Challenge: 50 Books discussion

#1. Long for This World, by Michael Byers
#2. The Story of Annie D., by Susan Taylor Chehak
#3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
#4. Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, by Laura Kalpakian
#5. Hangover Soup, by Louise Redd
#6. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, by Ann Fessler
#7. Run, by Ann Patchett
#8. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte
#9. Saints and Villains, by Denice Giardina
#10. On the Yard, by Malcolm Braly
#11. I'm Not Stiller, by Max Frisch
#12. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, by Nora Ephron
#13. Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk

#14. Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre

#15. First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde

#16. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, by Mark Dunn

#17. My Year of Meats, by Ruth L. Ozeki

Have heard good things about this one. What did you think?

I really enjoyed it.

A year in the life of Jane Takagi Little, a t.v. documentary maker of mixed Japanese and American heritage. She makes a show entitled "My American Wife" that spotlights some American woman and her family, along with, at least at the outset, her favorite beef recipe. The show airs on Japanese television, and is sponsored by BEEFEX. The story of Jane, as she makes this television show, is paralleled by that of Akiko, the Japanese wife of Jane's producer Joino "John" Ueno, who is forced to view the show each week as it airs in Japan and cook the recipe featured on the show. But the book is much more than just this tale. It is also the development of each of these two women.

#18. The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim
#19. Drop City, by T.C. Boyle

#20. Superclass, by David Rothkopf
#21. Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk

#22. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov

#23. The Accidental, by Ali Smith
#24. Creating Public Value -- Strategic Management in Government, by Mark H. Moore
#25. The Professor's House, by Willa Cather

#26. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
#27. The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay, by Clive Stafford Smith
#28. The Red Tent: A Novel, by Anita Diamant
#29. Very Funny -- Now Change Me Back Again, by Peter Biddlecombe

#30. The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster
#31. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell