This thread is where we will be posting all of our lists as far as keeping track of our individual points and where we will do a weekly leaderboard. There should be no other posts in here. (Lori and I will post first to give an example for those who are new). You are able to post your lists on the other thread as well if you are wanting to share with the others what your list looks like.

Things to remember:

- You are only able to claim the points for the task if you have completed the WHOLE task. There are no "half" points.
- To be included on the leaderboard you MUST post a list here that has your updated total at the bottom. You are in charge of adding up your totals and keeping track of that.

- Please remember to cross off the ones you have completed and update your totals at the bottom.

5 points:

1. THe Mirror & Gift From The Sea
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover
3. The Winter of Our Discontent
4. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. My Friend Leonard by James Frey
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Running with Scissors A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

10 points:

1. Cash The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
4. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
5. A Great and Terrible Beauty & A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
6. tbd
7. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
8. Spook Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

15 points:

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. The Kite Runner & The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5. The Good Good Pig The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7. The Alienist & The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Late 1800's--1896 & 1893)
8. Tim Gunn A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

25 Points:

1. Naked Lunch The Restored Text & The Dharma Bums
2. Mansfield Park & Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Wuthering Heights-- in an Alphabeat song
5. The Sun Also Rises & Never Let Me Go
6. The God of Small Things & Geisha A Life
7. Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (economics) & Deluxe How Luxury Lost Its Luster (marketing)
8. The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl


TOTAL: 15 points

Molly's Fall/Winter List:

5 points:

1. TBD & TBD
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
4. Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
7. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
8. Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters


10 points:

1. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
2. To Kill A Mockingbird
3. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
4. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
5. The LOVELY Bones & Me Talk PRETTY One Day
6. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
8. Geisha: A Life


15 points:

1. TBD
2. The Kite Runner & The Book Thief
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. The Other Boleyn Girl & Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
8. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

25 points:

1. On The Road & Howl
2. Frankenstein & The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. TBD
4. Tom Sawyer-- from the Rush song
5. Catch 22 & Brideshead Revisited
6. TBD
7. Worst--(COOKING CLASS!)--
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen; BEST--(English)--
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
8. Into Thin Air

Total Points: 0

1. In My Sister's Country and Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
3. In Cold Blood
4. Leaf Storm and Other Stories
5. The Color Purple
6. A Million Little Pieces
7. I Am Legend
8. Almost Like Being in Love A Novel

10 points:

1. Dream Brother The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
2. Middlesex
3. Twilight
4. The Things They Carried
5. The Beautiful And Damned and Me Talk Pretty One Day
6. A Walk to Remember
7. Flowers in the Attic
8. The Pluto Files The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

15 points:

1. A Christmas Carol
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books and The Book Thief
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
5. The Black Sheep
6. A Streetcar Named Desire
7. Water for Elephants
8. The Double Bind

20 Points:

1. About a Boy and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

25 Points:

1. The Red Badge of Courage and The Awakening
2. The Secret Garden and The Road
3. Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Their Eyes Were Watching God
6. Mao's Last Dancer and The Namesake
7. A Beautiful Mind and Negotiating with the Dead
8. Voices from Chernobyl The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Books Read: 3
Total Points: 30

Kat's Challenge:

1. Ender's Game & The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
3. Candy Girl A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
4. Things Fall Apart
5. The Color Purple
6. Smashed Story of a Drunken Girlhood
7. The Shining
8. Dry A Memoir

10 points:

1. Conversations With Tom Petty
2. Animal Farm
3. Hype: Twilight
4. The Book Thief
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude & The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
6. TBD
7. The Screwtape Letters
8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany

15 points:

1. Christmas Jars
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books & My Life in France
3. Neverwhere A Novel
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. Les Misérables
7.TBD
8. Gain, Copper, notation, grab

25 Points:

1. TBD
2. Frankenstein & ?
3. Hamlet & The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
4. Lolita
5. TBD
6. Memoirs of a Geisha & ?
7. TBD
8. TBD

ehh I might join although I should probably focus on schoolwork this semester!

but I'm gonna go ahead and claim a spot here... might delete it later if I don't have enough time.

5pts
1. the bully 190 and marry anne saves the day. 357/357
2. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Esmé Raji Codell 0/216
3. Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier , Laura Levine 0/288
4. The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr 0/208
5. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden 0/234
6. glass by Hopkins 0/688
7. Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde 0/224
8. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan 0/185
pts 5/40 pages/ 357/2400

10 pts
1. A Hard Day's Write, Revised Edition: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Songby Steve Turner 0/224
2. Growing Up by Russell Baker 0/352
3. uglies 425/425
4. The River Between Us by Richard Peck 0/176

5. Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, Book 1) by Meg Cabot 0/368
The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwardsn 0/342
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 0/320
7. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 0/192
8. House Of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel 0/429

pts 10/80 pgs 425/2728

15pts
1. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge 0/176
2. The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson Greece 0/192
Chocolat by Joanne Harris France 0/306
3. pretties 370/370
4. fudge cupcake murder. 304/304
5. The Goats by Brock Cole0/194
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 0/592
7. Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose 0/384
Turning Points - Actual and Alternate Histories: America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s (Turning Points) by J. Golson 0/238
8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Way was my word. 0/230

30/120
674/2986
20 pts
jenny nimmo for one.


25 pts

1, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 0/256
The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics) by William Dean Howells 0/400
2. call of the wild. Jack London 0/190
Krik? Krak!by Edwidge Danticat 0/240
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray 0/354
& Dorian An Imitation 0/288
4. the darkest passions Dr. Jeckel and Mr Hyde was mentioned in the background of the chorous of Blue October’s Inner Glow. 0/190
5. Loving by Henry Green 0/206
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs 0/304
6. whichever Bluford high book I am reading African American and lebonise.
Untill we meet again bluford high 144/144 &
10 things i hate about me 0/297
7. some history book for worst A History of Western Art Revised by Laurie Schneider Adams 22/640
And a poetry book for best. writing poems by michelle Boisseau. 336/336
8. Right of Thirst: A Novel (P.S.) by Frank Huyler 0/384

pts 0/200
pts pgs 0/4229+

pts 45/460
pages 1966/12343+

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1. TBD
2. Negotiating with the Dead
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
4. Strange Pilgrims
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. TBD
7. The Graveyard Book
8. TBD

10 Points

1. TBD
2. "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
3. TBD
4. Gone With The Wind
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. TBD


15 Points

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
6. August Osage County
7. TBD
8. Invitation to a Beheading (word: invitation)

25 Points

1. TBD
2. The Liars' Club A Memoir and
3. Anna Karenina and What Happened to Anna K?
4. Lolita
5. Rabbit, Run and To the LighthouseTo the Lighthouse
6. Ceremony and Embroideries
7. TBD
8. Into the Wild

5 Points:

1. V for Vendetta – Allan Moore. (10/05) The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K LeGuin
2. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin
3. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Classic Stories 1: The Golden APPLES of the Sun & R Is for Rocket – Ray Bradbury
5. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury (09/19)
6. A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
7. The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
8. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

10 Points:

1. Heroin Diaries – Nikii Sixx
2. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (11/17)
3. Julie and Julia – Julie Powel (10/31)
4. Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone
5. Notes from a SMALL Island - Bill Bryson. A SHORT History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
6. The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing - Sam Hamill
7. Possession – A.S. Byatt (10/24)
8. The History of the End of the World – Jonathan Kirsch

15 Points:

1. Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury (09/16)
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (10/07) , The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (10/04)
3. The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia – Ursula K LeGuin
4. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
5. All Creatures Great and Small – James Harriot
6. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer. Night - Elie Wiesel
8. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (11/16)

20 points:

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams, Mort - Terry Pratchett

25 Points:

1. I chose Romanticism: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Collected Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
2. Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (from the song The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Reba McEntire)
5. Beloved – Tony Morrison, Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou, Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (10/11)
7. My best was English: The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fford. My worst was Physics: Physics for Future Presidents - Richard A Muller
8. Panic in Level Four – Richard Preston

Books Read: 12
Total Points: 80

5 points

1. 2 library books
2. The Bell Jar
3. In Cold Blood
4. Salem Falls
5. As I Lay Dying
6. Dry A Memoir
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

10 points
1. Dolly My Life and Other Unfinished Business
2. The Canterbury Tales
3. Watership Down
4. Suite Française
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything & The God of Small Things
6. Lolita
7. Elizabeth Costello
8. nonfiction/learning

15 points
1. holiday
2. Kafka on the Shore & The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Ender's Game
4. The Girl Who Played with Fire
5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
6. A Streetcar Named Desire
7. historical fiction/nonfiction from same period
8. Aid: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

20 points
1. The Red Queen & Saturday

25 points
1. Postmodernism: The Crying of Lot 49 & White Noise
2. Persuasion & The Handmaid's Tale
3. Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Atonement & Infinite Jest A Novel
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books & Push
7. Band Fags! & What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
8. Columbine

Points: 045/460

5 points

1. TBD library books
2. The Beautiful and Damned
3. Wintergirls
4. Salem Falls
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Curious Wine A Novel

10 Points

1. TBD
2. The Idiot
3. Animal Farm
4. The Book Thief
5. An Abundance of Katherines and TBD
6. Just Ella - 218
7. Franny and Zooey
8. TBD non-fiction / learning


15 Points

1. A Wallflower Christmas
2. Rich Man, Poor Man & The Castle
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Thirteen Reasons Why -288
5. The Black Sheep - 352
6. A Doll's House - 72
7. The Alienist & Jack the Ripper The Facts
8. TBD wait sabotage gut sandwich

20 Points

P.G. Wodehouse Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors

25 Points

1. Lost Generation: A Moveable Feast (reread) & Black Obelisk
2. Of Human Bondage & TBD
3. Anna Karenina & What Happened to Anna K? -960
4. Brave New World
5. Catch-22 & The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 192 (or Naked Lunch The Restored Text)
6. Stupeur Et Tremblements and TBD on cultures -186
7. How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines and physics (worst) A Brief History of Time
8. Columbine

TOTALS
Books: 6
Pages: 1308
Points: 55/460

5 points:

1. The Lovely Bones and Water for Elephants
2. Once Upon a Time The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family
3. Shiver
4. Things Fall Apart
5. The Catcher in the Rye
6. Go Ask Alice
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Middlesex

10 points:

1. Strange Fruit The Biography of a Song
2. Brave New World
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4. The Book Thief
5. Little Women and Girl in Hyacinth Blue
6. Perfect Match (it was listed on b&n under "Contemporary Romance")
7. Franny and Zooey
8. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West

15 points:

1. The Gift
2. The Kite Runner & The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
4. The Thirteenth Tale
5. Animal Farm
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7. Those Who Save Us and The Kingdom of Auschwitz 1940-1945
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Resolving, Registration, Holiday, Witch)

20 Points:

1. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
2. Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

25 Points:

1. The Bell Jar and The Awakening
2. Sense and Sensibility and The Glass Castle A Memoir
3. Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Wuthering Heights
5. The Grapes of Wrath and Never Let Me Go
6. Season of Migration to the North and Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
7. How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines and Confessions (English and History)
8.Life of Pi

Total: 40/460

Five Points:
1. Life of Pi - 480
& The Glass Castle - 288
2. Summer Sisters - 416
3. Snow Crash - 440
4. House of Leaves - 736
5. The Handmaid's Tale - 311
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 204
7. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - 310
8. Intersex - 160

Ten Points
1. Patti Smith Complete 1975-2006 - 336
2. Siddhartha - 160
3. The Host - 619
4. Number the Stars - 154
5. Pretties - 370
& The Lovely Bones - 328
6. Kushiel's Dart - 912
7. The War of the Worlds - 224
8. Can't Stop Won't Stop - 560

Fifteen Points
1. Hogfather - 448
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books - 356
& The Kite Runner - 372
3. A Wrinkle in Time - 211
4. Sexing the Cherry - 167
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma - 464
6. Elephant Man - 288
7. Schindler's List - 432
& The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - 224
8. Rose of No Man's Land

Twenty-Five Points
1. Lolita - 336
& The Color Purple - 304
2. Brave New World - 288
& The Road - 241
3. Pride and Prejudice - 320
& Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 320
4. Post Office - 196
5. Neuromancer - 271
& The Blind Assassin
6. Stealing Buddha's Dinner - 272
& Down to the Bone - 384
7. Cunt - 304
& The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - 400
8. Voices from Chernobyl - 256

TOTALS
Books: 0 / 42
Points: 0 / 440
Pages: 0 / 14,823

5 Points

1. The Kite Runner & The Glass Castle A Memoir
2.Murder on the Orient Express
3. An Ice Cold Grave
4. Fall on Your Knees
5. A Light in the Attic
6. Go Ask Alice
7. Frostbitten
8. She's Not There A Life in Two Genders

10 Points

1. TBD
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Angels & Demons
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
5. TBD
6. Vamps and the City
7. The Great Gatsby
8.The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning

15 Points

1. Blue Christmas
2. Shanghai Girls A Novel & The Woman and the Ape
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Nature Girl
5. Charlotte's Web
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
7. TBD
8. (Random word :Green) Gorgeously Green Every Girl's Guide to an Earth-Friendly Life

20 points
1.Coraline & Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

25 Points

1. Postmodernism GARDENS IN THE DUNES A Novel & Lolita
2. Practical Magic & Dracula
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5.A Clockwork Orange & Naked Lunch
6Kosher Sex A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy & Autobiography Of A Geisha
7. TBD
8. The Zombie Survival Guide Complete Protection From the Living Dead

Totals: 5/460

5 Points

1. Garden Spells and The History of Love
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (birthday: Jan. 1st)
3. TBD
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Running with Scissors: A Memoir

10 Points

1. TBD
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Twilight
4. Little Women
5. A Million Little Pieces and Dewey The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
6. TBD
7. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
8. TBD

15 Points

1. Christmas Jars
2. The Book Thief and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. The Eyre Affair
4. Catching Fire
5. Five Little Pigs
6. TBD
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America and TBD
8. Something Borrowed (Random Word: Something)


20 Points

1. TBD and TBD

25 Points

1. Beat Generation: On the Road and Naked Lunch The Restored Text
2. Known Classic: Lolita and New Classic: The Kite Runner
3. Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. TBD
5. To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby
6. Season of Migration to the North and TBD
7. TBD and TBD
8. The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea

5 points
1.
-Invitation Only -Kate Brian
-
2.
3. The Winter of Candy Canes -Debbie Viguie
4. The Spring of Candy Apples -Debbie Viguie
5.
6. Crystal Lies -Melody Carlson
7. The Graveyard Book -Neil Gaiman
8. Evermore -Alyson Noel


10 points
1.
2.
3. Uglies -Scott Westerfeild
4.
5.
-Wicked Lovely -Melissa Marr
-My Beautiful Disaster -Michelle Buckman
6. The boys next door- Jennifer Echols
7. Chosen -P.C. Cast
8.


15 points
1.
2.
Notes from a spinning planet: Ireland
-Melody Carlson
Notes from a spinning planet: Papua New Guinea -Melody Carlson
3.
4. The Fall of Candy Corn -Debbie Viguie
5.
6.
7.
8. Freak the Mighty -Rodman Philbrick

20 points
1.
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25 points
1.
2.
3.
4. Lord of the Rings -JRR Toliken
5. Are you there God it's me Margaret -Judy Blume
The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
6.
-30 Guys in 30 Days -Micol Ostow
-
7.
8.

Points:25/460
Books:5/44

Danielle, I like the way you made your list with the tally of pages and everything! I might do that with mine if that's alright :)

I think this time I'm going to fill them in as I go. Unless I get bored one day.

5 Points

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and Graceling
2. something by Agatha Christie (born in Sept) or The Blind Side Evolution of a Game (about football, Terry Bradshaw was born in Sept)
3. Book with a winter word
4. Thanksgiving
5. Banned book
6. Book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.
7. Masquerade
8. Annie on My Mind

10 Points

1. Book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Book that was on a required reading list for high school that you never read OR read a book that a teacher recommended to you.
3. Read a book that was really hyped that you swore you would never read.
4. Book set primarily during a war
5. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All A Novel and Speak
6. My Own True Love
7. Book by an author who uses their initials as part of their name
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points

1. A Christmas Story The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
2. 2 books set in 2 different countries that are different from where you live and that you have never traveled to before.
3. The Hunger Games
4. Fire
5. Book with a farm animal in the title or with a main character who lives on a farm
6. Play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Random word: cup

20 Points

Pick 2 books by 2 contemporary British authors.

25 Points

1. The Call of the Wild & White Fang (Naturalism)
2. Known classic and new classic
3. Alice in Wonderland and The Looking Glass Wars
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Julie of the Wolves and Bless Me, Ultima
7. Read a book that has to do with your BEST and WORST subject in school
8. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

TOTAL:
Books read: 10
Tasks Completed: 7/33
Point total: 80/460

September 7th 2009 - February 22nd 2010.

5 Points

1. Go to the library and check two books out and read them.
2. Blood Promise - Richelle Mead (November)
3. Read a book with a winter word:
4. Read a book with a fall word- leaf/leaves, turkey, autumn, fall, pumpkin, acorn, thanksgiving, apple, hayride, harvest, pilgrims, Indians, feast, thanks,
5. read a book on the banned or challenged book list. http://deletecensorship.org/downloads/bo...
6. Read a book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.
7. Read a scary/spooky/horror novel in honor of Halloween OR a book with a vampire, witch, werewolf, or ghost as one of the main characters
8. Read a book about LGBT issues, with an LGBT main character, or by an LGBT author.

10 Points

1. Read a book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Back To School: Read a book that was on a required reading list for high school that you never read OR read a book that a teacher recommended to you.
3. The Seventh Scroll
4. Veteren’s Day: Read a book set primarily during a war (the war cannot be a fictitious war)
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms: for example..reading Little Woman & The God of Small Things
6. Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
7. Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points

1. Read a book primarily set during one of these holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza.
2. Canada: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
USA: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
3. Read a book set in an alternate universe.
4. Artemis Fowl
5. October 2nd is Farm Animal Day: Read a book with a farm animal in the title--cow, pig, horse, sheep, goat, chicken, etc. or with a main character who lives on a farm.
6. read a play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play.
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Use a random word generator
Cardboard / Exclusive / Corrupt / Metal


20 points:

Kelly's Choice-- TBD

25 Points

1. Pick one of the following American literary movements from the PBS website and read 2 books from 2 different authors in this literary movement. (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti...) There will be a dropdown that says Literary Movements. There will be a blurb about each along with some important authors in each movement.
2. - Read a known classic and THEN read a book of Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years
(http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... After reading both write a tiny review in our thread about whether or not you think the "new" classic has the ability to stand the test of time.
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list(http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t...)
6. Expanding Your Horizons: Read 2 books either written by 2 authors of these cultures, about one of these cultures or with a main character from 2 of these cultures.
7. Read a book that has to do with your BEST and WORST subject in school.
8. In honor of 9/11-- read a fiction/nonfiction book about a disaster --can be natural (tornado, flood hurricane etc.) or manmade—(Titanic, fires, bombing, etc.)

Points: 55

Other: Spud , Wicked Lovely, Ink exchange, The Hobbit

5 Points
1.Crime and Punishment & The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2.And Then There Were None
3.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
4.Strange Pilgrims
5.Fahrenheit 451
6.Addicted A Novel
7.The Haunting of Hill House
8.Keeping You a Secret

10 Points
1.I, Tina
2.Memoirs of a Geisha
3.Uglies
4.Mila 18
5.Little Women & Small Town Girl
6.Jane Eyre
7.Betrayed
8.In Cold Blood

15 Points
1.Hallowe'en Party
2.The Kite Runner & Letters from Rifka
3.The Hunger Games
4.Catching Fire
5.On a Pale Horse
6.The Woman in White
7.Number the Stars & Schindler's List
8.Once Dead, Twice Shy

20 Points
Kelly's choice: The Millstone & Neverwhere A Novel

25 Points
1.The Scarlet Letter & Uncle Tom's Cabin
2.Persuasion & The Liars' Club A Memoir
3.Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4.Wuthering Heights
5.The Moviegoer & The Big Sleep
6.Roots & Indian Killer
7.BEST:HISTORYAztec & WORST:HEALTH Sugar Isn't Everything
8.The Serpent's Coil

BOOKS: 3/44
TOTAL: 45/460

5 Points
1. El Si De Las Ninas & La Regenta / the Regent's Wife
2. San Manuel Bueno, Martir
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. The Autumn of the Patriarch
5. Tropic of Cancer
6. Junky The Definitive Text of Junk
7. Dracula
8. Journal du voleur

10 points
1. Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain
2. Misericordia
3. Angels & Demons
4. Empire of the Sun
5. Don Alvaro o la Fuerza del Sino/ Don Alvaro or The Force of Fate & The Power and the Glory
6. El Sombrero de Tres Picos
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
8. Guia Muggle del Mundo Magico

15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude & Luces De Bohemia
3. Fahrenheit 451
4.
5. The Horse and His Boy
6. HAMLET
7. The Other Boleyn Girl & Tudor England
8. The Campaign

20 points
1. Trainspotting & The remains of the day

25 Points
1. Modernism: Ada, or Ardor A Family Chronicle & For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Wuthering Heights & High Fidelity
3. Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4. 1984
5. Atonement & On the Road
6. Japan/Iran: Stupeur et tremblements & سووشون
7. English/Maths: On the Sublime & A Beautiful Mind
8. Into the Wild


BOOKS: 10/46
POINTS: 70/460

5 Points

1. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait: Kahlo, Frida AND
The Whale Rider: Ihimaera, Witi
2. Anything We Love Can Be Saved (Paperback):Alice Walker
3. The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel (Paperback): Paul Beatty
4. House of Leavesby Mark Z. Danielewski
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
6. Crank: Ellen Hopkins
7. The Bad Seed: March, William
8. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel: Fannie Flagg

10 Points

1. Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics: Alicia Keys
2. The White Bone: A Novel by Barbara Gowdy
3. Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer
4. Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror: Goldberg, Jeoffrey
5. Sister of My Heart: A Novel: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee* AND The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: Sepúlveda, Luis
(heart, love)
6. The Time Traveler's Wife:Audrey Niffenegger
7. Dead Poets Society: N.H. Kleinbaum
8. Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner


15 Points

1. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
by Christopher Moore
2. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village: Sarah Erdman AND A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
3. Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes
4. Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri
5. A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami
6. A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry
7. Suite Française: Irène Némirovsky AND The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister: Nonna Bannister
8. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah. (my word was Falling)

25 Points

1. The House on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros AND The Good Earth (Enriched Classics): Pearl S. Buck
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics):Thomas Hardy AND The Road: Cormac McCarthy
3. Pride and Prejudice (Paperback): Jane Austen AND Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Seth Grahame-Smith
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Truman Capote
(SONG: "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something)
5. The Painted Bird: Jerzy Kosiński AND Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis
6. What Is the What: Dave Eggers AND Black Rain: A Novel: Masuji Ibuse
7. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love (Hardcover): Helen Fisher AND Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: Oliver W. Sacks
8. The Teahouse Fire: Ellis Avery

Just as a reminder..with Kelly's task added..there is no a total of 460 points that can be earned.

I might give this a try! Love the idea. I too should focus more on my upcoming semester, but hey :) And I totally stole loads of you guys' ideas as well.

5 Points
1.
2. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
3. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
4. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewsky
5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
6. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
7. Dracula, Bram Stoker
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

0/40

10 Points
1. Dream Brother The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, David Browne
2. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. Atonement, Ian McEwan
5. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
6. Persuasion, Jane Austen
7. Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence
8. The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs

0/80

15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
2. Northanger Abbey , Jane Austen & Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
3. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
4. (must check cover first)
5. Out Stealing Horses A Novel, Per Petterson
6. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
7.
8. Nest: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

0/120

20 points:
Kelly's Choice-- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess & Animal Farm, George Orwell

0/20

25 Points
1. Lost Generation: This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, & For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
2. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne & Possession A Romance, AS Byatt
3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
4. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (quoted by mewithoutYou)
5. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf &
6. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden &
7. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami & Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
8. Life of Pi, Yann Martel

0/200


Total: 15/460

5

1a- Shanghai Girls A Novel (315)
1b- The World Without Us (304)
2- Summer Sisters (416)
3- Cold Mountain (464)
4- Salem Falls (434)
5- Beloved (275)
6- A Million Little Pieces (432)
7- The Lovely Bones (328)
8- Middlesex (529)
(00/40 points)
(0/9 books)


10

1- Comfort from a Country Quilt (192)
2- The Joy Luck Club (288)
3- The Fellowship of the Ring (398)
4- The Things They Carried (246)
5a- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (224)
5b- The Guy Not Taken Stories (304)
6- The Time Traveler's Wife (536)
7- The Catcher in the Rye (214)
8- A New Earth Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (316)
(00/80 books)
(0/9 books)

15
1- Dear James (Thanksgiving) (586)
2a- Sister of My Heart A Novel (336)
2b- Bound (192)
3- Coraline (192)
4- The Help (464)
5- Pigs in Heaven (352)
6- Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (406)
7a- The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (447)
7b- The Alienist (512)
8- Mountains Beyond Mountains The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (336)
(000/120 points)
(00/10 books)


20
1a- Atonement (368)
1b- Anansi Boys (416)
(00/40 points)
(0/2 books)

25
1a- Junky The Definitive Text of Junk (Beat Generation Literary Movement)(208)
1b- On the Road (307)
2a- Case Histories A Novel (336)
2b- Anne of Green Gables (304)
3a- King Lear (384)
3b- A Thousand Acres A Novel (384)
4- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (368)
5a- To Kill a Mockingbird (336)
5b- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (149)
6a- The Outside World (304)
6b- Tracks (240)
7a- To Dream Anew (historical fiction for best subject of history) (400)
7b- Carbon Dreams- by Susan M. Gaines (worst subject= science) (351)
8- The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (340)
(000/200 points)
(00/14 books)

(00/44 TOTAL books)

(00000/15233 pages)

(000/460 TOTAL points)

5 Points
1.The Memory Keeper's Daughter-Kim Edwards AND The Roots of Evil The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence - Ervin Staub
2. Walt Disney Hollywood's Dark Prince A Biography - Marc Eliot
3. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
4. One Bad Apple - Sheila Connolly
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. TBH
7. Wolf at the Door - Christine Warren
8. Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger

10 Points
1. Heart Full of Soul An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way - Taylor Hicks
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling
4. Atonement - Ian McEwan
5. True Devotion - Dee Henderson AND Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks
6. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
7. Unconventional- J.J. Hebert
8. Disney's Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters Including Characters from Your Favorite Disney Pixar Films - M.L. Dunham

20. ?

15 Points
1. Christmas Letters- Debbie Macomber
2. Canada - Ice Trap A Novel of Suspense - Kitty Sewell
Japan: Chain Mail Addicted To You - Hiroshi Ishizaki
3. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
5. On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
6. Grease - Jim Jacobs
7. Historical fiction: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Historical nonfiction: TBH
8. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls - Zoey Dean

25 Points
1. Harlem Renaissance: Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes AND Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
2. Classic: Lord of the Flies - William Golding
New Classic: Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
3. Mrs. Dalloway AND The Hours
4. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
5. Never Let Me Go AND Deliverance
6. TBH
7. Gifted A Novel AND End of Story
8. TBH

Day 42:

5 Points

1. (a.) Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill - 452 pages
1. (b.) The Soloist A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez - 289 pages
2. Social Justice in Islam by Sayyid Qutb - 352 pages
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 343 pages
4. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah - 278 pages
5. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - 304 pages
6. Pill Head by Joshua Lyon - 288 pages
7. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum - 370 pages
8. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden - 263 pages

10 Points

1. The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz - 992 pages
2. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho - 167 pages
3. The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer - 2,560 pages
Twilight - 498 pages
New Moon - 563 pages
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - 246 pages
5. (a.) A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - 513 pages
5. (b.) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - 321 pages
6. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - 213 pages
7. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis - 227 pages
8. A People's History of the United States 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn - 688 pages

15 Points

1. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - 150 pages
2. (a.) Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 401 pages
2. (b.) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - 371 pages
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 336 pages
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - 320 pages
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 244 pages
6. Wicked by Gregory Maguire - 560 pages
7. (a.) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 576 pages
7. (b.) Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler - 615 pages
8. The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - 288 pages

20 Points

1. (a.) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby - 336 pages
1. (b.) Atonement by Ian McEwan - 368 pages

25 Points

1. (a.) Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - 232 pages
1. (b.) On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 254 pages
2. (a.) East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 601 pages
2. (b.) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman - 943 pages
3. (a.) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 581 pages
3. (b.) Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green - 264 pages
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ("Paranoid Android by Radiohead) - 815 pages
5. (a.) Native Son by Richard Wright - 432 pages
5. (b.) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - 463 pages
6. (a.) Invisible Life A Novel by E. Lynn Harris - 268 pages
6. (b.) Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber - 368 pages
7. (a.) best subject: political science: TBA
7. (b.) worst subject: philosophy - Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell - 266 pages
8. Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo - 336 pages

TOTALS:
Books: 13/44
Points: 75/460
Pages: 5,160/19,594

5 points
1a) A Murder of Quality, by John le Carre
1b) ?
2) Call for the Dead, by John le Carre
3) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carre
4) Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
5) The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
6) A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick
7) H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At The Mountains of Madness
8) ?
Subtotal: 1/8 tasks = 5/40 points

10 points
1) And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave
2) The New World by Mr. Tompkins, by George Gamow
3) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
4) Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
5a) ?
5b) ?
6) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
7) A Room With A View, by E.M. Forster
8) Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, by Michio Kaku
Subtotal: 1/8 tasks = 10/80 points

15 points
1) Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
2a) The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Luis Zafon
2b) Barcelona Plates, by Alexei Sayle
3) Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
4) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
5) Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
6) The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood
7a) ?
7b) ?
8) Screen Burn, by Charlie Brooker (Screen)
Subtotal: 0/8 tasks = 0/120 points

20 points
1a) Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis
1b) Porterhouse Blue, by Tom Sharpe
Subtotal: 0/1 task = 0/20 points

25 points
1a) The Awakening and Other Stories, by Kate Chopin
1b) Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Romanticism)
2a) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
2b) Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3a) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
3b) Automated Alice, by Jeff Noon
4) ?
5a) The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
5b) Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6a) The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh
6b) ?
7a) New Worlds for All, by Colin G Calloway (History)
7b) Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley (Biology)
8) ?
Subtotal: 1/8 tasks = 25/200 points

Total: 3/33 tasks = 40/460 points

5 Points


1.The Book about Blanche and Marie, Per Olov Enquist AND Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
2.Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (born November 11)
3.The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John le Carre
4.The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty
5.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
6.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
7.The Shining, Stephen King
8.Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

10 Points

1.Riders on the Storm My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors, John Densmore
2.The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
3.Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
4.Atonement, Ian McEwan
5.The Glass Castle A Memoir, Jeannette Walls AND Moon Palace, Paul Auster
6.Love's Encore, Sandra Brown
7.Ragtime A Novel, E.L. Docotorow
8.The Social Brain: Discovering the Networks of the Mind, Michael S. Gazzaniga

15 Points

1.The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0, Christopher Moore
2.The Island, Victoria Hislop AND The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
3.Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
4.The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
5.A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Hurakami
6.Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
7.Perdita The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson, Paula Byrne AND The Prince's Mistress A Life of Mary Robinson, Hester Davenport
8.Life's Little Ironies, Thomas Hardy (Irony)

20 Points

1.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams AND The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde


25 Points

1.On the Road, Jack Kerouac AND Naked Lunch The Restored Text, William Burroughs (Beat Generation)
2.Little Women, Louisa May Alcott AND
Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
3.Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf AND The Hours, Michael Cunningham
4.Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote (Song by Deep Blue Something)
5.Housekeeping A Novel, Marilynne Robinson AND The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
6.Animal's People, Indra Sinha AND
Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
7.English was my best subject-The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White; Gym was my worst subject-Game, Phil Truman
8.The Hot Zone A Terrifying True Story, Richard Preston

Total:100

FALL/WINTER CHALLENGE:

5-1. Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron (Rdg)
5-1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
5-2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [11/10 B-day:]
5-3. Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey
5-4. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
5-5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5-6. Whiskey Sour by J. A. Konrath
5-7. Halloween theme: TBD
5-8. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
10-1. This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
10-2. Brides of Eden by Linda Crew (10/11/09)
10-3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
10-4. Veteren’s Day: TBD
10-5. DEADLY Decisions by Kathy Reichs
10-5. FATAL Voyage by Kathy Reichs
10-6. Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
10-7. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
10-8. Psychology of Women (2nd edition) by Margaret W. Matlin (Rdg)
10-8. Interesting Facts:
15-1. Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
15-2. Saturday by Ian McEwan
15-2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15-3. The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
15-4. The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly (red cover)
15-5. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
15-6. Wicked by Gregory Macguire
15-7. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (10/9/09)
15-7. 1776 by David McCullough (10/20/09)
15-8. The All-TRUE Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley (9/30/09)
20-1. Stardust by Neil Gaiman (10/25/09)
20-1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (11/3/09)
25-1. American Postmodern Lit.: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
25-1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
25-2. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Rdg)
25-2. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
25-3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
25-3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
25-4. "Oscar Wilde" by Company of Theives - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
25-5. Money by Martin Amis
25-5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
25-6. The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich
25-6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
25-7. BEST subject - English: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
25-7. WORST subject - science: Biology by Audesirk, Audesirk & Byers (8th edition) (Rdg)
25-8. Disaster: TBD

Total: 60

5 Points
1. Two library books
2. Author (specialist) B-day
3. Winter word in title: The Winter of Our Discontent
4. Fall word in title
5. Banned Book
6. Addiction
7. scary story
8. LGBT

10 Points
1. Favorite band ect.
2. Required reading : Across Five Aprils
3. Hype.
4. Set during war
5. 2 books with synonyms The Winter Vault and Grave Secrets (Vault and Grave)
6. Romance/erotica
7. Initials in Authors name
8.non-fiction about fascinating subject

15 Points
1.Holiday theme
2. 2 books from 2 separate countries
3. Alternate universe Coraline
4. Read books with fall colored cover:
5. Farm animal in title or about farm
6. Based on Broadway play (or reverse)
7. Historical fiction and non-fiction Suite Française
8. random word generator (wrap, purchase, place, lost)The Lost Symbol

20 Points
1. Contemporary British author

25 Points
1. 2 books from 2 authors in same literary movement
2. known classic and new classic
3. Classic and inspired contemporary My Life in France and Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
4. Book in song
5. 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list
6. 2 books from different cultures The Kite Runner(Middle East) The Power of One(Africa)
7. Best and worst subject
8. disasterExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Total: 145 points

5 Points
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Haunting of Hill House
2. Light in August
3. Waiting for Snow in Havana Confessions of a Cuban Boy
4. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Wishful Drinking
7. Twilight
8. Boy Meets Boy

10 Points
1. Meet the Beatles A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
2. A Problem from Hell America and the Age of Genocide
3. The Devil Wears Prada
4. The Killer Angels
5. Gone With The Wind and The Lost Symbol
6. The Notebook
7. The Outsiders
8. Skinny Bitch A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous


15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol
2. Memoirs of a Geisha and This Earth of Mankind
3. Dune
4. Pompeii
5. Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
7. The Steel Wave A Novel of World War II and D-Day June 6, 1944
8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

20 Points
1. A Clockwork Orange and Saturday


25 Points
1. Winesburg, Ohio and An American Tragedy
2. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and The Looking Glass Wars
4. On the Road
5. Atonement and Slaughterhouse-Five
6. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and 101 Stories for Foreigners to Understand Chinese People
7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (psychology) and Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (economics)
8. Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

TOTALS
Books: 4/44
Points: 15/460

5 points
1.Unaccustomed Earth Stories & I Am the Messenger
2.The Shadow of the Wind
3.Snowflower and the Secret Fan
4.House of Leaves
5.The Bell Jar
6.Go Ask Alice
7.Something Wicked This Way Comes
8.TBD

10 points
1.TBD
2.Gulliver's Travels
3.My Sister's Keeper
4.All Quiet on the Western Front
5.TBD
6.Persuasion
7.Franny and Zooey
8.TBD

15 Points
1.TBD
2.A Thousand Splendid Sunsand The Salt Roads
3.TBD
4.On the Beach
5.Animal Farm
6.The Importance of Being Earnest
7.TBD
8.TBD

20 Points
1.TBD

25 Points
1.TBD
2.Brave New World and The Road
3.TBD
4.TBD
5.The Blind Assassin and Never Let Me Go
6.TBD
7.TBD
8.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Totals
Books: 5
Points: 60/460

5 Points

1. Life on the refrigerator door by Alice Kuipers & Still Alice
2. The Stand (Stephen King's birthday is September 21)
3. Snow Crash
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Pie is my autumn word)
5. The Giver
6. Are you there Vodka? It's me Chelsea Handler
7. Dracula
8. The Laramie Project

10 Points

1. TBA
2. Animal Farm
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. The Book Thief
5. The Hunger Games & Stuffed and Starved
6. Halfway to the Grave
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. TBA

15 Points

1. The Stupidest Angel
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns & Girls of Riyadh
3. The Host
4. Catching Fire
5. I am Hutterite
6. Wicked
7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress & The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution
8. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

20 points:

1. TBA

25 Points

1. TBA
2. Little Women & The Poisonwood Bible
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Are you There God? It's Me, Margaret & One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
6. Shanghai Girls & Such a Long Journey
7. TBA
8. TBA

TOTAL:
Books read: 13
Tasks Completed: 6/33
Point total: 60/460

5 Points

1. Two Library Books:
2. September-February birthday: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
3. winter word:
4. fall word:
5. Banned Book:
6. addiction:
7. scary/spooky/horror novel: The Unspoken by Thomas Fahy
8. LGBT:

10 Points

1. artist/musician/band/composer:
2. high school:Consolation of Philoophy by Boethius
3. hyped:Eragon by Christopher Paolini
4. war:
5. synonyms (2 books):
6. romance:Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
7. initials:
8. non-fiction:Sometimes the Magic Works:Lessons from a Writing Life by Terry Brooks. I'm not much of a fantasy writer. Mostly childrens books.

15 Points

1. holiday setting: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
2. different countries (2 books): Greenwitch by Susan Cooper and
3. alternate universe:
4. red cover: Sceptor of the Ancients by Derek Landy
5. farm animal in the title:The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
6. Broadway play:
7. historical fiction/non-fiction period:
8. random word generator(http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytoo...):

20 points:

2 different contemporary British authors:

25 Points

1. literary movement(2 books):
2. classic/Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years(2 books):
3. classic/contemporary book inspired by it:
4. song:
5. 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list(http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t...):
6. Expanding Your Horizons:

1. African/African-American.
2. Asian/Asian-American (This is not just East Asian -- Chinese, Korean and Japanese -- but also Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and the Central Asian -Stans.)
3. Hispanic/Latin American
4. Indian/Indian-American (Again, books by Indian authors; not books by white authors set in India.)
5. Middle Eastern (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Turkey...)
6. Native Peoples (Can include Native American, Inuit, Polynesian --Maori, Samoan, etc -- Siberian natives and Australian Aborigines.)

7. BEST and WORST subject:
8. disaster:


TOTAL:
Books read: 10
Books read that don't have anything to do with the challenge: 1
Tasks Completed: 9/33
Point total: 95/460

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1. September is Library Card Sign-Up Month: Go to the library and check two books out and read them.
2. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (sept. 24)

3. Read a book with a winter word: snow (snowball, snowflake are fine), ice, candy cane, cold, presents, gift, reindeer, Santa, sled, blizzard, frost, igloo, mittens, fireplace, chilly, angel, white, tree, Christmas, winter, wonderland, bells, elves/elf, miracle,
4. Read a book with a fall word- leaf/leaves, turkey, autumn, fall, pumpkin, acorn, thanksgiving, apple, hayride, harvest, pilgrims, Indians, feast, thanks,
5. Beloved by Toni MOrrison

6. September is Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Read a book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Don't Ask Don't Tell became Public Law No: 103-160 on November 30, 1993. Read a book about LGBT issues, with an LGBT main character, or by an LGBT author.

10 Points

1. Legend Johnny Cash died on September 12th: Read a book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Redeeming Love
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms: for example..reading Little Woman & The God of Small Things
6. Rebecca by Daphne Dumaurier
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly donít know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.
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15 Points

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns and Dr. Zhivago
3. Myst
4. The Thornbirds
5. October 2nd is Farm Animal Day: Read a book with a farm animal in the title--cow, pig, horse, sheep, goat, chicken, etc. or with a main character who lives on a farm.
6. West Side Story" premiers on Broadway, 1955 on September 26th-- read a play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play. The minimum page number can be negotiable on this one if you are reading a play. Please ask but try to stay above 60 pages.
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Use a random word generator ([ http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytoo... ]http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytoo...) to pick a word. This word must be in the title of the book you read for this challenge. You can use the Pick a new word button only 4 times. I would suggest changing the parameters to very common word or common. The word should be a noun, adjective, or verb.


20 points:

Kelly's Choice-- Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors.

25 Points

1. Pick one of the following American literary movements from the PBS website and read 2 books from 2 different authors in this literary movement. ([ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti... ]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti...) There will be a dropdown that says Literary Movements. There will be a blurb about each along with some important authors in each movement.
2. - Read a known classic and THEN read a book of Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years
([ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... ]http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... After reading both write a tiny review in our thread about whether or not you think the "new" classic has the ability to stand the test of time.
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list([ http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t... ]http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t...)
6. a. Roots (african-amrican)
b. The Kite Runner (middle eastern)
So..you might read a book about a main character who is African American and a book written by a Middle Eastern author.
7. BEST and WORST subject:
8. disaster:

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1.
2. The Shining by Stephen King
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
4. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
6. Drunkard by Emile Zola
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

10 Points

1.
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. Inferno by Dante and The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by DH Lawrence
8.

15 Points

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2.
3. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
7. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady by Ronald Kessler
8. The Invisible Man by HG Wells (word was invisible)

20 Points

1.

25 Points

1. Realism 1865-1910: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
2. Known: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway New: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3.
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane 1967)
5. Atonement by Ian McEwan and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
6.
7.
8.


10 pts (10/20/09)

Fall/Winter Book Lists:

5 points:

1)Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason
2)Little Women
3)Snow Falling on Cedars
4)So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
5)Twelfth Night
6)Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
7)Dracula
8)Middlesex

10 points:

1)The Way You Wear Your Hat Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
2)Slaughterhouse-Five
3)The Da Vinci Code
4)Never Surrender
5)Ordinary People
Glenn Beck's Common Sense The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
6)Northanger Abbey
7)The Fellowship of the Ring
8)The God Delusion

15 points

1)Hogfather
2)Under the Tuscan Sun
Master and Man and Other Stories
3)The Golden Compass
4)Dune
5)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
6)Much Ado About Nothing
7)Innocent Traitor A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
Elizabeth The Struggle for the Throne
8)Word: good Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

20 points:

Stardust
Atonement

25 points:

1)Romanticism: Invitation to a Beheading
The Bell Jar
2)Persuasion
The Road
3)Pride and Prejudice
Me and Mr. Darcy A Novel
4)Breakfast at Tiffany's
5)The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
On the Road
6)Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
Sula
7)Worst subject: Economics Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Best subject: Politics Arguing with Idiots How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
8)Life of Pi

Totals:
Read: 3
Point Totals: 50 out of 460

5 Points
1. Two library books
2. September-February
3. winter
4. fall
5. The Chocolate War
6. alcohol/drugs
7. Twilight
8. LGBT

10 Points
1. artist/musician/band/composer
2. catch-22
3. Read a book that was really hyped that you swore you would never read.
4. war
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms
6. romance/erotica
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points
1. Read a book primarily set during one of these holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza.
2. Around the World: Read 2 books set in 2 different countries that are different from where you live and that you have never traveled to before.
3. Read a book set in an alternate universe.
4. Monster
5. farm
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. random word

20 points
Kelly's Choice-- Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors.

25 Points
1. literary movement
2. classics
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list
6. cultures
7. best/worst subject
8. disaster

total: 30 points