So - not through the list yet, but been whittling them away. Current status is:
1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
2. Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin
3. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstader
4. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
FINISHED: 5. Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller (to the end this time!)
FINISHED: 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
8. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
FINISHED: 8. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
9. L'assomoir by Emile Zola
10.The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam
11. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
12. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
13. Papillon by Henri Charrière
FINISHED: 14. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
FINISHED: 15. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
16. Gift From Earth by Larry Niven
17. The Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan
FINIHSED: 18. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
19. The Passage by Justin Cronin
20. Between the River and the Bridge by Craig Ferguson
21. The Player of Games, by Iain M Banks
Part one is complete - I have a list of books from friends. The list is as follows:
1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
2. Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin
3. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstader
4. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
5. Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller (to the end this time!)
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
8. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
8. Outliers by Malccolm Gladwell
9. L'assomoir by Emile Zola
10.The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam
11. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
12. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
13. Papillon by Henri Charrière
14. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
15. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
16. Gift From Earth by Larry Niven
17. The Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan
18. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
19. The Passage by Justin Cronin
20. Between the River and the Bridge by Craig Ferguson
21. The Player of Games, by Iain M Banks
I am reading number 1 at the moment

I have read number 14. - Empire of the Sun