Lisa J's 2012 Challenge List-DONE!!!!!

[Lisa]

Here's my 76.....

1. The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
2. Gentlemen & Players-Joanne Harris
3. The Wet Nurse's Tale-Erica Eisdorfer
4. The Observations-Jane Harris
5. Rabbit Is Rich-John Updike
6. Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette-Sena Jeter Naslund
7. Fingersmith-Sarah Waters
8. In the Company of the Courtesan-Sarah Dunant
8. Far From the Madding Crowd-Thomas Hardy
9. Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem- Richard Kurin
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
11. The Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy
12. Kidnapped-Robert Louis Stevenson
13. The Tin Drum-Gunter Grass
14. The Dirty Girls' Social Club-Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
15. The Dress Lodger- Sheri Holman
16. Moon Palace-Paul Auster
17. Delta of Venus-Anais Nin
18. Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
19. Claudine's House-Colette
20. Blonde-Joyce Carol Oates
21. Wise Children-Angela Carter
22. 1984-George Orwell
23. Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas hardy
24. As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
25. Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt
26. Loser-Jerry Spinelli
27. Crash-Jerry Spinelli
28. Andersonville- MacKinlay Kantor
29. The Stolen Child-Keith Donohue
30. The Wolf Gift-Anne Rice
31. Sister Carrie-Theodore Dreiser
32. The Spice Necklace: A Food Lover's Caribbean Adventure-Ann Vanderhoof
33. Fifty Shades of Grey-EL James
34. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
35. The Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
36. This Side of Paradise-F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Realm-Gertie Poole
38. Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe
39. The Paris Wife-Paula McClain
40. Magic Trash-Gertie Poole
41. Surfacing-Margaret Atwood
42. Willow-Julia Hoban
43. White Noise-Don DeLillo
44. Schindler's List-Thomas Keneally
45. The Great American Medicine Show-David Armstrong
46. Women In Love-DH Lawrence
47. The Magician King-Lev Grossman
48. David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
49. Out of Oz-Gregory Maguire
50. Tender is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald
51. Go Down, Moses-William Faulkner
52. Shalador's Lady-Anne Bishop
53. Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie
54. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test-Tom Wolfe
55. The Bluest Eye-Toni Morrison
56. The Optimist's Daughter-Eudora Welty
57. The Temple of My Familiar-Alice Walker
58. Uncle Tom's Cabin-Harriet Beecher Stowe
59. The Shadow Queen-Anne Bishop
60. Beach Blondes-Katherine Applegate
61. Go Ask Alice-Anonymous
62. Eleonora-Poe
63. Serendipity-Louise Shaffer
64. Ligeia-Poe
65. The Man That Was Used Up-Poe
66. MS Found In A Bottle-Poe
67. Masque of the Red Death-Poe
68. Cask of Amontillado-Poe
69. Hop Frog-Poe
70. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar-Poe
71. The Purloined Letter-Poe
72. The Oval portrait-Poe
73. The Fall of the House of Usher-Poe
74. Sophie's Choice-William Styron
75. Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
76. Summer-Edith Wharton

Currently Reading:

77. The Duchess-Amanda Foreman
78. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher-Kate Summerscale

On Deck To Read:

79. Codex-Lev Grossman
80. Devil in the White City-Erik Larson

[Charleen]

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing!

[Andrea, Moderator]

Wow Lisa, that is awesome! I love all of your classics too :) I appreciate them so much more now then when I was forced to read them at a young age. Then in high school I read the Great Gatsby during the summer and I loved it so much it helped me to learn that I loved reading classic books! I try to read a few each year.

[Lisa]

Added to the Completed List:

77. Main Street-Sinclair Lewis
78. The Duchess-Amanda Foreman

Reading:

79. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

[Lisa]

79. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

[Lisa]

80!!!! The House of Mirth-Edith Wharton

[Lisa]

81. Lord Libertine-Anthony Eschler

Currently Reading:

82. Silas Marner

[Lisa]

82. The Rich Are With You Always-Malcolm MacDonald

Reading:

83. Silas Marner-George Eliot

[Lisa]

83. Silas Marner!

Reading:

84. A Factory of Cunning-Phillipa Shockley