Sera's 2014 Challenge

[Sera]

This thread is where the magic will happen.


1.The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2.I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
3.A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
4.Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
5.Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
6.The Quiet American by Graham Greene
7.A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
8.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
9.The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
10.Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
11.The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
12.In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
13.A Maggot by John Fowles
14.Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
15.The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
16.A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra
17.The Everything Small-Space Gardening Book (Everything by Catherine Abbot
18.The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
19.A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
20.The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
21.Double Cross by James Patterson
22.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
23.Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
24.Sycamore Row by John Grisham
25.The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
26.Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
27.The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
28.The Bees by Laline Paull
29.The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
30.The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
31.Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
32.Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
33.Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
34.Perfect Mistake by Kate Brian
35.You Can't Make Me by Cynthia Tobias
36.Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
37.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
38.To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
39.The Book of Spells by Kate Brian
40.Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
41.The Children Act by Ian McEwan
42.Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
43.We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
44.The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
45.Abroad by Katie Crouch
46.Winter of the World by Ken Follett
47.The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Burbery
48.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
49.This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
50.Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
51.The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
52.The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
53.Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
54.The Lion and the Puppy by Leo Tolstoy
55.That Night by Chevy Stevens
56.Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
57.Executive Presence: What Nobody Ever Tells You about Getting Ahead by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
58.Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
59.The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
60.The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Equist

[Karol]

Yea! Happy New Year, Sera.

[Sera]

Thanks, Karol, and to you, too!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Good luck!

[Tom]

Good luck, Sera !

[Sera]

Thanks, Elyse and Tom! My best to you on meeting your reading goals this year :)

[Charleen]

Everyone seems to love Tell The Wolves I'm Home. How did you like it?

[Sera]

I thought that it was fabulous, Charleen. I highly recommend it.