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50 Book Challenge!

Welcome to the 50-Book Challenge!
We are not listless. In fact, we love lists ...

Many of our lists can be found by using the link below:

http://astore.amazon.com/allencotrip-20

Our challenge is to read 50 books in one year. OR ... establish a goal for yourself more or less, it's up to you, just because we...more »

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  • G Brett Miller

    Brett Miller's 50 Book Challenge

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    I started tracking my reading back in Dec 07 after posting a piece on my blog (http://nsl.gbrettmiller.com) about the decline in reading. Although I didn't resolve to read 50 books at the time, I think I'm on track. (My real resolution - or commitment, really - was to read more fiction, about 50%.) I'm posting this tonight, will update over the next few days to catch up.
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    1. The Science of Leonardo da Vinci (Fritjof Capra)

    Leonardo was not a "scientist" per se, but he was most definitely a student of science. Capra shows how Leonardo used science to inform his art and to change the way things were done and viewed. Unfortunately for the world, Leonardo did not share his science as he did his art.

    Capra's story tells of Leonardo's science and how we are only now getting into the depths of this science that was conducted well before its time.
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    2. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Steven Pinker)

    This is another in a great set of books from Pinker discussing the nature of human nature. My personal favorite of his books is "The Blank Slate", but this one is well worth the read.
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    3. The Protector (David Morrell)

    David Morrell is one of my favorite authors of fiction. It has been many years since I'd read any of his stuff, and it was good to find this (relatively) new book that I hadn't read before. If you're familiar with Morrell's work, this is typical of his "spy-fi" books, but in many ways better than his older works.
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    4. Sphere of Influence (Kyle Mills)

    Kyle Mills, like David Morrell, is in my "favorites" list of authors for fiction. (You may have guessed that in my younger days Tom Clancy was at the top of my "must-read' list.) This book features the continuing adventures of the increasingly cynical FBI agent Mark Beamon.

    Mills is very good at taking the news of the day and spinning a story around it, and this is no exception with plenty of al-Qaeda, Mafia, drug trafficking, and government conspiracy theories thrown in for good measure.
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    5. There Is a God (Antony Flew)
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    6. The Brotherhood of the Rose (David Morrell)
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    7. The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS (Keith Davlin, Gary Lorden)
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    8. The Map That Changed the World
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      Got ahead of myself, this book is by Simon Winchestier.
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    9. The Fraternity of the Stone (David Morrell)
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    10. Look Me in the Eye (John Elder Robison)
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    11. The Faithful Spy (Alex Berenson)
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    12. Forever Free (Joe Haldeman)
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    13. How to Win Friends and Influence People
    14. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
    15. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

    (Dale Carnegie)
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    16. Management of the Absurd (Richard Farson)
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    17. Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform (David Michael, Sande Chen)
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    18. Smoke Screen (Kyle Mills)
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    19. How Life Imitates Chess (Garry Kasparov)
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    20. Blasphemy (Douglas Preston)
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    21. Bobby Fischer Goes to War : How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (David Edmonds, John Eidinow)
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    22. Darkness Falls (Kyle Mills)
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    23. Samurai Chess (Michael J. Gelb, Raymond Keene)
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    24. Simple Genius by David Baldacci
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    25. Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
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    26. Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs

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    27. Brimstone by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

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    28. Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

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    29. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.

    See http://autism.gbrettmiller.com/category/books/speed-of-dark-books/ for some of my thoughts on this great book.

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    30. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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    31. Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer

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    32. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Erik Parens, Adrienne Asch; editors)

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    33. Anathem by Neal Stephenson

    This has replaced Cryptonomicon as my favorite NS title, quite possibly my new favorite book, period.

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    34. Speaker for the Dead
    35. Xenocide
    36. Children of the Mind

    all by Orson Scott Card

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    37. The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl

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    38. The Last Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl

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    39. Fade by Kyle Mills

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    40. Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills by Paul J. Nahin

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