So a friend of our’s has set an insane goal of attempting to read 50 books by the end of the year.

Since both of us Ski’s think this is an outstanding goal, and totally doable, we’re going to copy her and set it for ourselves! But with a hitch, the two of us are going to shoot for 100 (read one hundred) books! (That’s basically 1 book a week for each of us!)

Watch our progress as time goes on by glancing at this post from time to time. Also, as we’ve basically read every Cold War (boyski) and Mountaineering (girlski) book there is to read, feel free to give us suggestions on books to keep our drive alive!

And Baker — thanks for the great idea!!!

BOYSKI’s Books:

1.) The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (1/6/08 – 384pgs)
2.) The Terrorist Watch by Ronald Kessler (1/12/08 – 272pgs)
3.) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (1/18/08 – 396pgs)
4.) White Devil ~ A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America by Stephen Brumwell (1/24/08 – 282pgs)
5.) World War Z ~ An Oral History of The Zombie War by Max Brooks (1/28/08 – 342pgs)
6.) One Soldier’s War by Arkady Babchenko (2/4/08 – 395pgs)
7.) Kitchen Confidential ~ Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (2/10/08 – 320pgs)
8.) Salt ~ A World History by Mark Kurlansky (2/24/08 – 400pgs)
9.) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2/25/08 – 287 pgs)
10.) To the Limit ~ An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom Johnson (3/3/08 – 382 pgs)
11.) This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (3/14/08 -271 pgs)
12.) Lone Survivor ~ The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell (3/20/08 – 370pgs)
13.) Hard Call~ Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them by John McCain (3/25/08 – 375pgs)
14.) Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollman (3/28/08 – 188pgs)
15.) The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater (4/1/08 – 140 pgs)
16.) With the Old Breed ~ At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge (4/6/08 – 315 pgs)
17.) Space Wars ~ The First Six Hours of World War III by Michael Coumatos (4/11/08 – 400pgs)
18.) The Lost City by Henry Shukman (4/24/08 – 336pgs)
19.) Firehouse by David Halberstam (4/30/08 – 220pgs)
20.) McMafia by Misha Glenny (5/18/08 – 400pgs)
21.) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (5/28/08 – 318pgs)
22.) The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (6/1/08 – 320pgs)
23.) Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon (6/5/08 – 400pgs)
24.) The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (6/8/08 – 320pgs)
25.) The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (6/15/08 – 350pgs)
26.) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard (6/17/08 – 270pgs)
27.) The Last Colony by John Scalzi (6/18/08 – 320pgs)
28.) Once a Warrior King by David Donovan (6/26/08 – 330pgs)
29.) Tail End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45 by John Nichol (7/6/08 – 400pgs)
30.) The Samson Option: Isreal’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour Hersh (7/7/08 – 350pgs)
31.) Generation Kill by Evan Wright (7/18/08 – 368pgs)
32.) The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart (8/1/08 – 396pgs)
33.) The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy (8/4/08 – 500pgs)
34.) What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis (8/9/08 – 160pgs)
35.) Triggermen by Hans Halberstadt (8/12/08 – 300pgs)
36.) One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick (8/25/08 – 380pgs)
37.) The Charm School by Nelson Demille (9/6/08 – 630pgs)
38.) Paid in Full by Edwin Manilo (9/14/08 – 222pgs)
39.) All Soul’s: A Family Story From Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald (9/29/08 – 300pgs)
40.) Where the Mountains are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge by Jonathan Waterman (10/3/08 – 260pgs)
41.) We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines that took Fallujah by Patrick O’Donnell (10/7/08 – 260pgs)
42.) Lair’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis (10/19/08-250pgs)
43.) One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith (10/21/08 – 220pgs)

GIRLSKI’s Books:

1) contract with the earth by newt gingrich
2) surviving denali by jonathon waterman
3) wapiti wilderness by olaus and mardy murie
4) omnivore’s dilema by michael pollan
5) accidents in north american mountaineering by jed williamson
6) little heathens by mildred armstrong kalish
7) kiterunner by khaled hosseini
8 ) gaming the vote by william poundstone
9) yankee rock and ice: a history of climbing in the northeastern united states by guy and laura waterman
10) regions of the heart: the triumph and tragedy of alison hargreaves by david rose and ed douglas