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Zoe's Unowned List

1_Zoe_
Edited: Nov 15, 2010, 6:03 pm

I've decided that what I really need is a list of books that I've heard about and want to read, but don't own yet. Otherwise, it's just out of control.

So, this will be a small list to start with, composed mostly of hardcovers or books that aren't even released yet:

The Host (PB Apr. 28/09)
The Polysyllabic Spree
In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah (PB Mar. 24/09)
Bitterblue --sequel to Graceling
Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall
Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Real Education by Charles Murray (PB Aug. 25, 2009)
Alcatraz 4
Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely
Travelling Heroes
Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics
Motel of the Mysteries
Flow Down Like Silver
Warbreaker
The Blank Slate
Murder on Astor Place
The Meaning of Night
Defending the West
Shades of Grey
The Crocodile on the Sandbank
To Say Nothing of the Dog
The Doomsday Book
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (June 5, 2010)

Bold means I've now purchased it.

3_Zoe_
Edited: Nov 15, 2010, 6:08 pm

And a third level of books that I think I may want to read:

The Book of Lost Things
Orthodoxy
Wildwood Dancing
Princess Ben
Dead Until Dark
A Curse Dark as Gold
In the Serpent's Coils
The Lost City of Z
The Good Thief
The Translator
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
The Gospel of Judas
Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer
Gnostic Philosophy
Irreligion (PB June 9/09)
Bloodtide
The Brief History of the Dead
The Perilous Gard
I Die, But My Memory Lives On
Eva
Racial Hygiene
When Medicine Went Mad
Distant Cousin
Embracing the Wide Sky
Anne-Marie
The House of Wisdom
Science and Islam: A History
Greek Thought, Arab Culture
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Proust and the Squid
Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Attempt to Measure the Globe
1258756::Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
8315634::How to Think Like a Mathematician
73977::The Folk Keeper
8410148::Pythagoras' Revenge
8024897::Why Don't Students Like School?
4039836::The Red Necklace
535536::Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau (allthesedarnbooks)

4_Zoe_
Edited: Feb 14, 2010, 10:29 am

I think I need a third list. This one is for books I've heard about in the 75 Book/999 Challenge groups (as of today--I'm not going to go back and move earlier ones from my other lists)

Dark Lord of Derkholm--ronincats
Haroun and the Sea of Stories--ronincats
Outwitting History--blkvinva
Fire and Hemlock--allthesedarnbooks
The Tower Room (and sequels)--allthesedarnbooks
The Perilous Gard--ronincats
Juniper by Monica Furlong--allthesedarnbooks
Search of the Moon King's Daughter--whisper
The Usurper's Crown--dk_phoenix/severn
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky--alaskabookworm
A Great Idea at the Time--TheOneandOnly
The Difference Engine--blythe025 (Andrea)
The Worst Hard Time--alcottacre
The Giant, O'Brien--kiwidoc
Geektastic--legxleg

5_Zoe_
Edited: Jun 17, 2009, 12:20 pm

I've given up on keeping a list of the books that were on the list and are now read. It's not really worth the effort.

6_Zoe_
Edited: May 19, 2010, 9:00 pm

More of my second category: books that I probably want to read, but I'm not completely sure.

Report from Ground Zero (tymfos)
1491 (ludmillalotaria)
Alcestis (fyrefly)
Straw into Gold (Whisper1)
Ash (legxleg)
Genesis Bernard Beckett (allthesedarnbooks)
The Wednesday Wars (Whisper1, allthesedarnbooks)
Falling Through Darkness
Beautiful Creatures (LT work-to-work recommendation from Once a Witch )
Charles and Emma
Unwind
The Demon in the Freezer
Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau (allthesedarnbooks)
Half the Sky
Shades of Grey
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (steampunk, supernatural)
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack (thebooksmugglers)
On Stranger Tides
Ancient Appetites (avatiakh)
Magic Under Glass
Incident at Hawk's Hill (muddy)
The Cabinet of Wonders (Amazon recommendations)
Sight by Adrienne Maria Vrettos (PrincessT)
Alien Child (ReneBlock)
The Windup Girl (thebooksmugglers.com)
How Not to Be Popular (snat)
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood (stephxsu)
The Book of Negroes
Black Like Me (RebeccaAnn?)

7_Zoe_
Edited: Dec 2, 2009, 10:43 pm

Scholarly Non-Fiction

From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500 BC

8_Zoe_
Edited: Nov 15, 2010, 5:59 pm

The Match
The Trade
Dead Aid
The Marketplace of Ideas
Dreamdark: Blackbringer
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown - pbadeer
Riddley Walker - avatiakh
Stolen - Irisheyz
Lonely Werewolf Girl - avatiakh
The Last Elf - avatiakh
Bound - avatiakh
Thornspell - avatiakh
The Cabinet of Wonders - avatiakh
Foundling - alcottacre