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message 1: by Stephanie (last edited Mar 04, 2009 10:56AM) (new)

1366616 Am doing:

A-Z Title Challenge - Non-Fiction/Fiction
A-Z Author Challenge - Non-Fiction/Fiction
7 Classics Challenge


To finish reading the P.G. Wodehouse books that I can reasonably obtain

Finish the Daziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill

To reduce my physical to-be-read pile to single figures
Have roughly halved it since Jan 1st
Currently 25 - March 4th

To sell/donate my owned books as soon as read




message 4: by Stephanie (last edited Oct 08, 2009 10:07AM) (new)

1366616 A-Z Author Challenge - Non-Fiction

A - Frank Ackerman - Can We Afford the Future? Deciphering Climate Economics
B - Paul Broks - Into the Silent Land Travels in Neuropsychology
C - Maureen Corrigan - Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading Finding and Losing Myself in Books
D - David Stuart Davies - Bending the Willow Jeremy Brett As Sherlock Holmes
E - Charlie English - The Snow Tourist
F - Judith Flanders - Consuming Passions Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
G - Seth Godin - Meatball Sundae How New Marketing is Transforming the Business World
H - Lynsey Hanley - Estates An Intimate History
I - Christine Ingham - Panic Attacks
J - Carrie Jones - Cutting Up Playgirl A Memoir
K - Paul Kingsnorth - Real England
L - Felicity Lawrence - Eat Your Heart Out Who Really Decides What Ends Up on Your Plate?
M - Sara Maitland - A Book of Silence
N - Elizabeth Norton - She Wolves The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
O - Harriet O'Brien - Queen Emma and the Vikings A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England
P - Paul Peacock - Precycle!
Q - Tom Quinn - Eccentric London
R - Nick Rosen - How To Live Off-Grid - Journeys Outside The System
S - Tracey Smith- The Book of Rubbish Ideas An interactive, room-by-room, guide to reducing household waste.
T - D.J. Taylor. - Bright Young People The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
U - Paco Underhill - Why We Buy The Science Of Shopping
V - Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
W - Ruth Wajnryb - Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry Despatches from the Hospice of Fading Words
X - Xinran - What the Chinese Don't Eat
Y - Marwood Yeatman - The Last Food of England
Z -


message 5: by Stephanie (last edited Sep 05, 2009 06:05AM) (new)

1366616 A-Z Author Challenge - Fiction


A - [a:Douglas Adams|4|Douglas Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189120061p2/4.jpg] - [b:The Dirk Gently Omnibus|286041|The Dirk Gently Omnibus (Dirk Gently, #1-2)|Douglas Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173416251s/286041.jpg|2411150]
B - M.C. Beaton - Death of a Witch
C - Agatha Christie - The Pale Horse
D - Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet
E - Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides
F -
G - Adele Geras - Lily
H - Rose Heiney - The Days of Judy B
I - Rosemary Ingham - Where the Truth Lies
J - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
K - Etgar Keret - The Nimrod Flip-out
L - Oystein Lonn - The Necessary Rituals of Maren Gripe
M - Valerie Martin - The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
N -
O - Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost
P - Wendy Perriam - Little Marvel and Other Stories
Q -
R - Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
S - Lilian Margaret Spencer - The Adventures of Nathaniel Swubble
T - Mark Twain - The Diaries of Adam and Eve
U - Linn Ullmann - Stella Descending
V - Willy Vlautin - Northline
W - Keith Waterhouse - Mrs. Pooter's diary
X - Gao Xingjian - Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Stories
Y - Richard Yates - A Good School
Z - Richard Zimler - Children's Hours: Stories About Childhood



message 6: by Stephanie (last edited Aug 09, 2009 02:09AM) (new)

1366616 A-Z Title Challenge - Non-Fiction


A - The Abolition of Britain From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana by Peter Hitchens
B - Bad Food Britain by Joanna Blythman
C - Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce
D - Derby Days by D. E. Brimson
E - Enough Breaking Free from the World of More by John Naish
F - Fat Pig Diet by Michael Winner
G - Groovy Old Men A Spotter's Guide by Nick Baker
H - Hopscotch and Handbags The Essential Guide to Being a Girl by Lucy Mangan
I - Inside Her Pretty Little Head A New Theory of Female Motivation and What It Means for Marketing by Jane Cunningham
J - The Joy of Laziness How to Slow Down and Live Longer by Michaela Axt-Gadermann and Peter Axt
K - Katey The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
L - London City of Disappearances by Iain Sinclair
M - My Life on a Hillside Allotment by Terry Walton
N - Not in My Name A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy by Julie Burchill
O - Our Culture, What's Left of It The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
P - Platform Souls The Trainspotter As Twentieth-Century Hero by Nicholas Whittaker
Q - Queuing for Beginners The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime by Joe Moran
R - The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer ..and How It Rose Again by Judi Bevan
S - Subterranean Railway by Christian Wolmar
T - The Thrift Book Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
U - Urban Dreams, Rural Realities by Daniel Butler
V - The Victorian Christmas by Anna Selby
W - We're British, Innit An Irreverent A-Z of All Things British by Iain Aitch
X - The Xmas Files The Philosophy of Christmas by Stephen Law
Y - Yorkshire Transvestite Found Dead on Everest by Mike Harding
Z -


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