Challenge: 50 Books discussion

The year seems to be off to a fairly good start at least, so we'll see...
BTW I don't have any particular types or personal challenges to set myself (I'd like to include some from the 1001 list but if I don't it's no biggy), anything and everything goes really!

1. The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
2. Unless (Carol Shields)

3. Swords and Deviltry (Fritz Lieber)

4. The Story of Lucy Gault (William Trevor)

5. Maus (Art Spiegelman)

6. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Mariana wrote: "6. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)"

I LOVED this book! Let me know what you think of it, Mariana :)

Heather wrote: "Mariana wrote: "6. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)"

I LOVED this book! Let me know what you think of it, Mariana :)"

Hi Heather,
I absolutely loved it too! It made me feel very ignorant about all that had happened in Nigeria but I feel like it was never written to shock or horrify so really appreciated the use of a story to inform in that way. A friend has also lent me Purple Hibiscus which I haven't started yet, have you read it? What did you think of it?

7, Timbuku (Paul Auster)

8. The Hobbit (J.R.R Tolkien) Illustrated graphic novel version (illustrated by David Wenzel)

9. The Luneburg Variation (Paolo Maurensig) (in Italian)

10. Another World (Pat Barker)

11. Nation (Terry Pratchett)

12. The Road (Cormac McCarthy) (in Italian)

13. Veronika Decides to Die (Paolo Coelho)
14. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paul Torday)

15. The Heather Blazing (Colm Toìbìn)

16. Swords Against Death (Fritz Lieber)

17. The Freedom Writers' Diary (Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers)

18. Minotaur (Benjamin Tammuz) (in Italian)

19. Blonde Roots (Bernadine Evaristo)

20. The Street (Ann Petry)

21. In an Antique Land (Amitav Ghosh)

22. Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

23. The Children's Book (A.S. Byatt)

24. Storia di Neve (Mauro Corona) (in Italian)
25. Survivors in Mexico (Rebecca West)
26. The Chalk Circle Man (Fred Vargas)

27. An Equal Music (Vikram Seth)
28. The Burning Plain (Juan Rulfo)

29. Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)

30. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Daniel Everett)

31. The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)

32. Unseen Academicals (Terry Pratchett)

33. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)

34. Someone to Run With (David Grossman) (in Italian)

35. A Week in December (Sebastian Faulks)

36. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)

37. Innocent When You Dream. Tom Waits, the Collected Interviews (edited by Mac Montandon)

38. In the Kitchen (Monica Ali)

39. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees (Roger Deakin)
40. Life Class (Pat Barker)

41. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman) (Graphic Novel - illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano)

42. The End of Mr Y (Scarlett Thomas)

43. Mothers and Sons (Colm Toìbìn)

That's it for 2010 - didn't make 50 but no matter, will try harder next year..

50 books for 2011 start now :)

1. Started Early, Took my Dog (Kate Atkinson)

2. Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)

3. The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)

4. I Shall Wear Midnight (Terry Pratchett)

5. The Wayward Bus (John Steinbeck)

6. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman) (Graphic Novel - illustrated by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III)

7. Georgia O'Keeffe: a Life (Roxana Robinson)

8. Animal's People (Indra Sinha)

9. La Furia di Eymerich (Valerio Evangelisti) (Graphic Novel)

10. Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert (Basic Art) (Britta Benke)

11. Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh) (Reread)