Deinonychus's 75-challenge list

Here's my list so far. I'll add to it as I finish more

January
A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others trans. Stephanie Dalley
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Mr. Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Sylvie by Gérard de Nerval
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Natural Theology by William Paley

February
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
L'île des pingouinsby Anatole France
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, trans. Johnston
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, trans. Irwin
The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian
La Grammaire est une chanson douce by Eric Orsenna

March
The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Pevear/Volokhonsky

April
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie
Philosophical Ethics by Stephen Darwall
Les Chevaliers du Subjonctif by Eric Orsenna

May
Caligula, suivi de Le malentendu by Albert Camus
Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

June
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings by George Buchner, trans. Reddick
Wieland; or The Transformation, and Memoirs of Carwin, The Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown
The Kings and Queens of Scotland by Richard Oram

July
Verruca Music by Stuart Estell
The Girl in the Bunker by Tracey S. Rosenberg
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides, trans. Davie

August
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith and the German Hildebrand trans. F.B. Gummere
Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown
This Way to Godliness: Romans 6, 7 and 8 by Stuart Olyott
Testimony: The Memoirs of Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov
Le tour de Gaule d'Astérix by Goscinny & Uderzo
Le fils d'Astérix by Uderzo

September
The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
Robert Bruce: And the Community of the Realm of Scotland by G.W.S. Barrow
What Is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever

October
Chess by Stephan Zweig, trans. Bell
1 Peter, by I. Howard Marshall

51/75

Welcome! Nice list.

You are most welcome here! Enjoy!!

Welcome to the group and to LibraryThing.

Thanks for the welcome!

and now for the books read in November list:

Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur by Maurice Leblanc
-This was rather fun: a bit of light reading. Described as a French Sherlock Holmes, but more like a French Moriarty. Holmes himself features, under the guise of Herlock Sholmes, a device to circumvent complaints from Conan Doyle, who was still writing his own stories at the time.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- A short read, but nonetheless thought-provoking. A little dated, perhaps, and shows signs of an inexperienced author, but I really enjoyed it; and look forward to reading more by Wells in the future

Cannibale by Didier Daeninckx
- I borrowed this off a friend, who was reading this for class, and read it in the afternoon. It's certainly a lot better than the books I was assigned in my one semester of French. Although in many ways a sad and poignant tale, it is told in a witty and light-hearted style that makes for a much more enjoyable read than most other French post-colonial narratives I have read

Total: 54/75

Better late than never! Welcome to the group and LibraryThing.

Bienvenue! I LOVED the Arsene Lupin books, which were among the first I read in French. Not at all sure about the Orsenna titles though -- please tell me they are tongue in cheek???

Do you recommend the Volkov book on Shostakovich?

Hi mamzel and Chatterbox. Thanks for stopping by.

Eric Orsenna's books are rather tongue in cheek: they are great fun, particularly the first (La grammaire est une chanson douce) and since they are aimed at children, not at all difficult to read. The stories centre around two children who are marooned on an island populated by the different parts of speech. He's written a couple more in the series that I haven't read

As for whether I recommend Volkov's Shostakovich? Absolutely: it's hilarious. There may be other books on Shostakovich that are more factually accurate, but I doubt any as entertaining. And for all the debate about whether Volkov made most of it up, you still feel you get to know Stostakovich as an individual: Volkov did know him personally, after all. You do have to ask questions about some of the more caustic remarks concerning other composers, but it's definitely a wonderful book.

I think I'm kind of falling behind.
Ah well.

Here is the last monthly list for this year:

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
- An extraordinary novel, but I didn't quite engage with Keneally's style

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- really loved this, and found it incredibly powerful and engaging.

Total: 56/75