[lordscarlet]

Let the games begin! The rules are discussed in the previous thread, FOFC Literature Draft.

Please make your picks by copying the below list and placing your selection next to the appropriate category. Bold your current selection and keep your selections through each round. I will also try to keep this thread up to date with current selections.

1. Fiction
2. Single Short Story
3. Poem
4. Fantasy/Science Fiction
5. Series (A set of books continuing the same story and intended to be read sequentially)
6. Sport Related
7. Children's
8. Non-Fiction
9. Biography/Autobiography
10. History

Label your selection like so:

Autobiography: 1.1 A Man and His Sandwich, Pumpy Tudors

The order, selected randomly by http://www.random.org/lists/ is:

A grid of selections can be viewed on Google Spreadsheets.



Round 1

1. Chief Rum, The Holy Bible, God [History]
2. cartman, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkein [Series]
3. st.cronin, The Dead, James Joyce [Short Story]
4. Maple Leafs, Hamlet, William Shakespeare [Fiction]
5. DaddyTorgo, The Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov [Series]
6. NoMyths, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin [Non-Fiction]
7. Warhammer, The Iliad, Homer [Poem]
8. larrymcg421, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain [Fiction]
9. Izulde, "The Waste Land", T.S. Eliot [Poem]
10. Axxon, Danse Macabre, Stephen King [Non-Fiction]

Round 2

1. Axxon, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling [Series]
2. Izulde, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov [Fiction]
3. larrymcg421, Paradise Lost, John Milton [Poem]
4. Warhammer, The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis [Series]
5. NoMyths, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri [Poem]
6. DaddyTorgo, Autobiographical Notes, Albert Einstein [Autobiography]
7. Maple Leafs, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank [History]
8. st.cronin, 1984, George Orwell, [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
9. cartman, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
10. Chief Rum, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens [Short Story]

Round 3

1. Chief Rum, Walden, Henry David Thoreau [Autobiography]
2. cartman, The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe [Short Story]
3. st.cronin, Dune, Frank Herbert [Series]
4. Maple Leafs, War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells [Fantasy/Sci-Fi]
5. DaddyTorgo, Children's and Household Tales (1857 - 211 stories), The Brothers Grimm [Children's]
6. NoMyths, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams [Series]
7. Warhammer, Catch-22, Joseph Heller [Fiction]
8. larrymcg421, 3.8 Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler [Autobiography]
9. Izulde, The Musketeers Saga - The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas [Series]
10. Axxon, Shogun, James Clavell [Fiction]

Round 4

1. Axxon, Slaugtherhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
2. Izulde, The Art of War, Sun Tzu [Non-Fiction]
3. larrymcg421, Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx [Non-Fiction]
4. Warhammer, Ball Four, Jim Bouton [Sports]
5. NoMyths, Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger [Sports]
6. DaddyTorgo, Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury [Fantasy/Sci-fi]
7. Maple Leafs, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Poem]
8. st.cronin, Rabbit, Run, John Updike [Sports]
9. cartman, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand [Fiction]
10. Chief Rum, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost [Poem]

Round 5

1. Chief Rum, Charlotte's Web, E.B. White [Children's]
2. cartman, Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Poem]
3. st.cronin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Anais Nin [Autobiography]
4. Maple Leafs, The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss [Children's]
5. DaddyTorgo, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman [Poem]
6. NoMyths, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson [Children's]
7. Warhammer, Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes [Short Story]
8. larrymcg421, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving [Short Story]
9. Izulde, North Dallas Forty, Peter Gent [Sports]
10. Axxon, The Miracle of Castel di Sangro, Joe McGinniss [Sports]

Round 6

1. Axxon, The Lottery, Shirley Jackson [Short Story]
2. Izulde, Night, Elie Wiesel [Autobiography]
3. larrymcg421, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum [Children's]
4. Warhammer, Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy [Biography]
5. NoMyths, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass [Autobiography]
6. DaddyTorgo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy [Short Story]
7. Maple Leafs, The Analects of Confucius, Confucius [Non-Fiction]
8. st.cronin, The Second World War, Winston Churchill [History]
9. cartman, Casey At The Bat, Ernest Thayer [Sports]
10. Chief Rum, 6.10 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card [Series]

Round 7

1. Chief Rum, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, Phillip K. Dick [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
2. cartman, Kama Sutra, Mallanaga Vatsyayana [Non-Fiction]
3. st.cronin, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig [Non-Fiction]
4. Maple Leafs, Paper Lion, George Plimpton [Sports]
5. DaddyTorgo, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong [Fiction]
6. NoMyths, Neuromancer, William Gibson [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
7. Warhammer, Frankenstein, Marry Shelley [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
8. larrymcg421, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Vern [Sci-Fi/Fantasy]
9. Izulde, The Little Prince, Antonie de Sainte Expury [Children's]
10. Axxon, The Canterbury Tales, Jeoffrey Chaucer [Poem]

Round 8

1. Axxon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein [Children's]
2. Izulde, A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin [Fantasy/Sci-fi]
3. larrymcg421, The Histories of Herodotus, Herodotus [History]
4. Warhammer, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon [History]
5. NoMyths, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Short Story]
6. DaddyTorgo, History of the Pelopennisian War, Thucydides
7. Maple Leafs, The Confessions of St. Augustine, St. Augustine of Hippo [Autobiography]
8. st.cronin, Light in August, William Faulkner [Fiction]
9. cartman, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson [Children's]
10. Chief Rum, Sweet Science, A.J. Libeling [Sports]

Round 9

1. Chief Rum, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton [Non-Fiction]
2. cartman, The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius [Biography]
3. st.cronin, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl [Children's]
4. Maple Leafs, The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry [Short Story]
5. DaddyTorgo, Two Treatises of Government, John Locke [Non-Fiction]
6. NoMyths, The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote [History]
7. Warhammer, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith [Non-Fiction]
8. larrymcg421, Tarzan series, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [Series]
9. Izulde, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
10. Axxon, The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [History]

Round 10

1. Axxon, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, Gertrude Stein [Autobiography]
2. Izulde, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", Ernest Hemingway [Short Story]
3. larrymcg421, Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof [Sports]
4. Warhammer, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne [Children's]
5. NoMyths, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger [Fiction]
6. DaddyTorgo, The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn [Sports]
7. Maple Leafs, The Six Enneads, Plotinus [Series
8. st.cronin, Lucktown, Bryan Penberthy [Poem]
9. cartman, All The President's Men, Woodward and Bernstein [History]
10. Chief Rum, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky [Fiction]

wademoore and Lathum graciously volunteered to drop out if the number surpassed 10. I was looking forward to seeing both of them participate, but it was easier on me to accept their offers and move on. This also allows me to discuss things behind the scenes with wade without an risk of impropriety.

This is starting on a Friday night, so I'm not going to push people to do much over the weekend. If you can make selections, that's fantastic, but I don't expect us to pick up much speed until Monday.

As mentioned in the previous thread, feel free to discuss choices, both observers and participants. Lively debate is expected and encouraged, but please don't give suggestions within the thread. Don't be that guy.