Goal 30 - Read 20 Biographies

1.Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (audiobook) (25.03.2011)

2. Arne Bellstorf - Baby's in black. The story of Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe (15.04.2011)

3. Michel Onfray - Nietzsche (26.08.2011)

Read 33 Graphic Novels

1. Arne Bellstorf - Baby's in black. The story of Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe (15.04.2011)

2. Fil - Diddi & Stulle 3 (13.05.2011)

3. Alison Bedchel - Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For (15.07.2011)

4. Manuele Fior - Fünftausend Kilometer in der Sekunde (23.07.2011)

5. Michel Onfray - Nietzsche (26.08.2011)

Goal 38 - Read these lists from the Reading Journal

Adventure Favourites (0/11)




1. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

2. Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days

3. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels

4. H.G. Wells – The Islands of Doctor Moreau

5. Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

6. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book

7. Daniel DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe

8. Johann D. Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson

9. H.G. Wells – Time Machine

10. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island

11. Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Epic Novel Favourites. (1/10)


1. Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

2. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brother's Karamazov

3. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote

4. John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath

5. J.R.R. Tolkien – Lord of the Rings READ

6. Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

7. James Joyce – Ulysses

8. Thomas Pynchon – V.

9. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace

Gothic/Horror Favourites. (1/9)

1. Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto

2. Bram Stoker – Dracula

3. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

4. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

5. Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

6. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

7. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

8. Henry James – The Turn of the Screw

9. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights READ

Mystery/Detective Fiction Favourites. (0/10)




1. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None

2. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep

3. Ross MacDonald – The Dalton Cse

4. Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress

5. Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night

6. Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon

7. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

8. Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue

9. James M. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice

10. Sir Athur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet







Romance Favourites. (0/7)




1. Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind

2. George Eliot – Middlemarch

3. Diana Gabaldon – Outlander

4. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

5. Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca

6. E.M. Forster – A Room With a View

7. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair

Science Fiction Favourites. (1/10)


1. Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain

2. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

3. Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game

4. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

5. Isaac Asimov – Foundation

6. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy READ

7. Richard Matheron – I Am Legend

8. Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

9. H. G. Wells – War or the Worlds

10. Madelein L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time

Spy Novel Favourites. (0/10)




1. W. Somerset Maugham – Ashenden or the British Agent

2. Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Identity

3. Robert Littell – The Company

4. Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love

5. Rudyard Kipling – Kim

6. Graham Greene – One Man in Havana

7. Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel

8. James Grady – Six Days of the Condor

9. John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps

10. John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Man Booker Prize For Fiction

1969 P H Newby - Something to Answer For

1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member ̈

1971 V S Naipaul In a Free State

1972 John Berger G

1973 J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur

1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist

& Stanley Middleton Holiday

1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust

1976 David Storey Saville

1977 Paul Scott Staying On

1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea

1979 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore

1980 William Golding Rites of Passage

1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children

1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark

1983 J M Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K

1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac

1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People

1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils

1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger

1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda

1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

1990 A S Byatt Possession

1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road

1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

& Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger

1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha READ

1994 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late

1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road

1996 Graham Swift Last Orders

1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam

1999 J M Coetzee Disgrace READ

2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang

2002 Yann Martel The Life of Pi

2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little READ

2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty

2005 John Banville The Sea

2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss

2007 Anne Enright The Gathering READ

2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger

2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall

2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question

2011 - ? -

2012 - ? -

Goal 29 - Read 50 Non-Fiction books

Read 50 Non-Fiction books

1. Sam Harris - End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
2. Carolyn Jessop - Triumph (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
3. Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God (audio book) (14.01.2011)
4. L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)

5. Robert C. Solom - Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (audiobook) (29.01.2011)

6. Lindsey Hall - Bulimia (12.02.2011)

7. Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries - 100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (audio book) (23.02.2011)

8. Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book (audiobook) (06.03.2011)

9. Douglas N. Graham - The 80/10/10 Diet (11/03/2011)

10. Mimi Spencer - 101 Things to Do Before You Diet (14/03/2011)

11. Udo Pollmer (Ed.) - Opium fürs Volk (17/03/2011)

12. Heinz-Peter Röhr - Weg aus dem Chaos. Die Borderline-Störung verstehen (20/03/2011)

13. Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (audiobook) (25.03.2011)

14. Crimethink - Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners (30.03.2011)
15. Jaron Lenier - You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (30.03.2011)
16. Matte Resists - How and Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide (30.03.2011)

17. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Vegan Coach (15.04.2011)

18. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Secrets: the Raw Food Diet in the Real World, 2nd Edition (18.04.2011)

19. Manfred Lütz - Irre - Wir behandeln die Falschen: Unser Problem sind die Normalen - Eine heitere Seelenkunde (24.04.2011)
20. Neon - Unnützes Wissen 2: Weitere 1374 skurrile Fakten, die man nie mehr vergisst (02.05.2011)

21. David Cowles-Hamar - Veganissimo (11.05.2011)

22. Inke Jochims - Bulimie & Zucker (re-read) (15.05.2011)

23. Ammon Shea - Reading the OED (12.06.2011)

24. Melanie Joy - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (12.06.2011)

25. Brendan Brazier - Thrive:The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports&Life (13.06.2011)

26. Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture (16.06.2011)

27. Stephen Batchelor - Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (17.06.2011)

28. Kate Harding -Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere:Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (21.06.2011)

29. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion (audiobook) (re-read) (28.06.2011)

30. TC Campell - China Study (03.07.2011)

31. Michael Blanding - The Coke Machine (04.07.2011)

32. Markus Wild - Tierphilosophie zur Einführung (09.07.2011)

33. Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Enimals (re-read) (10.07.2011)

34. Peter Singer - Animal Liberation (21.07.2011)

35. Holger Rainers - Psychotherapeuten im Visier (23.07.2011)

36. Jessica Spector (Ed.) - Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry (29.07.2011)

37. Julian Offray LaMettrie - Der Mensch eine Maschine (07.08.2011)

38. Josef Schurz - Vom Bilsenkraut zum LSD : Giftsuchten u. Suchtgifte (09.08.2011)

39. James Nicholas Young - 101 plots used and abused (09.08.2011)

40. Cracked - You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts (10.08.2011)

41. John Fuhrman - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (11.08.2011)
42. Mark Perryman - 1. FC Philosophie: Flach denken, hoch gewinnen (12.08.2011)
43. Hartmut Krüger - Die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und das Statut des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (13.08.2011)

44. Francesco Cirillo - The Pomodoro Technique (16.08.2011)

45. Eve Ensler - The Good Body (16.08.2011)

46. Karl Marx - Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei (05.2011)
48. . Leslie Iversen - Drogen und Medikamente (26.08.2011)
49. Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again (26.08.2011)

50. Michel Onfray - Nietzsche (26.08.2011)

Goal 35 - Read everything by Irvine Welsh.

Read everything by Irvine Welsh.

Books by Irvine Welsh:

Novels

• Trainspotting (1993) - Read

• Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995) - Read

• Filth (1998) - Read

• Glue (2001) - Read

• Porno (2002) - Read

• The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006) - Read

• Crime (2008) - Read

Short story collections

• The Acid House (1994) - Read

• Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996) - Read

• If You Liked School You'll Love Work (2007) - Read

• Reheated Cabbage (2009)

Plays

• You'll Have Had Your Hole - Read

• Babylon Heights

Goal 33 - Read books in five different languages.

Read books in five different languages.

1. English: Irvine Welsh -The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (01.01.2011)

2. Danish: L. Ron Hubbard – Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)

Books Read

Books

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1. Irvine Welsh -The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (01.01.2011)
2.Haruki Murakami - After The Quake (01.01.2011)
3. Sam Harris - End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
4. Carolyn Jessop - Triumph (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
5. Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God (audio book) (14.01.2011)
6. L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)
7. Robert C. Solom - Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (audiobook) (29.01.2011)
8. Hermann Hesse - Siddharta (12.02.2011)
9. Lindsey Hall - Bulimia (12.02.2011)
10. Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (13.02.2011)
11. Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries - 100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (audio book) (23.02.2011)
12. Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book (audiobook) (06.03.2011)
13. Douglas N. Graham - The 80/10/10 Diet (11/03/2011)
14. Mimi Spencer - 101 Things to Do Before You Diet (14/03/2011)
15. Eudora Welty - Moon Lake (15/03/2011)
16. Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived In The Castle (16/03/2011)
17. Udo Pollmer (Ed.) - Opium fürs Volk (17/03/2011)
18. George Mikes - How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils (18/03/2011)
19. Heinz-Peter Röhr - Weg aus dem Chaos. Die Borderline-Störung verstehen (20/03/2011)
20. Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (audiobook) (25.03.2011)
21. Virginia Woolf - The Lady in the Looking Glass (30.03.2011)
22. Crimethink - Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners (30.03.2011)
23. Jaron Lenier - You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (30.03.2011)
24. Matte Resists - How and Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide (30.03.2011)
25. Stefan Zweig - Chess Story (14.04.2011)
26. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Vegan Coach (15.04.2011)
27. Arne Bellstorf - Baby's in black. The story of Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe (15.04.2011)
28. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Secrets: the Raw Food Diet in the Real World, 2nd Edition (18.04.2011)
29.Irvine Welsh - You'll Have Had Your Hole
30. Manfred Lütz - Irre-Wir behandeln die Falschen: Unser Problem sind die Normalen - Eine heitere Seelenkunde (24.04.2011)
31. Neon - Unnützes Wissen 2: Weitere 1374 skurrile Fakten, die man nie mehr vergisst (02.05.2011)
32. John Niven - The Second Coming (06.05.2011)
33. David Cowles-Hamar - Veganissimo (11.05.2011)
34. John Niven - The Amateurs (11.05.2011)
35. Fil - Diddi & Stulle 3 (13.05.2011)
36. Inke Jochims - Bulimie & Zucker (re-read) (15.05.2011)
37. Karl Pilkington - The World Of Karl Pilkington (30.05.2011)
38. Ammon Shea - Reading the OED (12.06.2011)
39. Melanie Joy - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (12.06.2011)
40. Karl Pilkington - Happyslapped by a jellyfish (12.06.2011)
41. Brendan Brazier - Thrive:The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports&Life (13.06.2011)
42. Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture (16.06.2011)
43. Stephen Batchelor - Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (17.06.2011)
44. Kate Harding -Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere:Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (21.06.2011)
45. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen (27.06.2011)
46. P.G. Wodehouse - The Crime Wave at Blandings (27.06.2011)
47. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion (audiobook) (re-read) (28.06.2011)
48. TC Campell - China Study (03.07.2011)
49. Michael Blanding - The Coke Machine (04.07.2011)
50. Sabine Neumann- Das Mädchen Franz (06.07.2011)
51. Markus Wild - Tierphilosophie zur Einführung (09.07.2011)
52. Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Enimals (re-read) (10.07.2011)
53. Alison Bedchel - Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For (15.07.2011)
54. Donald Barthelme - Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby (20.07.2011)
55. J.M. Coetzee - The Lives of Animals (20.07.2011)
56. Peter Singer - Animal Liberation (21.07.2011)
57. Holger Rainers - Psychotherapeuten im Visier (23.07.2011)
58. Kingsley Amis - Dear Illusion (23.07.2011)
59. Kressmann Taylor - Address Unknown (23.07.2011)
60. Manuele Fior - Fünftausend Kilometer in der Sekunde (23.07.2011)
61. Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone (26.07.2011)
62. Catherine O'Flynn - Was Mit Kate Geschah (29.07.2011)
63. Jessica Spector (Ed.) - Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry (29.07.2011)
63. Irvine Welsh - Porno (1.08.2011)
64. J. M. Coetzee - Das Leben der Tiere (re-read) (04.08.2011)
65. Gunnur Gunnursson - Advent im Hochgebirge (05.08.2011)
66. Orhan Pamuk - The White Castle (05.08.2011)
67. Julian Offray LaMettrie - Der Mensch eine Maschine (07.08.2011)
68. Gabriel García Márquez - No One Writes to the Colonel: and Other Stories (08.08.2011)
69. Hertha Müller - Der König verneigt sich und tötet (09.08.2011)
70. Josef Schurz - Vom Bilsenkraut zum LSD : Giftsuchten u. Suchtgifte (09.08.2011)
71. James Nicholas Young - 101 plots used and abused (09.08.2011)
72. Cracked - You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts (10.08.2011) 73. John Fuhrman - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (11.08.2011)
74. Mark Perryman - 1. FC Philosophie: Flach denken, hoch gewinnen (12.08.2011)
75. Hartmut Krüger - Die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und das Statut des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (13.08.2011)
76. Herta Müller - Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt (15.08.2011)
77. Francesco Cirillo - The Pomodoro Technique (16.08.2011)
78. Eve Ensler - The Good Body (16.08.2011)
79. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (23.08.2011)
80. McSweeney 19 (05.2011)
81. Karl Marx - Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei (05.2011)
82. Leslie Iversen - Drogen und Medikamente (26.08.2011)
83. Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again (26.08.2011)
84. Michel Onfray - Nietzsche (26.08.2011)
85. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex (28.08.2011)