The 50 book challenge - update

Earlier this year, Steve Jobs commented on Amazon's "Kindle" project. He said it was flawed because Americans don't read....he cited a stat that only ~40% of Americans read 1 (or more) book per year.

Myself (and others I know) have set goals to read 50 books in the course of a year. I'm not sure it proves anything, since those setting the goal were already part of the "40%", but perhaps it will show that the reading audience out here is voracious and perhaps there's a chance that our love of reading will spread.

Anyway, here's my updated list of books read thus far. I've still got a ways to go (I slacked off a little over the summer).

Books I've read in 2008:

1. Grimm's Fairy Tales
2. The Candy Shop War
3. The Garden In Which I Walk
4. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
5. Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass
6. The Looking Glass Wars
7. The Jungle Books
8. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
9. Peter Pan (Peter & Wendy)
10. Dark Wraith of Shannara
11. The Eyre Affair
12. From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
14. Hide and Seek
15. The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
16. The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber)
17. The Pale Blue Eye
18. The Catcher in the Rye
19. Speak
20. Artemis Fowl (book 1)
21. My Name is Asher Lev
22. Bless Me, Ultima
23. Seeing Redd (Looking Glass Wars Book 2)
24. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
25. Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)
26. The Book Thief
27. Virgins and Martyrs
28. City of Ember
29. Into the Wild
30. Sideways Stories From Wayside School
31. House of the Scorpion
32. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
33. The Picture of Dorian Gray
34. Push
35. The Canterbury Tales
36. Wayside School is Falling Down
37. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
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Well...only a week and a half to go and I'm at 37 books (with 2 more nearly finished). I don't think I'll hit my goal of 50, but I should hit 40...not too far off. I'll start next year's goal earlier and track it better.