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Bella | 193 comments Let's Turn the Pages Challenge
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Bella | 193 comments The TBR Randomizer Challenge:

20 books

1. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
2. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
3. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by Nell Bernstein
4. Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
5. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
6. King of Ithaca by Glyn Iliffe
7. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
8. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
9. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
10. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
11. Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin by Michael D. Lemonick
12. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 by Edward L. Ayers
13. Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley
14. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
15. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
16. Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future by Will Bunch
17. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
18. The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
19. History of the Persian Empire by Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead
20. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders: A Novel by Julianna Baggott

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Bella | 193 comments

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
3. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
5. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
7. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
8. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
9. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
10. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
11. Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition by Mark Twain
12. Ball Four by Jim Bouton
13. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
14. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
15. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
16. Bossypants by Tina Fey
17. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
18. Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan
19. Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
20. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
21. De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
22. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
23. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? by Marion Meade
24. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
25. Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
26. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
27. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
28. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
29. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
30. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
31. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
32. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
33. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
34. Knock Wood by Candice Bergen
35. Life by Keith Richards
36. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
37. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens by Julia Child
39. Naked by David Sedaris
40. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
41. Night by Elie Wiesel
42. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
43. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
44. Open by Andre Agassi
45. Personal History by Katharine Graham
46. Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set: The Path to Power; Means of Ascent; Master of the Senate; The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
47. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
48. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
49. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
50.Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
51. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
52. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
53. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
54. The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
55. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
57. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
58. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
59. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
60. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
61. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo
62. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
63. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
64. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
65. The Last Lone Inventor by Evan Schwartz
66. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
67. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
68. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
69. The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
70. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
71. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
72. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
73. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
74. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
75. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
76. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
77. Updike by Adam Begley
78. Vera by Stacy Schiff
79. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
80. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
81. Just Kids by Patti Smith
82. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
83. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
84. Black Boy by Richard Wright
85. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
86. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
87.The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
88. Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
89. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
90. Cash by Johnny Cash
91. This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
92. The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
93. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin
94. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester
95. Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill
96. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
97. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
98. The Kid Stays In The Picture by Robert Evans
99. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
100.Shadows on the Grass by Karen Blixen


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Bella | 193 comments The above list is going to be a multi-year challenge, obviously. When I'm done, if anyone wants a copy of the list- I'm not sure if you can copy and paste it and have it copy the actual links- let me know and I'll email you a copy.


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Bella | 193 comments Well, I double checked and it only lists 99 books. I think that the Blixen works "Out of Africa" and "Shadows on the Grass" are meant to be two different books. Doesn't appear to be a series- some of the listings are for a complete series.


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