New to You Challenge January-December

[Candiss]

32/35: Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera ****

[Candiss]

33/35  Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood **** 

[Johanna]

How was A Christmas Carol? I´ve read only one Dickens as well (Oliver Twist), which was ok but a pretty hard/slow read.

[Lilac]

I have only read Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens too but I really enjoyed it and found it quite easy to read. Now I come to think of it I may have read a children's version though as I got it from my Primary school when I was about 10.

[Nathan]

I liked A Christmas Carol, Johanna. It's really really short; It won't take as much of your time as Oliver Twist! I read it in about 2 days.

[Kara]

Completed! Woot woot.

1. Tina Fey - Bossypants
2. Marty Seldman & Rick Brandon - Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success
3. Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
4. Isaac Asimov - Foundation
5. Jim Collins - Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
6. Veronica Roth - Divergent
7. Elliott Aronson & Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
8. Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
9. John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
10. Melissa Bank - The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
11. Robin Black - If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
12. Connie Willis - Blackout
13. James W. Pennebaker - The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
14. Salvador Plascencia - The People of Paper
15. Sébastien Japrisot - A Very Long Engagement
16. Deborah Blum - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
17. Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies
18. John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
19. Howard Behar - It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks
20. Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
21. Tim Harford - Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges
22. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark
23. Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
24. Mignon Fogarty - Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
25. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
26. Ethan Coen - The Day the World Ends
27. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
28. Catherynne Valene - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
29. Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
30. Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon
31. Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
32. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
33. Shannon Lee Miller & Megan Leigh Byrd - Awkward Moments with Men
34. Hester Browne - The Little Lady Agency
35. Augusten Burroughs - This is How
36. Nicole Stellon O'Donnell - Steam Laundry
37. Juan Riboldi - Path of Ascent
38. Nabokov - Lolita
39. Erik Qualman - Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence
40. Chip & Dan Heath - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
41. Joseph Heller - Catch-22
42. Jyotsna Sreenivasan - And Laughter Fell From the Sky
43. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
44. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
45. Rick Riordan - The Lightning Thief
46. Cheryl Strayed - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
47. Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
48. Tyler D. Findlay - Soft Rot
49. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
50. Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
51. John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up
52. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
53. Travis Bradberry - Emotional Intelligence 2.0
54. Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
55. Sarah Gruen - Water for Elephants
56. Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
57. Deborah Harkness - A Discovery of Witches
58. Rachel Bertsche - MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
59. Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells
60. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
61. Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
62. Robert Shermin - How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
63. Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles
64. Kristin Cashore - Graceling
65. Yasunari Kawabata - Thousand Cranes
66. Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
67. China Mieville - Railsea
68. Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
69. Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman
70. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
71. Jo Walton - Among Others
72. Chloe Caldwell - Legs Get Led Astray
73. Jim Butcher - Storm Front
74. Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
75. Mineko Iwasaki - Geisha of Gion
76. Kelly Cutrone - If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
77. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
78. Lisa Tuttle - The Silver Bough
79. Terri Griffith - The Plugged-In Manager
80. Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
81. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
82. Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
83. Margot Morrell - Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
84. Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
85. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
86. Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit
87. Karine Moe & Dianna Shandy - Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples
88. Stephen Lundin - Fish!
89. Patrick Suskind - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
90. Adam Brennert - Honolulu
91. Bennett Onika - Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory
92. Maria V. Snyder - Poison Study
93. Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
94. Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
95. Alice Steinbach - Without Reservations
96. Anne Rice - Interview with a Vampire
97. David Burkus - The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations
98. Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
99. Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic
100. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

COMPLETED: 100/100

[Nathan]

Yay Kara!

[Johanna]

Wow!

[Erika]

Johanna wrote: "Wow nicely done Erika! That´s a massive amount!!"

Thanks, Johanna.

[Lilac]

My complete list of new to me authors in 2012:

1. Witch Child by Celia Rees
2. Gone by Michael Grant
3. Cywion Uffern by Sonia Edwards
4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
7. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
8. Unwind by) Neal Shusterman
9. Divergent by Veronica Roth
10. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
11. Dan Leuad Llŷn by Penri Jones
12. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
13. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
14. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
15. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
16. Matched by Ally Condie
17. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
18. Rascal by Sterling North
19. Legend by Marie Lu
20. You Against Me by Jenny Downham
21. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
22. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
25. XVI by Julia Karr
26. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
27. Angel Evolution by David Estes
28. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
29. The Giver by Lois Lowry
30. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
31. Partials by Dan Wells
32. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
33. 1984 by George Orwell
34. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
35. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
37. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
38. Qeya by Jennifer Silverwood
39. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
40. Starters by Lissa Price
41. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
42. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
43. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
44. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
45. Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien
46. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
47. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
48. Zombicorns by John Green
49. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
50. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
51. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

✔✔✔ Completed 51/20 ✔✔✔

[Lorelei]

Are we doing this challenge for 2013? If so, I'd like to join!

[Nathan]

We aren't continuing this challenge in 2013. But feel free to add it to your corner as a personal challenge if you'd still like to do it!