Emily's 2008 Challenge

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My goal for 2008 is 50 books [hopefully most of them will come from my TBR mountain, which only contains 38 at the moment.]

1. Amy and Isabelle : Elizabeth Strout
2. A Three Dog Life : Abigail Thomas

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3. A Widow for One Year : John Irving

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4. Beowulf : Anonymous
5. Life of Pi : Yann Martel

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6. Julie & Julia : Julie Powell

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7. Snow Falling on Cedars : David Guterson
8. Nine Stories : JD Salinger
9. Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronte
10. Garlic and Sapphires : Ruth Reichl
11. Mrs. Dalloway : Virgina Woolf
12. Last Days of Summer : Steven Kluger
13. Song of Solomon : Toni Morrison

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14. Drowning Ruth : Christina Schwarz

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15. The Magician's Assistant : Ann Patchett

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16. Howards End : E.M. Forster

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17. The Gathering : Anne Enright

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18. Emma : Jane Austen
19. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay : Michael Chabon
20. Animal Farm : George Orwell

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21. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek : Annie Dillard

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22. What Remains : Carole Radziwell

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23. Circle of Friends : Maeve Binchy

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24. The Dog Fighter : Marc Bojanowski

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25. True History of the Kelly Gang : Peter Carey

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26. The Camel Bookmobile : Masha Hamilton

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27. Crime and Punishment : Fyodor Dostoevsky

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28. Blue Diary : Alice Hoffman
29. Possession : A.S. Byatt

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30. Chocolat : Joanne Harris

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31. The Witch of Portobello : Paulo Coehlo

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32. Daughter of Fortune : Isabel Allende

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33. The Devil and Miss Prym : Paulo Coehlo

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34. Later, At The Bar : Rebecca Barry
35. I Know This Much Is True : Wally Lamb
36. Art Lover : A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim : Anton Gill

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37. The Shadow of the Wind : Carlos Ruiz Zafron
38. A Dirty Job : Christopher Moore
39. The Handmaid's Tale : Margaret Atwood

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40. Ahab's Wife : Sena Jeter Naslund

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41. The Great Man : Kate Christensen
42. Disgrace : J.M. Coetzee

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43. The Thirteenth Tale : Diane Setterfield

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44. Veronika Decides to Die : Paulo Coehlo

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45. The Reluctant Fundamentalist : M. Hamid

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46. Corelli's Mandolin : Louis De Bernieres

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47. The Sea : John Banville
48. The Picture of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde
49. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings : Maya Angelou
50. Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe


I completed my challenge about six weeks ahead of schedule!

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51. The Cloud Sketcher : Richard Rayner