I. Nonfiction
1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
4. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
6. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
7. Julia and Julia by Julia Powell (That counts right?)
8. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
9. The Soloist by Steve Lopez

I started reading Guns, Germs and Steel and now it's been over two months...so into Finish-Ups it goes!
(Also, I can't take that much poetry in one book - Walt Whitman had to go. I don't know if it was lack of trying, or what, but I felt like every poem I was reading was making a whooshing noise as it went over my head. I tried. I failed.)

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II. Adult (Contemporary) (Fiction & Nonfiction, though Nonfiction will usually go in its own category)
1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
4. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
6. I am Legend by Richard Matheson
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
9. Atonement by Ian McEwan

Edit: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is now in the Finish-ups, and has been replaced with a new Michael Chabon book.

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III. Finish-ups To qualify for this, I have to have not read the book for at least two months (or enough time that I've forgotten the plot/where I was)
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Dragons in the Waters by Madeleine L'engle
3. Kaffif Boy in America by Mark Mathabane
4. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
8. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
9. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

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IV. Sequels and Prequels (usually this requires reading the first one(s) as well...I'm just making more work for myself aren't I? :/)
1. The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockart
2. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
3. A Stranger to Command by Sherwood Smith
4. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
5. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci
6. Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
7. Magic's Child by Justine Larbalestier
8. 7th Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix (I'm not sure I want to buy this one though which means I'll probably end up reading it in a bookstore)
9. The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
(I was unaware there was a sequel to Peeps until two seconds ago. IF THIS ENDS UP AS A NEVERENDING SERIES, I AM....still going to read them.)

The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau has been replaced with Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci because I found out that there's a fourth book she wrote, and I am not going to get dragged into reading a neverending series again...
Also, apparently Abarat: Absolute Midnight won't be getting finished as soon as I thought, which means I'm probably not going to be able to read it.

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You have some great titles on your lists so far. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is very inspiring and sad. Your prequels and sequels category has lots of reading in it - I finished Justine Larbalestier's trilogy late last year. I also have Libba Bray's The Sweet Far Thing in my 999 challenge. Can't wait to see the rest of your categories.

V. Young Adult
1. How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbelestier
2. Host by Stephanie Meyer
3. Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld
4. How to be Bad by E. Lockhart, Lauren Myracle, and Sarah Mylnowski
5. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson (I'm really hoping this is good, because I read Feed, also by him, and it was praised by a lot of people...but I didn't like it at all.)
6. Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell
7. The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
8. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

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Back again - I've read both Feed and Octavian Nothing - they are completely different books. I have the second Octavian Nothing book on the go.

>7; I am so glad, because Feed just didn't interest me at all...it was an interesting concept, but I really didn't care about the characters. And then I read Thirsty as well, and I was again disappointed.

VI. Books everyone else seems to have read as a child and I never did
1. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
2. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
3. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
4. The Diary of a Girl by Anne Frank (ok, so maybe not everyone read this as a child, but I would consider it to be something I probably would have read at age 10-13, so it counts as this category)
5. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
6. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
7. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
9. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

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>9, I've got this category too! :-) And it was good for me to make it, because actually I read lots of these classics to my boys, so didn't have as many titles to read as I thought I would. I also have my version of your "finish ups," mostly from the socio-political genre. You've got some good choices in all your categories. Happy reading!

>10 & >5 (but late huh?) : Thanks!
VII. Banned Books : I used three different lists and interestingly, there were exactly nine books that were on all three and I hadn't read (and weren't already on another list)
1. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
8. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
9. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

This is possibly the only list that has books I haven't checked and made sure I'll be able to read, in terms of length and interest, so here's hoping I get it done!

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VIII. Adult (Not-so-comtemporary) and/or/otherwise known as the classics. Some of them, at least.
1. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
2. Emma by Jane Austen (not necessarily, only adult, but close enough)
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
4. Beowulf by someone... (recommendations?)
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
6. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
7. A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
9.

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Hi, fredanria! Just checking back in! :-) You're continuing to add great titles. Are the strike-throughs the books you've read so far or...?

>13 Yes, sorry I didn't make that clear. :)

Well, that made sense, but I started striking through books that I decided I wasn't going to read/finish, so didn't want to make assumptions. What did you think about Into Thin Air?

>15 Oh it's fine! I decided I'd just put little notes down at the bottom explaining what happened to them instead.
I really liked it actually. It was so interesting, although I guess there was some sort of debate as to its accuracy? Either way, it was still fascinating, and I actually couldn't put it down.

Oh really, I didn't know that. Interesting! Oh well, I always read those books with the understanding that it's that person's point of view. And because there were so many deaths, I'm sure that there are lots of opinions about the reasons for that. I also saw the documentary and have read some follow-up stories, including one by the doctor who was left for dead not far from the camp--though "not far" takes on a whole new meaning up there, doesn't it?

What did you think of Dragons in the Water? I haven't heard much about that one.

>17. I guess there was another book written from the point of view of one of the guides on a different expedition, and he had some issues with how he was portrayed in the book - if you get a more recent version, it will have a little note-chapter thing on that at the end.

>18. It was an okay book, though probably not one I'd read again...it's just that it took me so LONG to get through it, because I always get stuck on her books. I just get to a point where I can't read it anymore...
It's about Meg and Calvin (from Wrinkle in Time) and their chilren; well, actually, mainly about their children. Along with this boy named Simon, and some other people, they are traveling on a boat, to South America. While on the boat, a painting is stolen and a man is killed, which makes this seem like a murder mystery, but since it's Madeleine L'Engle, it's not. The story involves a smuggling ring, and some other things, but it's kind of complex, and frankly, I didn't lenjoy reading it nearly as much as I enjoyed the Time Quartet books.

IX. Re-reads Random/Vacation Because I have a ton of books I've been meaning to reread, and I just never got the chance. For spillover.
1. Wolf Tower - or any of that series really - by Tanith Lee
2. I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
3. The Spellcoats by Diana Wynne Jones
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
5. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
6. Yes Man by Danny Wallace
7. Sabriel by Garth Nix
8. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
9. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

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Books read (on this list): 20
Books to go: 61! Holy crap, I gotta get moving!

You've got some good reading ahead of you!