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message 1: by Maria (last edited Jan 28, 2015 06:31AM) (new)
Jan 22, 2015 11:53AM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
The purpose of our quest is to accumulate a classroom library of books that reflect the diverse reading interests of our students. For that purpose, we need to include works from different genres in our challenge. Our task to read 40 books by the end of summer begins on January 23, 2015.

Here are some common genres:

Historical Fiction
Mystery & Suspense
Horror
Contemporary Fiction
Classical Fiction
Supernatural
Fantasy
Autobiograhies
Memoirs
Non-Fiction
Science Fiction/Dystopia
Psychological Thrillers
Biography
Realistic Fiction
Steampunk
Postmodern Fiction
Tragedy
Comedy
Graphic Novels

Since you know your audience well, select books in the genres your students would enjoy. Feel free to add genres to our list.

Steps:

1. Select the genres you will use for the reading challenge. (Be diverse - read a few books in each genre)

2. Comment to this post, by making a list of potential reads within each genre. Think of this post as a holding tank for book ideas and reading selections. Add to this list as you uncover new authors and stumble across other works as the year progresses.

3. I will keep track of the participants' progress in post 2#. When you finish a book, message me the title, and I will mark it off your master list.

4. In another folder, I will give each participant a post. This space is designed to track your comments, your book reviews, and your observations about books along the way.


message 2: by Maria (last edited Mar 31, 2015 06:21PM) (new)
Jan 22, 2015 11:54AM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
40 Book Challenge: Our Progress


Paige: 0/40
Amy: 10/40
Maria: 10/40
Kendra:0/40
Parker: 8/40
Alice: 2/40
Amber: 3/40
Connie: 0/40
Bo: 0/40
Randy: 0/40
Jenna: 0/40
Connie: 0/40
Kristin: 6/40
Leah: 0/40
Kaley: 0/40
Karen: 0/40
Rachel: 0/40
Jamie: 0/40
Carlee: 0/40
Gautam: 0/40
Lauren: 0/40
Jean: 0/40
Hillery: 7/40
Ben:2/40
Dan: 0/40
Wesley: 11/40


message 3: by Maria (last edited Feb 11, 2015 11:20AM) (new)
Jan 22, 2015 12:22PM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Maria's List:

Historical Fiction:Potential Reads
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) by Elizabeth Wein , The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1) by Megan Shepherd , All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr , The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman , Company of Liars by Karen Maitland , Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel , The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt , A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray , Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly , Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Mystery & Suspense:Potential Reads
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French , Mateguas Island A Novel of Terror and Suspense by Linda Watkins , The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox , The Bone Gatherer by Jennifer Adele The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

Contemporary Fiction:Potential Reads
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon , Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion , A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion , The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2) by Cormac McCarthy , The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell , The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Saturday by Ian McEwan The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Classical Fiction: Potential Reads
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Re-Reads:

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Fantasy:Potential Reads
The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2) by Samantha Shannon , The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake ,, The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss , The Midnight Queen (Noctis Magicae, #1) by Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Memoirs/Non Fiction:
Blue Nights by Joan Didion , Townie A Memoir by Andre Dubus III , Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter , Redeployment by Phil Klay , Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron , They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benjamin Ajak

Science Fiction/Dystopia:Potential Reads
Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville , American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman , Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) by Walter M. Miller Jr. , The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1) by Carrie Ryan , The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #5) by Ursula K. Le Guin , Feed by M.T. Anderson , The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham , Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler Enclave (Razorland, #1) by Ann Aguirre , Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein , Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1) by Moira Young


Psychological Thrillers:Potential Reads
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote , The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1) by Michael Connelly , Relic (Pendergast, #1) by Douglas Preston , Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson , Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) by Martin Cruz Smith , Dark Places by Gillian Flynn , Night Film by Marisha Pessl


Biographies:Potential Reads
The Terrible Speed of Mercy A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor by Jonathan Rogers

Realistic Fiction:Potential Reads
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher ,
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin , Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson , The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek ,



Postmodern Fiction:Potential Reads
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

New Additions (Student Suggestions)
The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire: From Charlemagne to Napoleon
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender


message 5: by Ben (last edited Feb 27, 2015 06:51AM) (new)
Jan 27, 2015 12:05PM

Ben Ellis | 2 comments Ben Ellis's list

Science
The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Infinitesimal How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir Alexander

Thriller/Spy
The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1) by Daniel Silva The Unpossessed City A Novel by Jon Fasman

Human Rights
Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof A Path Appears Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof

Short Stories
Something Rich and Strange Selected Stories by Ron Rash The Dog Stories by Jack Livings Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Anecdotes of Destiny & Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen Revenge by Yōko Ogawa

Comedy
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #4) by Alexander McCall Smith

Historical Fiction
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan uncertain glory by Joan Sales An Imaginary Life by David Malouf The Immortal Evening A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb by Stanley Plumly Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann

History
Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson The Assassination Of Julius Caesar A People's History Of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti The Swerve How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden In the Kingdom of Ice The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

Memoir
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Classic Fiction
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Notes from the Underground & The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Contemporary Fiction
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson Lila by Marilynne Robinson My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton City of Thieves by David Benioff The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink

Non-Fiction
Redeployment by Phil Klay

Autobiography
Twin Tracks The Autobiography by Roger Bannister

Biography
Napoleon A Life by Andrew Roberts Beethoven Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford Dying Every Day Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm Cleopatra A Life by Stacy Schiff

Biblical Studies
Truth in a Culture of Doubt Engaging Skeptical Challenges to the Bible by Andreas J. Kostenberger Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions by Craig Blomberg The Gospel of the Lord by Michael F. Bird

Christian Living
The Unbelievable Gospel Say Something Worth Believing by Jonathan K. Dodson Teach Us to Want Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith by Jen Pollock Michel

Church History
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch The Triumph of Christianity How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion by Rodney Stark

Sports
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby


message 6: by Maria (new)
Jan 27, 2015 05:36PM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Ben and Paige - Your lists look fantastic!


message 7: by Maria (new)
Jan 30, 2015 12:06PM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Kendra -

The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1) by Rick Yancey


message 9: by Maria (new)
Feb 03, 2015 10:37AM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Hillery - What a great list!!!!


message 10: by Amber (last edited Feb 10, 2015 06:44PM) (new)
Feb 10, 2015 04:37PM

Amber | 18 comments Historical Fiction
Timeline
Code Name Verity

Mystery & Suspense
Dark Places

Horror
The Name of the Rose


Contemporary Fiction
Looking For Alaska
The Goldfinch


Classical Fiction


Supernatural/Fantasy
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Archived

The Monstrumologist
Suspicion
The Darkest Minds
The Scorpion Races

Science Fiction/Dystopia
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Birthmarked
The House of the Scorpion
Life As We Knew It

Psychological Thrillers
The Girl on the Train


Realistic Fiction
The Tiger’s Wife



Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
All the Light We Cannot See
Days of Blood and Starlight
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Mistress of the Art of Death
The Alchemist
The Poisonwood Bible
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Delerium
Murder on Astor Place
The Paper Magician
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Memory Painter: A Novel


message 11: by Maria (new)
Feb 10, 2015 06:26PM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Amber,

Nice List. I think you should add The Memory Painter: A Novel to your list. It comes out in April, but it looks like a reading experience you would appreciate.

It kind of reminds me of your "Love in the Lab" narrative concept:)


message 12: by Amber (new)
Feb 10, 2015 06:51PM

Amber | 18 comments Added. It does sound intriguing :). Love how you forget nothing. Still need to finish that crime narrative. You know, in all that spare time that I have ;).


message 13: by Parker (new)
Feb 16, 2015 01:15PM

Parker Altman | 41 comments Mod
Trying to figure out this Goodreads site...
Does this link to my 40 Book Challenge shelf work?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...


message 14: by Maria (new)
Feb 16, 2015 01:30PM

Maria Jernigan (mariajernigan) | 85 comments Mod
Parker wrote: "Trying to figure out this Goodreads site...
Does this link to my 40 Book Challenge shelf work?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list......"


Looks great. As you finish the titles on your list, let me know and I will mark them off our spreadsheet.


message 16: by Kristin (last edited Mar 07, 2015 03:55PM) (new)
Feb 20, 2015 09:23AM

Kristin | 15 comments Humor
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Realistic Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Mystery
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) by Jasper Fforde Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Romance
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Looking for Alaska by John Green Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Suspense/Thriller
The Stand by Stephen King The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) by Stephen King The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Lilith by George MacDonald The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Philosophy/Theology
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton A Prayer Journal

Poetry
Blue Horses Poems by Mary Oliver A Timbered Choir The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Science Fiction/Dystopian
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card Xenocide (The Ender Quintet, #3) by Orson Scott Card The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1) by James Dashner The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1) by Nancy Farmer Delirium (Delirium, #1) by Lauren Oliver


Historical Fiction
The White Queen (The Cousins' War, #1) by Philippa Gregory A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

History/Nonfiction
Agincourt Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker A Forest of Kings The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele Maya Cosmos by David A. Freidel Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) by Steven D. Levitt The Swerve How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Memoir/Biography
Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot Evidence Not Seen A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen American Sniper by Chris Kyle Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson


message 17: by Wesley (last edited Mar 09, 2015 06:37AM) (new)
Feb 21, 2015 06:52PM

Wesley Diggs | 12 comments I'm updating my list. David Sedaris is dropping off. I'm adding books my wife or students have recommended to me.

Christian
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor I Am Second Real Stories. Changing Lives. by Doug Bender

History / Historical Fiction
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien

Poetry
American Primitive by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver 100 Love Sonnets of Pablo Neruda by Chris Jansen Aimless Love New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins

Plays
The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde Coriolanus by William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Children's Lit
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame ] Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Classical Fiction
Gilgamesh by Joan London

Fantasy
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, #1) by C.S. Lewis Perelandra (Space Trilogy, #2) by C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) by C.S. Lewis

Biograhies
The Terrible Speed of Mercy A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor by Jonathan Rogers

Memoirs
True At First Light A Fictional Memoir by Ernest Hemingway

Non-Fiction
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) by Steven D. Levitt The Monsters and the Critics and other essays by J.R.R. Tolkien

Science Fiction/Dystopia
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Road by Cormac McCarthy Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton

Realistic Fiction
On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh

Comedy
Enter Jeeves 15 Early Stories by P.G. Wodehouse Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Graphic Novels
The Complete Maus (Maus, #1-2) by Art Spiegelman The Arrival by Shaun Tan The Walking Dead, Book One by Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead, Book Two by Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead, Book Three by Robert Kirkman Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1) by Bryan Lee O'Malley Civil War Marvel Universe by Ed Brubaker


message 18: by Kristin (new)
Feb 22, 2015 04:35PM

Kristin | 15 comments Wesley wrote: "Here's a startup list for me.

Christian
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'ConnorI Am Second Real Stories. Changing Lives. by Doug Bender

History / Historical Fiction
[bookcover:I, Claudius..."

I'm adding Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal to my list!


message 19: by Kristin (last edited Feb 22, 2015 04:40PM) (new)
Feb 22, 2015 04:40PM

Kristin | 15 comments Ben, I've been wanting to read The Swerve since I first read about it. It's on my list now. Greenblatt's biography of Shakespeare is one of my favorite books of all time (fiction included).


message 21: by Jamie (new)
Mar 09, 2015 06:29PM

Jamie Jamie's List:

Contemporary Fiction:
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Enchanted
Saturday
The Art of Racing in the Rain
All the Light You Cannot See
Play it as it Lays
The Painter's Wife

Fantasy:
The Magicians
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
The Monstrumologist
11/22/63
Lord of Chaos

Dystopia:
Station Eleven
American Gods
Life as We Knew It
The Forbidden Library
Jurassic Park

Humor:
Bossy pants
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Yes Please


Non Fiction:
Planet Narnia
Zelda
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
The Romanov Sisters
Kids Beyond Limits

Psychological:
Miss peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Winter People


Graphic Novel:
This One Summer
Arrival
How to Be Happy
Zero
Boxers and Saints

Re-reads:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Atonement
A Moveable Feast
The Philosophy of LOST
The Shining
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


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