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British Novel Challenge discipuladc December 6 2010, 16:09:34 UTC
1. Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse
2. My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
3. Pirates! an Adventure with Scientists & an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe
4. Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Johannes Cabal the Detective by Johnathan L. Howard
6. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
7. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
9. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
10. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

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Our Mutual Read Challenge discipuladc December 6 2010, 16:20:04 UTC
1. Round the Red Lamp; Being the Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle [re-read]
2. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
3. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
4. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
6. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
7. The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 Edited by James Blake Bailey

1. Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
2. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Norman
3. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt by Brian Fagan
4. Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer by M. J. Trow
5. Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers by Jan Freeman
6. The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick by Peter Lamont

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Popular Science Reading Challenge discipuladc June 27 2011, 13:04:23 UTC
1) Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
2) Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
3) The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4) The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
5) Hens' Teeth and Horses' Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
6) Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner by Fredrick Zugibe and David L. Carroll
7) The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss
8) The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
9) The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
10) The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans
11) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
12) Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife by Richard Conniff
13) Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly . . . The Cases That Have Baffled ( ... )

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