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message 1: by Poppy (last edited May 19, 2009 11:40AM) (new)

Poppy | 39 comments I managed to read 52 books in the last challenge; this time I'm aiming for 75, thanks to my iPhone Kindle, eReader, and Stanza apps, a subscription to Audible, and some actual books.

1. Behold Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer
2. The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
3. Doctor Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
4. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. M. Hornung
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
6. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
7. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
8. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie



message 3: by Susan C (new)

Susan C (somersetpurplegmailcom) | 19 comments Poppy wrote: "I managed to read 52 books in the last challenge; this time I'm aiming for 75, thanks to my iPhone Kindle, eReader, and Stanza apps, a subscription to Audible, and some actual books.

1. [book:Beho..."


If you like Agatha Christie and haven't read And Then There Was None, its awesome. You've probably already read it though.

Continued luck on your challenge!!


message 4: by Poppy (new)

Poppy | 39 comments I haven't read And Then There Was None, so I'll add it to my wish list. Thanks!

11. Throne of Jade: Temeraire Book 2 by
12. Black Powder War: Temeraire Book 3 by Naomi Novik
13. The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler


message 5: by Susan C (last edited Jun 12, 2009 04:43AM) (new)

Susan C (somersetpurplegmailcom) | 19 comments It's a locked room type mystery and very short. I'm pretty sure yuo'll never guess the killer.



message 12: by Poppy (new)

Poppy | 39 comments Time to update with the 2015 list! I'm planning to read 75 books, featuring the books I haven't read on the BBC and Rory Gilmore reading lists:

Have already started

1 Don Quixote, by Cervantes

So, continuing with the Rory Gilmore list, in alphabetical order, one title per letter:

2 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
3 Babe: The Gallant Pig, by Dick King-Smith
4 Candide, by Voltaire
5 Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
6 Eleanor Roosevelt, by Blanche Wiesen Cook
7 Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8 Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
9 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
10 I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, by Pamela Des Barres
11 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
12 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
13 The Manticore by Robertson Davies
14 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
15 Old School by Tobias Wolff
16 The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
17 Quattrocento by James McKean
18 The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
19 Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
20 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
21 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
22 The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
23 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
24 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

BBC list:

25 The Lord of the Rings
26 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
27 The Time Traveller's Wife
28 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
29 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
30 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
31 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
32 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
33 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
34 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
35 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
36 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
38 Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
39 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
40 Atonement by Ian McEwan
41 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
42 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
43 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
44 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
46 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
47 The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
48 On the Road, Jack Kerouac
49 Midnight's Children, Salmon Rushdie
50 Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

Plus 25 others, probably all by P.G. Wodehouse and the Baroness Orczy!


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