A Memory of Light – Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
Against All Things Ending – Stephen R. Donaldson.
Brothers and Sisters – Ivy Compton Burnett.
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston.
Tales of the Criminous – William Roughead.
The Grand Sophy – Georgette Heyer.
Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life – Sabina Flanagan.
Darwin’s Ghost – Steve Jones.
Men of Mathematics – E.T. Bell.
Collapse – Jared Diamond.
American Legacy – C. David Heymann.
The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki.
Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis.
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps – Peter Galison.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe.
Every Man for Himself – Beryl Bainbridge.
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch.
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener – Martin Gardner.
The Fixer – Bernard Malamud.
The Known World – Edward P. Jones.
Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen.
The Terror – Dan Simmons.
World’s End – T.C. Boyle.
The Confession – John Grisham.
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1. visit all 50 states
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2. qualify for the Boston Marathon
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3. Get a PhD
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4. Learn Spanish
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5. be a scuba instructor
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6. run a 100 mile ultra marathon
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7. Get SAS certified
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8. learn Irish
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9. make goal weight at Weight Watchers
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10. find a mentor
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11. ride a double century
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12. get my pilot's license
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13. run a 10K
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14. learn to juggle pins
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15. go to circus school.
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16. keep in touch with old friends
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17. Learn to Handle UTF-8 on C++/Linux
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18. Practice Yoga
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19. Swim with dolphins
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20. Learn to play bluegrass
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21. fastpack the Appalachian trail by state
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22. climb mt hood
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23. See the 1000 places to see before you die before I die
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24. Run my dream marathons
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25. Get a Bacon Number
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26. Get an Erdos Number
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27. Build a boat
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28. Become an adjunct faculty member
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29. Speak at a Planetary Science colloquium at CalTech
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30. Compete in an International Orienteering event
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31. Get the perfect job
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32. fly in a balloon
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33. Watch a space shuttle launch
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34. develop a sensible disaster plan and survival kit
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35. complete the online FEMA professional development series
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36. create a website
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37. Learn C++ on the Linux Platform
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38. Run another marathon
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39. Read 24 Books in 2011
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling.
Towers of Midnight – Jordan and Sanderson.
Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov.
The Book of My Life – Girolamo Cardano.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg.
Beowulf.
Leap of Faith – L. Gordon Cooper.
Two for the Summit – Geoffrey Norman.
Bowling Alone – Robert Putnam.
The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz.
Almost a Miracle – John Ferling.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon.
Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott.
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo.
Rabbit Run – John Updike.
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt.
A Barnstormer in Oz – Philip Jose Farmer.
Memories of the Space Age – J.G. Ballard.
Empire Falls – Richard Russo.
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron.
A Bright Shining Lie – Neil Sheehan.
The Puzzle Palace – James Bamford.
The Proper Study of Mankind – Isaiah Berlin.
Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott.
Fatal Revenant – Stephen R. Donaldson.
Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan.
The Gathering Storm – Robert Jordan.
Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser.
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Tales – H.P. Lovecraft.
The Complete Father Brown Stories – G.K. Chesterton.
The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers.
The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam.
Educating Eve – Geoffrey Sampson.
American Gods – Neil Gaiman.
Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirrlees.
If Chins Could Kill – Bruce Campbell.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays – Thomas Hughes.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace.
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe.
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh.
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad.
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of – Thomas M. Disch.
Working – Studs Terkel.
