Recent Book Activity

For starters,
please be advised that EVERYTHING on my bookshelf is up for grabs, even if it's marked TBR. Please ask me if you see something you'd like to read (but make sure that I still have the book in my possession) 

***If I offered an RABCK to you, please put the name of the book in the body of your message. I usually offer several RABCKs at the same time and I don't want to get them confused ****

Normally I try to stay away from all the challenges that are being offered by many bookrossers. However, Hendertuckian's OLYMPIC CHALLENGE really caught my attention and I decided to give it a try. You can follow my progress by clicking here.

Bookrays/Bookrings I've started:

• "Eragon"by Christopher Paolini (Replacement copy) permanently stalled
  
• "Stiff. The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
  
• "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte Started on 5/18/2009
  
  

I've decided to read the top 110 banned books (of all time). Bold are
the ones I’ve read. 

1. The Bible
   
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
   
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
   
4. The Koran
   
5. Arabian Nights
   
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
   
7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
   
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
   
9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    
11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
    
12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
    
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    
16. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
    
18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
    
19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
    
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
    
21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
    
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    
24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
    
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell 
    
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    
29. Candide by Voltaire
    
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    
31. Analects by Confucius
    
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
    
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    
34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 
    
35. Red and the Black by Stendhal
    
36. Das Capital by Karl Marx In German!
    
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
    
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    
39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
    
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    
41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    
43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    
44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    
45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
    
46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    
47. Diary by Samuel Pepys
    
48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway  
    
49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
    
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    
51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    
52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
    
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
    
54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmu
    
55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    
56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
    
57. Color Purple by Alice Walker
    
58. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
    
59. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    
60. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
    
61. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    
62. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    
63. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
    
64. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    
65. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    
66. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
    
67. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
    
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
    
69. The Talmud
    
70. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    
71. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
    
72. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
    
73. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    
74. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
    
75. Separate Peace by John Knowles
    
76. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  
    
77. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
    
78. Popol Vuh
    
79. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
    
80. Satyricon by Petronius
    
81. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    
82. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    
83. Black Boy by Richard Wright
    
84. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
    
85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    
86. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
    
87. Metaphysics by Aristotle
    
88. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    
89. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
    
90. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
    
91. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
    
92. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
    
93. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    
94. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
    
95. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
    
96. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    
97. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
    
98. Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
    
99. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
    
100. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
     
101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
     
102. Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
     
103. Nana by Emile Zola
     
104. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
     
105. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
     
106. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
     
107. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
     
108. The Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
     
109. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
     
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
     

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Your Birthdate: July 2

You're so intuitive, it's like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense. You connect with others freely and easily - and you tend to have many best friends. Warm and caring, it's hard for you to close your heart to anyone. Affection is like air for you - you need to give and receive it to survive. Your strength: Your universal compassion Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings Your power color: Mauve Your power symbol: Butterfly Your power month: February

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You are honest and direct. You tell it like it is. You say whatever is on your mind. Other people's reactions don't phase you. Your friends tend to be a as quirky as you are - which is saying a lot! You tend to always dream of things within reach - and you usually get them.

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