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Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2012
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One Day by David Nicholls*37.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen****38.
The English Country House by Mary Miers****39.
To the Mountaintop!: The Civil Rights Movement as I Saw It by Charlayne Hunter-Gault****40.
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden****41.
Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In by Bryan Batt****42.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare****43.
Down These Strange Streets by George R.R. Martin***Currently Reading:
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Update:18/100
18.Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
18.Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
I'm in!1.Captive Bride 1/5***
2. Shiver 1/7****
3.The Dark Highlander 1/10****
4. Midnight's Wild Passion 1/12****
5. Border Storm 1/16***
6. Silence 1/19****
7.The Highlander 1/22****
8. The Reluctant Vampire 1/26***
9. Almost Innocent 1/26***
10. Whistling In the Dark 1/27****
11. Once and Always 1/29****
12. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake1/31*****
13. Divergent 2/3****
14. In the Highlander's Bed 2/4***
15. Celtic Storms 2/6****
16. Love With the Proper Husband 2/8****
17. When Beauty Tamed the Beast 2/11****
18. The Secret 2/15****
19. Because You're Mine2/16****
20. An Invitation to Sin2/19****
updated post #247 53/100 : )
Update again.14.
Erotique by Nicole Austin15.
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Theresa wrote: "hi i would like to join i have a target of 50 but think i can read 100 so i will write my list so far what i have read. then do i just keep editing this post to add others when i have read them?1..."
yes...just keep updating this post...just keep adding to it as you go....:)
Update: 20/100
19. This Isn't What It Looks Like by Pseunonymous Bosch
20. Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey
19. This Isn't What It Looks Like by Pseunonymous Bosch
20. Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey
Edited: 2/20/2012
2/28/2012
6/11/2012
Non Fiction in bold
JANUARY
1) Her Royal Spyness
2) Let it Snow
3) Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
4) The Accidental Vampire
5) Wondrous Strange
6) Wicked Appetite
7) The Unusual Suspects
8) What's a Ghoul to Do
9) Fundraising the Dead
10) Darklight
11) Tiger's Quest
12) Tempestuous
13) Dash Lily's Book of Dares
14) The Help
15) Beautiful Creatures
16) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
17) Born at Midnight
18) Wicked Lovely
19) Immortal Beloved
20) Sabriel
21) Heat Stroke
22) Wings
23) Firelight
24) The Problem Child
FEBRUARY
25) The Year of Living Biblically
26) Sphinx's Princess
27) Sphinx's Queen
28) Tiger's Voyage
29) Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
30) The Healer's Apprentice
31) A Royal Pain
32) The Lost Colony
33) The Eternal Sea
34) Once Upon a Crime
35) Magic Under Glass
36) Mine Till Midnight
MARCH
37) Clockwork Prince
38) The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
39) Magic and Other Misdemeanors
40) The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
41) Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
42) Chocolat
43) Keturah and Lord Death
44) The Iron King
45) Tales From the Hood
46) The Dark Lord of Derkholm
47) Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
48) The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
49) Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances
APRIL
50) Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
51) Charmed Life
52) The Amulet of Samarkand
53) Wildwood Dancing
54) A Discovery of Witches
55) Can You Keep a Secret?
56) Love Is Blind
57) Royal Flush
58) This Pen For Hire
59) Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
59) Last Writes
60) Funny Letters from Famous People
MAY
61) Damned
62) Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
63) The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
64) The Birth of Blue Satan
65) The Spider's Touch
66) Motive from the Deed
67) Two for the Dough
68) Undead and Unwed
JUNE
69) Garden Spells
70) Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
71) A Killing Frost
72) Spell Bound
73) Three to Get Deadly
74) Really Unusual Bad Boys
75) Undead and Unemployed
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Miss Clock wrote: "1. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone"Did you like it?
I was just given a gift of the audiobooks of the Harry Potter series; really looking forward to listening to them.
Adding as I go. Bold titles are non-fiction.1. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
2. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
3. Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
4. 1222 by Anne Holt
5. Valiant Bride by Jane Peart
6. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
7. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
8. The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo
9. Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
10. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
11. Ringworld by Larry Niven
12. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
13. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
14. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
15. The Shack by Wm. Paul Young
16. The Time Traders by Andre Norton
17. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
18. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
19. Mutineer by Mike Shepherd
20. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
21. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
22. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
23. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
24. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
25. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
26. Hunter of Worlds by C. J. Cherryh
27. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
28. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
29. A Potion for a Widow by Caroline Roe
30. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
31. Mystique by Amanda Quick
32. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
33. Greetings from Route 66: The Ultimate Road Trip Back Through Time Along America's Main Street by Mike Witzel
34. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
35. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
36. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
37. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
38. Chili Con Corpses by J. B. Stanley
39. Watchmen by Alan Moore
40. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
41. French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund Blair Bolles
44. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
45. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
46. Have Space Suit-Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
47. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
48. Animal Farm by George Orwell
49. Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty
50. The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko
51. Mort by Terry Pratchett
52. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
53. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
54. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
55. Witch World by Andre Norton
56. The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
57. Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography by Diki Tsering
58. The God of Spring by Arabella Edge
59. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
60. All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion by Ken Sewell and Jerome Preisler
61. Wunderkind: A Novel by Nikolai Grozni
62. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Lisa Kay wrote: "I was just given a gift of the audiobooks of the Harry Potter series; really looking forward to listening to them."who is the reader? sephen fry is the best - am not sure if anyone else does the audio but wouldn't seem right to me if they did
Jim Dale, Afsana. He does a great job. I have a link for a side-by-side comparison on YouTube, but I'm not at home right now, so I can't post it.
I just looked for the audio of the HP books today. My library has them and since I haven't read them before, I'll be checking them out to listen to while I do some sewing on the weekends.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Jim Dale, Afsana. He does a great job. I have a link for a side-by-side comparison on YouTube, but I'm not at home right now, so I can't post it."We listened to a bunch of the ones that Jim Dale did, Lisa Kay - he was wonderful. Hope you enjoy them!
2012 Level 1: Goal: 100/100
2012 Level II: post #71.
2012 Level III: Post #24
♥ = 350+ page books
✩ = 500+ page books
◈ = 750+ page books
✡ = 1,000+ page books
(Idea borrowed from Shay. ☺)
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Melissa wrote: "Can I join in?"Of course you can! Welcome to the challenge, Melissa.
Welcome, Melissa! Love your ticker. ☺
Laura wrote: "Update: Post 5918/100
"What did you think of it overall, Laura?
I'm going to give it a go this year even though I've only read four books so far :OBut I managed sixty-two last year so I figure this challenge may be a good one this year, hopefully I'll at least finish level one!
33/100
1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
2. Dracula - Bram Stocker
3. Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer (I read the online draft she released so I figure that counts? It was appaling by the way!)
4. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
5. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
7. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
8. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
9. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
10. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
11. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
12. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
13. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
14. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
15. Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
16. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
17. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
18. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
19. Eric - Terry Pratchett
20. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
21. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
22. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
23. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
24. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
25. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
26. The Eight - Katherine Neville
27. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
28. The Green Mile - Stephen King
29. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
30. All's Well That End's Well - William Shakespeare
31. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
32. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
33. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Lisa Kay wrote: "Welcome, Melissa! Love your ticker. ☺"Thanks. =] It was suppose to be a musical note, but the ticker keeps going to the balloon, so guess it was meant to be. :D
Update: 21/100
21. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
21. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Completed: 56/100January
1. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
2. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
3. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
4. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
February
5. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
6. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
7. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
8. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
9. Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
March
10. Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
11. Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark
12. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
13. The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
14. The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
April
15. Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth
16. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
17. In Search of Grace by Kristin Hahn
18. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
19. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
20. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
May
21. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
22. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
23. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
24. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
25. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
June
26. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
27. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
28. This Is How by Augusten Burroughs
29. The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
30. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
July
31. Wildwood by Colin Meloy
32. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
33. Just Kids by Patti Smith
34. The Collector by John Fowles
August
35. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
36. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
37. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
38. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
39. Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw
40. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
September
41. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
42. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
43. Summer by Edith Wharton
44. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
October
45. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
46. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
47. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
48. The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
49. Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day by Winifred Watson
November
50. Animal Farm by George Orwell
51. Blindess by Jose Saramago
52. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
53. Wicked Games by Jill Myles
54. Campaign Promises by Laurel Osterkamp
55. Slammed by Colleen Hoover
December
56. Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart
NBRC Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2012 (Part I - Books 1 - 50)
Duration: January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
50/100 Read
1. The Affair by Lee Child, 01.02.12 ★★★★★
2. Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton, 01.03.12 ★★★
3. My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent, 01.04.12 ★★★★
4. The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason, 01.06.12 ★★★★
5. Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke, 01.07.12 ★★★★
6. The Reaping by M. Leighton, 01.07.12 ★★★
7. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan, 01.08.12 ★★★
8. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost, 01.10.12 ★★★★★
9. Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione, 01.10.12 ★★★★
10. In Bed with a Highlander by Maya Banks, 01.11.12 ★★★★
11. Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby, 01.13.12 ★★★
12. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke, 01.14.12 ★★★
13. Never a Gentleman by Eileen Dreyer, 01.15.12 ★★1/2
14. I am Number Four by Pitticus Lore, 01.15.12 ★★★★
15. Sacred Sins by Nora Roberts, 01.17.12 ★★★1/2
16. Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey 01.18.12 ★★★
17. Under the Moon by Natalie J. Damschroder, 01.19.12 ★★★★
18. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong, 01.20.12 ★★★★
19 Wicked by Any Other Name by Linda Wisdom, 01.21.12 ★★★
20. The Honor of the Queen, 01.23.12 ★★★★★
21. Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill, 01.26.12 ★★★★★
22. Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay, 01.27.12 ★★★
23. The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 01.28.12 ★★★★★
24. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, 01.29.12 ★★★★
25. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong, 01.31.12 ★★★★
26. The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross, 02.01.12 ★★★
27. Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina, 02.01.12 ★★★
28. Ethereal by Addison Moore, 02.02.12 ★★★★
29. Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa, 02.02.12 ★★★
30. My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent, 02.02.12 ★★★
31. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovitch, 02.03.12 ★★★★
32. Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill, 02.04.12 ★★★★★
33. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, 02.06.12 ★★★★
34. First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones, 02.06.12 ★★★
35. The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas, 02.07.12 ★★★★
36. Delirium by Lauren Oliver, 02.08.12 ★★★★
37. One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost, 02.09.12 ★★★★★
38. Shaedes of Gray by Amanda Bonilla, 02.11.12 ★★★1/2
39. Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke, 02.12.12 ★★★★
40. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, 02.13.12 ★★★
41. V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton, 02.14.12 ★★★1/2
42. White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz, 02.15.12 ★★★★
43. Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton 02.16.12 ★★★★
44. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin 02.17.12 ★★★★★
45. Accidentally Dead by Dakota Cassidy, 02.17.12 ★★★★
46. Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh, 02.18.12 ★★★★
47. Rogue by Rachel Vincent, 02.19.12 ★★★★★
48. Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware 02.20.12 ★★★
49. Angel Souls and Devil Hearts by Christopher Golden, 02.21.12 ★★★★
50. The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan, 02.22.12 ★★★★
30. Delirium31. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
32. As If
33. All about Emily
34. Vanished at Sea: The True Story of a Child TV Actor and Double Murder
35. Keesha's House
36. Deliverance
1. Damn you auto correct! (Hilarious text messages you didn't mean to send)by Jillian Madison - 1/20122. The book of "unnecessary" quotation marks by Bethany Keeley - 1/2012
3. Identical by Ellen Hopkins - 1/2012
4. Museum of the missing (A history of art theft) by Simon Houpt - 02/25/2012
5. The way I am by Eminem - 03/10/2012
6. Perfect by Ellen Hopkins - 03/12/2012
7. Pictures in the dark by Patricia McCord - 03/18/2012
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Tabitha wrote: "Miss Clock wrote: "1. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone"Did you like it?"
Very much, yes! An old favorite.
8/100: (update to POST #221--2/25/12)1. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 1/7/12
2. Mine Are Spectacular!: A Novel by Lynn Schnurnberger 1/12/12
3. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See 1/24/12
4. Ingredient for Murder by Sue Clifton 1/25/12
5. Nobody's Child by Austin Boyd 1/31/12
6. "Ka-Ka-Ska-Ska": by Jim Lewis 2/5/12
7. The Hawk and the Deer by Sue Clifton 2/11/12
8. The Gully Path by Sue Clifton 2/25/12
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