Tuesday, December 8, 2009

2010 Book Challenge

I decided to take the 2010 book (number) challenge choosing 52.
A wide range of everything and then some.
At the same time I will be doing the Rory Gilmore Book Project. I love that show more then anything else on the earth and so when i found it, it was just naturally something I HAD to do.
I added some of her books to my list as an over lapper so it should be an interesting year.

1.The elephant whisperer : my life with the herd in the African wild
Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence.

2.Eternal life : a new vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell. John Shelby Spong.

3.Queen Elizabeth : the Queen Mother : the official biography
William Shawcross.

4.Reinventing the body, resurrecting the soul : how to create a new you
Deepak Chopra.

5.With Hitler to the end : the memoir of Hitler's valet
Heinz Linge ; introduction by Roger Moorhouse

6. Allah : The God of Islam : Moslem life and worship
Fitch, Florence Mary, 1875-1959.

7.The book of miracles : the meaning of the miracle
stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
Kenneth L. Woodward.

8.The drowned book : ecstatic and earthy reflections of Bahauddin, the father of Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne. [read]

9.An introduction to Western philosophy : ideas and argument from Plato to Popper
Flew, Antony, 1923-

10.The storyteller's daughter [read]
Shah, Saira.

*11. What do Muslims believe? : the roots and realities of modern Islam
Ziauddin Sardar. [reading]


12.Write like Hemingway : writing lessons you can learn
from the master
R. Andrew Wilson.

13.The time machine ; The war of the worlds
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

14. Emma Jane Austen [read]

15. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte [reading]

16. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

17. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

19. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

20.The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway

21. King Henry the Eighth
William Shakespeare

22.The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

23.To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip Jose Farmer

24.Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Clarke, Susanna.

25.A promise of hope : [the astonishing true story of a
woman afflicted with bipolar disorder and the miraculous
treatment that cured her] [read part of it and found it to be a med scam it shall be replaced]
Stringam, Autumn.

26. Yoga body, Buddha mind [read]
Lee, Cyndi.

27.The Mote in god's eye [reading]
Niven, Larry.

28.Stranger in a Strange Land [reading]
Heinlein, Robert A

29.Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

30.The Darker Passions: Frankenstein
Amarantha Knight!

31.Rumi : the fire of love
Tajadod, Nahal.

32.The essential Rumi
Jal¯al al-D in Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273.

33. King Hereafter
Dorothy Dunnett

34.Madox Ford: The Fifth Queen*
- a novel about Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katharine Howard

35.Enchi Fumiko: A Tale of False Fortunes

36.Alasdair Gray: Poor Things*

37. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

38.Daisy Miller : The complete text of the original
edition (102 pages) Henry James

39.The preacher's daughter
Beverly Lewis

40.2666
Robert BolaƱo

41.A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy
Greig, Charlotte.

42.The Tao : finding the way of balance and harmony
Forstater, Mark.

43.Early Greek philosophy
Barnes, Jonathan.

44.Thus spoke Zarathustra : a book for all and none
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

45.The Age of Stonehenge Colin Burgess

46.Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett

47. Lord of Snow and Shadows
Sarah Ash


48. Fearless Living
Rhonda Britten

49.The Quran [reading]

50.the bible

51. The feeling good handbook
David D Burns M.D

52.The Industrial Revolution [read]
Stalcup, Brenda.

53. Becoming Enlightened
Dalai Lama [read]

54. Life below stairs: Domestic servants in England from Victorian times
Frank Edward Huggett
[read]


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