Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Non-Fiction Five Reading Challenge '08

Date: May 1st through September 30

Host: Joy

For details: Click here.

The challenge (put simply): Read 5 non-fiction books. Try to mix it up at least a little bit.

My list:

*Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

*The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

*New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz

*Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

*The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

*All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Yes, I realize that was 6 books...I just couldn't decide which one to leave out.

Substitutes:

*Six Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters

1 comment:

Joy said...

Hooray! It's great to see your name on the NFF Challenge participants list. :) I remembered early this morning about THE TRANSLATOR and need to get that one on my list! Happy Reading!