheel--Hermann Hesse

52. The Stone Diaries--Carol Shields

53. Jamie--Jack Bennett

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54. Crazy Ladies--Michael Lee West

55. The New Year--Pearl S. Buck

56. How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law--Dorothy Cannell

57. The Green Berets--Robin Moore

58. So Dear to My Heart--Sterling North

59. The Bell jar--Sylvia Plath

60. Dreamcatcher-Stephen King

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61. This Perfect Day--Ira Levin

--One of the best dystopia novels I've yet to read.

62. Plains of Passage--Jean M. Auel

63. Shelters of Stone--Jean M. Auel

64. Needlework in America--Virgina C. Bath

65. Steffie Can't Come out to Play--Fran Arrick

66. Lord Jim--Joseph Conrad

67. Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock

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68. Star Trek: The Lost Years--J.M. Dillard

69. The Grasshopper Trap--Patrick McManus

70. The Jungle--Upton Sinclair

71. Star Trek: The Forgotten War

72. Beloved--Toni Morrison