Snash's 999 challenge

Talk999 Challenge

Join LibraryThing to post.

Snash's 999 challenge

This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. You can revive it by posting a reply.

1snash
Dec 22, 2008, 5:38 pm

I've come up with categories. I may fill in the books as I go. I can't imagine coming close to this many books in a year but maybe I'll surprise myself.

1. From 1001 Books to read
2. Memoirs
3. Books on writing or creativity
4. My genealogy inspired History
5. World history
6. Animals
7. Science
8. Poetry
9. Books found in 2009.

2snash
Edited: Jan 2, 2009, 7:51 pm

1. From 1001 Books to read
2. Memoirs
3. Books on writing or creativity
4. My genealogy inspired History
5. World history
6. Animals
7. Science
8. Poetry
9. Books found in 2009.

3snash
Edited: Oct 17, 2009, 9:44 am

1. From 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1) Wild Swans by Jung Chang READ
2) Emma READ
3) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner READ
4) Embers READ
5) Life of Pi in lib
6) Vanity Fair READ
7) Cranford READ
8) Oblomov
9) The Garden Party READ
10) The Wings of the Dove READ

Other possibilities are: The Wings of the Dove; The Enormous Room

5snash
Edited: Dec 24, 2009, 10:26 am

3. Books on Writing or Creativity

1) Memoirs of the Craft: On Writing READ
2) The Poetry Home Repair Manual READ
3) Old Friend from Far Away READ
4) Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir READ
5) Library at Night by Alberto Manguel READ
6) The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton
7) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf READ

6snash
Edited: Nov 18, 2009, 10:56 am

4. History Inspired by my Genealogy

1) The Island at the Center of the World READ
2) The Wordy Shipmates READ
3) Glimpses - Iowa's Rural Legacy READ
4) Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America READ
5) The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan READ
6) Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's READ
7) Wondrous Times of the Frontier READ

7snash
Edited: Dec 16, 2009, 3:34 pm

5. World History
1) The Last Lincolns READ
2) Capitol Men READ
3) Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals READ
4) Constantinople: City of the World's Desire
5) In Europe by Geert Mak
6) Fidel and Che by Simon Reid-Henry READ
7) Half Moon: Henry Hudson READ

8snash
Edited: Dec 22, 2009, 8:40 am

6. Science/Animals
1) A Matter of Degrees by Geno Segre READ
2) Searching for Memory by Daniel Schachter READ
3) Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay READ
4) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein READ
5) The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
6) Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness by Marcel Kuijsten
7) The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik READ
8) Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett READ
9) The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren READ
10) Inside of a Dog by Horowitz READ

9snash
Edited: Dec 6, 2009, 12:59 pm

7. Sociology/Culture
1) Collapse READ
2) Presentation of Self in Everyday Life READ
3) The White Tiger READ
4) Outliers READ
5) Columbine by Dave Cullen READ
6) Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd READ
7) Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz READ
8) Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne READ
9) Quirkology: How We Discover Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman READ

10snash
Edited: May 23, 2009, 4:36 pm

8. Poetry
1) 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Life READ
2) Unmentionables: Poems by Beth Ann Fennelly
3) Cossacks and Bandits by Katia Kapovich
4) View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska
5) A Hurricane Is by Angelo Verga READ
6) Local Visitations: Poems by Stephen Dunn READ
7) Wellspring: Poems by Sharon Olds READ
8) The Niagara River by Kay Ryan
9) Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams READ

11snash
Jan 12, 2009, 9:59 pm

I can already tell that I need to edit my categories a bit. I'm going to combine Science/Animals into one category and add a category of Sociology/Culture. That makes my category list
1. From 1001 Books to read
2. Memoirs
3. Books on writing or creativity
4. My genealogy inspired History
5. World history
6. Science/Animals
7. Sociology/Culture
8. Poetry
9. Books found in 2009

12cmbohn
Jan 12, 2009, 11:13 pm

For science, I really enjoyed last year's read of Great Feuds in Science. It may be a little more popular science than you were interested in, but I found it enjoyable.

13snash
Jan 14, 2009, 8:27 pm

Thanks for the idea. I'll look into it.

14snash
Edited: Dec 21, 2009, 3:55 pm

9. Books found in 2009
1) The Northern Clemency READ
2) Lark and Termite READ
3) Sima's Undergarments for Women READ
4) The Hummingbird's Daughter READ
5) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6) Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd READ
7) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao READ
8) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters READ
9) Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
10)Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
11)Old Filth by Jane Gardam READ
12)Olive Kitteridge by Elizabet Strout READ
13)The Help by Kathryn Stockett READ
14) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson READ
15) Life of Pi by Yann Martel

15snash
Jan 25, 2009, 9:57 am

This message has been deleted by its author.

16snash
Feb 22, 2009, 6:48 pm

This message has been deleted by its author.

17snash
Jun 2, 2009, 10:54 am

This message has been deleted by its author.