The Complete Works Challenge 2015

[Angelique]

Hi Zara,

Do we have two Angeliques? Because I'm nowhere near finishing my Complete works challenge.

[Victoria]

April update finished 9/33 after completing

Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express and
Three Act Tragedy

Full list at page 2 message 94

[Cassandra]

Finished May 2
5 stars

4/15

[Megan]

Just completed another selection for Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper. I love Allen's writing and her stories. It's like being wrapped up in comfort and told a lovely fairy tale by a family member. This book is no different - good characters that are forced to accept who they are when faced with unusual, slightly supernatural circumstances. Definitely worth reading! 4 stars

One more book to go for this author!

[Megan]

Just completed my 2nd selection for Jojo Moyes - Me Before You. This book was gripping and emotional and heartfelt. I guess I should have been prepared for the plot, given the title, but even after I figured it out, I was still so emotionally invested in the characters, it didn't matter. Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

[Zara's Retreat]

Great work everyone

[Leah]

Update #150
13/31

[Megan]

Just completed another selection for Kristan Higgins - My One and Only. Overall, I enjoyed this book. However, while I felt the characters were a bit more complex than some of Higgins' other books, the story was lacking some of her signature humor. Worth reading! 4 stars

[Dana]

3 completed so far in this challenge

Jojo Moyes
The Girl You Left Behind
One Plus One

Sophie Kinsella
I've Got Your Number

*updated message 65

[Scott]

I'll do this challenge. I'm picking 3 authors that have 7 books between them.

So far I've completed 3/7

Gillian Flynn
1. Gone Girl ✔
2. Dark Places ✔
3. Sharp Objects ✔

Anne Frank
1. The Diary of a Young Girl

Donna Tartt
1. Goldfinch
2. The Secret History
3. The Little Friend

[Winter, Group Reads]

Since I'm gonna read The Goldfinch and The Secret History anyway, might as well read the third this year and add her to this challenge.. I'm in, Donna Tartt:)

[Winter, Group Reads]

The Complete Works Challenge 2015

Donna Tartt:

Den hemmelige historien
The Little Friend
The Goldfinch

1/3

Total: 0/1

[Zara's Retreat]

I've added you Winter

[Zara's Retreat]

well done Dana and Scott

[Tatiana]

I am going to read the complete works of:

gillian Flynn
Jodi Picoult

[Scott]

I think I'll add Harper Lee to my challenge. I just finished To Kill a mockingbird and I plan on reading her new novel once it's published this summer.

So my current total and goal would be

4/9 books with 1 of 4 authors finished.

[Reija]

Finally I finished my first one, The Secret History by Donna Tartt message 105

[Zara's Retreat]

great work everyone.

[Cassandra]

Finished June 1
4 stars

5/14

[Zara's Retreat]

well done Cassandra

[Megan]

Just finished another Higgins' book - Too Good to Be True. Classic Higgins! Good, interesting, likeable characters with a quick plot and funny bits. Definitely worth reading! 4 stars

[Megan]

Just completed another Jojo Moyes - The Girl You Left Behind. In the end, I really liked this book. However, it took my quite awhile to actually get invested in the story. It felt like in the beginning of the book, I had been dropped into the middle of a story I didn't understand, and not in a good way. Things shaped up a bit when the story moved to modern times. Overall, at the end, I loved the story and characters, it just took me awhile. 4 stars

[Jackie B. -]

As with many other challenges-- Better late than never! I'm joining and I plan on reading the complete works of two American illustrator/authors. I plan on reading books they both wrote and illustrated, wrote, OR illustrated. This will be a fascinating study on how they grew as both authors and illustrators, as well as seeing if they got ideas from books they illustrated...

Virginia Lee Burton (view spoiler)[: She was an American illustrator and children's book author. I recently discovered her Caledott Medal winning book, The Little House and found that I'm in love!!

The Little House - Author and Illustrator 6/10/15
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Author and Illustrator 6/10/15
The Emperor's New Clothes - Illustrator 7/22/15
Katy and the Big Snow - Author and Illustrator 6/20/15
Choo Choo - Author and Illustrator 7/22/15
Maybelle the Cable Car - Author and Illustrator 7/22/15
Life Story - Author and Illustrator 6/20/15
Calico the Wonder Horse, or The Saga of Stewy Stinker - Author and Illustrator Out of Print; unable to locate
The Song of Robin Hood - Illustrator
The Boomer's Fast Sooner Hound - Illustrator 8/27/15
(hide spoiler)]
9/9

Brian Selznick (view spoiler)[ And American author and illustrator who won the 2007 Caldecott Medal for his novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I've wanted to read this for years, so this is as good a time as any! He has illustrated many more books than he has written. (I am not going to include books he has illustrated which are not in written English, since I only read English.)

The Houdini Box Author and Illustrator 8/26/15
Doll Face Has A Party! Illustrator 6/20/15
Our House: The Stories of Levittown Illustrator 15/5/15
The Robot King Author and Illustrator 9/30/15
Frindle Illustrator 7/12/15
The Boy Who Longed for a Lift Illustrator 8/27/15
Riding Freedom Illustrator 10/7/15
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride Illustrator 11/15/15
Barnyard Prayers Illustrator 10/7/15
The Doll People Illustrator 7/12/15
The Boy of a Thousand Faces Author and Illustrator 11/15/15
The Landry News Illustrator <1>11/8/15
The Dinosaurs Of Waterhouse Hawkins Illustrator 12/28/15
The School Story Illustrator 9/25/15
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson Illustrator
Wingwalker Illustrator
The Dulcimer Boy Illustrator
The Meanest Doll in the World Illustrator
Walt Whitman: Words For America Illustrator
Lunch Money Illustrator
Marly's Ghost: A Remix of Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Illustrator
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Author and Illustrator
The Runaway Dolls Illustrator
12: A Novel Illustrator
Wonderstruck Author and Illustrator
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves Author Contributor
(hide spoiler)]
15/26

Here's to complete works!

[Megan]

Just finished my last Sarah Addison Allen book, which means I have completed my first author!! The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen. I love Allen's mix of Southern fiction with fantastical elements! It's a perfect blend and always a treat to read! This book is a great representation of that - wonderful, complex characters with completely believable mystic abilities. Well-written and heart-warming! Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

1/4

[Winter, Group Reads]

updated 219

[Maiko]

Updated message 62


22/22
Challenge is done

[Reija]

The second Tartt, The Little Friend, read
message 105.
I liked this much better than The Secret history but maybe it is because of summer, Mississippi felt pretty amazing. The ending was little bit wtf but.. then.. I read The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag along with this and it was too weird how many elements and even plot points were same, like he would like to solve this book. I still think this was better though.

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


1/9 - 8 to go

Author: Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

[Scott]

I've added Stieg Larrson (fiction books only) to my challenge

Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Books 5/12, 1/5 Authors Completed

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Just updated message #21 with my finishes to date. I started this with good intentions, but I keep getting pulled to read other titles. I may not get my three chosen complete works finished this year, but I will at some point!

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


So, it turns out that one of the books I had listed for Ayn Rand is actually part of a collection I already had listed. I have removed that and corrected the numbers. (And I corrected my math as the number of books didn't add up to the goal I had listed!)

1/6 - 5 to go

Author: Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged
*The Fountainhead
*Anthem
*We the Living
*The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her
Unpublished Fiction
*Three Plays

[Vernice]

Updated message 173

Finished all Gillian Flynn novels.

[Scott]

7/12 The diary of a young girl by anne Frank

2 authors completed

[Cosmic]

I want to be included in this challenge!

My author is L. Frank Baum and his 22 works of oz series.

Read:
The Wonderful Wizard of OzApril 2015
The Marvelous Land of OzOctober 2015
The Woggle Bug a Book of OzMay 2015
Dorothy and the Wizard in OzSeptember 2015
Ozma of OzNovember 12,2015
The Road to OzNovember 20,2015

To read
The Emerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Little Wizard Stories of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Scarecrow of Oz
Rinkitink in Oz
The Lost Princess of Oz
The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Magic of Oz
Glinda of Oz: In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of...
The Royal Book of Oz

I have another one of his books Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

I see the list might be longer than this but right now this is what I want to commit to
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...



American Fairy Tales
The Sea Fairies
Sky Island
Queen Zixi of Ix
The Enchanted Island of Yew
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
The Master Key
The Oz Chronicles: Volume 1
Mother Goose in Prose
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Dot and Tot of Merryland
Journeys Through Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz
John Dough and the Cherub
Twinkle and Chubbins: Their astonishing adventures in nature fairyland
The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island
25 Favorite Kid's Books for Middle Young Adult Readers
Wonder Tales, V3
A Christmas Treasury: Twelve Holiday Stories
The Visitors from Oz
Oz The Great and Powerful
The Last Egyptian
The Discontented Gopher: A Prairie Tale
The Secret Of The Lost Fortune: A Daring Twins Mystery
Father Goose His Book
The Enchanted Buffalo
The Queen of Quok & The Glass Dog
The Purple Dragon and Other Fantasies
The Tiger's Eye
Navy Alphabet Book
Prairie-Dog Town
The Magic Cloak; And Other Stories
Books for Reluctant Readers: A Classic Collection
Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse of Oz
Little Bun Rabbit
How the Wizard Saved Oz
Kabumpo of Oz
The Alchemist
The Flying Girl
Policeman Bluejay
By the Candelabra's Glare
The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees
Phoebe Daring, A Story for Young Folk
The L. Frank Baum Collection 34 books in one!
The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors
Joey's Coming Home Today
The Laughing Hippopotamus (Masterpiece Collection): Great Classic
Jaglon and the tiger fairies
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt
The Glass Dog
Barford Abbey
The Girl Who Owned a Bear (Masterpiece Collection): Great Classics
The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs
Lost Comics of Oz
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair
Ojo of Oz
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz with illustrations
Pirates in Oz
Lost Legends of OZ Volume I

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Time to re-assess this challenge. We have less than 24 weeks in the year, and I have 25 Anne Rice books left in my challenge, to say nothing of the Murakami and Massie books. I've also got other books I really want to read this year, so it's time for a re-vamp.

I'm limiting my challenge to Anne Rice, and I'll see how far I get on that. Some are rather short, but 8 are over 500 pages. So from today, 25 to go!

[Scott]

8/12 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Sherry]

Updated: COMPLETED!!

2 Authors= 6 Books Total
6/6 Books Completed ✔

Lila DiPasqua
Fiery Tales series- 4 Books ✔
4/4
1. Awakened by a Kiss (Fiery Tales, #1) [Read 2/3/2015]
2. The Princess in His Bed (Fiery Tales, #2) [Read 2/22/2015]
3. A Midnight Dance (Fiery Tales, #3) [Read 3/20/2015]
4. Undone (Fiery Tales, #4) {IN KINDLE}- [Read 7/28/2018]

Lia Habel
2 books
2/2 Completed ✔
1. Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration, #1) [Read 2/20/2015]
2. Dearly, Beloved (Gone With the Respiration, #2) [Read 2/2/2015]

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Sherry wrote: "Updated: COMPLETED!!"

Congrats, Sherry! I'm working my way though the complete works of Anne Rice, which I hope to finish by year end.

[Dana]

I updated Message 65 to show my progress. I'm really enjoying the Jojo Moyes novels- she's easily becoming my favorite author.

[SleeplessBookExplorer]

I would like to join. I think I can either finish it by December OR have enough already read to get some of these marked off.

I am going to post this and then when I get all my challenges added to my corner, I am going to go through my “2015 books” list and see if any of those match the criteria.

I am doing Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton

Mary Higgins Clark Books That I haven’t read:

Where Are the Children?
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
All Around the Town
Two Little Girls in Blue
You Belong To Me
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Remember Me
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
On the Street Where You Live
A Stranger Is Watching
Daddy's Little Girl
The Cradle Will Fall
I Heard That Song Before
I'll Be Seeing You
Where Are You Now?
Moonlight Becomes You
Pretend You Don't See Her
A Cry In The Night
I'll Walk Alone
Weep No More, My Lady
Nighttime Is My Time
No Place Like Home
I've Got You Under My Skin
Before I Say Goodbye
Just Take My Heart
We'll Meet Again
The Lost Years
The Shadow of Your Smile
Stillwatch
The Second Time Around
Deck the Halls
The Lottery Winner
All Through the Night
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
My Gal Sunday
The Christmas Thief
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
Dashing Through the Snow
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
Silent Night: A Christmas Suspense Story

Sue Grafton books that I haven’t read:

A is for Alibi
B is for Burglar
C is for Corpse
D is for Deadbeat
E is for Evidence
F is for Fugitive
G is for Gumshoe
H is for Homicide
I is for Innocent
J is for Judgment
K is for Killer
L is for Lawless
M is for Malice
N is for Noose
O is for Outlaw
P is for Peril
Q is for Quarry
R is for Ricochet
S is for Silence
T is for Trespass
U Is for Undertow
V is for Vengeance
W is for Wasted
X

A Poison That Leaves No Trace: With Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle

[Kara]

It may be a little late for this, haha, but I'm going to sign up. It took me this long to figure out who I wanted to read.

I'll be finishing up Mary Roach's books.

To go:
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

[Stephanie (Chinchillita)]

Update message 178
The Diviners 8/10/15
9/33

[Susan C]

Updated message 6


8/9 completed

[Jackie B. -]

Updated message 231: I'm now done with 7/11 books by Virginia Lee Burton and 3/26 books for Brian Selznick.

Since they are both author/illustrators I am reading works they only illustrated for as well. I enjoy reading these other authors and seeing their unique images connecting everything.

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Just edited message #21 with an August re-vamp. To finish both complete works, I need to finish 20 books by Anne Rice and 9 by Haruki Murakami. I'm joining a buddy read for Murakami, and it looks like I can finish his works by the end of the year. Per the guidelines, I've opted to exclude his short story collections.

Anne Rice is more challenging. With a busy work schedule, I depend on audiobooks to make use of my drive time and to listen while doing things at home. With the exception of her Vampire Chronicles and Sleeping Beauty series, few books are available in unabridged audio. I'll see how far I get by year end!

[Megan]

Just completed another selection by Jojo Moyes - The Horse Dancer. Impressively good story with lots of depth. I am consistently amazed by Moyes' complicated and loveable characters. Great writing! Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

[Leah]

Update #150 - 15/31

[Cassandra]

The Graveyard Book
Finished August 22
3 stars

8/13

[Sarah]

I haven't started this challenge, at all. Can you please take me off this challenge. Thanks

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


2/6 - 4 to go

Author: Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged
Anthem