A GOOD CHANCE AT THE HALF CENTURY. The third quarter features substantial progress toward the 2008 Fifty Book Challenge. There are enough books finished or close to finished to make the goal feasible, although with a presidential campaign and a major macroeconomic event in progress, there's a challenge making the time to finish the reviews.

The first and second quarter reports are also available.

24. The Last Lecture, 10 July 2008.
25. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862, 12 July 2008.
26. On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, 14 July 2008.
27. Child 44, 18 July 2008.
28. The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, 20 July 2008.
29. I am Charlotte Simmons, 2 August 2008.
30. Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941, 5 August 2008.
31. The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain, 10 August 2008.
32. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, 11 August 2008.
33. Are the Rich Necessary? Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values, 14 August 2008.
34. The Steel Wave, 15 August 2008.
35. How the States Got Their Shapes, 19 August 2008.
36. Train Time, 25 August 2008.
37. Richistan, 26 August 2008.
38. Real Education, 4 September 2008, with a prequel on 3 September 2008.
39. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about us.), 6 September 2008.
40. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, 9 September 2008.
41. The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, 29 September 2008. Prescient.

The bookworm continues to grow.
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Crossposted at European Tribune, along with the first and second quarter reports.