LSMs challenges

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I finally am breaking down and putting all of my challenges in one file. A very smart person suggested it so that it is easy to update files. Thnx sis

Here are the challenges:

1. A - Z Title challenge - read one book starting with each letter of the alphabet in 2009

2. 7 classics - read at least 7 classics in 2009

3. BBC top 100 - read as many books on the list as I can over time. My 2009 goal is to read 5 more of them.

4. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die - read 10 more of these in 2009.(Including the group read)

5. Shelf-a-thon - try to beat the number of shelves from the previous quarter.

6. Tudor lovers - read at least 3 Tudor books in 2009.

7. Seasonal challenges - beginning with fall 2009

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

7 challenges progress

7 Classics Challenge

Before Goodreads I would never had attempted this, much less doing more than one challenge a year. Now I am doing 4 and am totally addicted. Here is my list:

1. FOUNDATION - by Isaac Asimov (Finished)
2. THE GIVER - by Lois Lowry (Finished)
3. A Tail of Two Cities
4. East of Eden
5. Rebecca
6. Robinson Crusoe
7. Middlemarch
8. The Handmaid's Tale
9. Wuthering Heights
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH

And since my husband and I are reading them together, I will add the rest of the foundation series:

Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

The BBC 100 Challenge:


1 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Jane Austen
2 THE LORD OF THE RINGS - JRR Tolkien
3 JANE EYRE - Charlotte Bronte
4 THE HARRY POTTER SERIES - JK Rowling
5 THE BIBLE - I actually read this cover to cover when I was about 10.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 LITTLE WOMEN - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 CATCH 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 THE HOBBIT - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 CATCHER IN THE RYE – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - starting now
21 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell
22 THE GREAT GATSBY - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak HouseE - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 THE HITCHICKER'S GUIDE - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
29 ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Lewis Carroll
30 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS - Kenneth Grahame
31 ANNA KARENINA - Leo Tolstoy - I read about two thirds of this but just couldn't talk myself into finishing it
32 DAVID COPPERFIELD - Charles Dickens
33 CHORNICLES OF NARNIA - CS Lewis
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - Arthur Golden
40 WINNIE THE POOH - AA Milne
41 ANIMAL FARM - George Orwell
42 THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
50 ATONEMENT - Ian McEwan
51 LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 OF MICE AND MEN - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 THE LOVELY BONES - Alice Sebold
65 COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 MOBY DICK - Herman Melville
71 OLIVER TWIST - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 THE SECRET GARDEN - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 ULYSSES - James Joyce
76 THE BELL JAR - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 CHARLOTTE'S WEB - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam-tried to read this, but couldn't get into in at the time.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 CHARLIE AND THE CHOLATE FACTORY - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

A – Z title Challenge

Here is mine so far.


A: Amagansett
B: Breakfast at Tiffany's 5/15/2009
Belong to Me
The Broken Shore
C: The Cutout 4/22/2009
D: Double Bind
E: The Eight 6/09/2009
F: Foundation 5/20/2009
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks 4/29/2009
G: The Giver 5/23/2009
The Grapes of Wrath 6/30/2009
H: His Majesty's Dragon
I: Innocent Traitor
J: Jinxed
K: Kite Runner
L: Lost in a Good Book 5/15/2009
Liberty and Tyranny
Legacy
M:
N: Next
O:
P:
Q:
R:
S: Shadow of the Wind
T: Turncoat 6/03/2009
Tsubasa Volume 1 6/20/2009
To The Lighthouse
U:
V:
W: A Walk To Remember
X:
Y:
Z: Zoya's Story

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Shelf-a-thon Round 2

206 shelves
16 Books

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

1001 Books to Read before you Die

May - Breakfast at Tiffany's
June - The Grapes of Wrath
July - Catch 22
August - To The Lighthouse
September - Middlemarch
October - Ghost Road
November - Poisonwood Bible

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Tudor Lovers

Legacy
Edward VI,
Innocent Traitor
Murder most Royal

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

12 days of Summer:



B - The Beach Street Knitting & Yarn Society
E - Edward VI: The Lost King of England
A
C
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[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

August assigned reads:

Morrigan's Cross
Chesapeake Blue
Edward VI the Lost King of England
To the Lighthouse
The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

OK - here is how my September is shaping up

1. 1001 - Middlemarch
2. TNNBC - Little Women and The Graveyard Book
3. Novel Ladies - Mystic River or The Godfather
4. Tudor Lovers - still working on Edward VI
5. Pick-a-shelf - Historical Fiction
Eleanor, the Queen and Innocent Traitor.
6. Historical Fictionistas - TBN
7. Seasonal Challenge - TBN and Poison study, Assualt on Paradise