Arg, I just did the whole thing only to have the browser crash on me :S

Starting over. My 888 will focus on books I already own as an incentive to stop getting new books and reading what I have :). I will list 9-10 sometimes just to give myself some flexibility for a while

Will save/edit so I dont have the same catastrophy as before

1. Magical realism
Category Complete
Songlines READ
Daughter of the Forest READ
The Marriage of Sticks READ
Swim the Moon READ
Do the Creepy Thing READ
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! READ
The Probable Future READ
The Stars Dispose READ
The Stars Compel READ

2. African fiction
Purple Hibiscus READ
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born READ
The Joys of Motherhood
Wizard of the Crow
Dangerous Love READ
When Rain Clouds Gather
This is Lagos by Nwapa, Flora (no touchstone, see http://www.librarything.com/work/3645345)
Arrow of God
The Yacoubian Building
Notes from the Hyenas Belly
La femme sans sepulture
Nervous Conditions
Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique
The flame trees of Thika: Memories of an African childhood

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3. Politics and International trade
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things READ
Development as Freedom READ
Disposable People : New Slavery in the Global Economy
Fear: A Cultural History
Political Ideologies: An Introduction
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
The Unconquerable World
Les parias de la mondialisation: L'Afrique en marge
Armed Madhouse: Undercover Dispatches from a Dying Regime
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice

4. Science
Freedom Evolves READ
Six Degrees READ
Tesla: Man Out of Time
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
La géométrisation de la physique
Facing Up Science & its Cultural Adversaries: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries READ
Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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5. Poetry
Paradise Lost
Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
War Poems Of Siegfried Sassoon READ
Der Himmel über Berlin. Ein Filmbuch
Le Livre ouvert : 1938-1944
Pocket Poets Kipling
Ralentir travaux

6. Around Myth
The Myths We Live by
Good and Evil In Myth and Legend
Digital Mythologies: The Hidden Complexities of the Internet, by Thomas Valovic (no touchstone, see http://www.librarything.com/work/1369253...)
Trickster in the Land of Dreams
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation READ
Metapatterns
Weight and the myth of herakles
Trickster makes this world
Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology v. 2
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology v. 4
When God Was a Woman READ
Trickster Makes This World: How The Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
The Trickster, Magician & Grieving Man: Reconnecting Men With Earth

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7. Science Fiction
Category Complete
Undertow READ
Future Indefinite READ
Jerusalem Fire READ
Wind Child READ
Exile Waiting READ
West of the sun READ
Faraday's Orphans READ
The Deep READ
Slaughterhouse 5
The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan
Soul of the Algorithm
The Steel the Mist and the Blazing Sun
Newton's Cannon
Fahrenheit 451
Ender's Game
Titan
Ilium
Dune (no touchstone??)

8. Chadbourn's Arthurian Modern Fiction (from thread )
Category Complete
World's End READ
Darkest Hour READ
Always Forever READ
The Devil In Green READ
The Queen of Sinister READ
The Hounds of Avalon READ
Jack of Ravens READ
The Burning Man READ

Message edited by its author, Oct 3, 2008, 10:04am.

These are mostly to track some other books too, above 888, in the same place

BONUS top LT books that I own and haven't read (or soo long ago)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Slaughterhouse 5 *
American Gods
Fahrenheit 451 *
Ender's Game *
The Lovely Bones
Dune (no touchstone??) *
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
The Giver

Alternative Cat Idea 1: Mystery

Blacklist READ
Brown-Eyed Girl READ
Miss Pym Disposes READ
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
A Plague on Both Your Houses READ
The Affairs of Chip Harrison READ
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Serpent on the Crown
A Plague on Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

Message edited by its author, Oct 3, 2008, 10:10am.

Books read not in the lists this year:

Thud!
The Eye in the Door
Path of Least Resistance
40 Digital Photography Techniques
Creative Digital Photography
The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy)
Standing in the Rainbow
Perilous Seas
Black Dogs
Summer of the Red Wolf
The Pickpocket and the Saint: Free Play of the Imagination
Illumination Night
Dad

Message edited by its author, Sep 12, 2008, 9:46am.

Category 1: DONE 10/8
Category 2: 2/8
Category 3: 3/8
Category 4: 2/8
Category 6: 2/8
Category 7: DONE 8/8
Category 8: 7/8
Alt Cat 1: DONE 8/8

TOTAL: 36 (55%)

Taken out for now:
Category 5: 1/8

Message edited by its author, Nov 18, 2008, 7:22am.

Next books to read in the 888 list

Trickster makes this world
Wizard of the Crow

Books for the 888 borrowed from the library,
category "mystery"
Borrower of the night
Alibi

I read loads of books but dont seem to have the discipline to stick to clear topics - or I picked them wrong

I had a similar problem. I just changed my categories so that the books I read would all fit. I changed my science category to science and science fiction or fantasy. I changed suspense to suspense and mystery. I know that some people have a catch all category for just whatever they read. Also, I couldn't pick out my books beforehand. I would just change my mind too often.
--BJ