Econ Steve's 75 for 2010

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Econ Steve's 75 for 2010

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1sbnicar
Edited: May 26, 2010, 11:30 am

Here we go! My first time in a book challenge.

1. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
2. Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin
3. The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown - Charles R. Morris
4. When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
5. Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope
6. House of Cards - William D. Cohan
7. The Comedians - Graham Greene
8. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - J.D. Salinger
9. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
10. The Lost Estate - Alain-Fournier
11. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
12. White Noise - Don DeLillo
13. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
14. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
15. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
16. Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories - Edward Leamer
17. Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
18. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
20. Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State - Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane
21. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
22. The Origin of Wealth - Eric D. Beinhocker
23. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
24. The Devil's Company - David Liss
25. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
26. Fool's Gold - Gillian Tett
27. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

2drneutron
Dec 31, 2009, 9:54 pm

Welcome!

3alcottacre
Jan 1, 2010, 6:28 am

Glad you could join us for the challenge in 2010!

4kidzdoc
Jan 1, 2010, 6:37 am

Welcome! I'll follow your thread closely.

5cushlareads
Jan 7, 2010, 2:55 pm

Starred you! I read Brideshead Revisited last year and really enjoyed it.

Are you going to post reviews or put them on the work page?

6sbnicar
Edited: Jan 9, 2010, 12:39 am

cmt, I probably won't post too many reviews here (since I don't review most of the books I read). I may for some of the non-fiction since I feel more comfortable reviewing that sort of thing. Speaking of non-fiction...

7cushlareads
Jan 8, 2010, 12:20 pm

OK you have to post a review of this one, because I've almost bought it several times now! He's the Dealbook guy, right? What was it like?

8sbnicar
Jan 8, 2010, 12:39 pm

Actually I was planning on posting a review for this one. You're correct that Sorkin is the Dealbook guy for the NYT. Overall, a very interesting read. A pretty exhaustive blow by blow of the events leading up to the Lehman bankruptcy through the passage of TARP. Not much analysis, but I don't think that was his point in writing the book. I would definitely recommend it. I'll post more on it later.