My Sort of Final List

According to the rules, we can read any number of books. So here is my list of 10 memoirs & biographies, that I currently have on my TBR list. I dont know if I WILL read them all - some of these are quite large & quite long - but I sure WANT to read them all.

An Uncommon Woman by Hannah Pakula (Empress Frederick - mother of Kaiser Wilhelm)
On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine (Christopher Wren)
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana & Michael Preston (William Dampier)
Leonardo Da Vinci by Charles Nicholl
Elizabeth by Randy Taborelli (Elizabeth Taylor - not Queen Elizabeth 1 or 2)
History Play by Rodney Bolt (Kit Marlowe)
Christina Queen of Sweden by Veronica Buckley
Rene Angelil (The making of Celine Dion) by Jean Beaunoyer & Jean Beaulne
Out of the Flames by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone (Michael Servetus)
Me & Shakespeare by Herman Gollob (a memoir)

Finally Getting My Shoes All In A Row!

It took a long time, but I have finalized my list at last. I think.

[in no particular order]

1. My Life In France - Julia Child
2. Lillian Hellman: A Life With Foxes And Scoundrels -Deborah Martinson
3. Brainiac - Ken Jennings
4. Poet Of The Appetites (biography of MFK Fisher) - Joan Reardon
5. Going Solo - Roald Dahl
6. Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
7. Tete-A-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves Of Simone De Beauvoir And Jean-Paul Sartre - Hazel Rowley
8. My Detachment - Tracy Kidder
9. After All - Mary Tyler Moore
10. The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom
11. The Hungry Ocean - Linda Greenlaw
12. A Thousand Sorrows - Elizabeth Kim
13. Truth & Beauty - Ann Patchett

Becky's List

Here are the books I'll try to get to for this challenge. I'd be happy to finish 8 of these.

The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton Jackson
(My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton Jackson)
(Hello, America by Livia Bitton Jackson)
No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel
Night by Elie Wiesel
Until We Meet Again by Michael Korenblit and Kathleen Janger
Alicia My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender
Isabella From Auschwitz to Freedom by Isabella Leitner
The Tale of The Ring: A Kaddish by Frank Stiffel
Dry Tears: The Story of A Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec
A Special Fate Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust by Alison Leslie Gold
In My Hands: Memories of A Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman

button

I'm going to post the button I sent to Piper, so everyone can add it to their blogs. Hope thats ok.

Button

Someone sent me the cutest button for this challenge months ago and since I'm without the internet right now, I have not been able to put the button on this page. Can you email it to me again? Thanks. piperoliveravram at yahoo dot com

Danielle's List of Possibilities

I love reading memoirs...they are my passion. Here are some that have been on my bookshelf and on my wish list for quite some time. I am looking forward to this challenge so I can finally work my way through these ever growing list of possibilities.

1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
2. Bitter Ice: A Memoir of Love, Food, and Obesession by Barbara Kent Lawrence
3. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
4. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of An Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
5. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poiter
6. Fly Me To The Moon: Bipolar Journey Through Mania and Depression by H.E. Logue
   
7. The Ride of Our Lives by Mike Leonard
8. My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
   
9. Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn vincent
   
10. The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett
11. Sugar and Salt: My Life With Bipolar Disorder by Jane Thompson
12. Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck
13. A Child Called 'It" by Dave Pelzer
14. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck
15. Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
    

I am looking forward to reading everyone's reviews and adding new books to my to Be Read pile!

My Picks

There are so many great possibilities for this challenge! Because the rules allow me to choose the number of books I read, I've decided to list all the titles I'd like to read - and then we'll see how far I get!

Note: I will be cross-listing my "In Their Shoes" picks with the Triple 8 Challenge (in - surprise, surprise - my "In Their Shoes" category). Because I have to read eight books in each category to complete that challenge, I am committed to read at least eight of these titles in 2008.

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  by Barbara Kingsolver (2007)


• Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet (2007)


• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle (1972)


• Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
  by Anne Lamott (2007)


• I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy (1995)


• I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006)


• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  by Maya Angelou (1970)


• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2007)


• iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak (2006)


• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon
  by Julie Phillips (2006)


• John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth
  by Elizabeth Partridge (2005)


• Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
  by Jerry Spinelli (1998)


• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
  by Ishmael Beah (2007)


• Looking Back: A Book of Memories by Lois Lowry (2000)


• Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox (2002)


• The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
  by Sidney Poitier (2000)


• Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant (2007)


• Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself by Frances Kuffel (1995)


• Personal History by Katharine Graham (1998)


• Seeking Enlightenment ... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Guide to Religion by Nevada Barr (2003)


• Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer (2008)


• The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
  by Karen Armstrong (2004)


• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman (1985)


• Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell (2007)


• Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond
  by Tiki Barber (2007)


• Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
  by David Mura (1991)


• The Way Home: Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime by Henry Dunow (2001)

Athena's List

Hello, here's my preliminary list, and I'm still open to suggestions of course. I've been on keen on memoirs and biographies before, but it's been awhile since I've read a lot of them. I blog at aquatique,net. Good luck everyone!

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
William Shakespeare or Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
No Reservations: around the world on an empty stomach by Anthony Bourdain
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 by Stella Tillyard
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Jumping The Gun

I posted a review of James Tiptree: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon at my blog. If you haven't finalized your list yet, please consider adding this one. If you HAVE finalized your list, sneak it on. This is an excellent biography. No kidding.

This was on my list (coming soon!) for the Challenge, and I truly meant to hold back from reading it until 2008, or at least the waning hours of 2007, but I just couldn't.

Kristina's List of Possibilites

Ok so here is my list and I'm hoping to get thru at least 6.....hopefully 8. There are a lot on this list that I really really would love to read, just to have read them. I'm probably going to change this list as new books come out, or my interests change...which happens quite a lot lol.

1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert
2. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
3. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife - Irene Spencer
4. It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life - Denise Jackson
5. You Can Run But You Can't Hide - Duane "Dog" Chapman
6. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Biography - Sidney Poiter
7. The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House - Nancy Gibbs
8. Marie Antoinette: The Journey - Antonia Fraser
9. The Unusual Suspect: My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith - Stephen Baldwin
10. My Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
11. Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood - Teri Garr
12. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination - Neal Gabler (2008)
13. Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
14. Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir - Bich Minh Nguyen
15. The Brotherhoods: A True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia - Guy Lawson and William Oldham
16. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin (Nov 2007)
17. His Bright Light - Danielle Steel
18. Mosaic - Amy Grant