Aini's 2012 Reading Challenges

[Aini]

This year I've challenged myself to read more books as well as become more active on Goodreads. That's why I've decided to read books from a booklist, as well as doing reading challenges from reading groups on Goodreads.

The Challenges:
1. Goodreads Personal Reading Challenge
2. Read 50 Books from The BBC Big Read 100
3. Around the World in 80 Books (from the Around the World in 80 Books group on Goodreads)
4. 2012 Series Challenge
5. Monthly Reading Challenge - April
6. Monthly Reading Challenge - July

Here is the progress of my Goodreads Personal Reading Challenge:
30/80

...and the books on my Monthly Reading Challenge for July:
0/7

1. A book with a red, white or blue cover.
2. A book with 500 pages or more. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. A book that begins with the letter J. Joshua Joshua Tango by Robert Wolfe
4. An author from your country. Kesatria Khatulistiwa by Putra Gara
5. A recommended book. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. A book off a friends to read shelf.
7. Re-read you're favorite book. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Aini]

Read 50 Books This Year from The BBC Big Read 100

THE ALCHEMIST • Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass • Lewis Carroll
ANIMAL FARM • George Orwell
ANNA KARENINA • Leo Tolstoy
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES • L M Montgomery
ARTEMIS FOWL • Eoin Colfer
THE BFG • Roald Dahl
BIRDSONG • Sebastian Faulks
BLACK BEAUTY • Anna Sewell
BLEAK HOUSE • Charles Dickens
BRAVE NEW WORLD • Aldous Huxley
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED • Evelyn Waugh
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY • Helen Fielding
CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN • Louis de Bernières
CATCH 22 • Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye • J D Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • Roald Dahl
A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear • Jean M Auel
COLD COMFORT FARM • Stella Gibbons
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC • Terry Pratchett
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO • Alexandre Dumas
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
DAVID COPPERFIELD • Charles Dickens
DOUBLE ACT • Jacqueline Wilson
DUNE • Frank Herbert
EMMA • Jane Austen
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD • Thomas Hardy
GIRLS IN LOVE • Jacqueline Wilson
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS • Arundhati Roy
The Godfather • Mario Puzo
GONE WITH THE WIND • Margaret Mitchell
GOOD OMENS • Terry Pratchett
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM • Michelle Magorian
GORMENGHAST • Mervyn Peake
THE GRAPES OF WRATH • John Steinbeck
GREAT EXPECTATIONS • Charles Dickens
THE GREAT GATSBY • F Scott Fitzgerald
GUARDS! GUARDS! • Terry Pratchett
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS • J K Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE • J K Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE • J K Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN • J K Rowling
HIS DARK MATERIALS • Philip Pullman
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY • Douglas Adams
The Hobbit • J R R Tolkien
HOLES • Louis Sachar
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE • Dodie Smith
JANE EYRE • Charlotte Brontë
KANE AND ABEL • Jeffrey Archer
KATHERINE • Anya Seton
THE LION,THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE • C S Lewis
LITTLE WOMEN • Louisa May Alcott
LORD OF THE FLIES • William Golding
THE LORD OF THE RINGS • J R R Tolkien
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA • Gabriel García Márquez
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE • Enid Blyton
MAGICIAN • Raymond E Feist
THE MAGUS • John Fowles
MATILDA • Roald Dahl
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA • Arthur Golden
MIDDLEMARCH • George Eliot
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN • Salman Rushdie
MORT • Terry Pratchett
NIGHT WATCH • Terry Pratchett
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR • George Orwell
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES • Malorie Blackman
OF MICE AND MEN • John Steinbeck
ON THE ROAD • Jack Kerouac
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE • Gabriel García Márquez
PERFUME • Patrick Suskind
PERSUASION • Jane Austen
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH • Ken Follett
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY • John Irving
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE • Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries • Meg Cabot
THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS • Robert Tressell
REBECCA • Daphne du Maurier
THE SECRET GARDEN • Frances Hodgson Burnett
THE SECRET HISTORY • Donna Tartt
THE SHELL SEEKERS • Rosamunde Pilcher
THE STAND • Stephen King
THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER • Jacqueline Wilson
A SUITABLE BOY • Vikram Seth
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS • Arthur Ransome
A TALE OF TWO CITIES • Charles Dickens
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES • Thomas Hardy
THE THORN BIRDS • Colleen McCullough
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD • Harper Lee
A TOWN LIKE ALICE • Nevil Shute
TREASURE ISLAND • Robert Louis Stevenson
THE TWITS • Roald Dahl
ULYSSES • James Joyce
VICKY ANGEL • Jacqueline Wilson
WAR AND PEACE • Leo Tolstoy
WATERSHIP DOWN • Richard Adams
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS • Kenneth Grahame
WINNIE THE POOH • A A Milne
THE WOMAN IN WHITE • Wilkie Collins
WUTHERING HEIGHTS • Emily Brontë

[Aini]

Hello! So far I've traveled to:
(4) regions
(8) countries.

...and here's the route I took:

Africa

Antarctica

Asia
1. Indonesia - Bumi Manusia by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The Caribbean

Europe
3. Italy - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
5. The Netherlands - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
6. Greece - The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
7. Serbia - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
8. France - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Latin America
2. Costa Rica - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Middle East

North America
4. U.S.A. - The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Oceania/Australia

[Aini]

2012 Series Challenge

The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
The Lost Hero
The Son of Neptune
The Mark of Athena

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
The Throne of Fire
The Serpent's Shadow

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
The Alchemyst
The Magician
The Sorceress
The Necromancer
The Warlock
The Enchantress

Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
Extras

Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
The Prophet of Yonwood
The Diamond of Darkhold