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Zero's 10*10*10

1thatguyzero
Edited: Jan 26, 2010, 8:07 pm

Looking forward to another big reading year! Challenge books read {16/100} extra credit {8/50}

2thatguyzero
Edited: Dec 23, 2010, 2:59 am

≤18C

1. Evelina by Fanny Burney {1/3}
2. No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon {1/21}
3. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan {1/29}
4. The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry {4/15}
5. Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes {5/23}
6. The Female Quixote The Female Quixote {5/26}
7. Belfagor by Niccolò Machiavelli {6/23}
8. Gargantua by François Rabelais {6/28}
9. A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe {6/29}
10. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer {7/7}

11. Paul et Virginie Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre {7/18}
12. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding {8/8}
13. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft {10/24}

3thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 15, 2010, 2:47 am

=19C

1. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy {1/13}
2. The Duel by Anton Chekhov {1/13}
3. Erehwon by Samual Butler {2/7}
4. The Aspern Papers by Henry James {2/14}
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4thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 23, 2010, 1:56 am

=20C

1. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner {1/11}
2. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch {1/14}
3. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene {1/22}
4. Nada by Carmen Laforet {2/6}
5. The Samurai by Shusaku Endo {2/16}
6. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau {2/21}
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5thatguyzero
Edited: Oct 5, 2010, 4:30 pm

≥21C

1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon {1/24}
2. Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin {2/9}
3. Point Omega by Don DeLillo {2/12}
4. The Human Stain by Philip Roth {3/4}
5. Infected by Scott Sigler {3/13}
6. Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing {3/15}
7. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel {4/7}
8. The Humbling by Philip Roth {4/12}
9. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris {4/21}
10. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell {4/26}

11. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason {6/25}
12. Invisible by Paul Auster {6/26}
13. The Literary Conference by César Aira {6/30}
14. Walks With Men by Ann Beattie {8/21}
15. The Sea by John Banville {8/26}
16. Tinkers by Paul Harding {8/31}
17. Out of My Head by Didier van Cauwelaert {9/21}
18. The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia {9/29}

6thatguyzero
Edited: Oct 12, 2010, 9:59 pm

MASS-LIT

1. 10073835::The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer ~ 736p {2/13}
2. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth ~ 756p {2/21}
3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ~ 882p (3/12}
4. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe ~ 659p {3/18}
5. The Recognitions by William Gaddis ~ 942p {4/29}
6. Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope ~ 800 {5/22}
7. JR by William Gaddis ~ 752p {6/5}
8. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth ~ 748p {6/14}
9. The Magus by John Fowles ~ 656p {8/25}
10. The Golden Notebook by Doris Doris ~ 635p {9/24}

11. From Here to Eternity by James Jones ~ 864p {10/10}

7thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 16, 2010, 3:01 pm

EUROPE

1. HUNGARY - Casanova in Bolzano by Sándor Márai {1/8}
2. GREECE - Pope Joan by Emmanuel Royidis {1/17}
3. SPAIN - The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela {1/17}
4. POLAND - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem {1/24}
5. IRELAND - Fools of Fortune by William Trevor {1/30}
6. SWEDEN - Gösta Berlings Saga by Selma Lagerlöf {2/8}
7. FRANCE - Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant {2/16}
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8thatguyzero
Edited: Jan 19, 2010, 12:57 pm

ASIA/AFRICA

1. JAPAN - Silence by Shusaku Endo {1/1}
2. CHINA - Waiting by Ha Jin {1/16}
3. TURKEY - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk {1/20}
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9thatguyzero
Edited: Dec 23, 2010, 2:57 am

BIO/MEM

1. Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto Guevara {1/27}
2. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs {2/23}
3. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali {4/14}
4. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke {7/14}
5. Patriotic Treason by Evan Carton {7/31}
6. Junky by William S. Burroughs {8/27}
7. This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff {8/29}
8. Role Models by John Waters {9/5}
9. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson {11/08}
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10thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 5, 2010, 1:50 pm

HIS/SCI

1. The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder {1/31}
2. The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle {2/4}
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11thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 15, 2010, 2:48 am

PHI/REL

1. Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius {1/3}
2. The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan {2/15}
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12thatguyzero
Edited: Jan 26, 2010, 1:30 pm

EX: ECO/LAW

1. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen {1/26}
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13thatguyzero
Edited: Jan 16, 2010, 2:59 am

EX: MINORITY

1. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall {1/5}
2. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst {1/15}
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14thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 23, 2010, 1:53 am

EX: THEATRE

1. Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller {1/12}
2. Fences by August Wilson {1/16}
3. Betrayal by Harold Pinter {1/24}
4. Everyman by anonymous {1/25}
5. Clavigo by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {2/7}
6. The Double-Dealer by William Congreve {2/22}
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15thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 23, 2010, 1:53 am

EX: POETRY

1. Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe {2/14}
2. The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew {2/22}
3. Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridge {2/22}
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16thatguyzero
Edited: Feb 23, 2010, 7:37 pm

EX: LECTURES

1. Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language by John McWhorter {1/8}
2. Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business and Beyond by Scott P Stevens {2/23}
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17thatguyzero
Dec 15, 2009, 5:49 pm

EX6

18thatguyzero
Dec 15, 2009, 5:49 pm

EX7

19thatguyzero
Dec 15, 2009, 5:49 pm

EX8

20thatguyzero
Dec 15, 2009, 5:50 pm

EX9

21thatguyzero
Dec 15, 2009, 5:50 pm

EX10

22billiejean
Jan 8, 2010, 10:00 am

Have you started a thread of books on the 75 book challenge? I looked for it but did not see it.
--BJ

23thatguyzero
Jan 11, 2010, 3:22 am

I just haven't gotten around to it yet. It should be up soon :)

24billiejean
Jan 11, 2010, 8:14 am

OK. I just started mine, too. I just like to see what you are reading because you have such a great variety of books.
--BJ

25thatguyzero
Jan 14, 2010, 1:35 pm

READ: Silence, Evelina, Consolation of Philosophy, The Well of Loneliness, Casanova in Bolzano, Angle of Repose, Don Carlos, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Duel, A Severed Head

26thatguyzero
Jan 25, 2010, 7:46 pm

READ: The Swimming-Pool Library, Waiting, Fences, The Curious History of Pope Joan, The Family of Pascual Duarte, Nog, My Name is Red, No Tomorrow, Brighton Rock, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Betrayal, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

27thatguyzero
Feb 5, 2010, 6:38 pm

READ: Everyman, The Theory of the Leisure Class, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, The Pilgrim's Progress, Fools of Fortune, The Age of Entanglement, The French Revolution

28thatguyzero
Feb 13, 2010, 1:51 pm

READ: Nada, Clavigo, Erehwon, Gösta Berlings Saga, Shoplifting from American Apparel, Point Omega, The Naked and the Dead

29thatguyzero
Feb 25, 2010, 6:16 pm

READ: Hero and Leander, The Aspern Papers, The Medium is the Massage, The Samurai , Bel-Ami, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs, Amy Foster, The Sot-Weed Factor, Exercises in Style, The Farmer's Bride, The Double-Dealer, Eros and Psyche, Zalacain the Adventurer, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Leviathan