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May 09, 2009 01:14AM
I'm only joining now and we're already into May but based on my reading so far, I aim to complete at least 120 books. That's normal paper books, audiobooks and graphic books. At least 75 of them are to be non-graphic, paper books.
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1. Hell Island by Matthew Reilly2. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
3. The Business by Iain M. Banks
4. River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
5. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (audiobook)
6. The Universe: A Biography by John R. Gribbin
7. The Last Word: Questions and Answers from the Popular Column on Everyday Science by New Scientist
8. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut (audiobook)
9. Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson
10. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
11. Letters From Lexington Reflections On Propaganda by Noam Chomsky12. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (audiobook)
13. Mouse or Rat by Umberto Eco
14. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
15. Gap into Conflict by Stephen R. Donaldson (audiobook)
16. Introducing Quantum Theory by J.P. McEvoy
17. Death Note Volume 11 by Tsugumi Ohba (graphic)
18. Faraday in 90 Minutes by John R. Gribbin & Mary Gribbin
19. Death Note Volume 12 by Tsugumi Ohba (graphic)
20. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly (audiobook)
More to follow....
21. The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery22. Einstein by Jim Breithaupt
23. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (audiobook)
25. Newton for Beginners by William Rankin
26. The Little Book of Maths Theorems Theories Things by Surendra Verma
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase Radio Play by Douglas Adams (audiobook)
28. Watchmen by [Author: Alan Moore] (graphic)
29. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Secondary Phase Radio Play by Douglas Adams (audiobook)
30. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World - 3000BC-AD 1603 Vol 1 by Simon Schama
31. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary Phase by Douglas Adams (audiobook)32. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
33. Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English by Bruce Moore
34. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
35. 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly
36. The Dismissal: Where Were You on November 11 1975 edited by Sybil Nolan
37. Everyman by Philip Roth
38. Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (audiobook)
39. Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin
40. Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn (audiobook)
41. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (audiobook)42. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (audiobook)
43. Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
44. The Turning by Tim Winton
45. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
46. Persepolis I II by Marjane Satrapi (graphic)
47. Bone Volume 1: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith (graphic)
48. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase Radio Play by Douglas Adams (audiobook)
49. Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (audiobook)
50. The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
51. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase Radio Play by Douglas Adams (audiobook)52. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
53. The Last Command by Timothy Zahn (audiobook)
54. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
55. The Sandmand: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman (graphic)
56. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
57. The Trial by Franz Kafka
58. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Jason wrote: "Eat and sleep! What are they?59. Please Explain by Karl Kruszelnicki"
Eating and sleeping are functions supposedly necessary for the continuation of life. Not as important as breathing but important, nevertheless.
Do you listen to audiobooks while sleeping?
Lol. No my audiobooks are reserved for when I'm walking, ironing or when I work weekends.60. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
61. Anathem by Neal Stephenson (audiobook) 42 hours!
62. Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
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Lori wrote: "All of this has been read since the begining of the year??????!!!!"Yes, though there are quite a few audiobooks there. And the graphic novels are mostly quick reads.
64. God's Problem by Bart Ehrman (audiobook)65. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
66. A Very Short Introduction to Capitalism by James Fulcher
69. Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin70. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
71. The Undertow by Peter Corris
72. Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
73. Strangers In Paradise Pocket Book 1 by Terry Moore (graphic)
74. Neuromancer by William Gibson75. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
76. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (audiobook)
77. Bone Volume 2 The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith (graphic)
78. City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
79. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro80. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
81. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
82. Bone Volume 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith (graphic)
83. Indignation by Philip Roth
86. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll87. The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge Gap 2 by Stephen Donaldson (audiobook)
88. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
89. Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau
90. Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
91. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
92. Storm Front by Jim Butcher (audiobook)
93. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
94. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
95. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn96. Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow (graphic)
97. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller (graphic)
98. The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
99. Dauntless: The Lost Fleet Book 1 by Jack Campbell (audiobook)
100. Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynn Truss
101. The New Atheism Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor J. Stenger102. Y The Last Man Vol. 1 Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan (graphic)
103. Star Wars Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber (audiobook)
104. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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