The Goodreads 100 Challenge - 2013

[Nidia]

I am in :) These are the books I've chosen for this challenge. I will revise later if need be.
At Start of 2013: 19
Goal: 30
Completed: 7/11

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Read) 4/5
2. 1984 by George Orwell (read) 4/5
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (read)4/5
4. The Giver by Lois Lowry (read)4/5
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
6. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (read) 3/5
7. Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstien
8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
9. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Read) 4/5
10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (read)4/5
11. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[Nathan]

♥iLoveBooks♥ wrote: "Wait, is the 2013 challenge beginning now?"

It will start in January. :)

[Carrie]

At start: 52
Goal: 60

Here's my list:

Dracula
Catch-22
Les Misérables
East of Eden
Interview with the Vampire
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Alice in Wonderland
The Handmaid's Tale

[Ellen]

At the start of 2013: 25
Goal: 50
Completed: 0/25

[Carrie]

So, I went to the bookstore today, gift card in hand to purchase a few of the books from my "to read" list for this challenge. This is when I discovered that Les Misérables is thousands of pages long. :-) So, I've revised my list and here's my new plan:

At start: 52
Goal: 61

Dracula
Catch-22
The Stranger Finished 1/16/13, Three Stars
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Interview with the Vampire
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Finished on 1/6/13, Five Stars
Alice in Wonderland
The Handmaid's Tale -- Finished on 1/10/13, Four Stars
East of Eden

[Gaijinmama]

At start: ONLY 34! pathetic!!
Goal: a realistic 50, as I have 16 of these on my TBR
Completed: 0/16

[Lisa]

I've read 36. I'll try for 10 more.

At start of 2013: 36
Goal: 46
Completed: 0/10

[Squirrel]

At the start of 2013: 29
Progress: 0/16

Tentative list of books to get through:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
3. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien*
4. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
7. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
8. Life of Pi - Yann Martel*
9. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
10. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
11. Watchmen - Alan Moore*
12. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
13. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
15. Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
16. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides


Filled out primarily with books I already own (or that my dad owns and I can easily acquire from him).

Anyone have any advice on how to get through Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre? I've started both quite a few times, and just could not get myself to care 50 pages in.

[Nathan]

Squirrel wrote: "...Anyone have any advice on how to get through Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre? I've started both quite a few times, and just could not get myself to care 50 pages in."

Buddy reads? haha, I've done the same thing with those two books. I think that we should set up a buddy read when we want to read them, that way a group of us can all read together!

[Debra]

I went through this list and marked the books that I have read which is 18...but I know several others I have started and just didn't finish...but there are many books on this list that I already have and would like to read. I will put my goal at 20 from this list.

[Squirrel]

Trevor wrote: "Buddy reads? haha, I've done the same thing with those two books. I think that we should set up a buddy read when we want to read them, that way a group of us can all read together!"

Ooo good idea! How do we set this up?

[Morgan]

I've read pride and prejudice, but I would love to do a buddy read for Jane eyre. That's one I can never seem to get through on my own!

[Adriana]

Jane Eyre for me too!

[Alexa]

I'm really excited about this challenge!

At the start of 2013: 10 (so pitiful, I know!); it's really 25, but I don't count books in Goodreads that I don't have much recollection of.
Goal: 30
Completed: 0/20

I would definitely be interested in a buddy read for Ulysses!

[Kate]

Start of 2013 total read 19
Goal for 2013: 10

1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. 1984
3. Jane Eyre
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Alice in Wondland
6. The Secret Garden
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
8. Rebecca
9. Catch-22
10. The Time Traveler's Wife

[Debra]

Here are my goal of 20

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I already have 18 out of these books out of 20.

[Nathan]

Squirrel wrote: "Ooo good idea! How do we set this up?"

Just post on this thread (link below) and say a book you want a buddy for and when you're planning to read it. Then once another person (or several other people) have posted that they are interested, Ashley will post a new thread for it a week or so before the buddy read stars. :)

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

At start of 2013: 23
Goal: 35
To read: 12

1/12

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Finished January 23rd.

[Squirrel]

Trevor wrote: "Squirrel wrote: "Ooo good idea! How do we set this up?"

Just post on this thread (link below) and say a book you want a buddy for and when you're planning to read it. Then once another person (or ..."

Thanks! Posted there.

[April Lyn]

If anyone is wanting to read Catch-22 from this list, please, comment on the December buddy reads thread for it. I am on page 82 and my buddy quit and it's not an easy book to get through alone :(

[Julie]

I have read 20 on the list.I am going to do 5 more.

1. The Giver by Lois Lowry

2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

4. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

These are books I have been meaning to read but never got around to.

[Natalie]

Start: 35
End: 50 52

Completed 16 out of 15

1. The Catcher in the Rye Read 02/05/13
2. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe Read 09/22/13
3. The Great Gatsby Read 05/03/13
4. A Wrinkle in Time Read 12/11/13
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Read 12/21/13
6. Sense and Sensibility Read 01/11/13
7. The Princess Bride Read 12/13/13
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray Read 08/07/13
9. Memoirs of a Geisha Read 12/21/13
10. The Book Thief Read 05/06/13
11. Life of Pi Read 03/19/13
12.Wuthering Heights Read 10/14/13
13. Watchmen Read 12/21/13
14. Outlander Read 04/30/13
15. The Secret Garden Read 11/20/13
16. Alice in Wonderland Read 11/26/13

[Gecko]

THE GOODREADS 100 CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31 2013

At the start of 2013: 46
Goal: 51 maybe more
COMPLETED: 0/5

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Die Glasglocke/The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Watchmen - Alan Moore

[Amanda]

1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Of Mice and Men
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. The Odyssey
7. The Giver
8. Ender's Game
9. Catch-22
10. The Stranger
11. The Sun Also Rises

Completed: 1/11

Editing to ask: Do people normally post updates in separate replies like this, or just edit their original post in the thread? Sorry I'm not clear on that!

[Nathan]

Amanda wrote: "Editing to ask: Do people normally post updates in separate replies like this, or just edit their original post in the thread? Sorry I'm not clear on that!"

Most people post updates in new replies! That's no problem at all. It's actually a lot easier for the challenge leaders to know what your number is if you post new messages when you're updating, rather than editing posts from before. I always post new messages when I'm updating. :)

How did you like Ender's Game? It's one of my absolute favourite books! I'm going to reread it this year - the movie comes out in November, I believe.

[Gaijinmama]

Ender's Game is one of the books I'll be attempting this year, too.

[Amanda]

Trevor wrote: "Most people post updates in new replies! That's no problem at all. It's actually a lot easier for the challenge leaders to know what your number is if you post new messages when you're updating, rather than editing posts from before. I always post new messages when I'm updating. :)

How did you like Ender's Game? It's one of my absolute favourite books! I'm going to reread it this year - the movie comes out in November, I believe. "

Thanks, Trevor! I did a new reply and then wondered if I was being helpful or just annoying, LOL. :)

I loved Ender's Game! I couldn't put it down! And I'm going to see if my library has the other books in the series as well. Are they as good, in your opinion?

[Kara]

If you liked the YA/battle part of Ender's Game, I would recommend continuing with the Shadow series instead of the Ender series. The Ender series gets more philosophical. The Shadow series, on the other hand, follows Bean and continues the story on Earth.

[Lorelei]

I've read 17 at the start of 2013
My Goal: 25
Completed 6/8

The Joy Luck Club ***3.31.13
The Book Thief ***1.27.13
The Kite Runner ***10.6.13
The Great Gatsby ***4.3.13
The Secret Garden ***11.17.13
A Wrinkle in Time ***3.31.13
The Little Prince
The Count of Monte Cristo

[Nathan]

Amanda wrote: "Thanks, Trevor! I did a new reply and then wondered if I was being helpful or just annoying, LOL. :)

I loved Ender's Game! I couldn't put it down! And I'm going to see if my library has the other books in the series as well. Are they as good, in your opinion?"

Definitely helpful!

As Kara said, I'd recommend the Shadow series over the Ender series if you liked the YA feel of EG. In my opinion, the Ender series goes downhill as it proceeds but I've consistently liked the Shadow books. My favorite Enderverse books, besides EG, are Ender's Shadow (the first of the Shadow books) and Ender in Exile. Speaker for the Dead was pretty good too, but after that the Ender storyline kind of drops for me. But try them anyway! It's still fun to follow the characters. I love the characters of OSC. He does such a great job forming good characters.
I'm so sorry, I'm such a nerd when it comes to Ender's Game. I gush sometimes. lol

[Julie]

I had read 20 from list and have goal of 5 for this challenge. I am now 1/5 just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry! Great book. Borrowed it from my daughter who loved it so much when she was in 8th grade that the school librarian told her she could keep it!

[Nathan]

Julie wrote: "I had read 20 from list and have goal of 5 for this challenge. I am now 1/5 just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry! Great book. Borrowed it from my daughter who loved it so much when she was in 8th ..."

The Giver is on of my faves too! Please let me know how you like it in the end. :D

[Missy]

At the start of 2013: 26
Goal: 32
Completed 0/6

[Carrie]

Updated Post #57. Completed 1/9

[Nicola]

Oh dear! I'm ashamed to admit I've only read 13 off this list. Time to get reading I guess. I'm going to aim to have read the first 25 on the list, by the end of 2013. That means 14 books:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - read 12jan13
4. 1984
5. Jane Eyre
6. Brave New World
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
10. Wuthering Heights
11. Alice in Wonderland
12. Little Women
13. Of Mice and Men
14. Dune

[Tricia]

Start 2013: 34
Goal: 50
Completed: 0/16

[Rachel]

At the start of 2013: 13
Goal: 25
Completed: 0/12

I'm thinking I'll shoot for these 12, but they're subject to change:

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. The Little Prince
6. Anne of Green Gables
7. The Princess Bride
8. The Hunger Games
9. The Color Purple
10. Life of Pi
11. The Bell Jar
12. Water for Elephants

[Jen]

I'm in!

I've read 31 of the 100, and I'm going to try to read just over one per month and add 14 for the year. Below is my tentative list.


1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Gone with the Wind
5. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Live
6. The Little Prince
7. Rebecca
8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
9. Catch-22
10. The Bell Jar
11. Lolita
12. American Gods
13. The Poisonwood Bible
14. Middlesex

[ScarlettMi]

At the start of 2013: 32
Goal: 42
COMPLETED: 3/10

1. Brave New World
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. The Book Thief
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[Flynn]

I'm going to aim low for this.
At start: 5
Goal: 15

Lucky I own a lot of them, I'm probably going to read these:

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Hobbit
Wuthering Heights
The Secret Garden
Hitchhiker'd Guide to the Galaxy
Frankenstein
Anne of Green Gables
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Life of Pi (reading currently)

[Renae]

Have read at least 15 of those. I have read most of the 15 over time however I think I may have only read about six of them last year. My goal is 31 of these classics for this year however.

[Morgan]

I've finished my first one for this challenge :)
The Catcher in the Rye
Completed: 1/22

[Julie]

I have read 23 books from the list will try to get this up to 30 not sure which books yet

[Toni]

Finished my first one:

1/12
Brave New World finished 1/13/2013 - 4 stars

[AJ]

Read: 32
TBR: 20
2013 Goal: 10!

There are a lot if books on the to 100 i just have no interest in, but it did remind me of others I keep meaning to get to (how bad is it that I'm convinced I've read Unbeatable Lightness of Being but can remember nothing about it!)

[Julie]

2/5 complete:

1) The Giver by Lois Lowry

2) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Nathan]

changing my goal to 12. :)

1/12

[Kaitlin]

One down! It was a big one...

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Completed 1/13

[Heather]

I have read 33
Goal: 65
Completed: 0/32

Looking forward to the challenge there are several on there I have always wanted to read.

[Meg-Anne]

At start of 2013: 34
Goal: 55

0/21