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Edited: Aug 18, 2009, 6:41 am

Belgrade18 2009 50 Book Challenge

1. Ernest J. Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying

2. Charles C. Mann: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

3. Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield

4. Jane and Michael Stern: Two for the Road

5. Thomas Kenneally: Abraham Lincoln: A Life

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6. Giacomo Casanova: History of My life: vol. 9

7. CBG Pierre: Ludmilla's Broken English

8. Bruce Hornby: Long Way Down

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Blithedale Romance

3billiejean
Edited: Mar 9, 2009, 1:01 pm

Hi, belgrade18!
You are off to a great start on your reading challenge. What did you think of the Lincoln bio? I am planning to read biographies of all the presidents. (Although, I have not gotten too far, yet!)
--BJ

4rainpebble
Mar 9, 2009, 1:12 pm

Hi belgrade18;
What an awesome group of books you have picked to begin your challenge. Do you not LOVE Ernest Gaines? Such a descriptive and "earnest" author. (sometimes I just can't help myself) Well, welcome aboard. I hope you enjoy this group as much as I am and good luck with your challenge.
Happy reading and blessings on your day.
N/B

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Edited: May 26, 2009, 8:23 pm

10. Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Modern World

11. Michael Nava: How Town

12. Martin Booth: Opium: A History

6belgrade18
Mar 17, 2009, 7:50 pm

This bio of Lincoln is quick and dirty- it gives the basics of his life, but isn't very complex or analytical- which is exactly what I was looking for areound the time of the Inauguration.

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13. Jane Smiley: Greenlanders

8billiejean
Apr 8, 2009, 8:33 am

Thanks for the info on the Lincoln bio. :) What did you think of Greenlanders?
--BJ

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10belgrade18
Apr 11, 2009, 11:34 pm

A review of Greenlanders I wrote on Facebook:

A long drawn out epic saga about Norse Greenland in its years of decline in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. She takes an anthropological approach to how the Greenlanders lived and how their society declined- it reminded me a lot of Ursula K. Le Guin. She also followed several particular individuals and families over several generations- sometimes it was confusing to remember who everyone was. Overall I recommend it, though I'll have to admit it took me forever to get all the way through it.

11billiejean
Apr 12, 2009, 1:57 am

This book looks good to me. Thanks for the review! :)
--BJ

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15. John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids

13billiejean
Apr 22, 2009, 10:37 am

I read that book last year and just loved it. For ages it seems, I had been looking for the movie to come on tv. I hadn't seen it since I was a teenager (a very long time ago!) but I had always remembered. Then when I discovered that there was a book, that was even better. It was a Cold War style book, I remember. I hope that you enjoyed it, too.

Have a wonderful day!
--BJ

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17. Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

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21: James Watson: The Double Helix

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26: Tim Madge: White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine

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31: Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

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36: Steven E. Ozment: The Burgermeister's Daughter

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38: Andrew Wheatcroft: The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire

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40: Julian Stockwin: Invasion

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43: Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book

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46: Evelyne Lever: Madame de Pompadour: A Life

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47: Nicholas Tarling: Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Part I)

48: Lindsey Davis: The Silver Pigs

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49: Emile Zola: Therese Raquin

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50: Procopius: The Secret History

Success!! That's fifty!!

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51: Gregory Maguire: Mirror, Mirror