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I'm getting a bit of a late start, but I wanted to participate. My goal is 100 hundred books for the year and the A-Z Titles challenge (starting in May).A- Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery
B- Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
C- A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb
D- Divorced, Beheaded, Survived A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII - Karen Lindsey
E- The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
F- Firebird - Mercedes Lackey
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H- The Host - Stephenie Meyer
I- The Ice Queen A Novel - Alice HOffman
J- Joys of Love - Madeleine L'engle
K- The King's Pleasure - Norah Lofts
L- The Luxe - Anna Godbersen
M- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
N- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
O- Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
P- Princess of the Midnight Ball - Jessica Day George
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R-
S- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
T- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
U- Undead and Unwed - MaryJanice Davidson
V-
W- Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier
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Y- Yakuza Moon Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter - Shoko Tendo
Z-
BBC Book Challenge
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
33/100
APRIL BOOKS:
1) The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes
2) Emily of New Moon - L.M. Montgomery
3) Emily Climbs - L.M. Montgomery
4) Emily's Quest - L.M. Montgomery
5) Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
6) The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
7) The Witches of Worm - Silpha Keatley Snyder
7/100
MAY BOOKS:1) The Memory Keeper's Daugher - Kim Edwards
2) Princess of the Midnight Ball - Jessica Day George
3) The Luxe - Anna Godbersen
6) Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale7) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
8) Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery
9) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
12) The Host - Stephenie Meyer13) The Ice Queen A Novel - Alice Hoffman
14) Anne of Windy Poplars - L.M. Montgomery
May Total = 14
Goal Total = 21/100
I'm starting to think I started too late in the year to reach 200... but I'm going to keep trying.
JUNE BOOKS1) The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
2) Saints in Limbo - River Jordan
3) Yakuza Moon Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter - Shoko Tendo
4) Jane Millionaire - Janice Lynn
5) Hazard - Jo Beverley6) Firebird - Mercedes Lackey
7) Wild Orchids - Jude Deveraux
8) Rebellious Desire - Julie Garwood
June Total = 8
Goal Total = 29/100
JULY BOOKS
1) So Worthy My Love - Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
2) The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
3) Divorced, Beheaded, Survived A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII - Karen Lindsey
4) Magic for Marigold - L.M. Montgomerey5) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahme-Smith
6) The 19th Wife A Novel - David Ebershoff
7) Innocent Traitor A Novel of Lady Jane Grey - Alison Weir
8) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
July Total = 8
Goal Total = 37/100
AUGUST BOOKS1)Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
2) Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier
3) Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
4) A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
5) The King's Pleasure - Norah Lofts
6) Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan7) Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume
8) Poppy - Avi
9) Surprise Party - R.L. Stine
10) The Stout-Hearted Seven Orphaned on the Oregon Trail - Neta Lohnes Frazier
11) Patience, Princess Catherine - Carolyn Meyer
12) Daughters of Eve - Lois Duncan
13) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'brien
BRIDIE OF THE WILD ROSE INN, 1695 - Jennifer Armstrong
14) Forever - Judy Blume
15) Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
16) Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
Just spent a week reading almost YA/Childrens books exclusively. Great chance to revisit some favorites and read a few new (old) ones.
17) Austenland - Shannon Hale18) Undead and Unwed - MaryJanice Davidson
19) The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
20) This Is Chick-Lit - Ed. by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
21) Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris22) Undead and Unemployed - MaryJanice Davidson
23) What Men Want - Deborah Blumentahl
24) Undead and Unappreciated - MaryJanice Davidson
25) Undead and Unreturnable - MaryJanice Davidson
26) ANN OF THE WILD ROSE INN, 1774 - Jennifer Armstrong
27) Emily Of The Wild Rose Inn, 1858 - Jennifer Armstrong28) Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
August total = 28
Goal Total = 65/100
SEPTEMBER BOOKS1) Undead and Unpopular - MaryJanice Davidson
2) Tangled Webs Anne Bishop
3) Emma, Volume 1 - Kaoru Mori
4) Emma, Volume 2 - Kaoru Mori
5) Undead and Uneasy - Mary Janice Davidson
6) Emma Volume 3 - Kaoru Mori
7) LAURA OF THE WILD ROSE INN, 1895 - Jennifer Armstrong
8) Undead and Unworthy - MaryJanice Davidson
9) CLAIRE OF THE WILD ROSE - Jennifer Armstrong
10) A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb
11) Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris12) All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
13) Palace Circle A Novel - Rebecca Dean
14) Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson
September Total = 14
Goal Total = 79/100
OCTOBER BOOKS1)The Shadow Queen-Anne Bishop
2) A Little Change of Face-Lauren Baratz-Logsted
3) Shelf Discovery-Lizzie Skurnick
4) GRACE OF THE WILD ROSE INN-Jennifer Armstrong
5) Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume-Jennifer O'Connell
6) From Dead to Worse-Charlaine Harris7) The Alchemist's Daughter A Novel-Katherine McMahon
8) The Damsel in This Dress-Marianne Stillings
October Total = 8
Goal Total = 87/100
NOVEMBER BOOKS1) Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor
2) Love, Rosie - Cecelia Ahern
3) Hot Stuff - Carly Phillips
4) Karma Girl - Jennifer Estep
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