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Mar 26, 2017 06:26PM

55345 Chelle, I pick for you:


The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

As for your bonus, I don't know much about sci-fi, but I love Ray Bradbury. So I've chosen, for you, one of his book that is pretty well rated.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Mar 19, 2017 01:15PM

55345 Gen's Dusty Bookshelf


Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Dracula by Bram Stoker The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac Dubliners by James Joyce The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Preferred genre: classics (or pick your own favorite book, any genre, for me to read)


Karina picked for me Dracula by Bram Stoker Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and recommended Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes .

I pick for Chelle The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and recommend The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Feb 25, 2017 02:38PM

55345 Debbie G, I pick for you:


The Other Woman by Jane Green The First Counsel by Brad Meltzer

and for your preferred genre:

PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Feb 21, 2017 04:59PM

55345 Gen's Dusty Bookshelf


The Hunchback of Notre Dame  by Victor Hugo Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Dracula by Bram Stoker Ivanhoe by Walter Scott Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Freedom by Jonathan Franzen The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Preferred genre: classics (or pick your own favorite book, any genre, for me to read)
Jan 25, 2017 05:01PM

55345 Scale your TBR mountain challenge
January 1 - December 31, 2017

6/22

January

(Skipping, since I started at the end of the month)

February

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Feb. 03, 2010) 05.03.2017
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Feb. 12, 2011)

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

March

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (Mar. 12, 2011) 31.03.2017
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Mar. 16, 2011) 10.03.2017

The Hunchback of Notre Dame  by Victor Hugo Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

April

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Apr. 29, 2011) 21.02.2017
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Apr. 29, 2011) 06.04.2017

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

May

Entwined by Heather Dixon (May 17, 2011)
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost (May 19, 2012)

Entwined by Heather Dixon Stuff Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost

June

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Jun. 04, 2011)
The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen (Jun. 03, 2012)

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen

July

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks (Jul. 17, 2011)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Jul. 28, 2011)

The Zombie Survival Guide Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

August

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett (Aug. 07, 2011)
Hard Day's Knight by Katie MacAlister (Aug.07, 2011)

Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett Hard Day's Knight by Katie MacAlister

September

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Sep. 18, 2010)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Sep. 18, 2010)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

October

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Oct. 02, 2010)
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman (Oct. 26, 2015)

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman

November

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Nov. 16, 2010) 30.10.2017
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Nov. 17, 2010)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

December

Juliet by Anne Fortier (Dec. 26, 2011)
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Dec. 18, 2011)

Juliet by Anne Fortier The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Jan 25, 2017 02:29PM

55345 Scale your TBR mountain challenge
January 1 - December 31, 2017

6/22

January

(Skipping, since I started at the end of the month)

February

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Feb. 03, 2010) 05.03.2017
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Feb. 12, 2011)

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

March

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (Mar. 12, 2011) 31.03.2017
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Mar. 16, 2011) 10.03.2017

The Hunchback of Notre Dame  by Victor Hugo Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

April

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Apr. 29, 2011) 21.02.2017
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Apr. 29, 2011) 06.04.2017

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

May

Entwined by Heather Dixon (May 17, 2011)
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost (May 19, 2012)

Entwined by Heather Dixon Stuff Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost

June

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Jun. 04, 2011)
The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen (Jun. 03, 2012)

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen

July

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks (Jul. 17, 2011)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Jul. 28, 2011)

The Zombie Survival Guide Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

August

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett (Aug. 07, 2011)
Hard Day's Knight by Katie MacAlister (Aug.07, 2011)

Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett Hard Day's Knight by Katie MacAlister

September

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Sep. 18, 2010)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Sep. 18, 2010)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

October

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Oct. 02, 2010)
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman (Oct. 26, 2015)

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman

November

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Nov. 16, 2010) 30.10.2017
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Nov. 17, 2010)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

December

Juliet by Anne Fortier (Dec. 26, 2011)
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Dec. 18, 2011)

Juliet by Anne Fortier The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Jan 25, 2017 01:42PM

Jan 24, 2017 10:36AM

55345 Theo wrote: "Gen

From your Dusty Bookshelf, I'll choose: Thunderstruck by Erik Larson and Seven Years to Sin by Sylvia Day"



Awesome, thank you Theo!
Jan 24, 2017 09:14AM

55345 Ezinwanyi, I pick for you:


The Summer of Me by Angela Benson and Off the Rails by Jill Sorenson from your list.

And for your chosen genre: Stranger in My Arms by Lisa Kleypas (There's an audiobook version)

Enjoy :)
Jan 20, 2017 09:52PM

55345 Gen's dusty bookshelf


Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Seven Years to Sin by Sylvia Day Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Forever After by Catherine Anderson Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert Dubliners by James Joyce Thunderstruck by Erik Larson Vicious Circle (Persephone Alcmedi, #1) by Linda Robertson The Fraser Bride (Highland Rogues) by Lois Greiman

Preferred genre: classics (or pick your own favorite book, any genre, for me to read)
Give Me 5 (957 new)
Jan 12, 2017 10:23PM

55345 Jennifer, I pick for you The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis .

Here are my five:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer The Devil's Detective (Thomas Fool #1) by Simon Kurt Unsworth Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Middlemarch by George Eliot
Give Me 5 (957 new)
Apr 10, 2016 12:58AM

55345 Lindy, I choose The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for you.

Here are my five:

Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) by Christopher Paolini Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1) by Lauren DeStefano Promised (Birthmarked, #3) by Caragh M. O'Brien Blue Dahlia (In The Garden, #1) by Nora Roberts Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) by Tahereh Mafi
Mar 30, 2016 04:31PM

55345 Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge
March 30, 2016 - March 29, 2017

Level: Hep Alien Fan

4/25

1. 1984 by George Orwell 06.14.2016
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 07.17.2016
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 02.21.2017
6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
9. Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
11. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison
13. Beowulf 08.09.2016
14. The Bhagavad Gita
15. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
20. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
21. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
22. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
23. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
24. La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac
25. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1984 by George Orwell The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Babe The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Beloved (The Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison Beowulf by Unknown The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa The Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Charlotte's Web by E.B. White The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mar 30, 2016 04:29PM

55345 Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge
March 30, 2016 - March 29, 2017

Level: Hep Alien Fan

0/25

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
9. Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
11. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison
13. Beowulf
14. The Bhagavad Gita
15. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
20. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
21. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
22. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
23. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
24. La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac
25. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1984 by George Orwell The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #2) by Mark Twain The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Babe The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Beloved by Toni Morrison Beowulf by Unknown The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa The Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Charlotte's Web by E.B. White The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mar 30, 2016 03:14PM

Give Me 5 (957 new)
Mar 26, 2016 12:00PM

55345 Marla, I pick Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1) by Jonathan Maberry for you.

Here are my 5:

The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) by Paullina Simons The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Help by Kathryn Stockett Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
Give Me 5 (957 new)
Aug 31, 2012 12:13PM

55345 Thanks Annie!
Give Me 5 (957 new)
Aug 31, 2012 11:33AM

55345 New to this challenge.
Denise, here is my pick for you. Magic Study (Study, #2) by Maria V. Snyder

My five are:

Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1) by Moira Young Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray Infinity Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Aug 22, 2012 09:39PM

55345 Around the World in...3 Months
June 1 - August 31, 2012

Completed

North America: Glory in Death by J.D. Robb 06.15.12
South America: The Charm School by Susan Wiggs 08.16.12
Europe: To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning 06.18.12
Asia: Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas 08.17.12
Africa: The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway 08.19.12
Antartica: Midnight Sun by M.J. Fredrick 08.16.12
Australia: Memory Zero by Keri Arthur 08.23.12

Glory in Death (In Death, #2) by J.D. Robb The Charm School (Calhoun Chronicles #1) by Susan Wiggs To Tame A Highland Warrior (Highlander #2) by Karen Marie Moning Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas The Other Guy's Bride (Braxton, #2) by Connie Brockway Midnight Sun by M.J. Fredrick Memory Zero (Spook Squad, #1) by Keri Arthur

Mar 30, 2012 08:03PM

55345 Based on a Book Mini Challenge
March 1 - March 31, 2012

Level: Hard

Completed

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 03.14.12
Lorax by Dr. Seuss 03.22.12
Eragon by Christopher Paolini 03.03.12
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 03.12.12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 03.28.12
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 03.09.12

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Lorax by Dr. Seuss Eragon (Inheritance, #1) by Christopher Paolini Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
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