So I though that I would be really nuts and read 100 books for 2009. Anyone else willing to join in? I am going to work on my list and post it.

I will give it a try:)

Okay so here are the 100 books that I am going to read for 2009:

1. Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
3. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
4. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Secret Live of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
6. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
9. Until I Find You by John Irving
10. Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
11. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
12. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
13. A Darkness More Than Night by Micheal Connelly
14. The Other House by Henry James
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
17. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
18. Salem's Lot by Stephen King
19. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
20. Gathering to Nauvoo by Fred E. Woods
21. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
22. Utopia by Thomas More
23. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
24. The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother by Lucy Mack Smith
25. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
26. Blindness by José Saramago
27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
29. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
30. The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
31. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
32. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
33. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
34. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
35. Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed by Jane Austen
36. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
37. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
38. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
39. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
40. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
41. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Finding Noel: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
43. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
44. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
45. Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
47. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
48. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
49. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
50. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
51. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
52. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
53. A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
54. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
55. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
56. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
57. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
58. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
59. Where Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster
60. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
61. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
62. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
63. Adam Bede By George Eliot
64. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
65. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
66. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
67. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
68. Persuasion by Jane Austen
69. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
70. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
71. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
72. To the Lighthouse to Virginia Woolf
73. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
74. In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
75. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
76. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
77. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
78. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
79. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
80. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
81. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
82. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
83. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
84. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
85. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
86. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
87. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
88. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
89. Eclispe by Stephenie Meyer
90. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
91. The Alchemist by Paulo Paulo
92. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
93. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
94. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
95. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
96. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
97 Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan
98. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
99. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
100. Saturday by Ian McEwan

Wow, you set your sights high! You've got a lot of great books on there, both that I've read and that I've been wanting to read. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Corelli's Mandolin.

Thanks Logan. I'll let you know. I got the book a few months ago so I'm not going to watch the movie until I finish the book.

I'll take the challange. But I can't choose them in advance, what I want to read changes week by week.

Yeah mine changes too:) I will create the list as I go....

I'm so glad that both of you are doing this with me. I noticed if I write down my goals I do better with them.

I'm trying to read 100 books this year but still have about 16 to go ... so I'm probably not going to make it ... but I'm game again next year!

I've read 203 books this year. I made it.

203?! How on earth did you do that? That's a lot of books!!

OMG Leah, 203 books! Congratulations. I'd like to try to read 100 books in 2009 but I don't know if I'll make it. On another group I set the goal for 75 books in 2009. I'll try for 100 but like Beth A and Janis I can't commit to the actual books b/c I'd want to change them!

Leah that is so awesome! If I can get to a hundred maybe I'll try 203 for 2010!

You can do it Beth! With a little support group it helps!

Thanks Emilee! I am looking forward to the challange!

I am all for trying to read 100 books in 2009.

Yeah! Our little challange group is growing! I think it will help to have a group doing the challenge!

I have read 90 so far this year. I did not have a goal going in, just to keep up with each book I read. I kept up with them in a big calendar. I am going to do it again this year.

I'm not sure if I can find all the time but this sounds like a very worthy goal! To make a list or not to make a list...

Ann you'll be able to do it very easily next year!

When you break it down you only need to read 8.33 books a month for the 12 months to get to 100 books. Doesn't sound too bad.

I've read 25 of your list.

I couldn't read a 100 books in a year, not now anyway. Before I had the bookshop I read 4-7 a week, but now the maximum I can read (if you don't count kiddies' books - and I don't) is probably 3. I'm always reading book blurbs!

Join us Petra, you can do it!

I don't know how people read so much. I have a poor concentration span and I usually read about 2-3 a month although last month I read about 5 which was good for me.

I have the problem that I don't read at home enough. I'm trying to rectify that. I don't think I'll read a hundred but I might set myself a list of books that I want to read in the year, because my bookshelf has got loads of books I've had for years but never get around to reading... so I should move them closer to the front of my reading list.

I've got better at buying books lately and reading them quite quickly... ish. But my older books are gathering dust.

I shall create a list in another thread!

I can't Emilee. I'm trying to get my cafe open which means I have to be in the bookshop/cafe all day and then I get home at night and I am doing admin and buying books (and playing on Goodreads) until 12.30 at least. Then I read for a while. If I count kiddies books I could do it though.

Fun ---I saw this thread when I was putting in my latest 'read' book --- as an odd coincidence, it happened to be my 100th book of 2008 (there are a number of poetry books in there -- and some fluffy reads). My 'to read' list is threatening to overtake my 'read' list -- so I shouldn't have any trouble choosing books in 2009. I will look forward to seeing everyone's lists and hearing what they think.

Petra how do you do it all!

Maria, my TBR list grows & grows.

Well I'm quite poor so I can't afford to employ any more staff and I don't have any choice.

I had thought I was an avid reader until I found this thread. I read one book/month - at best. I am a slow reader. How do you guys find the time?

I don't sleep much!

Neither me.

wow 100 books in a year. I don't think I could do that. I set myself up on another book club to try to read 50 for the year. LOL

Good Luck to everyone!! :~)

Lisa, I could do that. Why don't you set up another thread for those of us with aspirations to 50 books? I'd like to read 100, but it just isn't possible.

I am so curious as to how you came up with your list of 100 books. That in itself is pretty impressive, let alone reading them all. ;0

Mary: I own them and haven't read them yet. I thought that was the first place to start. Next year I'll be at the library for my 100-maybe about 70 of the books.

I want to try and read more, but I don't know if I could do 100. I could try for 75, but at an average of more than 1 book a week, I think even that might be pushing it for me.

You do have some great ones on your list Emilee, so good luck with them!!

I only read 64 books in 2008 so getting to 100 may be very difficult for me. I'm going to give it a try, though.

Only? I only read 34. Abysmal. My aim's 50.

Fiona there's another thread on here for people who are aiming for 50 books. I was going to try myself but I don't think I could read that many.

50 books is only 1 a week actually slightly less.

So - how is everyone doing on the challenge?
I'm currently reading book 6 this year so I'm off to a really good start but I need it since I plan to tacke heavyweights 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' this year!

i dnt think i'll b really able to read 100 books this year,it's not gonna b easy...too busy with exams and other school stuff,so i'll try shooting for 50 books, which also doesnt look too easy,but what to do?

I just started my seventh book for the year. I hope to be able to keep up the pace. I think I will be fine as long as the kids are in school. Summer will be the real trying time for me.

I just started my seventh book too, Prettymisslara. Two are audio-books, otherwise I'd never be able to reach 100.

I should do audio books just because I'm in the car so much!

I cannot focus enough to do audio-books. Sitting with a book forces me to actually sit still. If I were to try to listen to a book I would be off to do laundry and dishes and other things - I would never pay attention to the book. I am in the car enough that in theory that would work but I always have kids with me and they like to listen to the radio.

I download audio books for when my son plays hockey and I can listen to them on the bus. I did try and read on the bus, but found with the noise from the kids or the movie (which is usually pretty loud) that I could not stay focus. So audio books work great for bus trips.

My concern is that if I make a big long list NOW, I'll find myself stuck between "do I continue with my list?" or "do I read this awesome new book?"

Right now I've got 22 books out from the library; 14 of them are still unread. Four of the unread ones are due back tomorrow - yikes! maybe I should've been more careful about reading those FIRST, mm?

anyway, all 22 are ones that I've only found out about within the last two or three months.

Last year I read 70 books, so I have set a goal of 75 for 2009. If I reach that number, then I might try for 100 the next year. I have a to-read list for 2009 with 85 books on it so far, but I'm sure that I will pounce on some newly published books instead of some of the ones on my list.

I'm going to give it a try.