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BBC Big Read (1-50) - Multi-year Goal
italics: read previously
bold: read in 2011
*partially read
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell*
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll*
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
40. Emma, Jane Austen
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams*
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
BBC Big Read (51-100) - Multi-year Goal
italics: read previously
bold: read in 2011
*partially read
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
BBC Big Read (101-150) - Multi-year Goal
italics: read previously
bold: read in 2011
*partially read
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo*
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray*
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
BBC Big Read (151-200) - Multi-year Goal
italics: read previously
bold: read in 2011
*partially read
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
I'm guessing you like Terry Pratchett? I keep seeing his books everywhere.
I do, although I've not read all of the ones on this list. My boyfriend gave me a couple of his books for Christmas & I've been hooked since. They're really good to mix in with some of the heavier material I'm reading.
Thanks. I'll try to pick one up. Right now I've reached the limit of holds I can have at my library. A pretty common occurrence for me.
Lisarenee wrote: "Thanks. I'll try to pick one up. Right now I've reached the limit of holds I can have at my library. A pretty common occurrence for me."How many holds is the max? Ours is 20 regular books plus 10 ebooks. (My husband lets me use his account so I can request double that.)
It's 20 holds and 50 checked out. I'm at both limits.*blush*
Lisarenee wrote: "It's 20 holds and 50 checked out. I'm at both limits.*blush*"Since I use my husband's account too I can take out 100 books and make 40 holds. Our library counts ebooks separately, so I can check out another 35 ebooks on my account. I've actually had 100 books checked out at once, well, a lot. I usually have at least 90 (real) books checked out at once. (Plus a few ebooks)
Wow. I thought I checked out a lot of books but you guys....wow. I'm sad that my library has yet to figure out how to make their ebooks compatible with the kindle. You'd think that would be one of the first, but no. Now I'm tempted to go make myself hit the limit of books just to say I've done it =P
Jessica wrote: "Wow. I thought I checked out a lot of books but you guys....wow. I'm sad that my library has yet to figure out how to make their ebooks compatible with the kindle. You'd think that would be one of ..."It's Amazon that won't make the Kindle compatible with the software that most libraries use for ebooks (Adobe Digital Editions). Doesn't make sense as you can read a PDF on a Kindle, right? It's just an economic thing most likely- they don't want to make it easier to do something that will cost them money. After all, if you can borrow a book, why buy it? Amazon has been saying that they plan to make the Kindle compatible with ADE, but they've been saying that for quite a while and it's really just a simple software upgrade.
All About You Challenge - 12 Month ChallengeAll About You Challenge - 4 Books From a Country I'd Like to Visit - March 2011 - England
Completed: 3/17/11
1. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
2. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
4. 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
All About You Challenge – Favorite Book Crush's Name - April 2011 - Mort
Completed: 4/14/11
M: The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham - 4/2/11 to 4/13/11
O: Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy on 4/13/11 - 2 Stars
R: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Character: Randy Waterhouse - 3/26/11 to 4/14/11
T: Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie - Character: Tuppence - 4/2/11 to 4/4/11
All About You Challenge – Birth Month - May 2011 - May
Completed: 5/16/11
M: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson - 5/6/11 to 5/7/11
A: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson - 5/6/11 to 5/15/11
Y: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 5/15/11 to 5/16/11
All About You Challenge – Birthstone - June 2011 - Emerald
Completed: 6/21/11
E: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - Character: Elinor - 6/6/11 to 6/7/11
M: Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell - Character: Mari - 6/3/11 to 6/4/11
E: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - 6/8/11 to 6/9/11
R: Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist - 6/15/11 to 6/21/11
A: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
L: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - Character: Lucy - 5/11/11 to 6/2/11
D: The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay - Character: Diarmund - 6/9/11 to 6/13/11
All About You Challenge – Traditional Zodiac Sign - July 2011 - Gemini
Completed: 8/18/11
G: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - 7/1/11 to 7/7/11
E: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler - 7/18/11 to 7/19/11 - Character: Eileen Wade
M: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge - 7/1/11 to 7/6/11 - Character: Moon Dawntreader Summer
I: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - Character: Isabel 8/15/11
N: Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh - 7/22/11
I: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg - Character: Isaiah - 8/14/11 to 8/18/11
All About You Challenge – Chinese Zodiac Sign - August 2011 - Dog
Completed: 8/8/11
D: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 8/1/11
O: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson - Frederick Law Olmstead - 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
G: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray - Character: Gemma Doyle -8/2/11 to 8/5/11
All About You Challenge – Favorite Flower - September 2011 - Stargazer Lily
Completed: 9/29/11
S: Storm Front by Jim Butcher - 9/2/11 to 9/4/11
T: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson - Character: Tattersail - 9/7/11 to 9/21/11
A: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Character: Arabella - 4/28/11 to 9/4/11
R: An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James - Character: Ronald Callender - 9/7/11 to 9/8/11
G: The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 9/5/11
A: Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - Character: Abbie - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
Z: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - Character: Louis Zamperini 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
E: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett - Character: Ella - 9/15/11 to 9/16/11
R: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - Character: Raisa - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
L: Sequence by Adrian Dawson - Character: Nick Lambert - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
I: Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - Character: Nickolai Ivanovich - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
L: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - Character: Lucius Malfoy - 9/21/11
Y: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - Character: Young Ilse - 7/5/11 to 9/29/11
All About You Challenge – 4 Books from My Favorite Genre - October 2011 - Non-fiction
Completed: 10/25/11
1. Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine - 10/3/11 to 10/8/11
2. The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
3. You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age by Ruth Kneale - 10/22/11
4. Bossypants by Tina Fey - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
All About You Challenge – Read 3 Books with a Friend
1. Soulless by Gail Carriger - 11/4/11 to 11/5/11
2. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 11/17/11 to 11/19/11
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All About You Challenge – Read 4 Books by Favorite Authors
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All About You Challenge – Read More Books Than Normal
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All About You Challenge – Read One of Favorite Foods
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All About You Challenge – 4 Books by Unread Authors
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Shakespearean Challenge - Multi-Year Challengeitalics: read previously
bold: read in 2011
*partially read
Comedies
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure‡
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Tragedies
Romeo and Juliet*
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar*
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
Othello*
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
Poetry
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
Apocrypha - Optional
Arden of Faversham
The Birth of Merlin
Locrine
The London Prodigal
The Puritan
The Second Maiden's Tragedy
Sir John Oldcastle
Thomas Lord Cromwell
A Yorkshire Tragedy
Edward III
Sir Thomas More
Books Read in 2011 11-20 - Goal: 10011. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett from 2/19/11 to 2/20/11 - 3 Stars
12. Mort by Terry Pratchett on 2/24/11 - 4 Stars
13. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett from 2/27/11 to 3/1/11 - 4 Stars
14. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George from 3/3/11 to 3/6/11 - 3 Stars
15. White Noise by Don DeLillo from 2/21/11 to 3/11/11 - 2 Stars
16. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie from 3/10/11 to 3/14/11 - 3 Stars
17. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel from 2/20/11 to 3/16/11 - 4 Stars
18. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett from 3/9/11 to 3/16/11 - 4 Stars
19. 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie from 3/15/11 to 3/17/11 - 3 Stars
20. Minerva by Marion Chesney from 3/18/11 to 3/19/11 - 2 Stars
Read the Alphabet - 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011A - At Odds With Love by Betty Neels from 3/24/11 to 3/25/11 - 2 Stars
B - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from 1/6/11 to 2/16/11 - 4 Stars
C - The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett on 1/11/11 - 4 Stars
D - Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton on 3/20/11 - 2 Stars
E - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett from 2/19/11 to 2/20/11 - 3 Stars
F - A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin from 7/11/11 to 7/12/11
G - A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George from 3/3/11 to 3/6/11 - 3 Stars
H - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 8/15/11 to 8/16/11 - 4 Stars
I - The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11 - 3 Stars
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L - The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett from 1/16/11 to 1/18/11 - 4 Stars
M - Mort by Terry Pratchett on 2/24/11 - 4 Stars
N - North of Boston by Robert Frost from 4/13/11 to 5/5/11 - 2 Stars
O - The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy from 3/20/11 to 3/25/11 - 3 Stars
P - Perfecting Fiona by Marion Chesney on 1/14/11 - 3 Stars
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R - Refining Felicity by Marion Chesney on 1/13/11 - 3 Stars
S - Sunset Park by Paul Auster from 1/9/11 to 1/10/11 - 4 Stars
T - The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer from 1/6/11 to 1/17/11 - 3 Stars
U - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman from 4/14/11 to 4/15/11 - 3 Stars
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W - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson from 2/5/11 to 2/7/11 - 5 Stars
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Y - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion from 5/15/11 to 5/16/11 - 4 Stars
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Read the Alphabet (Authors) - 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011A - Sunset Park by Paul Auster from 1/9/11 to 1/10/11 - 4 Stars
B - Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton on 3/20/11 - 2 Stars
C - Refining Felicity by Marion Chesney on 1/13/11 - 3 Stars
D - The Brothers Karamazov (1001) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from 1/6/11 to 2/16/11 - 4 Stars
E - Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg from 5/25/11 to 6/14/11 - 4 Stars
F - Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris from 5/21/11 to 5/24/11 - 3 Stars
G - A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George from 3/3/11 to 3/6/11 - 3 Stars
H - Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy from 3/21/11 to 4/24/11 - 4 Stars
I - Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro from 5/10/11 to 5/16/11 - 3 Stars
J - Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson from 2/17/11 to 2/19/11 - 3 Stars
K - Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay from 5/25/11 to 5/30/11 - 4 Stars
L - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson from 3/20/11 to 3/23/11 - 3 Stars
M - The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer from 1/6/11 to 1/17/11 - 3 Stars
N - At Odds With Love by Betty Neels from 3/24/11 to 3/25/11 - 2 Stars
O - The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy from 3/20/11 to 3/25/11 - 3 Stars
P - The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett on 1/11/11 - 4 Stars
Q - The Duke And I by Julia Quinn - 10/30/11 to 10/31/11 - 4 Stars
R - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque from 6/8/11 to 6/9/11 - 5 Stars
S - Macbeth by William Shakespeare (re-read) from 3/16/11 to 3/19/11 - 5 Stars
T - Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson from 5/6/11 to 5/15/11 - 3 Stars
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V - The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut from 1/21/11 to 1/22/11 - 4 Stars
W - A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams from 5/18/11 to 5/19/11 - 4 Stars
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Y: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 10/10/11 to 10/18/11
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Books Read in 2011 21-30 - Goal: 10021. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (re-read) from 3/16/11 to 3/19/11 - 5 Stars
22. Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton on 3/20/11 - 2 Stars
23. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - 2/21/11 to 2/22/11 - 3 Stars
24. Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith from 3/17/11 to 3/21/11 - 1 Star
25. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card from 3/20/11 to 3/21/11 - 4 Stars
26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson from 3/20/11 to 3/23/11 - 3 Stars
27. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie from 3/23/11 to 3/24/11 - 2 Stars
28. At Odds With Love by Betty Neels from 3/24/11 to 3/25/11 - 2 Stars
29. The Children of Men by P.D. James from 3/22/11 to 3/25/11 - 4 Stars
30. The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary Mason from 3/21/11 to 3/26/11 - 3 Stars
Sub-Genre Challenge - Science Fiction Aliens - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Alternate History - Cryptonomicon
Alternate Universe - The Eyre Affair - 4/18/11 to 4/24/11
Apocalyptic - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - 5/21/11 to 5/31/11
Cyberpunk - Count Zero - 5/17/11 to 5/19/11
Dying Earth - The Children of Men by P.D. James
Dystopia - This Perfect Day by Ira Levin - 5/1/11 to 5/4/11
Military Science Fiction - On Basilisk Station by David Weber - 8/23/11 to 8/27/11
Planetary Romance -
Post Apocalyptic - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - 7/21/11 to 7/23/11
Space Opera - Consider Phlebas
Steampunk - Boneshaker - 5/13/11
Sword And Planet - A Princess of Mars - TBR
Time Travel - Sequence by Adrian Dawson - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
Utopia - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia - TBR
Precious Gems and Jewels Challenge - No Time LimitCompleted: 5/24/11
Easy: Opal
O: The Old Man in the Corner - 3/25/11 to 3/30/11
P: Parker Pyne Investigates - 3/23/11 to 3/24/11
A: At Odds With Love - 3/24/11 to 3/25/11
L: The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel - 3/21/11 to 3/26/11
Moderate: Sapphire
S: The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham - 4/2/11 to 4/13/11
A: All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare - 4/2/11 to 4/5/11
P: Pyramids on 3/26/11
P: Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie - 4/2/11 to 4/4/11
H: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
I: The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11
R: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Character: Randy Waterhouse - 3/26/11 to 4/14/11
E: Payment In Blood by Elizabeth George - 4/18/11 to 4/22/11
Difficult: Tanzanite
T: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - Character: Thursday Next - 4/18/11 to 4/24/11
A: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - Character: Arabella - 3/21/11 to 4/24/11
N: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell - Character: Nancy Mitford - 4/4/11 to 4/26/11
Z: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - Character: Zalachenko - 4/18/11 to 4/20/11
A: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson Character: Ann - 5/6/11 to 5/7/11
N: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch - Character: Inspector Nightingale 4/26/11 to 4/27/11
I: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin - 5/1/11 to 5/4/11
T: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson - 5/6/11 to 5/15/11
E: The Black Company by Glen Cook - Character: Elmo - 4/29/11 to 4/30/11
Birthstone: Emerald
E: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - Character: Eddard Stark - 5/9/11 to 5/21/11
M: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - Character: Montmercy - 5/17/11 to 5/20/11
E: Eric by Terry Pratchett - 5/21/11 to 5/22/11
R: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb - 5/22/11 to 5/24/11
A: Count Zero by William Gibson - Character: Angie Mitchell - 5/17/11 to 5/19/11
L: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris - Character: Lynn Mason - 5/21/11 to 5/24/11
D: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 5/15/11 to 5/16/11
Cover Color Challenge3/24/11 to 6/30/11
Completed: 4/13/11
Black
White
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Purple
Brown
Books Read in 2011 31-40 - Goal: 10031. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett on 3/26/11 - 2 Stars
32. The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy from 3/20/11 to 3/25/11 - 3 Stars
33. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese from 3/27/11 to 4/1/11 - 3 Stars
34. Deirdre and Desire by Marion Chesney on 4/1/11 - 2 Stars
35. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie from 4/2/11 to 4/4/11 - 3 Stars
36. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare from 4/2/11 to 4/5/11 - 4 Stars
37. The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11 - 3 Stars
38. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray from 4/11/11 to 4/12/11 -87 5 Stars
39. Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy on 4/13/11 - 2 Stars
40. The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham from 4/2/11 to 4/13/11 - 4 Stars
April Showers Bring May Flowers Seasonal ChallengeCompleted: 4/22/11
"a combination of books that spell out a type of flower: can use 1st letter of title (or of the next word if a, the, an, etc are first word), 1st letter of a character's name who is in the book, or the first letter of the author's first or last name"
R: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Character: Randy Waterhouse - 2/36/11 to 4/14/11
E: The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy from 3/20/11 to 3/25/11
D: Deirdre and Desire by Marion Chesney on 4/1/11 - Character: Deidre Armitage
T: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - Character: Thomas Stone - 3/27/11 to 4/1/11
U: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman from 4/14/11 to 4/15/11
L: All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare - Character: Lafeau -4/2/11 to 4/5/11
I: The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11
P: Payment In Blood by Elizabeth George - 4/18/11 to 4/22/11
Animal Alphabet Challenge - 4/1/11 to 4/1/12M: The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham - 4/2/11 to 4/13/11
E: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - Character: Enoch Emery - from 4/9/11 to 4/13/11
E: Payment In Blood by Elizabeth George - 4/18/11 to 4/22/11
R: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Character: Randy Waterhouse - 3/26/11 to 4/14/11
K: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin - Character: Karls - 5/1/11 to 5/4/11
A: All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare from 4/2/11 to 4/5/11
T: Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie - Characters: Tommy & Tuppence from 4/2/11 to 4/4/11
C: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese from 3/27/11 to 4/1/11
R: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray on 4/16/11
O: The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy from 3/20/11 to 3/25/11
C: The Black Company by Glen Cook - Character: Croaker 4/29/11 to 4/30/11
O: Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy on 4/13/11
D: Deirdre and Desire by Marion Chesney on 4/1/11
I: The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11
L: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson from 4/18/11 to 4/20/11
E: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde from 4/18/11 to 4/24/11
R: North of Boston by Robert Frost from 4/13/11 to 5/5/11
A: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - Character: Arabella - 3/21/11 to 4/24/11
B: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray from 4/11/11 to 4/12/11
B: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - 5/13/11
I: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin - 5/1/11 to 5/4/1
T: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson - 5/6/11 to 5/15/11
F: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris - 5/21/11 to 5/24/11
O: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - 7/21/11 to 7/23/11
X: A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin - Character: Xaro Xhoan Daxo - 7/12/11 to 7/13/11
J: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 5/15/11 to 5/16/11
A: Count Zero by William Gibson - Character: Angie Mitchell - 5/17/11 to 5/19/11
G: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - Character: George - 5/17/11 to 5/20/11
U: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - Character: the Umbers - 7/1/11 to 7/7/11
A: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - Character: Arya Stark - 5/9/11 to 5/21/11
R: Eric by Terry Pratchett - Character: Rincewind - 5/21/11 to 5/22/11
T: Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell - 6/3/11 to 6/4/11
U: An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James - 9/7/11 to 9/8/11
R: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb - Character: Regal - 5/22/11 to 5/24/11
T: Richard III by William Shakespeare - Character: Sir Thomas Vaughan - 5/25/11 to 6/25/11
L: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - Character: Lucy - 5/11/11 to 6/2/11
E: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - 6/8/11 to 6/9/11
A: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray - Character: Ann - 8/2/11 to 8/5/11
A: Diana the Huntress by Marion Chesney - Character: Diana Armitage - 8/8/11
R: Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett -8/10/11 to 8/11/11
D: Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace - 8/2/11 to 8/4/11
V: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett - 8/9/11 to 8/12/11
A: Hounded by Kevin Hearne - Character: Atticus - 8/13/11
R: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - Character: Raja - 8/15/11
K: The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction by Susan Ketchin - 3/16/11 to 8/15/11
B: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson - Daniel Burnham - 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
U: The Skystone by Jack Whyte - Character: Ullic -9/27/11 to 10/1/11
F: Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace - Character: Bob Fraser - 8/19/11 to 8/22/11
F: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - Character: Fred Johnson - 8/29/11
A: Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection by Agatha Christie - 8/25/11 to 8/27/11
L: Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany - Character: Luke Venning - 8/28/11 to 8/31/11 - 4 Stars
O: On Basilisk Station by David Weber - 8/23/11 to 8/27/11
D: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers - 8/29/11 to 8/31/11
O: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett - Character: Nanny Ogg - 9/15/11 to 9/16/11
N: Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins - 7/25/11 to 9/7/11
K: Sequence by Adrian Dawson - Character: Josef Klein - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
E: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Character: Emily - 4/28/11 to 9/4/11
Y: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - Character: Young Ilse - 7/5/11 to 9/29/11
E: The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - Character: Emily Pollifax - 9/5/11
L: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - 9/11/11 to 9/26/11
E: Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell - 9/24/11 to 9/26/11
P: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson - Character: Paran - 9/7/11 to 9/21/11
H: Storm Front by Jim Butcher - Character: Harry Dresden - 9/2/11 to 9/4/11
A: Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - Character: Abbie - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
N: Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - Character: Nick - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
T: Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - Character: Timmy - 10/2/11 to 10/8/11
G: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - Character: Ginny - 9/21/11
A: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - Character: Alfred Dumbledore - 8/15/11 to 8/16/11
Z: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - Character: Zoya - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
E: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee - Character: Hannah Easton - 9/22/11 to 9/26/11
L: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine - 10/3/11 to 10/8/11
L: What Work Is by Philip Levine - 9/8/11 to 10/6/11
E: Watchmen by Alan Moore - Character: Edward Blake - 7/30/11 to 10/10/11
H: The Sins of Lady Dacey by Marion Chesney- Character: Honoria - 9/29/11
E: Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein - 10/12/11
D: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - Character: D-503 - 10/10/11 to 10/18/11
G: A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George - 10/14/11 to 10/15/11
E: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 10/9/11 to 10/12/11
H: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 10/1/11 to 10/5/11
O: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - Character: Oliver Wood - 10/4/11 to 10/8/11
G: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - Character: Mrs. Grose - 10/21/11 to 10/23/11
I: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Character: Alfred Inglethorpe - 10/18/11 to 10/19/11
G: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - Character: Galo - 10/19/11 to 10/24/11
U: Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 8/6/11 to 10/4/11
A: Bossypants by Tina Fey - Alice Richmond - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
N: The Emo Bunny That Should: A Story For Demented Children by John H. Carroll - Character: Sergeant Nuts - 10/26/11
A: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - Character: Anne Neville - 10/22/11 to 10/26/11
K: You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age by Ruth Kneale - 10/22/11
O: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - Character: Brigid O'Shaughnessey - 10/27/11
A: The Duke And I by Julia Quinn - Character: Anthony Bridgerton - 10/30/11 to 10/31/11
L: As Long As I Live by Emilie Baker Loring - 8/28/11
A: Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton - Character: Anderson - 11/1/11
L: Soulless by Gail Carriger - Character: Professor Lyle - 11/4/11 to 11/5/11
E: And Be a Villian: A Nero Wolfe Novel - Character: Elinor Vance - 11/20/11
M: The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
U: The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist - 11/18/11 to 11/20/11
R: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan - 8/10/11 to 8/24/11
N: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 10/26/11 to 11/3/11
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What Animal Are You? ChallengeSee http://www.lisakleypas.com/quiz/quiza... to find out.
R: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Character: Randy Waterhouse - 3/26/11 to 4/14/11
A: All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare from 4/2/11 to 4/5/11
B: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray on 4/16/11
B: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray from 4/11/11 to 4/12/11
I: The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart from 4/6/11 to 4/9/11
T: Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie - Characters: Tommy & Tuppence - 4/2/11 to 4/4/11
Denae, Did you still want someone to read All's Well That Ends Well? I just got it from the library.
I actually finished it earlier this week. Thank you though! I'll probably be picking back up my Shakespeare sometime in May though. If you want to pick one to read together, I'm up for it!
Books Read in 2011 41-50 - Goal: 10041. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor from 4/9/11 to 4/13/11 - 5 Stars
42. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett from 4/13/11 to 4/14/11 - 4 Stars
43. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson from 3/26/11 to 4/14/11 - 5 Stars
44. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman from 4/14/11 to 4/15/11 - 3 Stars
45. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray on 4/16/11 - 3 Stars
46. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins from 4/15/11 to 4/17/11 - 3 Stars
47. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson from 4/18/11 to 4/20/11 - 3 Stars
48. Payment In Blood by Elizabeth George - 4/18/11 to 4/22/11 - 3 Stars
49. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde from 4/18/11 to 4/24/11 - 3 Stars
50. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy from 3/21/11 to 4/24/11 - 4 Stars
April Showers Bring May Flowers Seasonal ChallengeCompleted: 5/22/11
"a combination of books that spell out a type of flower: can use 1st letter of title (or of the next word if a, the, an, etc are first word), 1st letter of a character's name who is in the book, or the first letter of the author's first or last name"
S: Room by Emma Donoghue - Character: Sharon (Ma) - 5/11/11
to 5/13/11
W: Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George - Character: Matthew Whateley - 5/4/11 to 5/5/11
E: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - Character: Ezekiel - 5/13/11
E: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - Character: Eddard Stark - 5/9/11 to 5/21/11
T: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson - 5/6/11 to 5/15/11
B: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - Character: Blanche DuBois - 5/18/11 to 5/19/11
A: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson - Character: Ann - 5/6/11 to 5/7/11
S: Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare - 4/13/11 to 5/22/11
I: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin - 5/1/11 to 5/4/11
L: Eric by Terry Pratchett - Character: The Luggage - 5/21/11 to 5/22/11
Books Read in 2011 - 51-60 - Goal: 10051. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell from 4/4/11 to 4/26/11 - 4 Stars
52. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch from 4/26/11 to 4/27/11 - 3 Stars
53. The Black Company by Glen Cook from 4/29/11 to 4/30/11 - 2 Stars
54. This Perfect Day by Ira Levin from 5/1/11 to 5/4/11 - 4 Stars
55. Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George from 5/4/11 to 5/5/11 - 3 Stars
56. North of Boston by Robert Frost from 4/13/11 to 5/5/11 - 2 Stars
57. What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson from 5/6/11 to 5/7/11 - 3 Stars
58. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro from 1/19/11 to 5/12/11 - 4 Stars
59. Room by Emma Donoghue from 5/11/11 to 5/13/11 - 5 Stars
60. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest on 5/13/11 - 1 Star
Read Your Name Challenge5/5/11 to 6/5/11
D: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 5/15/11 to 5/16/11
E: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - Character: Ezekiel - 5/13/11
N: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson - Character: Chris Neilson - 5/6/11 to 5/7/11
A: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson - 5/6/11 to 5/15/11
E: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - Character: Eddard Stark - 5/9/11 to 5/21/11
Books Read in 2011: 61-70 - Goal: 10061. Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson from 5/6/11 to 5/15/11 - 3 Stars
62. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion from 5/15/11 to 5/16/11 - 4 Stars
63. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro from 5/10/11 to 5/16/11 - 3 Stars
64. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on 5/18/11 - 3 Stars
65. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams from 5/18/11 to 5/19/11 - 4 Stars
66. Count Zero by William Gibson from 5/17/11 to 5/19/11 - 3 Stars
67. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome from 5/17/11 to 5/20/11 - 3 Stars
68. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin from 5/9/11 to 5/21/11 - 5 Stars
69. Eric by Terry Pratchett from 5/21/11 to 5/22/11 - 4 Stars
70. Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare from 4/13/11 to 5/22/11 - 5 Stars
Books Read in 2011: 71-80 - Goal: 10071. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris from 5/21/11 to 5/24/11 - 3 Stars
72. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb from 5/22/11 to 5/24/11 - 4 Stars
73. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie from 5/22/11 to 5/25/11 - 3 Stars
74. Enlightening Delilah by Marion Chesney from 5/24/11 to 5/28/11 - 2 Stars
75. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay from 5/25/11 to 5/30/11 - 4 Stars
76. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks from 5/21/11 to 5/31/11 - 4 Stars
77. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster from 5/11/11 to 6/2/11 - 5 Stars
78. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale from 5/31/11 to 6/3/11 - 2 Stars
79. Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell from 6/3/11 to 6/4/11 - 1 Star
80. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks from 6/3/11 to 6/6/11 - 3 Stars
Something Old, Something New ChallengeJune 2011
Completed 6/30/11
Old: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - owned for 12 years
New: Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich - 6/10/11 to 6/25/11 - new area of fascination for me
Borrowed: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - library book
Blue: Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg - blue cover
Luck: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - 6/26/11 to 6/30/11 - "the luck of kings"
Fill in the Gaps ChallengeJune 2011 to May 2016
I decided to read 100 of the books I have not read off the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. My boyfriend helped me by generating some lists of random numbers, and I picked the results pulled from the 2010 version of the list. My lifetime goal is to read all 1294 books that are or have been on the list. Below are my goals for the 5 year project.
June 2011 to May 2012
The Old Man and the Sea
Cat's Cradle
Mother's Milk
Rabbit, Run
Oliver Twist
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Book about Blanche and Marie
The Catcher in the Rye
The Inferno
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Portrait of a Lady
The Wasp Factory
The Golden Ass
The Heretic
June 2012 to May 2013
American Psycho
Dispatches
Madame Bovary
Nadja
The Age of Innocence
The Apes of God
Women in Love
The Swimming Pool Library
Herzog
Santa Evita
Memoirs of Rain
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Mysteries of Udolpho
All Souls Day
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Idiot
Fanny Hill
June 2013 to May 2014
Cider With Rosie
Heartbreak Tango
As If I Am Not There
Rashomon
The Bell
The Blind Side of the Heart
The Girls of Slender Means
The Shining
To Each His Own
Main Street
Summer in Baden-Baden
Delta of Venus
Fear of Flying
A Modest Proposal
Savage Detectives
The Late-Night News
The Dark Child
The Magus
The Rebel
The Sea, The Sea
June 2014 to May 2015
Land
Excellent Women
Dirty Havana Trilogy
The Beggar Maid
The Hour of the Star
The Master
Under the Volcano
The Time of the Hero
Out of Africa
God's Bits of Wood
Clarissa
Celestial Harmonies
Bel-Ami
A Ghost at Noon
North and South
Spring Torrents
Black Box
Alberta and Jacob
Insatiability
The Home and the World
June 2015 to May 2016
The Lonely Londoners
The Living and the Dead
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
To the North
The New World
The Hive
Summer Will Show
Love in Excess
Professor Martens' Departure
Quicksand
The Case Worker
Couples, Passerby
Death and the Dervish
Enigma of Arrival
Almost Transparent Blue
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Rabbit, Run
Pilgrimage
Hawksmoor
Black Box
Books Read in 2011: 81-90 - Goal: 15081. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen from 6/6/11 to 6/7/11 - 3 Stars
82. Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein from 5/25/11 to 6/3/11 - 4 Stars
83. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett from 6/5/11 to 6/8/11 - 5 Stars
84. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque from 6/8/11 to 6/9/11 - 5 Stars
85. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay from 6/9/11 to 6/13/11 - 3 Stars
86. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg from 5/25/11 to 6/14/11 - 4 Stars
87. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh from 6/14/11 to 6/15/11 - 3 Stars
88. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams from 6/9/11 to 6/18/11 - 4 Stars
89. Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist from 6/15/11 to 6/21/11 - 2 Stars
90. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson from 6/21/11 to 6/24/11 - 3 Stars
Books read in 2011 - 91-100 - Goal: 15091.Richard III by William Shakespeare from 5/25/11 to 6/25/11 - 3 Stars
92. The Trial by Franz Kafka from 6/14/11 to 6/25/11 - 3 Stars
93. Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich from 6/10/11 to 6/25/11 - 3 Stars
94. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller from 6/24/11 to 6/29/11 - 5 Stars
95. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace from 6/26/11 to 6/30/11 - 3 Stars
96. Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb from 6/8/11 to 6/30/11 - 4 Stars
97. The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge from 7/1/11 to 7/6/11 - 5 Stars
98. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin from 7/1/11 to 7/7/11 - 5 Stars
99. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin from 7/7/11 to 7/11/11 - 5 Stars
100. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin from 7/11/11 to 7/12/11 - 4 Stars
Baby You're a Firework ChallengeJuly 2011
Completed: 7/24/11
D: A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin - 7/12/11 to 7/13/11
R: Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding - 7/8/11 to 7/17/11
A: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - 7/1/11 to 7/7/11 - Character: Arya Stark
G: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch - 7/17/11 to 7/18/11 - Character: Peter Grant
O: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - 7/21/11 to 7/23/11
N: Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh - 7/22/11
E: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler - 7/18/11 to 7/19/11 - Character: Eileen Wade
G: A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin - 7/11/11 to 7/12/11
G: Daphne by Marion Chesney - 7/24/11 - Character: Lady Godolphin
S: A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin from 7/7/11 to 7/11/11
Books read in 2011 - 101-110 - Goal: 150101. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin from 7/12/11 to 7/13/11 - 4 Stars
102. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding from 7/8/11 to 7/17/11 - 4 Stars
103. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch from 7/17/11 to 7/18/11 - 4 Stars
104. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler from 7/18/11 to 7/19/11 - 5 Stars
105. Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh on 7/22/11 - 3 Stars
106. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood from 7/21/11 to 7/23/11 - 5 Stars
107. Daphne by Marion Chesney on 7/24/11 - 2 Stars
108. Animating Maria by Marion Chesney on 7/26/11 - 3 Stars
109. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark on 7/27/11 - 3 Stars
110. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins from 7/21/11 to 7/27/11 - 5 Stars
Books read in 2011 - 111-120 - Goal: 150111. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin from 7/25/11 to 7/31/11 - 4 Stars
112. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick on 8/1/11 - 5 Stars
113. The Good Muslim: A Novel by Tahmima Anam from 7/30/11 to 8/3/11 - 3 Stars
114. Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace from 8/2/11 to 8/4/11 - 3 Stars
115. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray from 8/2/11 to 8/5/11 - 4 Stars
116. Diana the Huntress by Marion Chesney on 8/8/11 - 2 Stars
117. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson from 8/7/11 to 8/8/11 - 5 Stars
118. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett from 8/10/11 to 8/11/11 - 4 Stars
119. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett from 8/9/11 to 8/12/11 - 3 Stars
120. Hounded by Kevin Hearne on 8/13/11 - 4 Stars
August End of Summer Beach Blast Reading ChallengeAugust 2011
Completed: 9/8/11
S: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray -8/2/11 to 8/5/11
U: An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James - 9/7/11 to 9/8/11
N: Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace - 8/2/11 to 8/4/11
G: The Good Muslim: A Novel by Tahmima Anam - 7/30/11 to 8/3/11
L: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson from 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
A: Diana the Huntress by Marion Chesney - Character: Diana Armitage - 8/8/11
S: Hounded by Kevin Hearne - 8/13/11
S: The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction by Susan Ketchin - 3/16/11 to 8/15/11
E: Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace - Character: Ed Dunford - 8/2/11 to 8/4/11
S: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan - 8/10/11 to 8/24/11
Celebrate Featured Movie Star's Birthday Challenge8/1/11 to 7/31/12
Details
August - Steve Martin & Charlize Theron
Completed: 10
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - Steve Martin - Pennies From Heaven - someone who gets lost in a dream-fantasy life - 8/1/11
2. The Good Muslim: A Novel by Tahmima Anam - Charlize Theron - Cider House Rules - child sexual abuse occurs - 7/30/11 to 8/3/11
3. Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace - Steve Martin - Pink Panther I & II character named Jack - 8/2/11 to 8/4/11
4. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray - Steve Martin - Bowfinger - "chubby" book - 8/2/11 to 8/5/11
5. Diana the Huntress by Marion Chesney - Steve Martin - Bowfinger - character is a con man - 8/8/11
6. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson - Charlize Theron - Mighty Joe Young - Ferris Wheel - and Steve Martin - Pennies From Heaven - set in Chicago - 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
7. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett - Charlize Theron - Cider House Rules - protagonist is an orphan - 8/9/11 to 8/12/11
8. Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace - Charlize Theron - Monster - character is a prostitute and character is a serial killer - 8/19/11 to 8/22/11
9. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan - Charlize Theron - Mighty Joe Young - story features bonobos - 8/10/11 to 8/24/11
10. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - Steve Martin - Little Shop of Horrors - someone gets eaten - 8/29/11
August - Steve Martin & Charlize Theron
Completed: 15
1. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - Hugh Grant - Notting Hill - Character is named Anna - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
2. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Hugh Grant - About a Boy - character attends a picnic - 4/28/11 to 9/4/11
3. Storm Front by Jim Butcher - Hugh Grant - About a Boy - character has a grunge fashion sense - 9/2/11 to 9/4/11
4. Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - Jada Pinkett-Smith - Collateral - character named Vincent - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
5. Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins – Hugh Grant - About a Boy - character has a lot of free time on his hands - 7/25/11 to 9/7/11
6. An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James – Hugh Grant - Bridget Jones' Diary - character named Mark - 9/7/11 to 9/8/11
7. Sequence by Adrian Dawson – Jada Pinkett-Smith - Collateral - character is an LAPD detective - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
8. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand – Jada Pinkett-Smith - Scream 2 - character named Phil - 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
9. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett – Jada Pinkett-Smith - Madagascar - protagonist is trying to be a vegetarian - 9/15/11 to 9/16/11
10. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - Hugh Grant - Two Weeks Notice - protagonist is a lawyer - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral - about a group of friends - 9/21/11
12. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - Jada Pinkett-Smith - The Nutty Professor - character loses a ton of weight - 9/11/11 to 9/26/11
13. The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee - Hugh Grant - Bridget Jones' Diary - character keeps a diary -9/22/11 to 9/26/11
14. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - Hugh Grant - Notting Hill - character named Max - 7/5/11 to 9/29/11
15. The Sins of Lady Dacey by Marion Chesney - Jada Pinkett-Smith - Low Down Dirty Shame - character is caught in a love triangle - 9/29/11
October - Matt Damon & Kate Winslet
Completed: 19
1. The Skystone by Jack Whyte - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - character has a master plan - 9/27/11 to 10/1/11
2. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Matt Damon - True Grit - character is named Tom - 8/6/11 to 10/4/11
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Matt Damon - The Departed - set in Boston, Massachusetts - 10/1/11 to 10/5/11
4. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - romantic thriller - 10/2/11 to 10/8/11
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - True Grit - young adult - 10/4/11 to 10/8/11
6. Watchmen by Alan Moore - Kate Winslet - Quills - set in an insane asylum - 7/30/11 to 10/10/11
7. The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - set in New York - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
8. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - Kate Winslet - The Reader - affair between a younger man & an older woman - 10/9/11 to 10/12/11
9. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - Kate Winslet - The Life of David Gale - character named Constance - 10/13/11
10. A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George - Kate Winslet - Titanic - a shipwreck occurs - 10/14/11 to 10/15/11
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Matt Damon - Inside Job - character works for financial services industry - 10/18/11 to 10/19/11
12. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - genre: suspense - 10/21/11 to 10/23/11
13. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures - genre: fantasy - 10/19/11 to 10/24/11
14. Bossypants by Tina Fey - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - setting: New York - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
15. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility - character named Edward - 10/22/11 to 10/26/11
16. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - Matt Damon - The Departed - genre: crime thriller - 10/27/11 - 3 Stars
17. As Long As I Live by Emilie Baker Loring - Kate Winslet - The Life of David Gale - character named David - 10/28/11
18.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling - Matt Damon - The Adjustment Bureau - character named Harry - 10/31/11
19. The Duke And I by Julia Quinn - Matt Damon - The Departed - character named Colin - 10/30/11 to 10/31/11
Decades Challenge10/11/10 to 11/11/11
2002
1. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro - 1/19/11 to 5/12/11
2. Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins - 7/25/11 to 9/7/11
2003
1. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - 4/11/11 to 4/12/11
2. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - 7/21/11 to 7/23/11
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson from 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
2004
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2005
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - 3/20/11 to 3/23/11
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 5/15/11 to 5/16/11
3. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin - 7/11/11 to 7/12/11
4. When the Library Lights Go Out by Megan McDonald - 10/25/11
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2006
1. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray - 4/16/11
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - 4/18/11 to 4/20/11
3. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - 5/21/11 to 5/31/11
4. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg - 5/25/11 to 6/14/11
5. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - 10/19/11 to 10/24/11
6. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist - 11/18/11 to 11/20/11
2007
1. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris - 5/21/11 to 5/24/11
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson - 6/21/11 to 6/24/11
3. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray - 8/2/11 to 8/5/11
4. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 10/2/11 to 10/8/11
5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 10/26/11 to 11/3/11
6. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks - 10/14/11 to 11/16/11
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2008
1. The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary Mason - 3/21/11 to 3/26/11
2. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale - 5/31/11 to 6/3/11
3. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins - 7/21/11 to 7/27/11
4. The Good Muslim: A Novel by Tahmima Anam - 7/30/11 to 8/3/11
5. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett - 8/9/11 to 8/12/11
6. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
7. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - 11/16/11 to 11/17/11
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2009
1. Sunset Park by Paul Auster - 1/9/11 to 1/10/11
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - 2/20/11 to 3/16/11
3.Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - 3/27/11 to 4/1/11
4. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - 5/13/11
5. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro - 5/10/11 to 5/16/11
6. Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell - 6/3/11 to 6/4/11
7. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding - 7/8/11 to 7/17/11
8. You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age by Ruth Kneale - 10/22/11
9. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - 10/22/11 to 10/26/11
2010
1. The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer - 1/6/11 to 1/17/11
2. Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 2/17/11 to 2/19/11
3. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch - 4/26/11 to 4/27/11
4. Room by Emma Donoghue - 5/11/11 to 5/13/11
5. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan - 8/10/11 to 8/24/11
6. Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany - 8/28/11 to 8/31/11
7. Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
8. Sequence by Adrian Dawson - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
9. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
10. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
2011
1. Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith - 3/17/11 to 3/21/11
2. Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich - 6/10/11 to 6/25/11
3. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - 6/26/11 to 6/30/11
4. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin - 7/12/11 to 7/13/11
5. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch - 7/17/11 to 7/18/11
6. Hounded by Kevin Hearne - 8/13/11
7. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - 8/15/11
8. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey on 8/29/11
9. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell - 9/24/11 to 9/26/11
10. The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
11. Bossypants by Tina Fey - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
Atlantic Hurricane Season Challenge8/1/11 to 1/31/12
Agnes
Alberto
Alex: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - Character: Alex - 10/9/11 to 10/12/11
Alicia: Bossypants by Tina Fey - Alice Richmond - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
Allen: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Character: Ben & Arabella Allen - 4/28/11 to 9/4/11
Allison
Ana
Andrea
Andrew
Anita
Arlene
Arthur
Audrey
Barry
Bertha
Beryl
Betsy
Beulah
Bill: Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett - Bill Door - 8/10/11 to 8/11/11
Bob: Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace - Bob Fraser - 8/19/11 to 8/22/11
Bonnie
Bret
Camille
Carla
Carmen
Carol
Celia
Cesar: The Skystone by Jack Whyte - 9/27/11 to 10/1/11
Chantal
Charley
Chris: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan - 8/10/11 to 8/24/11
Cindy
Claudette
Cleo
Colin: The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - Character: Colin Ramsey - 9/5/11
Connie: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - Character: Constance Blackwood - 10/13/11
Cristobal
Danielle
Danny
David: Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace - 8/2/11 to 8/4/11
Dean
Debby: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - Character: Dobby - 9/21/11
Dennis: Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection by Agatha Christie - Dennis Clement - 8/25/11 to 8/27/11
Diana: Diana the Huntress by Marion Chesney - Diana Armitage - 8/8/11
Diane: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 10/26/11 to 11/3/11
Dolly
Don
Donna
Dora
Dorian
Earl
Edna
Edouard
Elena
Eloise
Emily: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Character: Emily Inglethorpe - 10/18/11 to 10/19/11
Erika
Erin
Ernesto
Fabian
Fay
Felix
Fernand
Fifi
Fiona
Flora: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - Character: Flora - 10/21/11 to 10/23/11
Florence
Floyd
Fran
Frances
Franklin
Fred: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - Character: Fred Weasley - 8/15/11 to 8/16/11
Frederic: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson - Frederick Law Olmstead - 8/7/11 to 8/8/11
Gabrielle
Gaston
Georges
Gert
Gilbert
Gloria: Watchmen by Alan Moore - 7/30/11 to 10/10/11
Gonzalo
Gordon
Grace
Gustav
Hanna: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee - 9/22/11 to 9/26/11
Harvey
Hattie
Hazel
Helene: A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George - Character: Helen Clyde: 10/14/11 to 10/15/11
Henri: Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton - 11/1/11
Hermine: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling - 10/31/11
Hilda: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - 7/5/11 to 9/29/11
Hortense
Hugo
Humberto
Ida
Igor
Ike
Inez
Ingrid
Ione
Irene
Iris
Isaac
Isabel: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - Isabel - 8/15/11
Isaias: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg - Isaiah - 8/14/11 to 8/18/11
Isidore
Ivan - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - 9/11/11 to 9/26/11
Janet
Jeanne
Jerry
Joan: As Long As I Live by Emilie Baker Loring - 8/28/11
Joaquin
Jose: Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 8/6/11 to 10/4/11
Josephine
Joyce
Juan
Julia: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers - Julian Freke - 8/29/11 to 8/31/11
Karen: Storm Front by Jim Butcher - Character: Karen Murphy - 9/2/11 to 9/4/11
Karl
Kate
Katia: Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - Character: Katya - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
Katrina
Keith
Kirk
Klaus
Kyle
Larry
Laura
Lee: The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction by Susan Ketchin - Lee Smith - 3/16/11 to 8/15/11
Lenny
Leslie
Lili
Lisa
Lorenzo: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - Character Lorenzo Salvara - 10/19/11 to 10/24/11
Luis: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - Louis Zamperinini - 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
Marco
Maria
Marilyn
Matthew
Melissa
Michael
Michelle
Mindy
Mitch
Nadine
Nana: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett - Nanny Ogg - 9/15/11 to 9/16/11
Nate
Nestor
Nicholas: Sequence by Adrian Dawson Character: Nick Lambert - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
Nicole
Noel
Odette
Olga
Omar
Opal
Ophelia
Oscar
Otto
Pablo
Paloma
Patty
Paula
Paulette
Peter: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett from 8/9/11 to 8/12/11
Philippe
Rafael
Rebekah
Rene
Richard: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - Rick Deckard - 8/1/11
Rina
Rita
Rose
Roxanne
Sally: On Basilisk Station by David Weber - Sally MacBride - 8/23/11 to 8/27/11
Sam
Sandy
Sean
Sebastien
Shary
Stan
Tammy
Tanya
Teddy: The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - Teddy Reiner - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
Teresa
Tomas: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
Tony
Valerie
Van
Vicky
Victor
Vince: Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - Vincent - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
Virginie
Walter
Wanda
Wendy
Whitney
Wilfred
William: Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany - William - 8/28/11 to 8/31/11
Wilma
Books read in 2011 - 121-130 - Goal: 200121. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner on 8/15/11 - 1 Star
122. The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction by Susan Ketchin from 3/16/11 to 8/15/11 - 5 stars
123. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg from 8/14/11 to 8/18/11 - 3 Stars
124. Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace from 8/19/11 to 8/22/11 - 3 Stars
125. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan from 8/10/11 to 8/24/11 - 5 Stars
126. On Basilisk Station by David Weber from 8/23/11 to 8/27/11 - 4 Stars
127. Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection by Agatha Christie from 8/25/11 to 8/27/11 - 4 Stars
128. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey on 8/29/11 - 5 Stars
129. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers from 8/29/11 to 8/31/11 - 3 Stars
130. Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany from 8/28/11 to 8/31/11 - 4 Stars
OSgA Decades Challenge9/1/11 to 8/31/12
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2011
1. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell - 9/24/11 to 9/26/11
2. The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner - 10/9/11 to 10/10/11
3. Bossypants by Tina Fey - 10/11/11 to 10/25/11
4. The Emo Bunny That Should: A Story For Demented Children by John H. Carroll - 10/26/11
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2010
1. Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
2. Sequence by Adrian Dawson - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
3. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
4. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
5. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein - 10/12/11
6. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 10/9/11 to 10/12/11
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2009
1. You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age by Ruth Kneale - 10/22/11
2.The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - 10/22/11 to 10/26/11
3. Soulless by Gail Carriger - 11/4/11 to 11/5/11
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2008
1. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
2. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks from 11/16/11 to 11/17/11
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2007
1. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 10/2/11 to 10/8/11
2. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 10/26/11 to 11/3/11
3. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks - 10/14/11 to 11/16/11
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2006
1. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - 10/19/11 to 10/24/11
2. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist - 11/18/11 to 11/20/11
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2005
1. When the Library Lights Go Out by Megan McDonald - 10/25/11
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Labor of Love Challenge9/1/11 to 9/30/11
R: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - Character: Raisa - 9/1/11 to 9/3/11
E: The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - Character: Emily Pollifax - 9/5/11
S: Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - 9/15/11 to 9/18/11
E: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett - Character: Esme Weatherwax - 9/15/11 to 9/16/11
A: Sequence by Adrian Dawson - 9/8/11 to 9/11/11
R: An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James - Character: Ronald Callender - 9/7/11 to 9/8/11
C: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - 4/28/11 to 9/4/11
H: Storm Front by Jim Butcher - Character: Harry Dresden - 9/2/11 to 9/4/11
L: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson - Character: Lorn - 9/7/11 to 9/21/11
I: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - 9/11/11 to 9/26/11
B: Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia - 9/1/11 to 9/7/11
R: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee - the Raja - 9/22/11 to 9/26/11
A: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - Cynthia Applewhite - 8/22/11 to 9/13/11
R: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - Character: Ron Weasley - 9/21/11
I: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - Character: Young Ilse - 7/5/11 to 9/29/11
A: The Skystone by Jack Whyte - Character: Antonius Cicero - 9/27/11 to 10/1/11
N: Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins - 7/25/11 to 9/7/11
Books read in 2011 - 131-140 - Goal: 200131. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith from 9/1/11 to 9/3/11 - 4 Stars
132. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens from 4/28/11 to 9/4/11 - 4 Stars
133. Storm Front by Jim Butcher from 9/2/11 to 9/4/11 - 4 Stars
134. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman on 9/5/11 - 4 Stars
135. Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia from 9/1/11 to 9/7/11 - 4 Stars
136. Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins from 7/25/11 to 9/7/11 - 3 Stars
137. An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James from 9/7/11 to 9/8/11 - 3 Stars
138. Sequence by Adrian Dawson from 9/8/11 to 9/11/11 - 1 Star
139. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand from 8/22/11 to 9/13/11 - 4 Stars
140. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett from 9/15/11 to 9/16/11 - 5 Stars
Books read in 2011 - 141-150 - Goal: 200141. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller from 9/15/11 to 9/18/11 - 4 Stars
142. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson from 9/7/11 to 9/21/11 - 3 Stars
143. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling on 9/21/11 - 4 Stars
144. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling from 8/15/11 to 8/16/11 - 4 Stars
145. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy from 9/11/11 to 9/26/11 - 4 Stars
146. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell from 9/24/11 to 9/26/11 - 3 Stars
147. The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee from 9/22/11 to 9/26/11 - 4 Stars
148. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon from 7/5/11 to 9/29/11 - 4 Stars
149. The Sins of Lady Dacey by Marion Chesney on 9/29/11 - 4 Stars
150. The Skystone by Jack Whyte - from 9/27/11 to 10/1/11 - 4 Stars
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1. Sunset Park by Paul Auster from 1/9/11 to 1/10/11 - 4 Stars
2. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett on 1/11/11 - 4 Stars
3. Refining Felicity by Marion Chesney on 1/13/11 - 3 Stars
4. Perfecting Fiona by Marion Chesney on 1/14/11 - 3 Stars
5. The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer from 1/6/11 to 1/17/11 - 3 Stars
6. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett from 1/16/11 to 1/18/11 - 4 Stars
7. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut from 1/21/11 to 1/22/11 - 4 Stars
8. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson from 2/5/11 to 2/7/11 - 5 Stars
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from 1/6/11 to 2/16/11 - 4 Stars
10. Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson from 2/17/11 to 2/19/11 - 3 Stars