Fifty Books

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list of books in case you missed it:
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Taming Of The Shrew - William Shakespeare
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Uglies - Scott Westerfield
Meant To Be - Melody Carlson
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginides
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Gutterson
Under The Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes

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[hEll0itSERiKA]

What's the name of the blue book with yellow letters?

All I could read was "Everything is.."

[imaginaryjenn89]

@hEll0itSERiKA it's called "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer. EXCELLENT book. I highly reccomend it.

[emmmi8]

thanks so much for making this video! I have been trying to find a video on youtube containing a list of substantial (meaning not fluff) books to read and this really helped me! i had no idea about the 50 book challenge. so thanks for enlightening me :)

[imaginaryjenn89]

@emmmi8 I can't promise they're all thick reads, but I enjoyed most of them anyway!

[acmack12]

middlesex is amazing! read it first

[imaginaryjenn89]

@acmack12 really? i tried to read it sooo much. i got halfway through and gave up :(

[edwardcullen728]

If I had all the money in the World,I would buy endless books!

[740Park]

A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men, Middlesex, and Fight Club. Excellent. I didn't enjoy Augusten Burroughs, but really recommend you read more Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters is really, really, very good.

[mrjcfromcalifornia]

If I can read Michael Connelly, I'm willing to try!

[NihilisticSliceshow]

very, very nice book list!

[ROROkokemo]

I read like a hundred books a month.

So, I got this contest in the bag.

[sleedolfine15]

@AlexisKatchuk I hope that my comments did'nt come across as critical of you. That was not my intention. I was merely making a statement of personal educational philosophy. As for Rand,I put her in the ambiguous catagory because inspite of her work's influence(Tea Party,Libertarianism,etc.)and survivability(never out of print) she is treated dismissively by many. I personally found Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead to be brave & powerful works.

[AlexisKatchuk]

@sleedolfine15 I'm well aware that books require savoring. I have my Master's in English and am now getting my PhD. And you might want to move Ayn Rand from "ambiguous" to "classic" seeing as how her works are anything but "ambiguous" in the literary circle and her works are considered classics.

[sleedolfine15]

@AlexisKatchuk Some books requires savoring,mulling over to fully get the sum of the work. In fact,some books are due repeated reads. A book is not something to get past in order to get to the next read. Better than a year's reading goal is a lifetime reading list like that susgested by the late Mortimer Adler. My own list includes obvious classic writers like Shakespeare,Homer,Tolstoy,etc. along with more ambigious choices like Ayn Rand,Anne Rice,etc. But I do like the idea of reading goals.

[RBroz100]

I average 100-200 books a year. You may want to look up "GoodReads' which has many readin challenges. You have a very good stack there...best of luck! Roseann

[orbiggie]

You are so adorable. I hope you read those books! I'm not sure how old you are but if you are over 18, which I am assuming, I will go ahead and say that you are very very pretty, as well.