Famine's 2009 books

Hello Everyone! I recently got here thanks to stumbleupon and decided to join. I read a great deal but I don't usually keep track on what and how much I read, thanks to this challenge I'll probably do that this year thought. I haven't decided all books I'm going to read so I'd greatly appreciate to get some tips.:) It doesn't really matter what genre the books are of as long as they are worth reading. Sugest anything that pops into your mind, whatever it's fiction or non-fiction.
Thanks.

Here are the books I've decided to read so far:
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Iliad - Homer
Odyssey - Homer
Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nietzsche
Dune - Frank Herbert
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Rob Bryanton
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Amerika - Franz Kafka
Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust

I just read two totally different, totally wonderful books:
Beloved by Toni Morrison (which won the Pulizer Prize) and
84, Charing Cross Road combined with The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff.

The first is a book of suspense involving a ghost. It deals with the issue of slavery. This book was unforgettable.

The second book is nonfiction. This first part is a series of letters between the author in NY and a bookshop in London. The letters are heartwarming and hilarious. The second part is a diary of the trip to London that the author finally gets to make.

But you already have lots of great books on your list. Good luck with your challenge and happy reading!
--BJ

Read Black Holes by Don Nardo.

Done with the Iliad, I looked up Beloved and I'll see if I'm able to find it. Thanks for the tip:)

Done with Imagining the Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton. It was really very interesting and presented a neat view on how our universe might be.

Read Dune, it was better than expected. I'll have to get the other five books now.

Through The Stranger by Albert Camus and Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. Begun with In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust

"Read Dune, it was better than expected. I'll have to get the other five books now."

Only the other five? But there are prequels and sequels. ;)

Have fun reading!

Great list! I highly recommend Catch-22 if you haven't read it before. Just don't go in expecting a plot - it won't really come together until the last 1/3rd or so. But it's great!

Heheh I suppose I'll end up reading them too, when I began reading Dune I wasn't really aware there were 6 books^^
Done with Art Of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

>9 spacepotatoes: spacepotatoes I had the same reaction to Catch 22. While reading it I was thinking "where the heck is this going?". And then at the end: "Whoa, genius!" :)

Finished Dune Messiah

Freakonomics by S D Levitt. It was rather different than I had expected but I really liked it.

Finnaly done with In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. And also Wee Free Men

Through Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Haven't personally read any of them, only repeating rumors & slander, mind, but I've read from Hebert afficionadoes that with the best of intentions and with a reams of his Dad's notes, Brian Herbert's works are disappointment.

If you can handle Homer & a dash of Dante(am I a poet & don't know it :)), what on Earth's keeping you away from Virgils's "Aeneid" or Spenser's "Faerie Queen"?

Haven't read all that much poetry, but now that you have mentioned them I'll have to take a look at them:)
Done with Dead Witch Walking.

Done with A Hat Full of Sky.

The Selfish Gene, a really interesting and thought provoking book, really happy I read it.

16. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
17. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Hi, Famine!
I am reading my first Neil Gaiman book now. It's Good Omens which he wrote with Terry Pratchett. It is laugh out loud funny. :) My daugher reads lots of Gaiman's books, but that one is her favorite. Have a great day!
--BJ

Good Omens were the first Neil Gaiman book I read too.:)
18. Farmer of Giles Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

19. Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett

20. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

21. Odyssey - Homer
22. Jingo - Terry Pratchett
23. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
24. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

25. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
26. Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
27. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
I have to say that I think Brave New World ought to be a mandatory read for everyone, I liked it a great deal. It's hard to say why thought as it's a quite disgusting books at times.
28. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

29. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
30. Neuromancer - William Gibson

31. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
32. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
33. Madam Terror - Jan Guillou

34. The Truth - Terry Pratchett
35. The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking

36. Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh

37. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
38. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
39. Going Postal - Terry Pratchett