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Old 01-05-2012, 10:32 AM   #133
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Here are the 82 books I read in 2011 ("MR" denotes MobileRead authors):
Spoiler:
1. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
2. The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the Original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Vol. 5, St. Paul translated by Archbishop William Wake and Other Learned Divines
3. The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar
4. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
5. An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
6. Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom by Dorothy Spruill Redford
7. What Ukulele Players REALLY Want to Know by Barry Maz (MR)
8. All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (Updated Re-Read)
9. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
10. The Oxford Book of Modern Quotations by Eizabeth Knowles
11. The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics) Translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
12. Hal Spacejock by Simon Hayes (MR)
13. Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman
14. Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
15. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth. Concept & Story by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, Script by Apostolos Doxiadis, Art by Alecos Papadatos, Color by Annie Di Donna
16. WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (MR)
17. The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. The Princess and the Penis by R.J. Silver
19. Assholeology: The Science Behind Getting Your Way - and Getting Away with It by Steven B. Green, Dennis LaValle, and Chris Illuminati (2010).
20. Hal Spacejock: Second Course by Simon Hayes (MR)
21. His Robot Wife by Wesley Allison (MR)
22. The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Icon by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
23. WWW: Watch by Robert J. Sawyer (MR)
24. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
26. The Faltese Malcom by Peter E. Abresch (audiobook)
27. Borrowed Time by Keith Hughes
28. What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) edited by Paul Ekman and Erika Rosenberg
29. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
30. Hal Spacejock: Just Deserts by Simon Hayes (MR)
31. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief by Francis S. Collins
32. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
33. Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer? by George C. Cunningham
34. WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer (MR)
35. The Impossibles by Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer
36. Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch by Simon Hayes (MR)
37. Ageless Memory: The Memory Expert's Prescription for a Razor-Sharp Mind by Harry Lorayne
38. Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
39. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
40. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
41. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Audiobook)
42. Night Life of the Gods by Thorn Smith
43. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
44. On Writing by Stephen King
45. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
46. The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik
47. Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
48. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
49. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark
50. A Jewish Understanding of The New Testament by Rabbi Samuel Sandmel
51. The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
52. Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States by Dave Barry
53. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
54. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
55. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
56. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
57. New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer by Bill Maher
58. A Literary Bible: An Original Translation by David Rosenberg
59. Micromegas and Other Short Fictions (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire
60. The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner (A re-read)
61. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach (Editor) and Tim Folger (Editor)
62. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
63. The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers (a Charlie Chan mystery)
64. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
65. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
66. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
67. Media Control, Second Edition by Noam Chomsky
68. The Case of the Runaway Corpse by Erle Stanley Gardner
69. Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks, Ph.D., Forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
70. Daisy's Greyt Escape by Jeff Scott (MR)
71. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
72. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
73. The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Maher
74. God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette
75. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
76. The Case of the Fiery Fingers by Erle Stanley Gardner
77. Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective by Frank Cammuso
78. The Gates by John Connolly
79. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
80. Modern Jews Engage the New Testament by (Rabbi) Michael J. Cook
81. Deal Breaker: The First Myron Bolitar Novel by Harlan Coben
82. HEDY’S FOLLY: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes

Here are the 26 Letters of the Ante-Nicene Fathers (Philip Schaff) I read in 2011:
Spoiler:
1. The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
2. Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
3. The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
4. The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
5. The Martyrdom of Polycarp Polycarp
6. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians: Shorter and Longer Versions
7. Epistle to the Magnesians: Shorter and Longer Versions
8. Epistle to the Trallians: Shorter and Longer Versions
9. Epistle to the Romans: Shorter and Longer Versions
10. Epistle to the Philadelphians: Shorter and Longer Versions
11. Epistle to the Smyrnæans: Shorter and Longer Versions
13. Epistle to Polycarp: Shorter and Longer Versions
13. Epistle to Polycarp: Syriac Version
14. Epistle to the Ephesians: Syriac Version
15. Epistle to the Romans: Syriac Version
16. Epistle to the Tarsians (Spurious)
17. Epistle to the Antiochians(Spurious)
18. Epistle to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch(Spurious)
19. Epistle to the Philippians(Spurious)
20. Epistle from Maria of Cassobelæ(Spurious)
21. Epistle to Mary at Neapolis(Spurious)
22. First Epistle to St John (Spurious)
23. Second Epistle to St John(Spurious)
24. Epistle to Mary the Virgin(Spurious)
25. Epistle from Mary the Virgin(Spurious)
26. The Martyrdom of Ignatius Ignatius (Spurious)


Ha! I just realized when posting this list that I immediately followed What Ukulele Players REALLY Want to Know by MobileRead's own Barry Maz with All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum. No, that's not a comment of ukulele players (of which I am one)!

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