Cannonball Read

The Rules

1 - Faith of my Fathers by John McCain

2 - Dreams From my Father by Barack Obama

3 - The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series: 4 - Life, the Universe and Everything; 5 - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish; and 6 - Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

7 - the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

More Wodehouse - 8 - Jeeves and the Tie that Binds; 9 - Thank You, Jeeves; and 10 - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse

11 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

12 - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

13 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

14 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

15 - Naked by David Sedaris

16 - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

17 -  Jeeves in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse

18-25 - The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris 

26 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

27 - Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond 

28 - It’s a Jungle Out There by Amanda Marcotte

29 - The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

30 - The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

31 - The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano

32 - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

33-34 - More P.G. Wodehouse: The Cat-nappers and The Mating Season

35 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre

36 - Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert

37 - The Turnaround by George Pelecanos

38 - The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

39 - Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry

40 - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

41 - The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

42 - Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

43 - Howard’s End by E.M. Forster

44 - Timbuktu by Paul Auster

Catching up - 45 - Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos; 46 - The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri; 47 - Weight by Jeanette Winterson; 48-49 - Jeeves in the Offing and What Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse; 50-52 - Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, and Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris; 53 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; 54 - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy; 55 - Sex is Not a Natural Act by Leonore Tiefer

56 - Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

57-58 - Pop Feminism: Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti and The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability by Laura Kipnis

59 - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

60 - Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Street by Cadillac Man

61 - Wild Life by Molly Gloss

Catching up -  62-66 - The Graveyard Book, Coraline, Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman; 67 - Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby; 68 - Healthy at Every Size by Linda Bacon; 69 - World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks; 70-71 - No Way to Treat a First Lady and Boomsday by Christopher Buckley; 72-73 - My Man Jeeves and The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse; 74 - The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie; 75 - Saturday by Ian McEwan; 76 - You Unplugged by Scott W. Webb; 77 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; 78 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane; 79 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; 80 - Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant; 81 - Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

82 - How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

83 - Drama City by George Pelecanos

84 - Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

85 - Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris 

86 - A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

87 -  Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies by bell hooks

88 - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

89 - No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

90 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

91-92 - Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence

93 - I am America (and So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

94-95 - Sarah Vowell ’s The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Assassination Vacation

96 - A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

97 - The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

98 - Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace

99-100 - bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions and Salvation: Black People and Love

The List: final thoughts and a loose ranking of the books