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[GLBT][BOOKS OF THE CENTURY]
[100 SHOTS OF SHORT][BANNED BOOKS]
[COMPLETED CHALLENGES]
From: Me
Time: 08/28/10-08/08/10
Guidelines: Read 4 or 8 science-fiction books.
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From: Carl
Time: 09/01/10-10/31/10
Guidelines: Read and/or watch mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, horror, supernatural.
1. H.P. Lovecraft: the Call of Cthulhu
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From: Amanda
Time: 01/01/10-12/31/10
Guidelines: Read 4, 8, or 12+ books about GLBT topics or by GLBT authors.
1. Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband
2. Oscar Wilde: the Importance of Being Ernest
3. Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons(?)
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From: Tim
Time: Perpetual
Guidelines: Read at least 5 books Publishers Weekly considered bestsellers or critically acclaimed and historically significant. Here’s the long list compiled by Daniel and my selection pile.
1. George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1940′s)
2. Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1930′s)
3. James Joyce: Ulysses (1920′s)
4. Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons (1910′s)
5. Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1950′s)
100 Shots of ShortFrom: Robaroundbooks
Time: No limit
Guidelines: 100 short stories
This is the first time I’ve kept track of the little scamps. For the most part they’re reviewed under the anthology in which I read them. Those that really stood out in a collection are linked from the story’s title.
01: Catherynne Valente: “Palimpsest” on Senses Five Press
02: Irene Radford: “It’s a Con World Afterall” on Book View Cafe
03: Irene Radford: “Of Rats and Cats and Teenagers” on Book View Cafe
04: Orson Scott Card: “the Grinning Man”
05: Raymond Feist: “the Wood Boy”
06-15: Frank Herbert: the Book of Frank Herbert
16-39: Various: Ravens in the Library
40-59: Ursula Le Guin: the Compass Rose
60: Seanan McGuire: “Knives” on Book View Cafe
61: Seanan McGuire: “Anthony’s Vampire” on Book View Cafe
62-82: Charles de Lint: Moonlight and Vines
83-93: Various: Worlds Apart
94: Catherynne Valente: “the Days of Flaming Motorcycles” at io9
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Title
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Author
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Read
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Rating
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| 001 | Palimpsest | Catherynne Valente | 01/09 | 4/5 |
| 002 | It’s a Con World Afterall | Irene Radford | 01/09 | 5/5 |
| 003 | Of Rats and Cats and Teenagers | Irene Radford | 01/09 | 3/5 |
| 004 | the Grinning Man | Orson Scott Card | 02/09 | 4/5 |
| 005 | the Wood Boy | Raymond E. Feist | 02/09 | 4/5 |
| 006 | Seed Stock | Frank Herbert | 01/09 | 3/5 |
| 007 | the Nothing | Frank Herbert | 01/09 | 3/5 |
| 008 | Rat Race | Frank Herbert | 01/09 | 1/5 |
| 009 | Gambling Device | Frank Herbert | 02/09 | 4/5 |
| 010 | Looking for Something? | Frank Herbert | 02/09 | 3/5 |
| 011 | the Gone Dogs | Frank Herbert | 03/09 | 5/5 |
| 012 | Passage for Piano | Frank Herbert | 03/09 | 5/5 |
| 013 | Encounter in a Lonely Place | Frank Herbert | 03/09 | 2/5 |
| 014 | Operation Syndrome | Frank Herbert | 03/09 | 4/5 |
| 015 | Occupation Force | Frank Herbert | 03/09 | 5/5 |
| 016 | Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire |
Neil Gaiman | 04/09 | 5/5 |
| 017 | Out of the Box | Ben Dobyns | 04/09 | 4/5 |
| 018 | Missing Limb | Ari Berk | 04/09 | 3/5 |
| 019 | Ten for the Devil | Charles de Lint | 04/09 | 5/5 |
| 020 | You Go Where it Takes You | Nathan Ballingrud | 04/09 | 3/5 |
| 021 | Mercury | Elizabeth Jordan Leggett | 04/09 | 4/5 |
| 022 | 1977 | Carrie Vaughn | 04/09 | 3/5 |
| 023 | Ice | Francesca Lia Block | 04/09 | 3.5/5 |
| 024 | Kinderkochen | Alexandra Duncan | 05/09 | 2.5/5 |
| 025 | Heartless | Holly Black | 05/09 | 3/5 |
| 026 | King of Crows | Midori Snyder | 05/09 | 4/5 |
| 027 | the Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth | Catherynne M. Valente | 05/09 | 4.5/5 |
| 028 | A Tithe for the Piper | Erzebet YellowBoy | 05/09 | 3/5 |
| 029 | Built on Blood | Storm Constantine | 05/09 | 4/5 |
| 030 | Fortune | Shira Lipkin | 05/09 | 4.5/5 |
| 031 | Pipsqueak | Angel Leigh McCoy | 05/09 | 4/5 |
| 032 | Ravenous | SatyrPhil Brucato | 05/09 | 4/5 |
| 033 | In His Own Image | Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg | 05/09 | 4/5 |
| 034 | Of Mouse, and Music | Kris Millering | 06/09 | 4/5 |
| 035 | A Thin Line, Between | Jaymi Elford | 06/09 | 3/5 |
| 036 | the Color of Angels | Terri Winding | 06/09 | 5/5 |
| 037 | A Lust of Cupids | Laurell K. Hamilton | 06/09 | 5/5 |
| 038 | the Substance of Things Hoped For | Mia Nutick | 06/09 | 5/5 |
| 039 | Lost | Seanan McGuire | 06/09 | 5/5 |
| 040 | the Author of the Acacia Seeds | Ursula Le Guin | 04/09 | 5/5 |
| 041 | the New Atlantis | Ursula Le Guin | 04/09 | 4/5 |
| 042 | Schrödinger’s Cat | Ursula Le Guin | 04/09 | 2/5 |
| 043 | Two Delays on the Northern Line | Ursula Le Guin | 04/09 | 3/5 |
| 044 | SQ | Ursula Le Guin | 06/09 | 4/5 |
| 045 | Small Change | Ursula Le Guin | 06/09 | 3/5 |
| 046 | the First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb | Ursula LeGuin | 06/09 | 4/5 |
| 047 | the Diary of the Rose | Ursula Le Guin | 06/09 | 4/5 |
| 048 | the White Donkey | Ursula LeGuin | 07/09 | 2.5/5 |
| 049 | the Phoenix | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 050 | Intracom | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 2.5/5 |
| 051 | the Eye Altering | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 4/5 |
| 052 | Mazes | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 053 | the Pathways of Desire | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 054 | Gwilan’s Harp | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 5/5 |
| 055 | Malheur County | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 056 | the Water is Wide | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 057 | the Wife’s Story | Ursula LeGuin | 07/09 | 4/5 |
| 058 | Some Approaches to the Problems of the Shortage of Time | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 059 | Sur | Ursula Le Guin | 07/09 | 3/5 |
| 060 | Knives | Seanan McGuire | 08/09 | 5/5 |
| 061 | Anthony’s Vampire | Seanan McGuire | 08/09 | 4/5 |
| 062 | Saskia | Charles de Lint | 08/09 | 4/5 |
| 063 | In This Soul of a Woman | Charles de Lint | 08/09 | 3/5 |
| 064 | the Big Sky | Charles de Lint | 08/09 | 5/5 |
| 065 | Birds | Charles de Lint | 08/09 | 3/5 |
| 066 | Passing | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 067 | Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 068 | In the Pines | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 069 | Shining Nowhere but in the Dark | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 070 | If I Close My Eyes Forever | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 071 | Heartfires | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 072 | the Invisibles | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 073 | Seven for a Secret | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 074 | Crow Girls | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 5/5 |
| 075 | Wild Horses | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 5/5 |
| 076 | In the Land of the Unforgiven | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 077 | My Life as a Bird | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 078 | China Doll | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 079 | In the Quiet After Midnight | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 080 | the Pennymen | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 081 | Twa Corbies | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 082 | the Fields Beyond the Fields | Charles de Lint | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 083 | Harper Conan and Singer David | Edgar Pangborn | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 084 | Houston, Houston, Do You Read? | James Tiptree, Jr. | 09/09 | 2.5/5 |
| 085 | To Keep the Oath | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 09/09 | 4/5 |
| 086 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? | Walt Liebscher | 09/09 | 5/5 |
| 087 | Lollipop and the Tar Baby | John Varley | 09/09 | 3/5 |
| 088 | the Mystery of the Young Gentleman | Joanna Russ | 12/09 | 3/5 |
| 089 | the Gods of Reorth | Elizabeth A. Lynn | 12/09 | 3/5 |
| 090 | Find the Lady | Nicholas Fisk | 12/09 | 3/5 |
| 091 | No Day Too Long | Jewelle Gomez | 12/09 | 3/5 |
| 092 | Full Fathom Five My Father Lies | Rand B. Lee | 12/09 | 4/5 |
| 093 | Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones | Samuel R. Delany | 12/09 | 3/5 |
| 094 | the Days of Flaming Motorcycles | Catherynne Valente | 05/10 | 4/5 |
| 095 | Small Fry | Anton Chekov | 05/10 | 2/5 |
| 096 | A Chameleon | Anton Chekov | 05/10 | 3/5 |
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Top 110 Banned Books Worldwide
This is stemmed from a meme that’s been floating around. I’m not going to challenge myself with reading all 110 banned books, but I would like to keep track of those I have read and use this list as possible reads. Some of these are already on my ever expanding reading list. Many of these I read in my youth and in high school, others not so far back. I sorted the list by author instead of the original ranking number, which is in the left column.
| No. | Title | Author | Read |
| 001 | the Bible | Reading | |
| 004 | the Koran | No | |
| 069 | the Talmud | No | |
| 078 | Popol Vuh | No | |
| 005 | Arabian Nights | Yes | |
| 065 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | No |
| 087 | Metaphysics | Aristotle | No |
| 098 | Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Yes |
| 105 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | No |
| 037 | Flowers of Evil | Charles Baudelaire | No |
| 026 | Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | No |
| 050 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Yes |
| 099 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Alexander Brown | No |
| 100 | Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | No |
| 089 | Institutes of the Christian Religion | Jean Calvin | No |
| 003 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | No |
| 008 | Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | No |
| 109 | Ox-Bow Incident | Walter Van Tilburg Clark | No |
| 031 | Analects | Confucius | No |
| 104 | Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | No |
| 081 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | Yes |
| 024 | Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | No |
| 061 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | No |
| 015 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Yes |
| 038 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | No |
| 073 | American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | No |
| 041 | Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | No |
| 064 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | No |
| 054 | Praise of Folly | Desiderius Erasmus | No |
| 093 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | No |
| 092 | Sanctuary | William Faulkner | No |
| 019 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | No |
| 014 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | No |
| 013 | Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Yes |
| 018 | Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin | No |
| 097 | General Introduction to Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | No |
| 101 | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Ernest J. Gaines | No |
| 079 | Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith | No |
| 086 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George | Yes |
| 022 | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | No |
| 096 | Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | No |
| 046 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Yes |
| 091 | Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | No |
| 094 | Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | No |
| 049 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | No |
| 023 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | No |
| 009 | Scarlett Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Yes |
| 107 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Yes |
| 055 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | No |
| 034 | Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | Yes |
| 048 | Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | No |
| 090 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | No |
| 074 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | No |
| 068 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | No |
| 016 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | Yes |
| 040 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Yes |
| 032 | Dubliners | James Joyce | No |
| 025 | Ulysses | James Joyce | No |
| 052 | Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | No |
| 053 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | No |
| 110 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Key | Yes |
| 075 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Yes |
| 039 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D. H. Lawrence | No |
| 072 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | No |
| 030 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Yes |
| 059 | Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke | No |
| 011 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | No |
| 036 | Capital | Karl Marx | No |
| 045 | Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | No |
| 042 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Yes |
| 020 | Essays | Michel de Montaigne | No |
| 060 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | No |
| 082 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | No |
| 027 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Yes |
| 028 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | Yes |
| 051 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | No |
| 071 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Yes |
| 108 | Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Peck | No |
| 047 | Diary | Samuel Pepys | No |
| 080 | Satyricon | Petronius | No |
| 076 | Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | No |
| 067 | Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais | No |
| 044 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | No |
| 066 | Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau | No |
| 102 | Émile Jean | Jacques Rousseau | No |
| 070 | Social Contract | Jean Jacques Rousseau | No |
| 058 | Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | Yes |
| 084 | Spirit of the Laws | Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu | No |
| 043 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | No |
| 106 | Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | No |
| 062 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | No |
| 095 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig | No |
| 063 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | No |
| 021 | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Yes |
| 033 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Yes |
| 077 | Red Pony | John Steinbeck | No |
| 035 | Red and the Black | Stendhal | No |
| 017 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Yes |
| 012 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | No |
| 007 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | No |
| 002 | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Yes |
| 006 | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Yes |
| 029 | Candide | Voltaire | No |
| 085 | Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | No |
| 057 | Color Purple | Alice Walker | Yes |
| 010 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | No |
| 088 | Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Yes |
| 083 | Black Boy | Richard Wright | Yes |
| 056 | Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | No |
| 103 | Nana | Émile Zola | No |
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