THE SEMIANNUAL REPORT. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Herewith the progress on the Fifty Book Challenge.

1. The Tsarina's Daughter, 6 January 2009.


2. Mutiny, 7 January 2009.


3. The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, 9 January 2009.


4. Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, 10 January 2009.


5. The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington, 25 January 2009.


6. Titanic's Last Secrets, 5 February 2009.


7. With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, 10 February 2009.


8. The Great Derangement, 3 March 2009.


9. Panic, 12 March 2009.


10. The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, 15 March 2009.


11. Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World, 18 March 2009.


12. Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag, 19 March 2009.


13. The Duchesses: The Story of Britain's Ultimate Steam Locomotives, 24 May 2009.


14. Outliers: The Story of Success, 27 May 2009.


15. The Big Sort: Why The Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart, 10 June 2009.


16. No Right to Win, 11 June 2009.


17. Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, 25 June 2009.


18. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, 29 June 2009.

This year's bookworm has an opportunity to grow a few more segments.

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(Cross-posted to European Tribune and Fifty Book Challenge.)