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Eboue

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Ok. Let's do this and track it here.
  1. Intruder In The Dust - William Faulkner - 7
  2. Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell - 8
  3. A World Undone - G.J. Meyer - 7
  4. The Reckoning - David Halberstam - 8
  5. My Antonia - Willa Cather - 10
  6. Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe - 2
  7. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt - 8
  8. Escape From Camp 14 - Blaine Harden - 7
  9. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander - 3
  10. Shoeless Joe - WP Kinsella - 7
  11. Battle Cry Of Freedom: Volume One - James McPherson - 10
  12. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4
  13. The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow - 8
  14. What Einstein Told His Cook - Robert Wolke - 2
  15. Battle Cry Of Freedom: Volume Two - James McPherson - 8
  16. Whatever You Do, Don't Run - Peter Allison - 7
  17. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings - 9
  18. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut - 8
  19. Letters To A Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens - 6
  20. The Great Stagnation - Tyler Cowen - 9
  21. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie - 5
  22. Life On The Mississippi - Mark Twain - 7
  23. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain - 10
  24. Crazy '08 - Cait Murphy - 9
  25. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 7
  26. No One Writes To The Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 8
  27. The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty - 7
  28. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather - 6
  29. Chronicles Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 7
  30. The Beautiful Struggle - Ta-Nahisi Coates - 7
  31. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 6
  32. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut - 9
  33. Darkness At Noon - Arthur Koestler - 8
  34. The Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty - 5
  35. The Trial Of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens - 6
  36. Thinking The Twentieth Century - Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder - 10
  37. Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle - 7
  38. Discover Your Inner Economist - Tyler Cowen - 8
  39. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut - 4
  40. Light In August - William Faulkner - 7
  41. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean - 9
  42. The Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell - 7
  43. The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway - 6
  44. Crabgrass Frontier - Kenneth T. Jackson - 8
  45. My Memories Of Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 0
  46. Travels With Charley In Search Of America - John Steinbeck - 7
  47. A Game Of Thrones - George RR Martin - 8
  48. The Game - Ken Dryden - 9
  49. World War II - Anthony Beevor - 10
 
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Donaldo

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I've just started The World According to Garp.. Deadline's the 6th of August, is it?
 

Donaldo

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Well I have Infinite Jest and Pynchon's latest next, so yes, it does look a bit much.
 

Alock1

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I'm currently reading The Road so let's start with that. Second up, Welcome to the Monkey House?
 

dumbo

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I'm well up for this. Don't have much free time so will use movie adaptations and Amazon.com synopsis to help me along.
 

marukomu

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Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books are a quick and enjoyable read. I have many in EPUB format.
 

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Ok, let's try this. A short one to start off with: Naipaul's In a Free State.
 

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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - The Poor Performing Student of a Magic High School (Volumes 1-5)
Mushoku Tensei (Volumes 1-9)
AlterWorld - Play To Live #1 & #2
The Lies Of Locke Lamora - Gentleman Bastards #1
Chronicles Of The Black Company
Prince Of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1)

Just finished the Play To Live series, both book 1 & 2 yesterday and currently reading the Mushoku Tensei series (Translated from Japanese).

In my defense, it's the school holidays.
 

Eboue

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I'll finish Intruder In The Dust tomorrow, gonna go with Homage to Catalonia starting over the weekend. If you guys keep your lists updated, I'll add them to the OP or if I run out of space I'll at least link to the post.
 

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Currently reading As I lay dying by Faulkner. Next up is crime and punishment but I'm starting a new job next week so finding the time may be difficult. I'm also watching a film a day so something's going to have to give.
 

Donaldo

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Cheated a bit and finished Lord of the Flies and Snuff in the last two days to make it 2 in 2 weeks.
 
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