If you're interested in joining the challenge, please post a comment to your list / page tracking your books - I'll be sure to visit to pick up some recommendations.
Here are the books I've read so far, numbered in the order I've read them, but positioned on the list with my favourites on top:
(The links go to my reviews at Goodreads.com)
15. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (non-fiction, pop econcomic essays)
26. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction essays from/of a different perspective)
25. Sum: 40 Tales From The Afterlives by David M. Eagleman (collection of spiritual hypothetical questions / short stories / situations)
6. Small Gods (Discworld, #13) by Terry Pratchett (fantasy, satire)
24. Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani (non-fiction, personal stories on public health policy and the business of AIDS)
11. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince (Non-fiction, pop health science)
42. Come, Thou Tortoise byJessica Grant (fiction)
33. The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture by Terry O'Reilly, Mike Tennant (non-fiction, entertaining recount of marketing history)
9. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8) by Terry Pratchett (fantasy, satire)
12.Thief of Time (Discworld, #26) by Terry Pratchett (fantasy, satire)
1. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction, pop culture essays)
10. Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry by Susan Shapiro Barash (non-Fiction, modern women studies)
13. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37) by Terry Pratchett (fantasy, satire)
36. Jeeves and the Old School Chum by P.G. Wodehouse (humourous, British fiction)
40. Blandings Castle (Blandings Castle, #3) byP.G. Wodehouse (humourous, British fiction)
37. Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle, #4) by P.G. Wodehouse (humourous, British fiction)
47. The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson (carnival fiction)
14. Losing Joe's Place (Point) by Gordon Korman (young adult, humourous fiction)
35. Interworld by Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves (young adult, science fiction & fantasy, male coming of age)
39. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid by Lemony Snicket (humourous advice)
2. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka (historical fiction, female coming of age)
19. Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1) by Jasper Fforde (science fiction, dystopia, polictical commentary)
48. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris (modern fables)
49. Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #1) by Terry Brooks (fantasy)
23. The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, #2) by Eoin Colfer (young adult, modern day fantasy, author describes as "Die Hard with fairies")
34. Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (fiction, female coming of age)
41. The Underpainter byJane Urquhart (literary fiction)
28. Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire---Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa (non-fiction, "pop" evolutionary biology - to be taken with a grain of salt)
22. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse, Narrated by Frederick Davidson (collection of comedic, romantic short-stories)34. Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (fiction, female coming of age)
41. The Underpainter byJane Urquhart (literary fiction)
28. Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire---Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa (non-fiction, "pop" evolutionary biology - to be taken with a grain of salt)
20. Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer (children's mystery)
18. Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature by David P. Barash, Nanelle R. Barash (non-fiction, humourous analysis of literature through evolutionary theory)
5. Jennifer Government by Max Barry (science fiction, dystopia)
17. Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (fantasy, alternate retelling of Snow White)
43. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman (young adult humour, male coming of age)
4. A Lion Among Men (Wicked Years, #3) by Gregory Maguire (fantasy, alternate retelling of Wizard of Oz)
3. Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction pop culture essays, and part of a novel)
46. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (humourous essays)
29. A Fortunate Age: A Novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff (fiction, New York society)
32. My Almost Epic Summer by Adele Griffin (humourous young adult fiction)
45. Slam by Nick Hornby (young adult humour, male coming of age)
7. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett (fantasy)
31. Love in the Time of Fridges by Tim Scott (science fiction, humourous dystopia)
Would not recommend:
8. The Tales of Beedle The Bard: Kisah-Kisah Beedle Si Juru Cerita by J.K. Rowling (fairytales and historical commentary from he Harry Potter world)
44. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris (fiction, humour short stories)
38. I Killed Hemingway byWilliam McCranor Henderson (fiction)
30. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga #4) by Stephenie Meyer (fantasy, the last of the Twilight saga)
27. Ain't Myth-Behaving by Katie MacAlister (romance, modern with a mythological twist)
21. Lenny Bruce is Dead by Jonathan Goldstein (fiction, grief and return home)
16. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen (zombie-Jane Austen mashup of the original classic)
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* Updates
2011-06-17 - Reached my 25 book goal, with almost half a year to go! Let's try for a total of 50!
1 comment:
I like that you have a "would not recommend" section. I should think about organizing my list that way.
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