Zmrzlina's 999 challenge

I am very late to the party, but I think I can catch up.

I Books To Change the World, and/or My Life 0/9
1. Lonely Planet Guide To Travel Writing by Don George
2. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein
3. Service Learning: From Classroom To Community To Career by Marie Watkins
4. The Cathedral Within by Bill Shore
5. Whip Your Career Into Submission: The 30-day Plan to Transform Yourself from Job Slave to Master of Your Own Destiny by Karen Salmasohn
6. No Opportunity Wasted: Creating a Life List by Phil Keoghan
7. Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World by Anita Roddick
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II Bees and Honey 0/9
1. Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind by Stephen Buchmann, Banning Repplier
2. The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
3. A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell
4. Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees by Rosanne Daryl Thomas
5. Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood
6. A Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and Home by Allison Wallace
7. Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
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III Books about Books 0/9
1. Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co by Lynne Tillman
2. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker
3. Seven Stairs: An Adventure of the Heart by Stuart Brent
4. For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most by Ronald B. Schwartz
5. In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart
6. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
7. The King's English by Betsy Burton
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IV Environmental Issues 0/9
1. Water Wars by Diane Raines Ward
2. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
by Eric Brende
3. Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology by David Macaulay
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V Novels in Translation 0/9
1. Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh
2. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
3. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
4. Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin
5. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
6. This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
7. The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares
8. Once upon the River Love by Andrei Makine
9. Snow by Maxence Fermine

VI Old Favorites Longing for Another Read 0/9
1. All the Names by José Saramago
2. Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
3. Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by
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VII Collecting 0/9
1. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits by Susan Sheehan, Howard Means
2. To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession by Dan Koeppel
3. To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting by Philipp Blom
4. Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives by Werner Muensterberger
5. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
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VIII Travel 0/9
1. The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
2. Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist by Cash Peters
3. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
4. Take Me With You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home by Brad Newsham
5. Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey Through Ethiopia and Yemen by Kevin Rushby
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IX Food 1/9
1. The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat by Bunny Crumpacker
2. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell 30 Jan 09
3. Are You Really Going to Eat That?: Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker by Robb Walsh
4. Slow Food: The Case For Taste by Carlo Petrini
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I will continue to update this list as I find more books. Most of the books in the non-fiction categories are old...so I need to research some more recent publications.

Suggestions welcome!

I really like your Books to Change the World and/or Life category. Great idea.

Very curious about the Bees category. Care to explain? :)

Thank you for asking about the bees! The history goes a bit like this....I read a book years ago, Motoring with Mohammed, while I was in grad school, that mentioned the quality of Yemeni honey. I got it in my head that I could do my graduate thesis on "Beekeeping As Economic Development in Yemen," and proceeded to amass a collection of books about bees and beekeeping. I never finished the paper because 9/11 happened and I wouldn't have been able to get funding to travel to Yemen (middle age white woman with not a bit of Arabic...). But, I keep collecting books about bees and have quite a selection. Most are pleasant narratives, and I think they will warm me through the still cold winter months to come :-)

Thank you blythe025! I am getting started on that one tomorrow.

Wow. My wild guesses were way off.

My first thought was that as a way to better the world you were going to take up beekeeping to single-handedly repopulate (re-bee-late?) the world. :-)

Either that or you'd been reading Sue Monk Kidd....

>4 Zmrzlina: - Wow, fascinating! Thanks for sharing the backstory. :)

One down! It will be amazing if I complete the challenge, but man, this is a good way to get through my TBR.

Julia and Julia by Julie Powell: Very funny, in places, but a bit too many hysterical tantrums. While I admire the author for sticking to what had to take an incredible amount of perseverance, but it is cooking, for goodness sake, not brain surgery. Although, there is some cutting into brains, and live lobsters, and oozing bone marrow. Plenty of ewwww factor to go with the laughs.

I admit that after reading the book, I am inspired to copy, however I would like to use Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian and skip all the mushroom recipes.

Zmrzlina, lots of neat categories (and books) here! I'll be interested in what you think about your books in Cat 1 - a lot of them sound interesting to me.

I'm also interested to hear what you think about Round Ireland; that was recommended by someone to me a couple of years ago, and it just never resonated with me enough to pick it up. I think this is the first place I've seen it around LT.

I also have The Reader on my list.

Happy reading!