Personal Reading Challenge (105/101)

It has been a long time since I actually had time to read for fun -- and there are a lot of books that I should have read a while ago that I never got around to. My friend Lissa had an goal of reading a hundred books during Peace Corps service. I've decided to one-up that:

My goal is to read at least 101 books before the end of my 27-month Peace Corps service commitment.

If you're mathematically inclined, that comes out to about 3.7 books per month.

The following is a list of books I've read here -- from novels to textbooks, fiction to biographies, they're all first-time reads.

Books Read (September 2012 to present)

1.  I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -  Philip K. Dick
3. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
4. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Ponds of Kalambayi - Mike Tidwell
6. The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman 
7. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman 
8. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman 
9. *The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 
10. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming 
11. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
12. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
13. Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan 
14. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 
15. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum 
16. *Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
17. Persuasion - Jane Austen 
18. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris 
19. Ringworld - Larry Niven
20. Yes Man - Danny Wallace 
21. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - Michael J. Fox 
22. *A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
23. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin  
24. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner 
25. Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
26. Inside a U.S. Embassy - American Foreign Service Association 
27. Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need To Know About American History but Never Learned - Kenneth C. Davis
28. The World America Made - Robert Kagan
29. A Clash of Kings- George R. R. Martin
30. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 - Stephen A. Ambrose 
31. The Speed of Light - Elizabeth Rosner 
32. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama 
33. * The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
34. The Omivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan 
35. A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin 
36. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power - Jon Meacham 
37. A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin 
38. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki 
39. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
40. *The Princess Bride - William Goldman 
41. *Hunting and Gathering - Anna Gavalda 
42. John Adams - David McCullough 
43. Little Bee - Chris Cleave
44. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter -- And How to Make the Most of Them Now - Meg Jay 
45. A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin 
46. The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J. Stanley 
47. And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini 
48. The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know - James L. Gelvin 
49. Superfreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
50. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt 
51. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 
52. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 
53. State of Wonder - Ann Pratchett 
54. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa - Dambisa Moyo 
55. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
56. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 
57. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach 
58. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller 
59. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 
60. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
61. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
62. Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
63. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus - Charles King 
64. Obama's Wars - Bob Woodward 
65. The Cold War: A New History - John Lewis Gaddis 
66. Zoli - Colum McCann 
67. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 
68. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 
69. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
70. Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
71. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
72. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
73. In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
74. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 
75. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 
76. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
77. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
78. The Bell Jar - Silvia Plath 
79. Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson 
80. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafkha 
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Márquez 
82. Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali 
83. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick 
84. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg 
85. Animal Farm - George Orwell 
86. Catch Me If You Can - Frank Abagnale, Jr. 
87. Madame Secretary - Madeleine Albright 
88. China's Second Continent: How A Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa - Howard W. French
89. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
91. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
92. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
93. The Lost World - Michael Crichton
94. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
95. Adventures in Service With Peace Corps in Niger - James R. Bullington 
96. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning & The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket 
97. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert 
98. Congo - Michael Crichton 
99. Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver
100. The Harrowing of Mozambique - William Finnegan 
101.  The Middle East - Bernard Lewis
102. In The Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, an the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - Arika Okrent
103. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
104. Bush At War - Bob Woodward 
105. Plan of Attack - Bob Woodward 

*My personal favorites.

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