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The 2012 Sky's the Limit Club
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I think we need to create an entirely new field for you Shay! I am in awe and bow to your high readiness!
You are inspiring Shay! I think I will make a similar though not exact list. Happy Reading in the New Year!
Books in italics= 1001 BooksBooks with a + sign= BBC Books
Books in bold= non-fiction books
*= 500+ page books
**= 750+ page books
***= 1,000+ page books
5 Chunky Books Read
January Books
1. When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State by Tim Dorsey
2. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
3. Misery by Stephen King
4. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh +
5. I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley
6. Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough ** (936 pages)
7. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
8. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding +
9. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
10. Mr. Monk on Patrol by Lee Goldberg
11. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
12. Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid by J. Maarten Troost
13. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
14. Happy Accidents: My Gleeful Life by Jane Lynch
15. Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab
16. Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
17. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
18. 1984 by George Orwell
19. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
20. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
21. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott +/ * (528 pages)
22. Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay
23. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
24. The Submission by Amy Waldman
25. An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
26. John Dies at the End by David Wong
27. Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
28. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami **
29. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
30. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
31. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer *
32. Rabbit At Rest by John Updike *
33. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Cover to Cover Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Buttercream Bump Off (other topics)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (other topics)
Everneath (other topics)
Mistress of Rome (other topics)
Little Women (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Laura Schroff (other topics)Rochelle Staab (other topics)
Helen Fielding (other topics)
Jonathan Safran Foer (other topics)
Haruki Murakami (other topics)
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For those 400 books:
1. 20% need to be "chunky" books over 500 pages
2. 12 Non-fiction books
3. 6 biographies about authors (does not count towards #2)
4. 6 Biographies about presidents or the Founding Fathers, does not count towards #2
5. 36 books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before you die list- 12 must be chunky books