Challenge: 50 Books discussion

1. King Lear - William Shakespeare ****

(I finished this last week, but I hadn't started this thread yet.)

2. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ****

Candiss wrote: "2. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ****"

What did you think of this one? It's one of my favourite books of all time although it's a long time since I last read it.

Caroline wrote: "Candiss wrote: "2. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ****"

What did you think of this one? It's one of my favourite books of all time although it's a long time sin..."

I enjoyed it very much. I was very pleased at how fresh and funny and "modern" it seemed, even read today. Like many first-time readers of the piece, I was led to it by Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog - one of my favorite books. I was not disappointed.

(Wikipedia says it was originally intended as a serious/non-fictional travel guide! My goodness, but the author failed at that, in my opinion, even as he very much succeeded at telling a rollicking, humorous story!)

3. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link *** my review

4. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder *****

5. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer ***

6. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman **** my review

7. Separate Kingdoms: Stories by Valerie Laken **** my review

8. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin *****

9. The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki ****

10. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King **

11. Fringe: Tales from the Fringe SC ***

12. Embers by Sándor Márai *****

13. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić *****

14. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson ***

15. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ***** (re-read of book originally read years ago)

16. Storm Front by Jim Butcher ***

17. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman ****

18. Grendel by John Champlin Gardner **** my review

19. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny **** (4.5)

20. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente **** (4.5)

21. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino ****

22. When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger ****

23. Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow *****

24. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker ****

25. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ****

26. Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems - David Rakoff ****

Wow! the title is a book in itself!

Bonnie wrote: "Wow! the title is a book in itself!"

Indeed it is! :)

27. Life of Pi by Yann Martel ****

28. Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka, J.H. Williams III ***

29. Aura by Carlos Fuentes *** my review

30. Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges ***

31. Zazen by Vanessa Veselka ****

32. The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia ****

33. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ****

34. Daytripper by Gabriel Bá, Fabio Moon *****

35. After Dark by Haruki Murakami **** my review

36. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt ***** my review

37. Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany ***** (review forthcoming)

38. Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Odyssey by J. Michael Straczynski ***

39. Camp Concentration: A Novel by Thomas M. Disch ****

40. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn **** (4.5) my review

41. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino **** my review

42. The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente ***

43. Among Others by Jo Walton ****

44. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett *** my review

45. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry ****

46. Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt ****