whisper's 2011 reading challenge

[Whisper19]

last year my goal was to read 20 000 pages. I almost made it :) but I'm still proud of the number of pages I read and of the books on that list.
this year my goal is to read 50 books.
hope I make it this time :)

reading wish list:

Anthem
Asylum
Atlas Shrugged
The Awakening
The Battle of Corrin
Catch-22
Death and the Dervish
Death in Venice
Evil Under the Sun
The Fountainhead
The Gargoyle
Interview With the Vampire
Julius Caesar
Libra
Lolita
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lover Avenged
Macbeth
The Machine Crusade
Manon Lescaut
Maurice
The Merchant of Venice
Nana
The New York Trilogy
The Nigger of the Narcissus and Other Stories
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Othello
Paradise Lost
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Port Mungo
The Secret Agent
The Shadow of the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Utopia
The Warrior's Apprentice
White Noise
Wuthering Heights

[Whisper19]

1.
And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson: v. 2by Jeremy Clarkson

loved this book
laughtd my head off

[Debbie]

good luck. since you read clarkson's book, does that mean you watch top gear? love that series. have you planned out what you are going to read or are you winging it?

[Whisper19]

i LOVE top gear. watched every episode :)

i have a list of books i'd like to read, but i'm mostly winging it, i love the uncertainty of my next read. i have a new bookshelf in my room - and this is my next-to-read list :)

[Whisper19]

2 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by a.n.r. (anne rice) not worth the dozen hours i spent reading it.

[Sans]

Way hey, more Top Gear and Clarkson fans! My secret dream is to leave the corporate world and become a car mechanic. In Scotland if possible. ^o^

I tried reading The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty a few years ago and couldn't get more than 1/2 way through the book. >_<

[Whisper19]

concerning The Claiming... i basically had to force myself to read it through - it would bother me if i'd left it half done.

[Whisper19]

3. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
a re-read, but loved it again

[Rachel]

I've had Interview... on my TBR shelf for a long time and have never gotten around to it. I must find a spot for it soon!

[Whisper19]

Rachel, i think that anyone who likes vampires MUST read the interview, and if you don't mind slash and (non-explicit) eroticism you might love these books. I'm on Vampire Lestat now, and loving it as well.

[Rachel]

Well, I will definitely have to find a spot for it now. I don't mind much. I never get offended and nothing is too much for me. The only thing that gets me are immature, silly characters/people!

[Whisper19]

4. Finding Home by Cameron Dane
5. Ink Spots by Lissa Matthews

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6. Drawn Together by Z.A. Maxfield
7. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter

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8. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi

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9. The Long Way Home by Z A Maxwell

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10. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
11. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
12. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

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13. Beastly by Alex Flinn

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14. Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
15. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice