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DoctorTeeth's "My 999 Reading Challenge"

(From Librarything.com.) The goal is to read 9 books from 9 different genres in 2009. My nine categories are:

Comics Trade Paperbacks
Favourite Re-Reads
Science/Technology
History
Biography/Memoir
Philosophy
Pop Cultural Studies
Mystery/Crime Fiction
Canadian Fiction

(Note: there is overlap for two books, so instead of 81 books I have 79.)

Pages: Pages: 1

1. Essential Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
by Stan Lee
  
2. Showcase Presents: House of Mystery, Vol. 1 (Showcase Presents)
by Len Wein
  
3. Hulk: WWH - Renegades TPB (The Incredible Hercules (Hulk))
by Greg Pak
  
4. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus: Volume 1
by Jack Kirby
  
5.
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 Soliel: Sky Doll Volume 1 Premiere HC
by Barbara Canepa
  
6. Skyscrapers Of The Midwest
by Joshua Cotter
  
7. Avengers: The Kree-Skrull War
by Roy Thomas
  
8. Northlanders Vol. 1: Sven The Returned
by Brian Wood
  
9. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
by Don Rosa
  
10. Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
by Alan Moore
  
11.
?
 No Coins, Please (Apple Fiction)
by Gordon Korman
  
12. The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie
  
13. Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland
  
14. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
  
15. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
17. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
18. Men Of Tomorrow: Geek, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
by Gerard Jones
  
19.
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 The Last of the Crazy People
by Timothy Findley
  
20. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
  
21. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
  
22. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by Norman Doidge
  
23. The Island of the Colorblind
by Oliver Sacks
  
24. Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
  
25. Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea
by Richard Ellis
  
26. A Brief History of Infinity
by Brian Clegg
  
27. The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration Of Technology Into Everyday Life  
28. Birth of the Chess Queen : A History
by Marilyn Yalom
  
29. All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
  
30. The Stories of English
by David Crystal
  
31. The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813
by Pierre Berton
  
32. Legends of the Samurai
by Hiroaki Sato
  
33. Victory At Vimy: Canada Comes Of Age
by Ted Barris
  
34. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky
  
35. The Russian Civil War 1918-22 (Essential Histories)
by David Bullock
  
36.
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 Man in Black
by Johnny Cash
  
37. On the Front Line of Life  
38. Magical Thinking: True Stories
by Augusten Burroughs
  
39. Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
  
40. Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of The Marx Brothers
by Simon Louvish
  
41. Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis
by Gregory Davis
  
42. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
43.
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 Giacomo Casanova: History of My Life Volumes 1 & 2
by Giacomo; Trask, Willard R. (trans.) Casanova
  
44.
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 Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainance
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
45. A Brief History of Everything
by Ken Wilber
  
46.
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 Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart
  
47. The Inescapable Self: An Introduction to Western Philosophy
by Timothy Chappell
  
48. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
by Julian Baggini
  
49. The Social Contract and Discourses
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
50. The Elements of Mentality: The Foundations of Psychology and Philosophy
by David Hume
  
51. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
by Aristotle
  
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Created by DoctorTeeth on Mar 11, 2009.