YagamiLight's 50 Book Challenge 2009

The 'Book Challenge' idea is great way to make me read more. I already know what i want to read this year, so i thought i'll include a list:

Read so far:

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide or Optimism by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka

I don't know if i'll really read everything, as some of the books i included are kinda heavy. But that's why they call it challenge, i guess... I'm gonna update this every month or so.

You are making great progress on your challenge! And you have lots of interesting books on your list. Good luck! :)
--BJ

Making some progress.

Read so far:

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
14. 1984 by George Orwell

I loved Candide and all of Oscar Wilde's work. What did you think of them?

Thanks for replying!
I thought Candide was very funny. I enjoyed it.
The only thing I read from Wilde were the fairy tales. Very well written, sometimes melancholic, a good thing to read before going to bed really. My favorites were the "Happy Prince", the "Devoted Friend" and the "Remarkable Rocket". I disliked the biblical touch of the "Selfish Giant" though - hope Wilde isn't doing that frequently.

Read so far:

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
14. 1984 by George Orwell
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. Prometheus bound by Aeschylus
17. Die Ratten by Gerhardt Hauptmann

How was Nietzsche to read? I have never read any of his books before, but I am interested in them. Have a great day!
--BJ

I began reading him in 2008, when I read Thus spake Zarathustra - and I was absolutely astonished by it - one of those books that change your life forever. I then read Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-christ and Ecce homo - all very good books, to get a better understanding of his philosophy. You really should read some of these works to get a better idea of Nietzsche after reading the awesome, but sometimes cryptic Zarathustra. Beyond good and evil, which I read this year, was yet again a great book with some of Nietzsche's best psychology (sic), but it's certainly not something I would recommend for a first-read, as it has its lengths.

If you want to read Nietzsche, start with Zarathustra, and afterwards read the Antichrist.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am adding them to my wishlist.
--BJ

Read so far:

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
14. 1984 by George Orwell
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. Prometheus bound by Aeschylus
17. Die Ratten by Gerhardt Hauptmann
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
19. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
20. Death Note 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
21. Apology of Socrates by Plato
22. Tractacus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
23. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
24. The Persians by Aeschylus
25. Salomé by Oscar Wilde

Probably going for 75 books instead of 50.

Read so far:

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
14. 1984 by George Orwell
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. Prometheus bound by Aeschylus
17. Die Ratten by Gerhardt Hauptmann
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
19. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
20. Death Note 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
21. Apology of Socrates by Plato
22. Tractacus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
23. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
24. The Persians by Aeschylus
25. Salomé by Oscar Wilde
26. Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë
27. Confessions of a mask by Yukio Mishima
28. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
29. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
30. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
31. Snow Country by Kawabata Yasunari
32. The Rheingold by Richard Wagner
33. Valkyrie by Richard Wagner
34. Siegfried by Richard Wagner
35. Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner
36. Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece by Friedrich Hölderlin

Done.

01. Death Note 10 by Tsugumi Ohba
02. Death Note 11 by Tsugumi Ohba
03. Candide by Voltaire
04. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
05. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
06. De coniuratione Catilinae by Salustio
07. Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
14. 1984 by George Orwell
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. Prometheus bound by Aeschylus
17. Die Ratten by Gerhardt Hauptmann
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
19. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
20. Death Note 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
21. Apology of Socrates by Plato
22. Tractacus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
23. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
24. The Persians by Aeschylus
25. Salomé by Oscar Wilde
26. Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë
27. Confessions of a mask by Yukio Mishima
28. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
29. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
30. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
31. Snow Country by Kawabata Yasunari
32. The Rheingold by Richard Wagner
33. Valkyrie by Richard Wagner
34. Siegfried by Richard Wagner
35. Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner
36. Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece by Friedrich Hölderlin
37. Epic of Gilgamesh by Sin-leqe-unninni
38. Ficciones by Joge Luis Borges
39. Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
40. Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
41. Stolz der Toten (Lavish Are The Dead) by Kenzaburō Ōe
42. Faust I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
43. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
44. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. Dubliners by James Joyce
46. The Lay of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
47. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
48. A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle
49. Rokumeikan (My friend Hitler and other plays) by Yukio Mishima
50. The Iliad by Homer