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This is perfect for keeping track of the tons of series that I want to read :)The Never Ending Series Challenge
No Time Limit
Books Read 11/?
Series Completed 1/?
Across the Universe - Beth Revis
Across the Universe
A Million Suns
Shades of Earth
Black City - Elizabeth Richards
Black City
Phoenix
Wings
Caster Chronicle - Kami Garcia
Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Darkness
Beautiful Chaos
Beautiful Redemption
Curse Workers - Holly Black
White Cat
Red Glove
Black Heart
Cut & Run - Abigail Roux
Cut & Run
Sticks & Stones
Fish & Chips
Divide & Conquer
Armed & Dangerous
Stars & Stripes
Touch & Geaux
Ball & Chain
Crash & Burn
Chaos Walking - Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Ask and the Answer
Monsters of Men
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken
The Darkest Minds
Never Fade
In The Afterlight
Darkest Powers - Kelley Armstrong
The Awakening
The Reckoning
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Last Hero
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Night Watch
The Wee Free Men
Monstrous Regiment
A Hat Full of Sky
Going Postal
Thud!
Wintersmith
Making Money
Unseen Academicals
I Shall Wear Midnight
Snuff
Raising Steam
The Shepherd's Crown
Divergent - Veronica Roth
Allegiant
The Diviners - Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
The Giver Quartet - Lois Lowry
Messenger
Son
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
The Lost Hero
The Son of Neptune
The Mark of Athena
The House of Hades
The Blood of Olympus
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
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The Infernal Devices - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr
Inheritance
The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
Doors of Stone
Legend - Marie Lu
Legend
Prodigy
Champion
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
A Love Story - Christopher Moore
Bite Me
The Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress
Winter
Luxe - Anna Godbersen
The Luxe
Rumors
Envy
Splendor
Matteo Alacran - Nancy Farmer
The Lord of Opium
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
Millennium - Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal
The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan's Curse
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Last Olympian
Razorland - Ann Aguirre
Enclave
Outpost
Horde
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril
The End
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
Shatter Me
Unravel Me
Ignite Me
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with DragonsInvincible
The Winds of Winter
A Dream of Spring
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
Extras
Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy
Frostbite
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound
Last Sacrifice
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm
Towers of Midnight
A Memory of Light
I'll be adding more later
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Book Pictionary ChallengeJuly 1, 2015 - July 31, 2015
Level: Drawing (8 books)
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1. Bird: Fingerprints of You - Kristen-Paige Madonia
3. Face: Prisoner of Night and Fog - Anne Blankman
5. Girl: Velveteen - Daniel Marks
Fill In The Gaps Project6/24/2015 to 6/24/2020
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1.The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey
2.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
3.Across the Universe - Beth Revis
4.American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
5.Animal Farm - George Orwell
6.Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
7.Amy and Roger's Epic Detour - Morgan Matson
8.The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
9.The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
10.Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia
11.Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
12.The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
13.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
14.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
15.The Call of the Wild - Jack London
16.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
17.The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18.Cinder - Marissa Meyer
19.Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
20.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
21.Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
22.The Color Purple - Alice Walker
23.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
25.The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken
26.Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Laini Taylor
27.Delirium - Lauren Oliver
28.The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
29.Dracula - Bram Stoker
30.The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
31.The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend - Kody Keplinger
32.Dune - Frank Herbert
33.East of Eden - John Steinbeck
34.Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
35.Eragon - Christopher Paolini
36.The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
37.Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
38.Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
39.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories - Hunter S. Thompson
40.Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
41.Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
42.The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
43.The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
44.Graceling - Kristin Cashore
45.A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
46.Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
47.Hamlet - William Shakespeare
48.The Help - Kathryn Stockett
50.The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
51.Holes - Louis Sachar
52.The Host - Stephenie Meyer
53.Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
54.Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
55.The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
56.The Iron King - Julie Kagawa
57.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
58.Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
59.The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
60.The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
61.Legend - Marie Lu
62.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
63.Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
64.Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66.The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
67.Matched - Ally Condie
68.The Maze Runner - James Dashner
69.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
70.Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
71.My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
72.The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
73.The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
74.Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
75.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
76.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
77.Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
78.Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
79.Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
80.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
81.The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
82.The Selection - Kiera Cass
83.Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
84.Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
85.The Shining - Stephen King
86.The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
87.Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
88.Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
89.The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
90.Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
91.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
92.Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
93.We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
94.Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple
95.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
96.World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
97.Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
98.Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
99.Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi
100.Unwind - Neal Shusterman
Disney Princess ChallengeLevel: Moderate (4 Books Each)
Start: 6/10/2015
Finish: No limit
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♚Pocahontas:
Read a book where the protagonist is Native American, loves nature, or displays shamanic powers. You can also read a retelling of Pocahontas.
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♚Princess Jasmine:
Read a book where the protagonist is of Arabic descent or is named Jasmine. You can also read a retelling of Aladdin.
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♚Snow White:
Read a book where the protagonist has fair skin and dark hair. Or read a book where the protagonist is German (or of German descent). Read a book where the protagonist has many male friends. You can also read a retelling of Snow White.
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♚Aurora:
Read a book where the protagonist has a curse placed upon her at birth. Or read a book where the main character is unaware of her biological family or where she comes from. You can also read a retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
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♚Mulan:
Read a book where the protagonist is Chinese (or of Chinese descent), she must also be able to kick some serious ass. Read a book where the protagonist disguises herself as a man or enlists in the army.
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♚Ariel:
Read a book where the protagonist has red hair, has a lot of sisters, or is a mermaid. Or read a book where the protagonist frequently disobeys her father. You can also read a retelling of The Little Mermaid.
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♚Belle:
Read a book where the protagonist loves books and reading. Read a book about a protagonist who adores her father or falls in love with a man who is not handsome (he can have scars, be it emotional or physical) or is temperamental . You can also read a retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
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♚Esmeralda:
Read a book where the protagonist is a Gypsy or read a book where the character has a pet goat (this should be interesting). You can also read a retelling of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
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♚Megara:
Read a book where the protagonist has a low opinion of men and is cynical about love. You can also read a retelling of Hercules.
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♚Tiana:
Read a book where the protagonist is African American, takes place in New Orleans, or is a waitress or an excellent cook.You can also read a retelling The Princess and the Frog.
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♚Cinderella
Read a book about someone who has an evil stepmother, or read a book about someone who has had a difficult life but perseveres with the help of love. You can also read a retelling of Cinderella.
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♚Rapunzel:
Read a book where the MC has really long hair or read a book where the MC was kidnapped. You can also read a retelling of Rapunzel.
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♚Alice
Read a book where the protagonist lives in a dream world or discovers an alternate (fantasy) world; read a book where the protagonist defies a monarch (preferably a queen). You can also read a retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
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♚Jane
Read a book where the protagonist is an artist; set in Africa or in a rural (out of reach) area; read a book that has a vibrant yellow cover or features someone on the cover dressed in yellow. You can also read a retelling of Tarzan.
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♚Tinker Bell
Read a book where the protagonist is a fairy. Or, because Tinker Bell doesn't speak, read a book where the protagonist is very shy or has problems communicating . You can also read a retelling of Peter Pan (but it has to feature a Tinker Bell).
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The Celestial Challenge6/10/2015 to 6/10/2016
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January
Caelum (The engraver's chisel)
Dorado (Dolphinfish/Swordfish)
Mensa (Table)
Orion (The Hunter)
Reticulum (Net/Reticle)
Taurus (Bull)
February
Auriga (Charioteer)
Camelopardalis (Giraffe/Camel/Leopard)
Canis Major (Greater Dog)
Columba (Dove)
Gemini (Twins)
Lepus (Hare/Rabbit/Bunny)
Monoceros (Unicorn)
Pictor (Painter/Painter's Easel)
March
Cancer (Crab)
Canis Minor (Smaller Dog/Puppy)
Carina (Keel of a Ship)
Puppis (Poop Deck of a Ship)
Pyxis (Mariner's Compass)
Vela (Sails of a Ship)
Volans (Flying Fish)
April
Antlia (Pump)
Chamaeleon (Lizard)
Crater (Cup)
Hydra (Female Water Snake)
Leo (Lion)
Leo Minor (Smaller Lion/Lion Cub)
Sextans (Astronomical Sextant)
Ursa Major (Larger Bear/Big Dipper)
May
Canes Venatici (Hunting Dogs)
Centaurus (Centaur-Half man/Half Horse)
Coma Berenices (Queen Berenice's Hair)
Corvus (Raven/Crow)
Crux (Cross)
Musca (the Bee/Southern Fly)
Virgo (Virgin)
June
Boötes (herdsman or plowman)
Circinus (Compass)
Libra (Weighing Scales)
Lupus (Wolf)
Ursa Minor (Little Bear/Little Dipper/Bear Cub)
July
Apus (No Feet/Bird of Paradise)
Ara (Altar)
Corona Borealis (Northern Crown)
Draco (Dragon)
Hercules (the abbreviation is Her)
Norma (Normal/Right Angle/Rule/Carpenter's square/Level)
Ophiuchus (Serpent-bearer)
Scorpius (Scorpion)
Serpens(Snake)
Triangulum Australe(The Southern Triangle)(view spoiler)
August
Corona Austrina (Southern Crown)
Lyra (Lyre/Harp)
Sagittarius (Archer)
Scutum (Shield)
Telescopium (Telescope)
September
Aquila (Eagle)
Capricornus (Horned Male Goat/Goat Horn/Sea Goat)
Cygnus (Swan)
Equuleus (Little Horse/Pony/Foal)
Indus (Indian)
Microscopium (Microscope)
Pavo (Peacock)
Sagitta (Arrow)
Vulpecula (Fox)
October
Aquarius (Water-Carrier/Cup-Carrier)
Cepheus (King of Aethiopia/King)
Grus (Crane)
Lacerta (Lizard)
Octans (Octan/John Hadley-inventor of octan/Eight)
Pegasus (abbreviation Peg)
Piscis Austrinus (Southern Fish/Fish)
November
Cassiopeia (The Seated Queen/Queen/Vain Queen)
Phoenix
Pisces (Plural for Fish)
Sculptor
Tucana (Toucan)
December
Aries (Ram/Abbreviation Ari)
Cetus (Sea Monster/Whale/Shark)
Eridanus (Po River/River)
Fornax (Furnace/Brazier)
Horologium (Clock)
Hydrus (Male Water Snake)
Perseus (view spoiler)
Triangulum (The Triangle)
I'm in!Duration: May 1st-May 31st
Level: Easy Breezy (3 books)
Completed: 2/3
May Day: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
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Birthday: November 9thFavorite Color: Red
Favorite Food: Macaroni and cheese
Pets: 4 cats and 2 dogs
Favorite Book Genre: Anything that I find interesting
Finish the line: I know I'm a book addict because I can't go a day without reading
