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Well, since I joined RRRC I've been plunging headlong into challenges that I've begun to lose track of the books I've signed up to read, not to mention the challenges themselves that I've taken up! So this thread is a record of challenges I'm taking part in and my immediate TBR list for these challenges.:)

Challenges
Monthly
1. August - Pick It for Me! Challenge - INCOMPLETE
2. 2010 August Monthly Challenge - INCOMPLETE
3. Read-the-Month Challenge: SEPTEMBER

Quarterly
1. Books into Movies Challenge
2. Read-the-Season Challenge (AUTUMN)

Annually
1. 2010 Create Your Own Reading Challenge
2. Serial Reader Challenge

In My Own Time
Build Your Box Set Challenge

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Challenge:
2010 Create Your Own Reading Challenge
Duration:
5th August 2010 - 4th August 2011
Books:
10 Old Classics
1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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10 New/Contemporary Classics
1. Roots by Alex Haley
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
3. The Thorn Birds by Colleen
McCullough
4. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
5. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
6. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Challenge: Serial Reader Challenge
Duration: 7 August 2010 - 6 August 2011
Books: I'm putting down a tentative list which is subject to change.:)

1) Jack the Page Ripper (15 books):
Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
1. Magyk
2. Flyte
3. Physik
4. Queste
5. Syren



The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
1. Taliesin
2. Merlin
3. Arthur
4. Grail



The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1. The Laughing Cavalier
2. Lord Tony's Wife
3. El Dorado



Masters of Rome by Colleen McCullough
1. Caesar's Women - DONE!
2. Caesar



Drenai Tales by David Gemmell
Winter Warriors




2) Una-book-bomber (5 books):
chick-lit: Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
romance:
mystery:
pnr/urban-fantasy/fantasy/sci-fi: On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell
young adult: Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot - √ < a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...;review




3) Spree Series Killer (1+ book):
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs




4) Author-ican Psycho (1 book)
Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist




5) Dr. Hannibal Lecturer (1 book):
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins




6) The Book Strangler (1+ books):
The Egyptian Series by Wilbur Smith
1. River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
2. The Seventh Scroll
3. Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
4. The Quest




7) 3rd Degree (3 books):
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
1. The Golden Compass
2. The Subtle Knife
3. The Amber Spyglass




BONUS: Bloody Mary (1 book):


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Challenge: Build Your Box Set Challenge
Duration: none
Books:
Box Set #1 Alliterated Classics
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Box Set #2 What's in a Name?
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pollyanna by Eleanor H Porter
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
Lorna Doone by Richard D Blackmore

Box Set #3 Call That Animal by its Name!
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Box Set #4 Swashbuckling Heroes
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Eldorado by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Robin Hood by J McSpadden

Box Set #5 Alliterated Plays
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
The Countess Cathleen by W B Yeats


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Challenge: Books into Movies Challenge
Duration: 1st July - 31 December
Books:
1. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
4. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
6. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
7. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
8. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
10. Lady Windermere's Fan (movie titled A Good Woman) by Oscar Wilde

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Challenge: Read-the-Month Challenge: SEPTEMBER
Duration: 1 September - 30 September
Books:
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Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
TTallie's Knight by Anne Gracie
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McCullough, Colleen - Caesar's Women
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Rober Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow

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Challenge: Read-the-Season Challenge (AUTUMN)
Duration: 23 September 2010 - 21 December 2010
Books:
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BONUS: Read a book that has the word AUTUMN in its title.
Tentative Choice: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez