Tropics' 888 Challenge

Political -

1. Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall And Catastrophic Legacy (read January 2008)
2. A Tragic Legacy: How A Good Vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed The Bush Presidency - Glenn Greenwald (read January 2008)
3. America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It - Mark Steyn (read February 2008)
4. Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong - Alan Colmes (read March 2008
5. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed - Jared Diamond
(reread June 2008)
6. The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler (read July 2008)
7. Thieves Of Baghdad - Matthew Bogdanos (read August 2008)
8. Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal (read September 2008)

History -

1. Travels With Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinksi
2. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before - Tony Horwitz
3. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise And Fall Of Captain James Cook - Martin Dugard (read May 2008)
4. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed - Jared Diamond (reread June 2008
5. The Rarest Of The Rare: Stories Behind The Treasures At The Harvard Museum Of Natural History - Nancy Pick (Read August 2008)
6. Unembedded - Anderson, Abdul-Ahad, Alford
7. Chaco Canyon: Archeologists Explore The Lives Of An Ancient Society - Brian Fagan (read October 2008)
8. Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA - Tim Weiner (read August 2008)

Memoir -

1. I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir - Art Buchwald (read January 2008)
2. Leaving Home: A Memoir - Art Buchwald (read January 2008)
3. The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (read February 2008)
4. Aftermath: Travels In A Post-war World - Farley Mowat (read February 2008)
5. Another Day In The Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On The Inside - Katrina Firlik (read April 2008)
6. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On An Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande (read April 2008)
7. Dispatches From The Edge: A Memoir Of War, Disasters, And Survival
- Anderson Cooper (read May 2008)
8. Tender At The Bone: Growing Up At The Table - Ruth Reichl (read July 2008)
9. Julie And Julia: My Year Of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell (read July 2008)
10. The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer (read September 2008)
11. When The Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away - Eric Newby (read September 2008)



Biography -

1. Passionate Nomad: The Life Of Freya Stark - Jane Geniesse (read March 2008)
2. Farley: The Life Of Farley Mowat - James King (read February 2008)
3. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise And Fall Of Captain James Cook - Martin Dugard
4. Through The Dark Labyrinth: A Biography Of Lawrence Durrell - Gordon Bowker
5. Ahmadinejad: The Secret History Of Iran's Radical Leader - Kasra Naji (read November 2008)
6. Maxfield Parrish - Sylvia Yount (read November 2008)
7. Cezanne - DK Art Books (read November 2008)

Natural History:

1. Roadside Geology Of Utah - Halka Chronic (read September 2008)
2. Scats And Tracks Of The Desert Southwest - James Halfpenny (read September 2008)

Global Fiction -

1. A House For Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul (read in San Carlos, Mexico, April 2008)
2. Wobegon Boy - Garrison Keillor (read June 2008)
3. The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston (read June 2008)
4. Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie (read June 2008)
5. Pere Goriot - Honore Balzac (read October 2008)
6. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud (read June 2008
7. The Stranger - Albert Camus (read November 2008)
8. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh (read November 2008)
10. The Quiet American - Graham Greene (read November 2008)
11. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (read November 2008)
12. City Of God - E.L. Doctorow

Essays -

1. The Best American Essays 2005 - Susan Orlean (read March 2008)
2. The Serpents Of Paradise: A Reader - Edward Abbey (read April 2008)
3. 1001 Books To Read Before You Die - Edited by Peter Boxall (read June 2008)

Travel & Adventure -

1. Down The Nile: Alone In A Fisherman's Skiff - Rosemary Mahoney (read January 2008)
2. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz (read in San Carlos, Mexico, March 2008)
3. Travels With Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinski (read May 2008)
4. Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain - Michael Paterniti. (read May 2008)
5. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise And Fall Of Captain James Cook - Martin Dugard.
6. The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, And The Search For Lost Species - Scott Weidensaul
7. Return To Wild America - Scott Weidensaul (read August 2008)
8. Last Chance To See - Douglas Adams (read August 2008)
9. The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger

Another year of wonderful books - 48 so far. Can I cheat and read 16 really short ones before year's end?

Hey, short books are still books!

Nifty book choices. Especially love your history & political categories.

#5 Absolutely, and it is not cheating. :) I got slowed down with a few really long books, and I have to balance them out with some short ones. That book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is really long. Happy Reading! You are doing great.
--BJ