Books to read in 2008 - a podcast by ApocD

I sat down on December 31st and planned out what books I'm going to read this year. I want to make 2008 the year of re-reading books, especially non-fiction. I got some cools books for Christmas, though, and I'm working on some books right now, so it will be a couple of months before I get to the books that I've already read. Here's my list.

Books I'm reading now:

Path Between the Seas- David McCullough(finished 1/22/'08)
Fragile Things- Neil Gaiman(finished 1/24/'08)
How Computers Work- Ron White(finished 6/26/'08)
Roitt's Essential Immunology(finished 12/25/'08)

Books I plan to read for the first time:

Empire Falls- Richard Russo(finished 3/18/'08)
On the Edge- Brian Bagnall(finished 2/8/'08)
A Briefer History of Time- Stephen Hawking(finished 2/23/'08)
Brave Companions- David McCullough(finished 3/5/'08)
Prime Obsession- John Derbyshire(finished 3/31/'08)
Born Standing Up- Steve Martin(finished 2/12/'08)
The Golden Ratio- Mario Livio(finished 2/21/'08)
The Power of Myth- Joseph Campbell(finished 4/10/'08)
Words from History- Isaac Asimov(finished 7/10/'08)

Books I plan to read for the second time:

Big Chief Elizabeth- Giles Milton(finished 4/24/'08)
Big Bang- Simon Singh(finished 12/18/'08)
The Salmon of Doubt- Douglas Adams(finished 5/23/'08)
The Ancestor's Tale- Richard Dawkins(finished 11/25/'08)
John Adams- David McCullough(finished 8/20/'08)
The Story of English -McCrum, MacNeil, and Cran(finished 7/10/'08)
The Making of the Bible in English- Bobrick(finished 12/5/'08)
The Code Book- Simon Singh(finished 6/3/'08)
A People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn(finished 5/18/'08)
The Riddle and the Knight- Giles Milton(finished 6/16/'08)
On Writing- Stephen King(finished 6/9/'08)
Nathaniel's Nutmeg- Giles Milton(finished 10/30/2008)
The Long Walk- Stephen King(finished 4/15/'08)
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien(finished 8/28/'08)
Lord of the Ringstrilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien(finished 10/7/'08)
The Education of Little Tree -Forrest Carter(finished 7/15/'08)

Books I read that aren't on the list:

Lisey's Story- Stephen King(finished 7/1/'08)
Climbing Mount Improbable- Richard Dawkins(finished 10/28/2008)

I'm a slow reader, so it's going to be tough to finish all of those books by the end of the year. It'll be fun trying, though.

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