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My 50 and a half books Linda Send a noteboard - 01/01/2010 01:00:17 PM
The majority of the books are Sci-Fi and Fantasy:

1. Joan Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange
2. Barbara Hambly: The Ladies of Mandrigyn
3. Scott Lynch: Red Seas under Red Skies
4. Anne Bishop: The Shadow Queen
5. Anne Bishop: Tangled Webs
6. Cherryh C.J: Downbelow Station
7. Catherine Asaro: The Ruby Dice
8. Sarah Monette: Corambis
9. Arkadij & Boris Strugatskij: I Vålnadernas tid (Gadkij lebedi, The Ugly Swans)
10. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
11. Maria V Snyder: Poison Study
12. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
13. Stephenie Myer: New Moon
14. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
15. Maria V. Snyder: Magic Study
16. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn
17. Maria V Snyder: Fire Study
18. Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (short story)
19. Brian W. Aldiss: Randy’s Syndrome (short story)
20. Brian W. Aldiss: How An Inner Door Opened to My Heart (short story)
21. Brian W. Aldiss: Heresies of the Huge God (short story)
22. Brian W. Aldiss: Creatures of the Apogee (short story)
23. Brian W. Aldiss: Another Little Boy (short story)
24. Brian W. Aldiss: You Never Asked My Name (short story)
25. Brian W. Aldiss: The New Father Christmas (short story)
26. Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women
27. Philip K Dick: The Man in the high Castle
28. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: House of Zeor
29. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Ambrov Keon
30. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Zelerod’s Doom
31. Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
32. Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow
33. S. L. Viehl: Beyond Varallan
34. Birgitta Trotzig: De Utsatta (Swedish author)
35. C.S. Friedman: This Alien Shore
36. S. L. Viehl: Endurance
37. S. L. Viehl: Shockball
38. Vera Nazarian: Dreams of the Compass Rose
39. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
40. Carol Berg: Flesh and Spirit
41. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
42. Ann Aguirre: Wanderlust
43. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
44. Tanith Lee: The Silver Metal Lover
45. Sharon Shinn: Archangel
46. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt
47. Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
48. Linnea Sinclair: Gabriel’s Ghost
49. Moira J. Moore: Resenting the Hero
50. Moira J. Moore: The Hero Strikes Back
51. Linnea Sinclair: Shades of Dark
52. Linnea Sinclair: An Accidental Goddess
53. Moira J. Moore: Heroes Adrift
54. Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Risk
55. Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
56. Justina Robson: Selling out
57. Thomas More: Utopia

And I'm currently halfway through Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. So, 50 1/2 books = 57 1/2 stories (Aldiss' short stories were collected in one book). I'm still surprised that I read as many young adult books as I did in the beginning of the year (Meyer and Snyder). I usually don't read any at all.
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50-book challenge complete! Tim - 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM 1937 Views
What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM* RandAllThor - 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM 454 Views
I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM 747 Views
That is a great dedication. *NM* Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:12:34 PM 280 Views
Good job, Tim! rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM 723 Views
Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM 770 Views
Nice. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:45:27 PM 730 Views
Servant of a Dark God is Out Kristen - 02/01/2010 12:02:58 AM 836 Views
Re: Nice. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:22:37 AM 826 Views
Re: Nice. rebelaessedai - 02/01/2010 08:15:10 PM 849 Views
I should correct myself... Tim - 02/01/2010 08:49:21 PM 735 Views
I also completed the 50 Book Challenge, in a nick of time. Spriteling - 01/01/2010 11:07:42 AM 760 Views
another nice list imlad - 01/01/2010 07:19:46 PM 730 Views
Me too. Camilla - 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM 840 Views
did you read "Gone-Away World" twice?? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM 743 Views
Yes. It is that good. Camilla - 01/01/2010 10:18:34 PM 634 Views
My 50 and a half books Linda - 01/01/2010 01:00:17 PM 859 Views
so, how you liking Pandora's Star? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:25:24 PM 667 Views
You counted a book about contract law??? Tom - 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM 740 Views
fnords!!!!! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM 664 Views
by the way imlad - 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM 664 Views
Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into... Tim - 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM 795 Views
thats what I was doing too imlad - 02/01/2010 07:13:47 PM 786 Views
The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM 325 Views
Ha! When you first said "mastering"- rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:51:16 PM 630 Views
Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM 761 Views
I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge. Tom - 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM 830 Views
It's a textbook, not a case book. Tim - 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM 976 Views
I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books. Tom - 03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM 744 Views
Re: You counted a book about contract law??? everynametaken - 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM 681 Views
We both speak Spanish already. Tom - 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM 678 Views
Do you really figure... Legolas - 05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM 777 Views
I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but... Tom - 05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM 793 Views
Right, fair enough. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:21:09 AM 693 Views
I spent 8 months of those 2 years in Russia. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:08:14 AM 662 Views
I think you should teach her Koine before French Larry - 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM 683 Views
If I could convince my wife, I would Tom - 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM 730 Views
There's always Amharic, I suppose Larry - 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM 860 Views
For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic Tom - 05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM 676 Views
Well, at least it's not Klingon! Larry - 05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM 680 Views
I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask? Tom - 07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM 649 Views
You languageist! jh - 05/01/2010 03:09:59 PM 607 Views
Don't misunderestimate me or my verbology *NM* Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:02 AM 295 Views
Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome. Legolas - 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM 682 Views
I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM 708 Views
Congratulations, that is twice my total Stephen - 01/01/2010 04:18:06 PM 632 Views
Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine. wahooka - 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM 871 Views
I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased. jh - 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM 760 Views
There's a lot of those I have not heard of. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:57:04 PM 767 Views
Oh. jh - 02/01/2010 11:19:25 AM 748 Views
Re: 50-book challenge complete! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:11:32 PM 702 Views
I failed my challenge. Rebekah - 01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM 765 Views
What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum? Camilla - 02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM 682 Views
Because I'm not American. Tim - 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM 631 Views
Yes, but you lot have lost so much more... Larry - 03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM 653 Views
Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain? Tim - 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM 673 Views
It is where I live Larry - 03/01/2010 07:46:15 AM 802 Views
Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive... Ghavrel - 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM 721 Views
Are you talking about African-American English? Tim - 03/01/2010 11:34:30 PM 832 Views
I think he is Larry - 03/01/2010 11:43:24 PM 767 Views
The example I used was AAVE, yes. Ghavrel - 04/01/2010 02:10:23 AM 740 Views
Would y'all ( ) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)? Legolas - 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM 661 Views
Not exactly Larry - 05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM 670 Views
Isn't that just a gerund? Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:00 AM 670 Views
Close, but not exactly Larry - 06/01/2010 10:17:34 AM 757 Views
All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible. Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM 640 Views
I was referring to Quebecois. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:49:43 PM 718 Views
Aaah. Camilla - 03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM 691 Views
I should have mentioned... Tim - 03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM 702 Views
Re: I should have mentioned... Camilla - 04/01/2010 08:30:50 AM 626 Views
Possibly. It'd probably be worth checking what he meant. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 10:59:32 AM 286 Views
Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think. Panorphaeon - 05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM 672 Views
If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM 294 Views
THE NAME OF THE ROSE is certainly a better introduction to Eco. Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:09:04 PM 655 Views
I finished as well. Craig - 08/01/2010 03:51:25 AM 772 Views
I finished with 90 books. Jessie - 09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM 746 Views
You should read Niffenegger's new book. Legolas - 10/01/2010 07:52:37 PM 634 Views
I have. Jessie - 11/01/2010 01:59:45 AM 737 Views
Excellent. (spoilers) Legolas - 11/01/2010 04:31:17 PM 634 Views
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