cucullus non facit monachum: The 50 book challenge

OK...so a site I'm a member of recently issued a "50 book challenge" in response to a comment from Steve Jobs. Apparently, Steve Jobs was commenting on Amazon's Kindle project. He said he felt the project was flawed because the top percentage of Americans don't even read a single book in a year. The percentage is that only ~40% of Americans read one or more books in a year.

Anyway, the site I was on said they want to thumb their noses at Steve & other statisticians by showing a group of people who read 50 books in a year or more. True...this group will come from the lower 40%, but I wonder if we can get enough publicity out there to get non-readers to pick up a book this year and try to boost the 40% and get it at least over the halfway mark.

Anyway, I'll update this post as I finish books throughout the year. I'll make this a mid-year new year's resolution with a goal to finish 50 by December 31. Even though I read nightly with the kids, I'll leave those books off unless we read a larger scale book...because I don't want to taint the list with too many Seuss, Berenstein Bears or other kids books. :)

If you'd like to participate, either include a link in the comments or go ahead and post books you've read. Let's see how many we can collectively finish in 2008.

Books I've read in 2008:

Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Candy Shop War
The Garden In Which I Walk
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass
The Looking Glass Wars
The Jungle Books
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Peter Pan (Peter & Wendy)
Dark Wraith of Shannara
The Eyre Affair
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hide and Seek
The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber)
The Pale Blue Eye
The Catcher in the Rye
Speak