I got a bit carried away with last years challenge so I'll try to keep things simple in '09.

≤18C

1. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe {1/3}
2. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith {1/11}
3. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne {1/18}
4. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe {2/22}
5. Paradise Lost by John Milton {3/23}
6. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos {4/28}
7. Beowulf {4/30}
8. Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot {5/8}
9. Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney {5/11}

10. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee {7/16}
11. "The Book of Urizen" by William Blake {7/20}
12. Fanny Hill by John Cleland {8/2}
13. The Song of Roland {8/10}
14. L'Ingénu by Voltaire {8/19}
15. The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve {9/21}
16. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne {9/24}
17. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson {9/28}
18. Völsungasaga {11/8}

Message edited by its author, Nov 8, 2009, 8:35pm.

=19C*

1. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome {1/6}
2. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy {1/21}
3. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne {2/7}
4. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy {3/20}
5. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper {4/15}
6. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert {4/18}
7. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane{5/5}
8. Adam Bede by George Eliot {5/9}
9. Youth, a Narrative by Joseph Conrad {5/23}

10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne {5/30}
11. Hunger by Knut Hamsun {6/21}
12. Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert {7/2}
13. Eve's Ransom by George Gissing {8/31}
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe {9/3}
15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley {10/24}
16. Adieu by Honoré de Balzac {10/25}
17. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy {10/28}
18. Don Juan by Lord Byron {10/30}

19. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard {11/16}
20. Sir Dominick Ferrand by Henry James {11/21}
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Message edited by its author, Nov 21, 2009, 11:39pm.

=20C

1. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey {1/11}
2. The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer {1/23}
3. The Graduate by Charles Webb {2/15}
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison {2/18}
5. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis {2/28}
6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy {3/5}
7. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut {3/30}
8. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington {3/31}
9. The Bell by Iris Murdoch {4/6}

10. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie {4/14}
11. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe {4/30}
12. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo {5/29}
13. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald {5/30}
14. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett {5/31}
15. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque {6/3}
16. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller {6/7}
17. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry {6/11}
18. Native Son by Richard Wright {6/19}

19. Light in August by William Faulkner {6/25}
20. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford {7/26}
21. The Human Factor by Graham Greene {8/1}
22. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields {8/4}
23. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay {8/15}
24. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy {8/24}
25. Ironweed by William Kennedy {8/24}
26. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever {8/29}
27. Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth {9/17}

28. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner {9/25}
29. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow {9/27}
30. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki {9/30}
31. L'invitation by Claude Simon {10/10}
32. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton {10/13}
33. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton {10/14}
34. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard {10/24}
35. Viper's Tangle by François Mauriac {11/6}
36. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell {11/13}

37. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa {11/22}
38. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy {11/23}
39. Moon Palace by Paul Auster {reading}
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Message edited by its author, Yesterday, 3:15am.

≥21C

1. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri {1/16}
2. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich {1/19}
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer {2/8}
4. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman {3/6}
5. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo {3/16}
6. The Dying Animal by Philip Roth {5/2}
7. Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker {6/17}
8. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín {7/7}
9. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore {7/30}

10. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pyncho {8/10}
11. Ravelstein by Saul Bellow {11/5}
12. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth {11/24}
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Message edited by its author, Nov 25, 2009, 2:28am.

MASS-LIT

1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ~ 976p. {1/8}
2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ~ 1472p. {2/16}
3. Shogun by James Clavell ~ 1210p. {3/14}
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami ~ 624p. {3/28}
5. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust ~ 4356p. {4/23}
6. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell ~ 1086p. {4/26}
7. Anathem by Neal Stephenson ~ 960p. {5/26}
8. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon ~ 776p. {6/6}
9. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño ~ 912p. {6/16}

10. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement by Anthony Powell ~ 718p. {7/11}
11. Raintree County by Ross Lockridge ~ 1088p. {7/13}
12. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce ~ 628p. {9/4}
13. A Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil ~ 1130p. {9/14}
14. Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon ~ 784p. {9/17}
15. The Tunnel by William H. Gass ~ 651p. {11/8}
16. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot {11/19}
17. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann ~ 731p. {reading}

Message edited by its author, Nov 19, 2009, 5:52pm.

ECO/HIS/SCI

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I by Edward Gibbon {1/25}
2. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman {2/23}
3. Oh What a Slaughter by Larry McMurtry {3/12}
4. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman {3/19}
5. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius {5/3}
6. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin {5/25}
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn {6/20}
8. The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman {7/18}
9. Relativity by Albert Einstein {7/25}

10. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky {9/5}
11. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan {10/5}
12. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. {10/5}
13 Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx {10/8}
14. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria {10/11}
15. The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait {10/27}
16. Napoleon's Wars by Charles Esdaile {11/4}
17. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo {11/11}
18. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman {11/14}

Message edited by its author, Nov 14, 2009, 7:20pm.

PHI/POL/REL

1. Introduction to the Philosophy of History by G.W.F. Hegel {1/30}
2. The Qur'an {1/31}
3. The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon {2/8}
4. Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman {3/21}
5. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche {3/24}
6. Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman {5/11}
7. Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau {5/13}
8. A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke {5/18}
9. God and the State by Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin {5/21}

10. Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant {5/21}
11. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus {6/4}
12. On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau {8/13}
13. Pensées by Blaise Pascal {9/11}
14. Vices Are Not Crimes by Lysander Spooner {9/16}
15. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman {10/12}
16. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant {10/15}
17. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley {10/16}
18. The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna {10/20}

19. Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes {11/20}
20. The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love by St. Augustine {11/25}
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Message edited by its author, Nov 25, 2009, 4:41pm.

BIO/MEM

1. The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham (1/10)
2. Confessions by Augustine of Hippo {2/10}
3. James Joyce by Edna O'Brien {2/11}
4. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke {2/21}
5. The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd {3/18}
6. Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley {5/15}
7. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams {7/5}
8. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara {7/29}
9. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen {8/12}

10. Historia Calamitatum by Pierre Abélard {9/26}
11. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson {9/30}
12. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell {10/8}
13. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris {10/18}
14. Hannibal: One Man Against Rome by Harold Lamb {10/21}
15. The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Guevara {10/22}
16. Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll {10/26}
17. Dispatches by Michael Herr {11/9}
18. The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian {11/13}

Message edited by its author, Nov 12, 2009, 1:34pm.

3X1

1. Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale {1/2}, Oryx and Crake {1/18}, The Penelopiad {1/26}
2. Roth: The Prague Orgy {1/9}, Portnoy's Complaint {1/27}, Goodbye, Columbus {2/24}
3. Hesse: Siddhartha {1/31}, The Glass Bead Game {3/11}, Narcissus and Goldmund {4/16}
4. Greene: The Power and the Glory {3/4}, The Quiet American {3/13}, The Heart of the Matter {5/13}
5. Auster: Brooklyn Follies {1/29}, Man in the Dark {5/2}, Travels in Scriptorium {5/19}
6. Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn {3/3}, The Fortress of Solitude {4/11}, Gun, with Occasional Music {5/20}
7. Turgenev: The Diary of a Superfluous Man {4/29}, First Love {5/12}, Fathers and Sons {6/21}
8. Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat {1/24}, Travels with Charley {3/25}, East of Eden {6/30}
9. McCarthy: Suttree {5/29}, Outer Dark {5/31}, The Crossing {7/6}

10. Barthelme: Sixty Stories {8/20}, Snow White {8/25}, The Dead Father {8/30}
11. Dostoevsky: The Double {5/22}, The Eternal Husband {8/27}, Demons (9/10}
12. James: Portrait of a Lady {2/5}, The Europeans {5/14}, Spoils of Poynton {9/13}
13. Conrad: Almayer's Folly {3/17}, The Heart of Darkness {3/26}, The Shadow-Line {9/18}
14. Maugham: Cakes and Ale {4/19}, The Magician {5/2}, Far Eastern Tales {9/21}
15. Wharton: The Glimpses of the Moon {3/15}, Summer {9/12}, Sanctuary {10/1}
16. Updike: Rabbit, Run {1/29}, Rabbit Redux {4/3}, Rabbit is Rich {10/7}
17. Melville: Billy Budd {5/1}, Bartleby, the Scrivener {7/2}, Typee {10/10}
18. Eco: The Name of the Rose {1/14}, Foucault's Pendulum {3/2}

Message edited by its author, Oct 10, 2009, 2:43pm.

EX: SHAKESPEARE

1. Anthony and Cleopatra {1/5}
2. Julius Caesar {1/21}
3. Richard III {2/6}
4. King Lear {5/3}
5. Titus Andronicus {5/6}
6. Love's Labour's Lost {5/11}
7. Twelfth Night {5/14}
8. Pericles {5/17}
9. King John {7/8}

and other early modern dramatists

10. Epicoene by Ben Jonson {8/30}
11. Edward II by Christopher Marlowe {8/31}
12. The Provoked Wife by Sir John Vanbrugh {9/8}
13. Volpone by Ben Jonson {9/11}
14. The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar {9/13}
15. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare {11/15}

Message edited by its author, Nov 15, 2009, 12:32pm.

EX: SHERLOCK

1. A Study in Scarlet {1/7}
2. The Sign of Four {1/26}
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes {3/8}
4. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes {3/22}
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles {5/1}
6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes {6/30}
7. The Valley of Fear {7/11}
8. His Last Bow {8/3}
9. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes {9/4}

Message edited by its author, Sep 6, 2009, 2:20pm.

EX: ACCENTS

1. André Breton - Nadja {1/13}
2. Günter Grass - The Tin Drum {2/3}
3. Sándor Márai - Embers {2/5}
4. Théophile Gautier - My Fantoms {2/13}
5. Halldór Laxness - The Fish Can Sing {3/13}
6. Noël Coward - Private Lives {5/8}
7. Colm Tóibín - The Master {6/9}
8. Irène Némirovsky - David Golder {7/14}
9. Charlotte Brontë - Villette {7/26}

Message edited by its author, Jul 25, 2009, 11:55pm.

EX: MONOGRAMS

1. The Invisble Man by H.G. Wells {1/15}
2. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee {1/30}
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger {2/1}
4. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald {2/9}
5. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence {2/20}
6. "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft {5/4}
7. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster {5/23}
8. The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio {6/11}
9. Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt {7/16}

10. The Five Jars by M.R. James {8/1}
11. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse {11/2}

Message edited by its author, Nov 2, 2009, 6:01pm.

EX: WORLD TOUR*

1. INIDIA - The White Tiger {1/1}
2. GERMANY - The Reader {1/4}
3. CZECH REPUBLIC - The Unbearable Lightness of Being {1/17}
4. SPAIN - Three Exemplary Novels {1/19}
5. NETHERLANDS - In the Dutch Mountains {2/18}
6. CHINA - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress {2/21}
7. RUSSIA - Resurrection {2/26}
8. CUBA - The Kingdom of This World {2/28}
9. NORWAY - To Siberia {3/15}

10. JAPAN - The Setting Sun {7/17}
11. PAKISTAN - Moth Smoke {3/29}
12. DOMINICA - Wide Sargasso Sea {3/30}
13. ENGLAND - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold {4/4}
14. SOUTH AFRICA - Cry, the Beloved Country {4/7}
15. AUSTRALIA - Disquiet {4/8}
16. AMERICA - The Pleasure of My Company {4/10}
17. SWITZERLAND - Man in the Holocene {4/14}
18. AUSTRIA - Chess Story {4/24}

19. CHILE - By Night in Chile {4/30}
20. HUNGRY - Darkness at Noon {5/4}
21. FRANCE - The Devil's Pool {5/26}
22. ITALY - Zeno's Conscience {5/29}
23. SWEDEN - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo {6/24}
24. MEXICO - Pedro Páramo {6/64}
25. POLAND - Cosmos {7/2}
26. TRINIDAD - A Writer's People {7/10}
27. CANADA - Anne of Green Gables {7/18}

28. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In the Time of the Butterflies {7/19}
29. TURKEY - The Bastard of Istanbul {7/20}
30. BOTSWANA - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency {7/22}
31. IRAN - Censoring an Iranian Love Story {7/23}
32. DENMARK -Niels Lyhne {7/25}
33. AFGHANISTAN - A Thousand Splendid Suns {7/28}
34. URUGUAY - The Shipyard {7/29}
35. CROATA - On the Edge of Reason {8/3}
36. ALGERIA - L’Étranger {8/4}

37. UKRAINE - Dead Souls {8/6}
38. BELGIUM - The Man Who Watched Trains Go By {8/8}
39. MONTENEGRO - A Tomb for Boris Davidovich {8/13}
40. THAILAND - Fieldwork {8/14}
41. S. KOREA - Photo Shop Murder {8/15}
42. BANGLADESH - A Golden Age {8/15}
43. FINLAND - The Egyptian {8/18}
44. ANGOLA - The Book of Chameleons {8/18}
45. ZIMBABWE - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight {8/21}

46. SUDAN - Season of Migration to the North {8/23}
47. COLOMBIA - Love in the Time of Cholera {8/25}
48. UGANDA - Child of Dandelions {8/25}
49. IRELAND - At Swim-Two-Birds {8/26}
50. SURINAME - Oroonoko {8/27}
51. VENEZUELA - Memories of Altagracia {8/31}
52. SCOTLAND - Reality and Dreams {8/31}
53. ISRAEL - Minotaur {9/8}
54. NIGERIA - Things Fall Apart {9/15}

55. ROMANIA - Vain Art of the Fugue {9/20}
56. MONGOLIA - Wolf Totem {9/20}
57. PORTUGAL - The Crime of Father Amaro {10/20}
58. LEBANON - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes {10/20}
59. N. KOREA - Year of Impossible Goodbyes {10/22}
60. NEW ZEALAND - Bliss and Other Stories {10/31)
61. PERU - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter {11/13}
62. KYRGYZSTAN - Jamilla {11/13}
63. BULGARIA - Auto-da-fé {11/22}

Message edited by its author, Nov 22, 2009, 9:48pm.

EX: MISC

1. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian {5/6}
2. How Fiction Works by James Wood {5/10}
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore ill. by Dave Gibbons {5/25}
4. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell {5/27}
5. Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies {6/18}
6. Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies {6/33}
7. A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies {6/27}
8. How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom {7/14}
9. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian {7/31}

10. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake {8/8}
11. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake {8/23}
12. Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake {8/30}
13. Moonheart by Charles de Lint {9/6}
14. Foundation by Isaac Asimov {11/15}
15. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov {11/20}
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Message edited by its author, Nov 20, 2009, 10:20pm.

A nice start in most of my categories to begin the year: The White Tiger, The Handmaid's Tale, Robinson Crusoe, The Reader, Anthony and Cleopatra, Three Men in a Boat, A Study in Scarlet, The Pillars of the Earth

Message edited by its author, Jan 8, 2009, 6:46pm.

You sure are a fast reader! What did you think of the books you've read so far? I thought I was pretty good having finished four books. Can you recommend The White Tiger?

Yes, I'm afraid I read overmuch. My library can always be trusted for ratings (I'm avoiding a star littered challenge this year) but as for The White Tiger specifically: I thought it was just on the good side of average with more promise than delivery. You could do worse if you're looking for new fiction.

Read: The Prague Orgy, The Summing Up, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Daughter of Time, Nadja, The Name of the Rose, The Invisble Man

OK, at the risk of appearing VERY dense, instead of just dense, I'm going to admit that I can't figure out what your first categories are. (e.g., =20C)

Worry not ;)

At this stage it's not as obvious as it should be: C=century. I was just trying to come up with simple way to say that my first category represents 18th century and earlier literature.

Oh, yeah! Totally makes sense! I'm scared for myself now! (She says with a weak smile.) Happy reading!

Read: Unaccustomed Earth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Oryx and Crake, A Sentimental Journey, The Plague of Doves, The Woodlanders, Julius Caesar

Read: The Slave, Tortilla Flat, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, The Penelopiad, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Sign of Four, Portnoy's Complaint

How did you manage to read Pillars of the Earth so qiuckly? I've had it for nearly a year now and the length has put me off even starting it. Did you enjoy it?

I agree with you about White Tiger. I read it this month and thought it was rather disappointing. Every time I thought it was about to get exciting, it fizzled out again.

Pillars of the Earth is an exceptionally fun read, I'd even go so far as to compare it favorably to Dumas.

Read: Rabbit, Run, Brooklyn Follies, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Qur'an, Siddhartha, The Catcher in the Rye, The Tin Drum

Read: Embers, Portrait of a Lady, Richard III, The House of Seven Gables, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Essays of Francis Bacon, Austerlitz, Confessions

Wow! You get through a lot of books in a week! Which book did you like best this week? Which one is going to stay with you the longest, do you think?

What are you going to select for your third Eco book? I think that we have the first two, but I was not aware of others. (I decided to come by and check out your 999 thread, too!) Have a great day. :)
--BJ

@Bonnnie - I never forget a story, but the best of the lot was Portrait of a Lady followed by Austerlitz.

@Billie - Eco number three should be either Baudolino or The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana; most likely the former.

Message edited by its author, Mar 19, 2009, 12:27am.

Read: James Joyce, My Fantoms, The Graduate, Gone With The Wind, In the Dutch Mountains, Invisible Man, Lady Chatterley's Lover, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Read: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Moll Flanders, The Zookeeper's Wife, Goodbye, Columbus, Resurrection, American Psycho, The Kingdom of This World

Read: Foucault's Pendulum, Motherless Brooklyn, The Power and the Glory, The Moviegoer, Downtown Owl, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Read: The Glass Bead Game, Oh What a Slaughter, The Fish Can Sing, The Quiet American, Shogun, To Siberia, The Glimpses of the Moon, Cosmopolis, Almayer's Folly, The Life of Thomas More

Read: The Guns of August, Jude the Obscure, Conscience of a Liberal, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Paradise Lost, Beyond Good and Evil, Travels with Charley, The Heart of Darkness, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Is Conscience of a Liberal the book by Wellstone, the late, lamented Senator from Minnesota? If so, what did you think of it? What did you think of him?

While I'm sure there are a number of similarly titled books floating around the "conscience" under examination in this case was that of the Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman.

Read: Moth Smoke, The Sirens of Titan, The Magnificent Ambersons, Wide Sargasso Sea, Rabbit Redux, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The Bell, Cry the Beloved Country, Disquiet

Read: The Pleasure of My Company, The Fortress of Solitude, Man in the Holocene, Midnight's Children, The Last of the Mohicans, Narcissus and Goldmund, Sentimental Education, Cakes and Ale, Justine, Balthazar, Time Regained

Read: Chess Story, Mountolive , Clea, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Look Homeward, Angel, Beowulf, By Night in Chile

Message edited by its author, May 13, 2009, 12:14am.

Read: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Billy Budd, The Magician, The Dying Animal, False Dawn, Rock Crystal, On the Nature of Things, Man in the Dark, King Lear, "The Call of Cthulhu", Darkness at Noon, The Red Badge of Courage, Titus Andronicus, Master and Commander, Rameau's Nephew, Private Lives

Read: Adam Bede, Love's Labour's Lost, How Fiction Works, Anthem, Doors Of Perception, Jesus Interrupted, Astrophel and Stella, First Love, The Heart of the Matter

Read: Discourse on Inequality, The Europeans, Twelfth Night, The Metamorphosis, Losing Mum and Pup, Pericles, Apology (of Socrates), The Unconsoled

Read: A Letter Concerning Toleration, Travels in Scriptorium, Gun with Occasional Music, God and the State, Critique of Practical Reason, The Double, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Venus in Furs, On the Origin of Species, Watchmen, Anathem, The Devil's Pool, Outliers

Read: Suttree, Zeno's Conscience, The Scarlet Letter, The Gate of Angels, Outer Dark, The Thin Man, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Praise of Folly, A Question of Upbringing, Gravity's Rainbow

Read: Tropic of Capricorn, The Master, The Interrogation, Under the Volcano, 2666, Appaloosa, Tempest-Tost, Native Son, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Read: Hunger, Fathers and Sons, Leaven of Malice, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Pedro Páramo, Light in August, A Mixture of Frailties, A Buyer's Market, East of Eden, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Read: Kosmos, Salammbô, "Bartleby the Scrivener," Night Games, The Education of Henry Adams, The Crossing, Brooklyn, King John, A Writer's People

Read: The Acceptance World, The Valley of Fear, "De Profundis", Raintree County, David Golder, How to Read and Why, Angels & Insects, Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, The Setting Sun, Anne of Green Gables, The Fall of Constantinople 1453, In the Time of the Butterflies, "The Book of Urizen", The Bastard of Istanbul, In the Country of Men

Read: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Niels Lyhne, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Villette, The Good Soldier, Anil's Ghost, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Motorcycle Diaries , The Shipyard, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Post Captain, The Human Factor, The Five Jars

Read: Fanny Hill, His Last Bow, On the Edge of Reason, The Stone Diaries, The Stanger, Dead Souls, Middle of the Night, Titus Groan, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

How in the world do you go through so many books? Do you read each cover to cover? Do you skim? Do you listen to audiobooks? Do you listen to audiobooks as you skim the dust jacket? ;-) I'm not accusing, just in awe.

I certainly listen to a lot of audiobooks as they constitute at least 2/3 of my "reading." Other than that I just make it a point not to watch TV.

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Read: Inherent Vice, The Song of Roland, Out of Africa, On the Social Contract , A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Fieldwork, Photo Shop Murder, A Golden Age, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Egyptian, The Book of Chameleons, L'Ingénu, Sixty Stories, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Gormenghast, Season of Migration to the North, Child of God, Ironweed, Snow White, Love in the Time of Cholera, Child of Dandelions

Read: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Eternal Husband, Oroonoko, The Wapshot Chronicle, Titus Alone, The Dead Father, Epicœne, Edward II, Eve's Ransom, Memories of Altagracia, Reality and Dreams, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, Finnegans Wake, Salt: A World History, Moonheart

Read: Minotaur, The Provoked Wife, Demons, Pensées, Volpone, Summer, Spoils of Poynton, The Recruiting Officer, The Man Without Qualities, Things Fall Apart, Vices Are Not Crimes, Mason & Dixon, Lost in the Funhouse

Read: The Shadow-Line, Wolf Totem, Vain Art of the Fugue, Far Eastern Tales, The Old English Baron, An Introduction to Metaphysics, Tristram Shandy, The Spectator Bird, Historia Calamitatum, Henderson the Rain King, The Figure in the Carpet, Rasselas, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Kokoro

Read: Sanctuary, Summer Crossing, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, The Souls of Black Folk, Rabbit is Rich, Homage to Catalonia, Wage-Labour and Capital, Typee, L'invitation

Read: The Post-American World, Anarchism and Other Essays, Madame de Treymes, Bunner Sisters, Critique of Pure Reason, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Theodore Rex, The Crime of Father Amaro, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Read: The Tree of Wisdom: She-rab Dong-bu, Hannibal: One Man Against Rome, The Bolivian Diary, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, The Art of War, Frankenstein, Wittgenstein's Nephew, Adieu, Samuel Adams: A Life, The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, The Trumpet-Major, Don Juan, Bliss and Other Stories, My Man Jeeves, Napoleon's Wars

Read: Ravelstein, Viper's Tangle, The Tunnel, Dispatches, Völsungasaga, The Travels of Marco Polo, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Campaigns of Alexander, Tobacco Road, Jamilla, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

Read: Foundation, The Winter's Tale, The Wasteland, King Solomon's Mines , Daniel Deronda , Empire of Signs, Foundation and Empire, Sir Dominick Ferrand, The Leopard, Auto-da-fé, Cities of the Plain, The Plot Against America , The Enchiridion