Sunday, May 03, 2009

Read 100 Books

StumbleUpon is a great add-on for your browser. I stumbled an interesting website listing book "challenges." I tracked down the 100 Book Challenge at J. Kaye's Book Blog. I've never kept track of the number of books read during a year. Time for a change. I will post upon completion of each book and develop some sort of rating system to let you know what I think.

My rules:
All types of books count: fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, short story collections, e-books, etc.
Newspapers and magazines do not count.
All books must be ones I have not read before.
Starting date: May 2, 2009

EDIT: To comply with the new (October 6, 2009) FTC Guide, click here to read my disclosure statement.

Here is what I have read so far in 2009 along with links to their individual posts:
(If you're interested in books that I didn't finish, click here.)
  1. Promethea Book 4
  2. Promethea Book 5
  3. Fargo Rock City
  4. When Germs Travel
  5. Gemma Bovery
  6. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  7. Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy Land
  8. The Kite Runner
  9. The Secret History
  10. Schrödinger's Ball
  11. The Indifferent Stars Above
  12. The Maltese Falcon
  13. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
  14. Tamara Drewe
  15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  16. The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
  17. The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
  18. I Capture the Castle
  19. The Golden Compass
  20. The Subtle Knife
  21. A Safe Place for Dying
  22. The Walking Dead: Compendium One
  23. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
  24. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  25. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
  26. Zeroville
  27. Preacher: Gone to Texas
  28. The Amber Spyglass
  29. Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography
  30. Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
  31. Coraline
  32. The Three Incestuous Sisters
  33. Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
  34. The Book Thief
  35. In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
  36. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
  37. Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
  38. Saints in Babylon: Mormons and Las Vegas
  39. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
  40. Chew #1
  41. Chew #2
  42. Irredeemable
  43. The Boys Vol. 1
  44. The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
  45. A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
  46. Time and Again
  47. Fables: The Good Prince
  48. Fables: Ware and Pieces
  49. Fables: The Dark Ages
  50. Dark Avengers: Assemble
  51. The Boys Vol. 2
  52. The Boys Vol. 3
  53. The Boys Vol. 4
  54. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
  55. Chew #3
  56. Chew #4
  57. Runaways Vol. 1
  58. Ex Machina Vol. 1
  59. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
  60. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
  61. Batman and Robin Issue 1 (Batman: Reborn)
  62. Gotham City Sirens Issue 1
  63. Blackest Night #1
  64. Blackest Night #2
  65. Invincible Volume 1: Family Matters
  66. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1 - Unmanned
  67. Runaways Volume 2: Teenage Wasteland
  68. Jack of Fables Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
  69. Batman Cacophony
  70. Ex Machina Vol. 2
  71. How the States Got Their Shapes
  72. Gotham City Sires Issue 2
  73. Invincible Volume 2
  74. Invincible Volume 3
  75. Blackest Night Issue 3
  76. Wolverine Old Man Logan: Giant Size
  77. The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  78. Every Patient Tells a Story
  79. Batman: The Killing Joke
  80. Invincible Volume 4
  81. Y: The Last Man Volume 2
  82. Y: The Last Man Volume 3
  83. Bad Girls
  84. Runaways Volume 3
  85. Grendel: Devil Child
  86. Gotham City Sirens Issue 3
  87. Civil War
  88. Invincible Volume 5
  89. Sisters of Salome
  90. Chew #5
  91. Ex Machina Volme 3
  92. Ex Machina Volume 4
  93. American Psycho
  94. Y: The Last Man Volume 4
  95. Stitches
  96. In the Bin
  97. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll
  98. The Walking Dead Volume 9
  99. And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl
  100. Salt: A World History
  101. The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wanted to stop in and welcome you to the 100+ Reading Challenge. If you haven’t already, feel free to join our Yahoo Groups . There you’ll find others who are trying to complete this reading challenge.

Links to post your reviews are up in the right sidebar at J. Kaye’s Book Blog. This is, of course, totally optional.

Have Fun!