I'm already doing two other challenges-might as well add one more. I'm aiming for 100 by the end of the year. Here's the list to date (as best I can remember it). I left out books I just “librarian read” or read for work, like
Systematic Theology; books I just couldn’t finish, like
The Lost Continent and
The Historian, or textbooks that I only read a few chapter from, like
The Oxford Guide to Library Research; or ones that I am constantly rereading, like any of the
Harry Potters
1.
All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome, by Kathy Hoopmann
2.
Nice Big American Baby, by Judy Budnitz
3. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
4. God’s Politics, by Jim Wallis
5.
unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation, by Brooks Jackson
6.
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, by Veronica Zysk
7.
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
8. You’re Going to Love this Kid: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom, by Paula Kluth
9.
The Complete IEP Guide, by Lawrence Siegel
10.
Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women, by Caryl Rivers
11.
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
12.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath
13. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America, by Molly Ivins
14.
Sacred Origins of Profound Things, by Charles Panati
15. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t, by Stephen Prothero
16.
An Incomplete Education, by Judy Jones
17.
Library: An Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles
18.
Marc 21 for Everyone, by Deborah A. Fritz
19. In the Devil’s Garden, by Stuart Lee Allen
20. How to Live with Autism and Asperger Sydrome, by Chris Williams
21.
The Incredible 5-Point Scale, by Kari Buron Dunn
22.
An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks
23.
How doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman
24.
The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
25.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
26.
Torture the Artist, by Joey Goebel
27. Grendle, by John Gardner
28.
First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel, by Jasper Fforde
29.
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime, by Jasper Fforde
30.
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime, by Jasper Fforde
31.
A Field Guide to Evangelicals and their Habitat, by Joel Kilpatrick
32. The Sweet Potato Queen’s Field Guide to Men, by Jill Conner Browne
33.
I Hate Myself and Want to Die, by Tom Reynolds
34.
Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt
35.
Skipping towards Gomorrah, by Dan Savage
36.
The Economic Naturalist, by Robert Frank
37.
A History of the Breast, by Marilyn Yalom
38.
Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I have Known, by Molly Ivins
39.
1066 and all that, by Walter Carruthers Sellar
40.
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens
41.
Not in Our Classrooms, by Eugine Scott
42.
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
43.
The Know-it-All, by A.J. Hacobs
44.
Teaching Information Literacy, by Joanna Burkhardt
45.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder, by Barbara Quinn
46.
Biomedical Informatics, by Edward H. Shortliffe
47.
Why do Men Have Nipples?, by Mark Leyner
48.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
49. Horseradish: Bitter Truths you Can’t Avoid, by Lemony Snicket
50.
The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, by Pamela Paul
51.
The Elephants of Style, by Bill Walsh
52.
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy
53. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
54. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes, by Mark Penn
55.
How the Republicans Stole Christmas, by Bill Press
56.
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, by Eric Abrahamson
57. Let me Hear your Voice: A Family’s Triumph over Autism, by Catherine Maurice
58. You: The owner’s Manual, by Michael F. Roizen
59.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
60.
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, by Robert Rankin
61. Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career moms Face Off in their Choices, Their Lives their Families, by Leslie Morgan Steiner
62.
The Tent, by Margaret Atwood
63.
Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping, by Judith Levine
64.
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification, by Arlene Taylor
65.
The Changing Academic Library, by John Budd
66. Neil Sperry’s Complete Guide to Texas Gardening, by Neil Sperry
67. Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History, by Penny LeCouteur
68. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
69.
Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire
70.
I feel bad about my Neck, by Nora Ephron
71.
TechTactics: Instructional Models for Educational Computing, by Carolyn Thorsen
72.
Mortgages for Dummies, by Eric Tyson
73.
Humor in Advertising, by Charles Gulas
74. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Biblical Mysteries, by Donald Ryan
75.
Misquoting Jesus, by Bart Ehrman
Well done. I'm impressed with people who are able to read this much. Bravo.
Thanks, Madcow. :) What can I say, one of the few librarian stereotypes I actually fit is that I'm a big old bookworm. :)
85. The Making of the Potterverse
87. 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick
Almost forgot:
97.
The year of living biblicallyDang, I think I'm going to miss my goal by 3 books. Bummer. Oh well, something to aim for for next year. Now I need to sit down and review all these!
Hey you got a lot more books than most people. Just read three easy kids books before midnight :P. Anywho well done.
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