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The Randomiser Challenge - 2015

(0/10)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Gone Girl
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Life After Life
Arabella
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Bleak House
The Kite Runner
1984
Middlemarch

80 never let me go
62 doctor sleep
26 necropolis
1 cutting for stone
99 the forest of hands and teeth
65 empty mansions
91 the passage
4 confessions of a buddhist atheist
42 casino royale
7 does the noise in my head bother you?
115 the damned
22 the last werewolf
100 the tell tale heart and other writings
98 the ruins
72 the shining
63 the thicket
39 one day i will write about this place: a memoir
56 nos4a2
89 house of leaves
109 in the night garden

1197: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
1326: Saving Cinnamon: The Amazing True Story of a Missing Military Puppy and the Desperate Mission to Bring Her Home
1364: Waking Kate
759: Wicked Weaves
1533: Amber Moon
798: The Hangman's Daughter
678: Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
19:My Sister's Keeper
1206: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
1386: The Book of "Little Things"
120: Blue is for Nightmares
1546: The Divine Comedy
536: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
1433: Developing Psychometry and Psychic Skills
1440: The Spell Book of Wiccan Shadows
734: Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills
1111: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
8:A Family Possessed: A Ghost Story
1475: Traditions of the North American Indians
1005: Still Alice
1017: My Life as a White Trash Zombie
683: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
853: Etiquette & Espionage

January: The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
February: City of Women
March: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
April: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
May: Blankets
June: The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists
July: Life Drawing
August: The Terror of Tellico Plains : The Memoirs of Ray H. Jenkins
September: Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
October: For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation
November: Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
December: The Emperor of All Maladies

I'm trying for 15:
#97:
#155:
#183:
#191:
#196:
#198: The Queen's Handmaiden
#271: When We Wake
#294: King Perry
#312: The Accidental Call Girl
#377:
#437:
#469: Hunter of Demons
#480:
#493:
#515:
Randomizer Challenge
25/30
43 - Wilderness (5/9)
242 - Big Little Lies (10/3)
299 - An Untamed State (3/5)
287 - Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again (10/2)
67 - The Goldfinch (5/6)
26 - Beneath the Lion's Gaze (5/ 14)
120 - Station Eleven (3/6)
298 - The Tyrant's Daughter (1/7)
155 - The World Split Open (2/8)
118 - Leviathan (11/29)
102 - Medicine Walk (6/12)
232 - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (6/24)
237 - Florence Gordon
38 - What is the What
219 - How to be both (4/4)
75 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (10/3)
129 - The Rosie Effect (3/14)
69 - A Tale for the Time Being 3/21
205 - The Museum of Extraordinary Things (4/1)
314 - Someone by Alice McDermott (4/9)
70 - The Luminaries (2/14)
177 - Hausfrau: A Novel (3/7)
9 - Us
329 - 11/22/63
368 - The Story of a New Name
381 - The Enchanted 3/8
372 - The Dalai Lama's Cat (2/5)
1 - The Prisoner of Heaven
88 - All My Puny Sorrows (3/18)
278 - Paper Towns (11/29)
25/30
237 - Florence Gordon
38 - What is the What
9 - Us
329 - 11/22/63
368 - The Story of a New Name
1 - The Prisoner of Heaven

Also, where I got a series book on my list I replaced it with the next book in the series I haven't read. Is that okay?
1. #234 Night Film
2. #325 Richard III
3. #45 Igraine the Brave
4. #440 G is for Gumshoe (was P is for Peril)
5. #653 Irish Fairy Tales and Legends
6. #635 Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
7. #369 So You Want to Be a Wizard
(was Deep Wizardry)
8. #164 The Secret Adversary
9. #200 The Thief
10. #267Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

5 books from my tbr own books:
28: He Sees You When You're Sleeping-208 pages
169: Mistletoe Mischief-91 pages
206: True Betrayals414 pages
217: The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride- 228 pages
261: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle- 562 pages

164.Dandelion Wine
250.Honor Student
1166.Stealing the Wind
216.Skybound
1105.Finding H.F.3/3/15
1374.Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
266.The Art Forger
680.The Lucky Kind
580.Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story
2159.White Hart
1224.Double Her Fantasy
1202.In the Shadow of Blackbirds
968.Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
953.In Honor
985.I am heartily ashamed: Volume II: The Revolutionary War's Final Campaign as Waged from Canada in 1782
1420.By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
1599.Blackmoore
790.Sworn Enemy
1829.Emma
685.Call The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
121.The Death of My Country: The Plains of Abraham Diary of Geneviève Aubuchon
812.The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
1793.A Child Called "It"
675.How My Summer Went Up in Flames
505.Time Between Us
1978.The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1538.Torn Thread
1814.Killing Sarai
322.Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II
1759.Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
471.The Romanov Prophecy
1455.Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu Vol 01
433.The Blemished
241.Sloppy Firsts
997.When the Cherry Blossoms Fall: My Life as an English Teacher in Japan
1047.Patience & Sarah
159.Bird Kiss, Volume 5
73.Loveless 10 Finished 1/9/15
187.The 13th Day of Christmas
896.The Night Dance
904.The Rose Bride: A Retelling of "The White Bride and the Black Bride"
747.Tiger Lily
2013.Night World, No. 1
562.Daughter of War
782.The Picture of Dorian Gray
1864.Hansel and Gretel
1524.Snow Like Ashes 2/21/15
523.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
8.Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
625.The Mozart Question
Finished books:





62. How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern
60. Penelope by Marilyn Kaye
54. The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
7. Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors Completed 1/11/15
46. Diary of the White Witch by Melissa de la Cruz
41. Westminster Abby byMicol Ostow
40. Heist Society by Ally Carter
19. The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
26. A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
18. Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
79. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock byMatthew Quick
51. Abarat by Clive Barker
Read 1/12

I've got 5 books in queue
6. Lord of the Flies
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
16.One Hundred Years of Solitude
24.Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel

I don't have any books marked as TBR on my Goodreads profile, so I used the excel list of the unread physical books I own.
Randomizer gave me some chunksters I've been meaning to read for a veery long time. That's a very nice mix!
#77 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
#96 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#103 The Complete Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
#289 A Perfect Vacuum by Stanisław Lem
#192 Hanene Ay Doğacak by Şebnem İşigüzel
#209 War and War by László Krasznahorkai
#209 Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
#136 The Iliad by Homer
#322The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
#42 The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

2/5
✓#45. The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America by Keith S. Thomson
✓#199. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak

I like the looks of the books.
99- An Untamed Land
104- The Long Way Home
272- Victory Over the Darkness
314- Life, In Spite of Me: Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice
364- The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
396- Angel Sister
454- Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
511- Betrayed
537- A Cast of Stones
718- the OUTRAGEOUS life: Letting God Take You From Ordinary to Outrageous
859- Songs in the Key of Solomon: In the Word and In the Mood
1064- Like a Flower in Bloom

Sophie's World
Fade
Sweet Thing
Gone With a Handsomer Man
The Sham

Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015
I'm in for 20 books. 2 out of 20 books completed
49 -

104 -

141 -

171 -

378 -

689 -

707 -

768 -

795 -

926 -

934 -

988 -

1184 -

1388 -

1482 -

2039 -

2300 -

2326 -

2984 -

3394 -



1/10 completed
1. #234 Night Film
2. #325 Richard III
3. #45 Igraine the Brave Completed 1/11/15
4. #440 G is for Gumshoe (was P is for Peril)
5. #653 Irish Fairy Tales and Legends
6. #635 Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
7. #369 So You Want to Be a Wizard
(was Deep Wizardry)
8. #164 The Secret Adversary
9. #200 The Thief
10. #267Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Any way I have finished my first book for this challenge - Doctor Sleep.
1/15

2/10 Completed
1. #234 Night Film Completed 1/20/15
2. #325 Richard III
3. #45 Igraine the Brave Completed 1/11/15
4. #440 G is for Gumshoe (was P is for Peril)
5. #653 Irish Fairy Tales and Legends
6. #635 Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
7. #369 So You Want to Be a Wizard
(was Deep Wizardry)
8. #164 The Secret Adversary
9. #200 The Thief
10. #267Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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51: Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
24: The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
15: Landline by Rainbow Rowell
41: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
23: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
53: Third Girl From The Left by Martha Southgate
14: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
32: Euphoria by Lily King
40: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
2: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
19: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie