A Modest Construct

¶ 52 Books in 52 Weeks, 2009

The Exposition

And so begins the fifth year of my 52 Books in 52 Weeks meme, where I challenge myself to read a minimum of 52 books in the coming calendar year, and then briefly review each book here on A Modest Construct. Keep a close watch as books are added to the list.

The Gang

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The Books

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming: Publisher: Penguin; Year: 1953/2002; Pages: 192; №1

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston: Publisher: Anchor; Year: 1995; Pages: 448; №2

Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman: Publisher: Scribner; Year: 2008; Pages: 288; №3

The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno: Publisher: Akashic Books; Year: 2006; Pages: 320; №4

Brain Droppings by George Carlin: Publisher: Hyperion; Year: 1998/2006; Pages: 272; №5

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken: Publisher: Plume; Year: 2004; Pages: 448; №6

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku: Publisher: Doubleday; Year: 2008; Pages: 329; №7

Daemon by Daniel Suarez: Publisher: Dutton; Year: 2008; Pages: 432; №8

Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf: Publisher: Grove; Year: 2005; Pages: 384; №9

Blood, Class and Empire by Christopher Hitchens: Publisher: Nation Books; Year: 1990/2004; Pages: 432; №10

The Mental Floss History of the World by Erik Sass and Steve Wiegard: Publisher: Collins; Year: 2008; Pages: 400; №11

Accelerando by Charles Stross: Publisher: Ace; Year: 2006; Pages: 432; №12

1 hundred hiccups by Michael Kadela: Publisher: EM Press; Year: 2002; Pages: 134; №13

The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings: Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Year: 2002; Pages: 448; №14

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson: Publisher: Gollancz; Year: 1954/2008; Pages: 160; №15

McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes by McSweeney's: Publisher: Vintage; Year: 2008; Pages: 224; №16

The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell: Publisher: Vintage; Year: 1992; Pages: 176; №17

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Year: 2008; Pages: 309; №18

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 30 by McSweeney's: Publisher: McSweeney's; Year: 2009; Pages: 200; №19

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom: Publisher: Broadway; Year: 2009; Pages: 256; №20

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith: Publisher: Quirk Books; Year: 2009; Pages: 320; №21

Three Farmers On Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers: Publisher: McGraw-Hill; Year: 1985/1987; Pages: 457; №22

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer: Publisher: Anchor; Year: 1996/2007; Pages: 207; №23

Death From the Skies! by Philip Plait, Ph.D.: Publisher: Viking; Year: 2008; Pages: 336; №24

The Engaged Groom by Doug Gordon: Publisher: Collins Living; Year: 2005; Pages: 228; №25

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen: Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Year: 2008; Pages: 256; №26

The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester: Publisher: Oxford University Press; Year: 2004; Pages: 288; №27

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave: Publisher: 2.13.61; Year: 1989/2003; Pages: 288; №28

Snoop by Sam Gosling: Publisher: Basic Books; Year: 2008; Pages: 272; №29

Spanking the Donkey by Matt Taibbi: Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Year: 2006; Pages: 368; №30

Idiot America by Charles Pierce: Publisher: Doubleday; Year: 2009; Pages: 304; №31

Made in America by Bill Bryson: Publisher: Harper Perennial; Year: 1991/1996; Pages: 432; №32

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell: Publisher: Back Bay Books; Year: 2005/2007; Pages: 320; №33

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Year: 2006; Pages: 544; №34

The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow: Publisher: Vintage; Year: 2008; Pages: 272; №35

Old Man's War by John Scalzi: Publisher: Tor; Year: 2007; Pages: 320; №36

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Publisher: Viking Adult; Year: 2006; Pages: 528; №37

Welcome to Vietnam by Zack Emerson: Publisher: Scholastic; Year: 1991; Pages: 208; №38

Hill 568 by Zack Emerson: Publisher: Scholastic; Year: 1991; Pages: 230; №39

'Tis the Season by Zack Emerson: Publisher: Scholastic; Year: 1991; Pages: 254; №40

A Voyage Long and Stange by Tony Horwitz: Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; Year: 2008; Pages: 464; №41

Stand Down by Zack Emerson: Publisher: Scholastic; Year: 1992; Pages: 323; №42

I Drink for a Reason by David Cross: Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Year: 2009; Pages: 256; №43

I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson: Publisher: Broadway; Year: 2000; Pages: 304; №44

The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White: Publisher: Scholastic; Year: 1995; Pages: 496; №45

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede: Publisher: Guild America; Year: 1993; Pages: 617; №46

In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent: Publisher: Spiegel & Grau; Year: 2009; Pages: 352; №47

Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller: Publisher: W.W. Norton; Year: 2008; Pages:; №48

The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner: Publisher: Dutton Adult; Year: 2008; Pages: 352; №49

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke: Publisher: Bloomsbury; Year: 2004; Pages: 800; №50

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum: Publisher: Bantam; Year: 1984; Pages: 544; №51

Plastic Fantastic by Eugenie Samuel Reich: Publisher: Bantam; Year: 2009; Pages: 272; №52

The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave: Publisher: Faber and Faber; Year: 2009; Pages: 288; №53

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 31 ed. McSweeney's: Publisher: McSweeney's; Year: 2009; Pages: 187; №54

A Short History of the American Stomach by Frederick Kaufman: Publisher: Mariner; Year: 2009; Pages: 224; №55

Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly: Publisher: W.W. Norton; Year: 2008/2009; Pages: 400; №56

Halting State by Charles Stross: Publisher: Ace; Year: 2007; Pages: 368; №57

The Book of Psalms Trans. Robert Alter: Publisher: W.W. Norton; Year: 2007/2009; Pages: 560; №58

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Year: 2005; Pages: 352; №59

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger: Publisher: Scribner; Year: 2009; Pages: 416; №60

And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer: Publisher: Hyperion; Year: 2009; Pages: 288; №61

Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman: Publisher: Scribner; Year: 2009; Pages: 256; №62

SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Publisher: William Morrow; Year: 2009; Pages: 287; №63

JPod by Douglas Coupland: Publisher: Bloomsbury; Year: 2007; Pages: 567; №64

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer: Publisher: Doubleday; Year: 2009; Pages: 416; №65

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