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Groups999 Challenge, 999 The Brothers Karamazov, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, American Revolution & Founding Fathers History, Hampton Roads LibraryThingers

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Terry Pratchett, Thomas Pynchon, J. K. Rowling, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde (Shared favorites)

About meI read books.

About my libraryThese are the books I am reading for the 999 Challenge:

I. American Presidents
1. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely
2. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis COMPLETED
3. John Adams by David McCullough COMPLETED
4. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham COMPLETED
5. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution by John Buchanan
6. Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer COMPLETED
7. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by R.W.B. Lewis
8. James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker COMPLETED
9. Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida D. Donald

II. European History
1. The Truth About the Irish by Terry Eagleton COMPLETED
2. Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
3. By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London by Adam Tinniswood
4. Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
5. A History of the Middle Ages by Joseph Dahmus
6. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
7. The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
8. The Troubadour's Song: The Capture and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart by David Boyle
9. The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir

III. Discworld/Haruki Murakami (books from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series/books by Haruki Murakami)
1. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett COMPLETED
2. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett COMPLETED
3. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
4. Eric by Terry Pratchett
5. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
6. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami COMPLETED
7. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami COMPLETED

IV. Biography
1. Alexander II: The Last Great Czar by Edvard Radzinsky
2. Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
3. Alfred the Great by P.J. Helm COMPLETED
4. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball by Scott Simon COMPLETED
5. Latitude & the Magnetic Earth: The True Story of Queen Elizabeth's Most Distinguished Man of Science by Stephen Pumfrey
6. Muhammad by Gabriel Mandel COMPLETED
7. The Awful End of Prince William the Silent by Lisa Jardine COMPLETED
8. Hemingway by Jean Pierre Pustienne
9. Kings & Queens: The Story of Britain's Monarchs from Pre-Roman Times to Today by Richard Cavendish

V. Poetry, Plays, Short Stories & Such
1. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
2. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
3. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
4. Forgotten Tales by Edgar Allen Poe COMPLETED
5. I Am Not Jackson Pollack by John Haskell
6. I Am First a Human Being: The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska by Irene Tomaszewski
7. Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
8. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling COMPLETED

VI. Overlooked (books I've been meaning to read)
1. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky COMPLETED
3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story by Paul Whitelaw
6. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
7. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
8. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
9. Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens

VII. Graphic Novels
1. House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
2. Decimation: X-Men - The Day After (House of M) by Chris Claremont
3. Decimation: X-Men - Son of M (House of M) by David Hine
4. X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont COMPLETED
5. X-Men: Children of the Atom by John Casey COMPLETED
6. Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Various COMPLETED
7. Watchmen by Alan Moore
8. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
9. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore

VIII. Fiction Hodgepodge
1. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
2. Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
3. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer COMPLETED
5. According to Their Deeds by Paul Robertson COMPLETED
6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut COMPLETED
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote COMPLETED

IX. Non-fiction Hodgepodge
1. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
2. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase
3. Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds
4. Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by Various
5. Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli COMPLETED
6. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
7. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage COMPLETED
8. The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed by Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
9. Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and the Port Folio, 1801-1812 by William C. Dowling

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Currently readingFour Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories by John Haskell
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to the Present by Howard Zinn
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and the Port Folio, 1801-1812 (Literary Studies) by William C. Dowling