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Jan 26, 2011 01:00PM
"- if you can't think of 100 right from the start, just leave the last ones blank...then if a year from now you've missed some more really big popular books or find more classics you can add them in" This is the part you added in right?
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Niquae, what genre do you usually read?
i think i could do this as the 100 books that have been sitting on my TBR shelf since i joined goodreads!
I don't mind at all, I just realized because you said you'd post a variation.
My challenge is along the same lines, but a little different. I'm challenging myself to read 100 Nora Roberts books. I have her entire colectice works and I've only read a bout 20 of them, but I'd like to finish them all. So Starting today...1.Dance Upon the Air
2.Heaven and Earth
3.Face the Fire
4.Blue Dahlia
5.Black Rose
6.Red Lily
7.Morrigan's Cross
8.Blood Brothers
9.Dance of the Gods
10.Valley of Silence
11.Key of Light
12.Key of Knowledge
13.Key of Valor
14.Vision in White
15.Montana Sky
16.Born in Fire
17.Carolina Moon
18.The Hollow
19.Northern Lights
20.Born in Ice
21.Sea Swept
22.Chesapeake Blue
23.Inner Harbor
24.Born in Shame
25.Blue Smoke
26.Rising Tides
27.The Pagan Stone
28.Bed of Roses
29.High Noon
30.The Villa
31.Birthright
32.Three Fates
33.Tribute
34.Daring to Dream
35.Savor the Moment
36.Finding the Dream
37.Holding the Dream
38.Sanctuary
39.The Reef
40.River's End
41.Black Hills
42.Homeport
43.Hot Ice
44.Carnal Innocence
45.Happy Ever After
46.Sweet Revenge
47.Sacred Sins
48.Public Secrets
49.Genuine Lies
50.The Search
51.True Betrayals
52.Hidden Riches
53.Rebellion
54.Brazen Virtue
55.Spellbound
56.Hidden Star
57.Captive Star
58.Secret Star
59.Holiday in Death
60.Three in Death
61.Conspiracy in Death
62.Loyalty in Death
63.Witness in Death
64.Judgment in Death
65.Betrayal in Death
66.Seduction in Death
67.Reunion in Death
68.Purity in Death
69.Portrait in Death
70.Imitation in Death
71.Divided in Death
72.Visions in Death
73.Survivor In Death
74.Origin in Death
75.Memory in Death
76.Born in Death
78.Innocent in Death
79.Creation in Death
80.Strangers in Death
81.Salvation in Death
82.Promises in Death
83.Kindred in Death
84.Fantasy in Death
85.Indulgence in Death (In Death, #31)
86.Treachery in Death
87.New York to Dallas
I think I'm going to go for 100 off my TBR listStarted Feb 2011
1.Swan Song
4.Benighted
9.The Oath
11.Troy
12.Gods of Manhattan
13.The Shadow Thieves
15.Howling at the Moon
17.Wondrous Strange
18.Tempting Danger
19.Magic to the Bone
20.Witchling
22.
23.Midnight's Daughter
24.Once Bitten, Twice Shy
32.Any Given Doomsday
35.A Rush of Wings
36.Would-Be Witch
38.The Accidental Werewolf
40.Never Cry Werewolf
41.My Soul to Take
43.Vicious Circle
44.Tempest Rising
45.Bloodring
46.Wake
47.The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
49.White Cat
52.The Last Wish
54.The Tommyknockers
55.A Time to Kill
57.American Psycho
58.Dark Lover
59.Angelology
60.American Gods
61.Black Dust Mambo
62.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
64.The Lovely Bones
65.The Name of the Wind
66.Kushiel's Dart
67.The Art of Racing in the Rain
68.The Plague Dogs
69.The Handmaid's Tale
71.Island of the Blue Dolphins
72.Inkheart
73.To Kill a Mockingbird
74.Water for Elephants
75.The Giver
76.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
77.The Alchemist
78.The Mists of Avalon
79.Beneath a Rising Moon
81.Promise of the Wolves
82.The Loop
83.I, Robot
84.The Eye of the World
86.On the Edge
88.Poison Study
89.The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
90.The Dark Portal
91.The Time Traveler's Wife
92.Virals
93.Déjà Dead - currently reading
95.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
96.Patient Zero
97.The Bell Jar
99.Elixir
100.Hate List
Fantastic idea for a challenge. It works great with my target of reading the bbc top 100 booksStart Date: Mar 1 2011
End Date: Feb 28 2016
Books preread 2
Books completed 0/100
The list is actually 102 books long so I have included the 2 I read before I started the challenge.
BBC Top 100 list
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47.
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59.
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Hmm, gotta decide what I want to do here...
I'm in but I'll have to compile my list and then post!
I'm in as well. I'm not sure what I want to do here yet but I'll take a look around and post after I compile a list :)
I decided to read 100 of the books I have not read off the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. My boyfriend helped me by generating some lists of random numbers, and I picked the results pulled from the 2010 version of the list. My lifetime goal is to read all 1294 books that are or have been on the list. Below are my goals for the 5 year project.June 2011 to May 2012
Catch-22
The Old Man and the Sea
Cat's Cradle
Gravity’s Rainbow
Mother's Milk
Rabbit, Run
Oliver Twist
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Sense and Sensibility
The Book about Blanche and Marie
The Catcher in the Rye
The Holder of the World
The Inferno
The Long Goodbye
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Portrait of a Lady
The Wasp Factory
The Golden Ass
The Heretic
June 2012 to May 2013
American Psycho
Dispatches
Madame Bovary
Nadja
The Age of Innocence
The Apes of God
Women in Love
The Swimming Pool Library
Herzog
Santa Evita
Memoirs of Rain
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Mysteries of Udolpho
All Souls Day
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Idiot
Fanny Hill
June 2013 to May 2014
Cider With Rosie
Heartbreak Tango
As If I Am Not There
Rashomon
The Bell
The Blind Side of the Heart
The Girls of Slender Means
The Shining
To Each His Own
Main Street
Summer in Baden-Baden
Delta of Venus
Fear of Flying
A Modest Proposal
Savage Detectives
The Late-Night News
The Dark Child
The Magus
The Rebel
The Sea, The Sea
June 2014 to May 2015
Land
Excellent Women
Dirty Havana Trilogy
The Beggar Maid
The Hour of the Star
The Master
Under the Volcano
The Time of the Hero
Out of Africa
God's Bits of Wood
Clarissa
Celestial Harmonies
Bel-Ami
A Ghost at Noon
North and South
Spring Torrents
Black Box
Alberta and Jacob
Insatiability
The Home and the World
June 2015 to May 2016
The Lonely Londoners
The Living and the Dead
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
To the North
The New World
The Hive
Summer Will Show
Love in Excess
Professor Martens' Departure
Quicksand
The Case Worker
Couples, Passerby
Death and the Dervish
Enigma of Arrival
Almost Transparent Blue
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Rabbit, Run
Pilgrimage
Hawksmoor
Black Box
Denae- that is a really cool idea! You are really ambitious, I'd love to try that but I don't know if I'd be brave enough! I'm interested to see what you think of some of those books!
Okay I am going to copy Jennifer and do 100 off my TBR list because it's getting a little out of hand! I will choose YA, Classics and general fiction novels and try and mix it up Here are my first 50 books
1. Jurassic Park/The Lost World
2. The Secret Life of Bees
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
5. Sisterhood Everlasting
6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
7. The Angel Experiment
8. The Best of Me
9. The Peach Keeper
10. The Funhouse
11. Outlander
12. The Knife of Never Letting Go
13. Homer's Odyssey
14. We'll Always Have Summer
15. I Am Number Four
16. Nightlight: A Parody
17. Salem's Lot
18. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
19. The Wind in the Willows
20. The Handmaid's Tale
21. Watership Down
22. Alice I Have Been
23. Wither
24. Demonglass
25. Atonement
26. The Book Thief
27. A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion
28. A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
29. A Corner Of The Universe
30. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later
31. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
32. Life of Pi
33. Emma
34. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
35. The Distant Hours
36. Jane Eyre
37. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
38. The Maze Runner
39. Letters to Juliet
40. Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
41. The Moon-Spinners
42. The Secret Ingredient
43. Marked
44. The Lost Hero
45. XVI
46. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
47. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- A Love Story
48. Entwined
49. The Goddess Test
50. Peter Pan
Kristina wrote: "Denae- that is a really cool idea! You are really ambitious, I'd love to try that but I don't know if I'd be brave enough! I'm interested to see what you think of some of those books!"Possibly over-ambitious. We'll see. I'm not sure how I'll do getting through Gravity's Rainbow for one.
Erika wrote: "Denae wrote: "I decided to read 100 of the books I have not read off the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. My boyfriend helped me by generating some lists of random numbers, and I picked the ..."It's all about baby steps :D
I'm going to do all apocalypse or dystopian books, aka my End of Society as We Know It list. I've put ones I've read so far this year at the top, followed by the classics and then newer ones. Like Kat I've put an * next future releases (when I remembered). Plus, for my own sake, there's a # next to books I already own.Start date: January 1, 2011
End date: January 1, 2016
Tally: 17/100
2. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
3. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
4. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
5. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
6. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
7. Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield
8. The Stand by Stephen King
9. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
10. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
11. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
13. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
14. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham**
15. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
16. The Children of Men by P.D. James#
17. Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks
18. Cell by Stephen King
19. On the Beach by Neville Shute
20. The Postman by David Brin
21. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
23. The Death of Grass by John Christopher
24. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
25. The Twelve by Justin Cronin*
26. Untitled Passage book by Justin Cronin*
27.
28. Requiem by Lauren Oliver*
29. Fever by Lauren DeStefano*
30. Rebirth by Sophie Littlefield
31. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
32. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
33. The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
34. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
35. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
36. The Death Cure by James Dashner*
37.
38. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi#
39. The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
40. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
41. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
42. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
43.
44. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
45. Zone One by Colson Whitehead
46.
47.
48. One Second After by William Forstchen
49.
50.
51. Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
52.
53. Tomorrow, When the War Began by James Marsden
54. The Dead Of Night by James Marsden
55. A Killing Frost by James Marsden
56. Darkness, Be My Friend by James Marsden
57. Burning For Revenge by James Marsden
58. The Night Is For Hunting by James Marsden
59. The Other Side Of Dawn by James Marsden
60. Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien
61. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse by various
62. Gone by Michael Grant
63. Hunger by Michael Grant
64. Lies: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant
65. Plague: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant
66. Fear by Michael Grant*
67. Light by Michael Grant*
68. Outpost by Ann Aguirre*
69. Horde by Ann Aguirre*
70. The Enemy by Charlie Higson
71. The Dead by Charlie Higson
72. Pure by Julianna Baggott*
73. The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker*
74. Cybernetic by Laura Riken*
75. Divergent by Veronica Roth
76. The Roar by Emma Clayton
77. The Hunt by Andrew Xia Fukuda*
78. 20 Years Later by E.J. Newman
79. For Darkness Shows The Stars by Diana Peterfreund*
80. Struck by Jennifer Bosworth*
81. The First Days by Rhiannon Frater
82. Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
83. FreakAngels: Volume 1 by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
84. FreakAngels: Volume 2by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
85. FreakAngels: Volume 3by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
86. FreakAngels: Volume 4 by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
87. FreakAngels: Volume 5 by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
88. FreakAngels: Volume 6 by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield#
89. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
90. Ashes by Ilsa Bick
91. The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
92. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
93. Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
94. After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
95.
I almost have my 100. I figure I'll be able to fill it out completely if I decide to read the sequels of some I didn't put in (Divergent, The Host, etc).
Erika wrote: "Laura wrote: "I'm going to do all apocalypse or dystopian books, aka my End of Society as We Know It list. I've put ones I've read so far this year at the top, followed by the classics and then new..."Who knows if I'll actually be able to finish the list, but they're pretty much all books I wanted to read anyway!
I'm kind of nervous about The Host, because even though it sounds really interesting I didn't really like the Twilight books. This will sort of give me an excuse to read it.
I'll do this one with books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I won't specify in advance though since I'm in a book club that reads one each month and I want to count whatever I read for them.List for 2011:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9 May 2011
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 18 Jul 2011
3. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 25 Jul 2011
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 16 Sep 2011
5. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 29 Sep 2011
6. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 30 Sep 2011
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 1 Oct 2011
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 9 Oct 2011
9. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 11 Oct 2011
10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 24 Oct 2011
11. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 27 Oct 2011
12. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 31 Oct 2011
13. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 5 Nov 2011
14. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 10 Nov 2011
15. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 15 Nov 2011
16. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 23 Nov 2011
17. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 24 Nov 2011
18. The Iron Heel by Jack London 6 Dec 2011
19. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 7 Dec 2011
20. The Book of Evidence by John Banville 8 Dec 2011
21. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield 10 Dec 2011
22. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 16 Dec 2011
23. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 26 Dec 2011
24. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren 9 Jan 2012
25. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 25 Jan 2012
26. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 27 Jan 2012
27. Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 31 Jan 2012
28. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 17 Feb 2012
29. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson 18 Feb 2012
30. Watchmen by Alan Moore 22 Feb 2012
31. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 23 Feb 2012
32. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski 3 Mar 2012
33. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell 8 Mar 2012
35. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 14 Mar 2012
36. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 16 Mar 2012
37. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 24 Mar 2012
38. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 27 Mar 2012
I'm going to start this on Dec 1, 2011A * indicates all remaining books in the series
Duration 1/1/2012- 12/31/2016
1. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
2. The Divine Comedy
3. Don Quixote
4. The Count of Monte Cristo
5. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
6. Les Misérables
7. The Three Musketeers
8. Agnes Grey
9. Vanity Fair
10. Cranford
11. Villette
12. Madame Bovary
13. A Tale of Two Cities
14. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
15. Crime and Punishment
16. Great Expectations
17. The Idiot
18. War and Peace
19. Middlemarch
20. The Brothers Karamazov
21. The Canterville Ghost
22. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
23. The Woman in White
24. Rebecca
25. The Time Machine
26. Dracula
27. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
28. The Jungle
29. A Room With a View
30. Anne of Green Gables*
31. The Secret Garden
32. Pollyanna
33. The Sun Also Rises
34. A Farewell to Arms
35. For Whom the Bell Tolls
36. Gone With the Wind
37. Lady Chatterley's Lover
38. The Plague
39. The Stranger
40. The Silver Chair* Finished 1/3/2012
The Last Battle
41. The Crucible
42. Palace Walk*
43. The Story of O
44. The Death of Artemio Cruz
45. The Master and Margarita
46. The Left Hand of Darkness
47. A Wizard of Earthsea*
48. Magic Burns*
49. Watership Down
50. Too Loud a Solitude
51. Schindler's List
52. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
53. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
54. Love in the Time of Cholera
55. Norwegian Wood
56. Fantasy Lover*
57. The Satanic Verses
58. American Psycho
59. One for the Money*
60. How the Mind Works
61. Coraline
62. Middlesex
63. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
64.The Time Traveler's Wife
65. The Namesake
66. Night Watch*
67. Let the Right One In
68. Sideways
69. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
70. 20th Century Ghosts
71. Moon Called*
72. Wicked Ties* Finished 12/14/2011
Decadent
73. The Assault on Reason
74. Inkdeath
75. Mine Till Midnight*
76. Halfway to the Grave*
77. The Summoning*
78. The Darkest Night*
79. Cry Wolf*
80. 80. Storm Born* Finished 12/2/2011
Thorn Queen
81. I Burn for You*
I Thirst for You
82. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie*
83. Under the Dome
84. Fallen* Finished 12/5/2011
Torment
85. Shades of Grey*
86. Horns
87. First Drop of Crimson*
88. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
89. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Finished 12/23/2011
90. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
91. Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
92. Full Dark, No Stars
93. The Warlord Wants Forever*
94. The Wise Man's Fear*
95. Room
96. The Fiery Cross*
97. Caressed By Ice*
98. The Darkest Fire*
99. Ecstasy Unveiled*
100. Succubus Blues*
I'd love to join in on this! Going to write up my list. Any recs are welcomed and appreciated :)
Hey this is a great idea. I'll post in my list later as well. will like to finish in 3 years though. Will post list later. Like Hannah, would love recos :)
Starting this today!! They are in order straight from my Goodreads TBR List. I plan on knocking out 20 each year. Fill In the Gaps Project
2/2/2012-2/2/2017
0/100
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Alchemist Paulo Coehlo
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
7. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (whole series)
8. City of Bones (Mortal Instruments series) by Cassandra Clare
9. Columbine by Dave Cullen
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
11. Divergent by Veronica Roth (whole series)
12. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
13. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (whole series)
14. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
15. Fallen by Lauren Kate (whole series)
16. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
17. Feed by M. T. Anderson
18. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
19. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
20. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (whole series)
21. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (whole series)
23. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
24. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (whole series)
25. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (whole series)
26. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
27. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
28. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
29. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
30. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
31. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
33. I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
34. Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
35. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows (whole series)
36. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (whole series)
37. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
38. The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa
39. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
40. The Jack Bank by Glen Retief
41. Just Kids by Patti Smith
42. Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters
43. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (whole series)
44. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
45. Leviathan by Scott Westerfield (whole series)
46. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordian (whole series)
47. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
48. A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
49. Look Me In the Eye by John Elder Robison
50. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (whole series)
51. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
52. Lucky by Alice Sebold
53. Luna by Julie Ann Peters
54. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
55. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (whole series)
56. Mermaid by Carolyn Furgeon
57. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
58. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
59. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe
60. My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
61. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
62. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
63. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
64. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
65. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
66. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
67. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
68. Open by Andre Agassi
69. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (whole series)
70. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
71. A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
72. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
73. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
74. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
75. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
76. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
77. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
78. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
79. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
80. Shiver by Lauren Myracle
81. Shut the Door by Amanda Marquit
82. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
83. Stardust by Neil Gaman
84. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
85. The Stranger by Albert Camus
86. The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong (whole series)
87. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
88. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
89. The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo
90. Then Again by Diane Keaton
91. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
92. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
93. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
94. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (whole series)
95. Unbearable Lightness by Portia De Rossi
96. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
97. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
98. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
99. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (whole series)
100. Wither by Lauren DeStefano (whole series)
Guess I'm a glutton for punishment, although this is a good way to get the TBR list referenced somewhere to keep me accountable. Going to try for 20/year.Duration: Fill in the Gaps Project - 01/01/12 - 12/31/17
Books read: 13/100 (series=1/actual read=17)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (05/08/12)
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
3. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
5. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
6. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
10. Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
11. The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
12. Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
13. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
14. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
15. From the Terrace - John O'Hara
16. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
17. The Honey Badger - Robert Ruark
18. Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
19. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
20. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (01/22/12)
21. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
22. The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
23. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
24. Night - Elie Wiesel
25. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
26. The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
27. The Great Santini - Pat Conroy
28. The Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy
29. Beach Music - Pat Conroy (04/22/12)
30. …And Ladies of the Club - Helen Hooven Santmyer
31. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
32. The Shining - Stephen King
33. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
34. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
35. Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
36. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
37. Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
38. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
39. The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
40. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (03/10/12)
41. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
42. World Without End - Ken Follett
43. A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
44. Homer & Langley - E. L. Doctorow
45. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (02/05/12)
46. The Given Day - Dennis Lehane
47. P.S. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern (04/30/12)
48. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
49. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
50. Columbine - Dave Cullen
51. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
52. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
53. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
54. Rising in the West - Dan Morgan
55. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn - Gary M. Pomerantz
56. Sweet and Low - Rich Cohen
57. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - David Grann
58. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
59. One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing - Richard A. Serrano
60. A Game of Thrones (series) - George R. R. Martin
61. North and South Trilogy (series) - John Jakes
62. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (series) - J.R.R. Tolkien
63. Three Sisters Island Trilogy (series) - Nora Roberts (09/15/12-10/07/12)
64. The Fiery Cross (Outlander series) - Diana Gabaldon (08/14/12)
65. A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon
66. An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
67. The Hunger Games Trilogy (series) - Suzanne Collins (Jan 2012)
68. Vision in White (Bride Quartet #1) (series) - Nora Roberts (02/21/12)
69. One for the Money (Stephanie Plum series) - Janet Evanovich (02/15/12)
70. My Life - Bill Clinton
71. Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
72. My Journey with Farrah - Alana Stewart
73. True Compass: A Memoir - Edward M. Kennedy
74. Warren Beatty, A Private Man - Suzanne Finstad
75. Murrow: His Life and Times - A. M. Sperber
76. Life - Keith Richards
77. Personal History - Katharine Graham
78. Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
79. The Greatest Generation - Tom Brokaw
80. My Dark Places - James Ellroy
81. The World is My Home - James Michener
82. American Tragedy - Lawrence Schiller
83. Mortal Danger - Ann Rule
84. The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston
85. Never Enough - Joe McGinniss
86. The Cases That Haunt Us - John Douglas/Mark Olshaker
87. Bossypants - Tina Fey (06/15/12)
88. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
89. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - Ree Drummond
90. 11/22/63 - Stephen King (04/03/12)
91. Under the Dome - Stephen King
92. Room - Emma Donoghue
93. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
94. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
95. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
96. The Yellow Lighted Bookshop - Lewis Buzbee
97. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Annie Barrows
98. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
99. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
100. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
I read a lot of historical fiction. I'm betting that I can come up with close to, if not over, 100 books on my "to-be-read" shelves that I could use to fill this challenge. Some of them are classics like The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and others are by authors like Margaret George, Dorothy Dunnett, Sara Douglas, etc. Plus, I know that there are many books that would fit into the mix that I've been having trouble finding (like Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes). I will attempt to post a list later this week. Maybe this will help me whittle down my TBR shelves!
I'll do this one with books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. I am picking my books from all 4 editions. I won't specify in advance though since I have no idea which books I will read yet.2012 (view spoiler)
2013 (view spoiler)
2014 (view spoiler)
2015 (view spoiler)
2016
№ 01. Cat and Mouse → Günter Grass » 03 Jan 2016
№ 02. Like Water for Chocolate → Laura Esquivel » 26 Mar 2016
№ 03. The Stranger → Albert Camus » 13 Apr 2016
№ 04. Red Harvest → Dashiell Hammett » 14 Apr 2016
№ 05. The Thin Man → Dashiell Hammett » 14 Apr 2016
№ 06. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories → Ryūnosuke Akutagawa » 02 May 2016
№ 07. A Visit from the Goon Squad → Jennifer Egan » 07 June 2016
№ 08. Seize the Day → Saul Bellow » 22 June 2016
№ 09. Slaughterhouse-Five → Kurt Vonnegut » 29 June 2016
№ 10. The Color Purple → Alice Walker » 17 July 2016
№ 11. Beloved → Toni Morrison » 18 July 2016
№ 12. The Children's Book → A.S. Byatt » 25 July 2016
№ 13. The Namesake → Jhumpa Lahiri » 07 Aug 2016
№ 14. Arrow of God → Chinua Achebe » 22 Aug 2016
№ 15. The Blind Assassin → Margaret Atwood » 29 Aug 2016
№ 16. A Town Like Alice → Nevil Shute » 21 Sept 2016
№ 17. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay → Michael Chabon » 10 Oct 2016
№ 18. The Red Queen → Margaret Drabble » 21 Oct 2016
№ 19. Never Let Me Go → Kazuo Ishiguro » 01 Nov 2016
№ 20. Brave New World → Aldous Huxley » 09 Nov 2016
№ 21. Love in the Time of Cholera → Gabriel García Márquez » 08 Dec 2016
Here is my list, so far. I've purposely left some spaces blank because I KNOW that within the 5 years there will be some more books that I find that I'll want to read. I currently own most of the books listed (under 10 that I don't at this point in time.) When I finish a book, I'll put the date finished to keep track of what I've read and have yet to go. All books are either historical fiction or non-fiction.1. By The King's Design by Christine Trent
2. Gilt by Katherine Longshore
3. The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans
4. The Exiled by Posie Graeme-Evans
5. The Uncrowned Queen by Posie Graeme-Evans
6. The Memoirs Of Cleopatra by Margaret George
7. The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George
8. Elizabeth I by Margaret George
9. Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel by Margaret George
10. Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
11. Poison by Kathryn Harrison
12. Poison by Sara Poole
13. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
14. The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou by Susan Higginbotham
15. The Irish Princess by Karen Harper
16. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
17. The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots by Carolly Erickson
18. Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
19. Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
20. Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor by Julianne Lee
21. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
22. Medicus by Ruth Downie
23. Queen's Ransom by Fiona Buckley
24. To Ruin A Queen by Fiona Buckley
25. Queen of Ambition by Fiona Buckley
26. A Pawn for a Queen by Fiona Buckley
27. The Fugitive Queen by Fiona Buckley
28. The Siren Queen by Fiona Buckley
29. Queen Without a Crown by Fiona Buckley
30. Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley
31. Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney
32. Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
33. Gloriana's Torch by Patricia Finney
34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
35. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
36. The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley
37. The Queen's Handmaiden by Jennifer Ashley
38. Utopia by Thomas More
39. The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
40. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
41. World Without End by Ken Follett
42. A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
43. Daughter of York by Anne Easter Smith
44. The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith
45. The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
46. The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
47. To the Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes by Robin Maxwell
48. Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen
49. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
50. The Peacock and the Pearl by Jennifer Lang
51. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
52. Legacy by Susan Kay
53. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
54. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
55. The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan
56. Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie
57. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
58. The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn
59. The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
60. To the Chapel Perilous by Naomi Mitchison
61. Sleep of Death by Philip Gooden
62. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
63. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
64. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
65. Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
66. London by Edward Rutherfurd
67. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
68. The Queen's Head by Edward Marston
69. The Doublet Affair by Fiona Buckley
70. Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelly
71. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
72. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
73. Tiger Claws: A Novel of India by John Speed
74. No Dark PlaceNo Dark Place by Joan Wolf
75. Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Nicholas Nicastro
76. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier
77. A Stolen Tongue by Sheri Holman
78. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
79. Memnon by Scott Oden
80. The Wandering Arm by Sharan Newman
81. To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman
82. Heresy by Sharan Newman
83. The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman
84. Strong As Death by Sharan Newman
85. Cursed in the Blood by Sharan Newman
86. The Difficult SaintThe Difficult Saint by Sharan Newman
87. Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
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This will help me work through my TBR'sI'm just gonna list the Series and list as I read them!
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8 - Victory Vaughn - Nancy Holzner 1/3
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12 - Dresden Files - Jim Butcher 13/14
13 - Dark Swan - Richelle Mead 2/3
14 - Werecats - Rachel Vincent 2/5
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18 - Sabina Kane - Jaye Wells - 2/4
19 - M J Halliday - Victoria Laurie - 3/4
20 - Megan chase - Julie Kagawa - 1/4
21 - Gin Blanco - Jennifer Estep - 4/6
22 - Merit - Chloe Neill 3/4
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24 - Lilly Ivory - 1/4
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Here is my list, so far. I've purposely left some spaces blank because I KNOW that within the 5 years there will be some more books that I find that I'll want to read. I currently own most of the books listed (under 10 that I don't at this point in time.) When I finish a book, I'll put the date finished to keep track of what I've read and have yet to go. All books are either historical fiction or non-fiction.1. By The King's Design by Christine Trent *FINISHED (5/9-5/20, 2012)
2. Gilt by Katherine Longshore *FINISHED (5/3-5/8, 2012)
3. The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans *FINISHED 11/30/2012
4. The Exiled by Posie Graeme-Evans
5. The Uncrowned Queen by Posie Graeme-Evans
6. The Memoirs Of Cleopatra by Margaret George
7. The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George *FINISHED (June 1 - July 8, 2012)
8. Elizabeth I by Margaret George
9. Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel by Margaret George
10. Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
11. Poison by Kathryn Harrison
12. Poison by Sara Poole *FINISHED (Jan 14-20, 2013)
13. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
14. The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou by Susan Higginbotham *FINISHED 8/10-8/22, 2012
15. The Irish Princess by Karen Harper *FINISHED (5/20-31/2012)
16. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner *FINISHED 9/29-10/7/2012
17. The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots by Carolly Erickson
18. Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley *FINISHED (9/16-25/2012)
19. Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
20. Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor by Julianne Lee
21. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
22. Medicus by Ruth Downie
23. Queen's Ransom by Fiona Buckley *FINISHED (Jan. 21-28, 2013)
24. To Ruin A Queen by Fiona Buckley *FINISHED (3/22 - 4/2, 2013)
25. Queen of Ambition by Fiona Buckley
26. A Pawn for a Queen by Fiona Buckley
27. The Fugitive Queen by Fiona Buckley
28. The Siren Queen by Fiona Buckley
29. Queen Without a Crown by Fiona Buckley
30. Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley
31. Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney
32. Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
33. Gloriana's Torch by Patricia Finney
34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
35. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
36. The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley
37. The Queen's Handmaiden by Jennifer Ashley
38. Utopia by Thomas More
39. The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
40. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
41. World Without End by Ken Follett
42. A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
43. Daughter of York by Anne Easter Smith
44. The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith
45. The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
46. The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
47. To the Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes by Robin Maxwell
48. Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen
49. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
50. The Peacock and the Pearl by Jennifer Lang
51. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
52. Legacy by Susan Kay
53. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
54. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
55. The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan
56. Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie
57. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
58. The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn
59. The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
60. To the Chapel Perilous by Naomi Mitchison
61. Sleep of Death by Philip Gooden
62. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
63. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
64. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
65. Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
66. London by Edward Rutherfurd
67. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
68. The Queen's Head by Edward Marston
69. The Doublet Affair by Fiona Buckley *FINISHED 8/22-8/28, 2012
70. Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelly
71. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
72. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
73. Tiger Claws: A Novel of India by John Speed *FINISHED 10/16-31, 2012
74. No Dark PlaceNo Dark Place by Joan Wolf
75. Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Nicholas Nicastro
76. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier
77. A Stolen Tongue by Sheri Holman
78. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
79. Memnon by Scott Oden
80. The Wandering Arm by Sharan Newman
81. To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman
82. Heresy by Sharan Newman
83. The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman
84. Strong As Death by Sharan Newman
85. Cursed in the Blood by Sharan Newman
86. The Difficult Saint by Sharan Newman
87. Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith *FINISHED (4/2-5/2,2012)
88. Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Margaret Campbell Barnes
89.The Queen's Pleasure by Brandy Purdy *FINISHED 7/9-7/28, 2012
90. Mistress of Mourning: A Novel by Karen Harper *FINISHED 10/8-16, 2012
91. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
92. Redoubt by Mercedes Lackey *FINISHED 11/2012
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As this is a five year challenge, I will give this one a go too. challenge no.4I will read the top 100 off my tbr list of 1600+
They are
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl
Sister by Rosamund
Lupton
A Time To Kill byJohn Grisham
The Do-Over by Kathy Dunnehoff
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix
This is the first 10 I will add the rest when I have more time.
Sounds like fun, I'm in!I'll choose my 100 from my ever-growing TBR list.
Start: August 9, 2012
End: August 9, 2017
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(I finished The Golden Compass about a month ago.)
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2. The Amber Spyglass
3. The Help
4. Angela's Ashes
5. The Prestige
6. Sphere
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
9. Into the Wild
10. The Graduate
11. Shutter Island
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
13. Insomnia
14. The Bourne Identity
15. The Bourne Supremacy
16. The Bourne Ultimatum
17. A Christmas Carol
18. Emma
19. Eat, Pray, Love
20. Eragon
21. Eldest
22. Brisingr
23. Inheritance
24. 1984
26. Dune
27. Catch-22
28. The Chronicles of Narnia
29. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
30. Cold Mountain
31. Of Mice and Men
33. The Thorn Birds
34. The Other Boleyn Girl
35. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
36. High Fidelity
36. The Count of Monte Cristo
37. Stardust
38. Youth in Revolt
39. The Shawshank Redemption
40. The Lost World
41. My Life In France
42. Holes
43. The Time Traveler’s Wife
44. The Story of My Life
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
46. The Kite Runner
47. Messenger
48. Gathering Blue
49. Speak
50. The Edge of Reason
Sounds like fun, I'm in!I'll choose my 100 from my ever-growing TBR list.
Start: August 9, 2012
End: August 9, 2017
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(I finished The Golden Compass about a month ago.)
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3. The Help
4. Angela's Ashes
5. The Prestige
6. Sphere
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
9. Into the Wild
10. The Graduate
11. Shutter Island
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
13. Insomnia
14. The Bourne Identity
15. The Bourne Supremacy
16. The Bourne Ultimatum
17. A Christmas Carol
18. Emma
19. Eat, Pray, Love
20. Eragon
21. Eldest
22. Brisingr
23. Inheritance
24. 1984
26. Dune
27. Catch-22
28. The Chronicles of Narnia
29. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
30. Cold Mountain
31. Of Mice and Men
33. The Thorn Birds
34. The Other Boleyn Girl
35. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
36. High Fidelity
36. The Count of Monte Cristo
37. Stardust
38. Youth in Revolt
39. The Shawshank Redemption
40. The Lost World
41. My Life In France
42. Holes
43. The Time Traveler’s Wife
44. The Story of My Life
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
46. The Kite Runner
47. Messenger
48. Gathering Blue
49. Speak
50. The Edge of Reason
Think I'm gonna give this a try. I'm taking books from the GR List Best Books of the 21st Century.Start September 9, 2012
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Could I set my goal to be 100 books from series that I'm currently reading?
Great, Meghan & Sherrie!! Welcome to the challenge.
Barb wrote: "Could I set my goal to be 100 books from series that I'm currently reading?"Sure, Barb. If you want. Welcome to the challenge.
Great, thanks! My only (self-imposed) restriction for the rest of 2012 is that the books have to be from series I've already begun.NOTE: There are several #1 in series on my list. I'd already read another book from the series (usually for our book group at work), so I feel justified in counting #1 as 'continuing the series' :)
BOOKS THAT CONTINUE A SERIES
PROGRESS: 100/100
Photo, Snap, Shot (Kiki Lowenstein #3), by Joanna Campbell Slan, finished 9/17/12
Eggs Benedict Arnold (Cackleberry Club #2), by Laura Childs, finished 9/30/12
Latte Trouble (Coffeeshop #3), by Cleo Coyle, finished 10/9/12
Due or Die (Library Lovers #2), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 10/12/12
Blood Orange Brewing (Tea Shop #7), by Laura Childs, finished 10/26/12
The Emperor's Tomb (Cotton Malone #6), by Steve Berry, finished 10/27/12
The Pumpkin Muffin Murder (Fresh Baked #5), by Livia J. Washburn, finished 10/28/12
Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr #1), by Lawrence Block, finished 11/14/12
The Gingerbread Bump-Off (Fresh Baked #6), by Livia J. Washburn, finished 11/28/12
Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lovers #3), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 12/20/12
The Forgotten (John Puller #2), by David Baldacci, finished 12/26/12
Bedeviled Eggs(Cackleberry Club #3), by Laura Childs, finished 1/5/13
Murder Most Frothy (Coffeeshop #4), by Cleo Coyle, finished 1/6/13
In Plain Sight (Ivy Malone #2), by Lorena McCourtney, finished 1/13/13
A Body to Die For (Bailey Weggins #2), by Kate White, finished 1/14/13
Nowhere to Run (Key News #6), by Mary Jane Clark, finished 1/20/13
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor (Friday Harbor #1), by Lisa Kleypas, finished 2/4/13
One Hot Murder (Victoria Square #3), by Lorraine Bartlett, finished 2/13/13
Never Sorry (Leigh Koslow #2), by Edie Claire, finished 2/15/13
Easter Bunny Murder (Lucy Stone #19), by Leslie Meier, finished 2/18/13
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen #16), by Joanne Fluke, finished 2/26/13
A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway #5), by Elly Griffiths, finished 3/12/13
Do You Want To Know A Secret? (Key News #1), by Mary Jane Clark, finished 3/15/13
Guns Will Keep Us Together (Bombay Assassins #2), by Leslie Langtry, finished 3/17/13
On the Run (Ivy Malone #3), by Lorena McCourtney, finished 3/21/13
Never Preach Past Noon (Leigh Koslow #3), by Edie Claire, finished 3/25/13
The Jefferson Key (Cotton Malone #7), by Steve Berry, finished 3/26/13
Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs #2), by Jacqueline Winspear, finished 3/28/13
Three Sisters (Blackberry Island #2), by Susan Mallery, finished 4/2/13
Killer Honeymoon (Savannah Reid #18), by G.A. McKevett, finished 4/4/13
Stake & Eggs (Cackleberry Club #4), by Laura Childs, finished 4/13/13
Starting Now (Blossom Street #9), by Debbie Macomber, finished 4/13/13
The Sign Of The Book (Cliff Janeway #4), by John Dunning, finished 4/17/13
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince (Aunt Dimity #38), by Nancy Atherton, finished 4/18/13
Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks #2), by Miranda James, finished 4/26/13
Third Strike (Coyne/Jackson #3), by Philip R. Craig & William G. Tapply, finished 4/30/13
Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley #3), by Elizabeth George, finished 5/1/13
Simple Genius (King/Maxwell #3), by David Baldacci, finished 5/2/13
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple #4), by Agatha Christie, finished 5/3/13
A Broth of Betrayal (Soup Lovers #2) Connie Archer, finished 5/6/13
The King's Deception (Cotton Malone #8), by Steve Berry, finished 5/8/13
Dead In The Water (Kate Shugak #3), by Dana Stabenow, finished 5/18/13
Love Lies Bleeding (China Bayles #6), by Susan Wittig Albert, finished 5/21/13
Make, Take, Murder (Kiki Lowenstein #4), by Joanna Campbell-Slan, finished 5/22/13
Deliver Us From Evil (Shaw & James #2), by David Baldacci, finished 5/24/13
Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffee Shop #5), by Cleo Coyle, finished 5/25/13
Wedding Cake Killer (Fresh Baked #7), by Livia J. Washburn, finished 5/28/13
Dragonwell Dead (Tea Shop #8), by Laura Childs, finished 5/29/13
Ready, Scrap, Shoot (Kiki Lowenstein #5), by Joanna Campbell-Slan, finished 6/6/13
A Brush with Death (Penny Brannigan #2), by Elizabeth J. Duncan, finished 6/9/13
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdone #1), by Dan Brown, finished 6/11/13
Chocolate Dipped Death (Candy Shop #2), by Sammi Carter, finished 6/20/13
'Til Death Do Us Part (Bailey Weggins #3), by Kate White, finished 6/21/13
Mama Rides Shotgun (Mace Bauer #2), by Deborah Sharp, finished 6/29/13
A Royal Pain (Her Royal Spyness #2), by Rhys Bowen, finished 7/11/13
Never Kissed Goodnight (Leigh Koslow #4), by Edie Claire, finished 7/13/13
Assaulted Pretzel (Amish Mystery #2), by Laura Bradford, finished 7/17
Gone with the Win (Bed & Breakfast #28), by Mary Daheim, finished 7/21
Top O' the Mournin' (Passport to Peril #2), by Maddy Hunter, finished 7/23
Trouble in Spades (Nina Quinn #2), by Heather Webber, finished 7/27
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #3), by Alan Bradley, finished 7/29
Not the Killing Type (Booktown #7), by Lorna Barrett, finished 8/1
Stand By Your Hitman (Bombay Assassins #3), by Leslie Langtry, finished 8/1
Mama Gets Hitched (Mace Bauer #3), by Deborah Sharp, finished 8/4
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (Pink Carnation #10), by Lauren WIllig, finished 8/13
Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat #4), by Richard Castle, finished 8/23
The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody #2), by Elizabeth Peters, finished 9/1
Lost and Fondue (Cheese Shop #2), by Avery Aames, finished 9/3
W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone #23), by Sue Grafton, finished 9/12
Dead Man's Puzzle (Puzzle Lady #10), by Parnell Hall, finished 9/14
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5), by Agatha Christie, finished 9/20
Rose Harbor in Bloom (Rose Harbor #2), by Debbie Macomber, finished 9/22
The Alpine Fury (Emma Lord #6), by Mary Daheim, finished 9/23
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin #8), by M.C. Beaton, finished 9/24
I Shot You Babe (Bombay Assassins #4), by Leslie Langtry, finished 9/25
The Silver Needle Murder (Tea Shop #9), by Laura Childs, finished 9/27
Buttercream Bump Off (Cupcake Bakery #2), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 9/30
The Whole Enchilada (Goldy Schulz #17), by Diane Mott Davidson, finished 10/4
Oolong Dead (Tea Shop #10), by Laura Childs, finished 10/6/13
Death on Demand (Death on Demand #1), by Carolyn Hart, finished 10/6
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10), by Agatha Christie, finished 10/14
Christmas Carol Murder (Lucy Stone #20), by Leslie Meier, finished 10/15
Stranded (Ivy Malone #4), by Lorena McCourtney, finished 10/16
A Novel Way to Die (Black Cat Bookshop #2), by Ali Brandon, finished 10/19
Gilt Trip (Scrapbooking Mystery #11), by Laura Childs, finished 11/2
The Fatal Funnel Cake (Fresh Baked #8), by Livia J. Washburn, finished 11/14
Murder With Peacocks (Meg Langslow #1), by Donna Andrews, finished 11/23
Thunder Point (Sean Dillon #2), by Jack Higgins, finished 11/26
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (#1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #14), by Alexander McCall Smith, finished 11/27
Vineyard Deceit (J.W. Jackson #3), by Philip R. Craig, finished 11/29
Death Overdue (Killer Librarian #2), by Mary Lou Kirwin, finished 12/3
Christmas Bliss (Savannah #4), by Mary Kay Andrews, finished 12/5
Read It and Weep (Library Lover’s #4), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 12/8
Unbound (Booklover’s #2), by Julie Kaewert, finished 12/10
The Supreme Macaroni Company (Valentine #3), by Adriana Trigiani, finished 12/12
A Killer's Christmas in Wales (Penny Brannigan #3), by Elizabeth J. Duncan, finished 12/14
**** 100 BOOKS READ, COMPLETED 12/14/13 *****
Fill In the Gaps ProjectSeptember 15, 2012 - September 14, 2017
0/100
1-10
Candide by Voltaire
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
11-20
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
21-30
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
31-40
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Stand by Stephen King
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
World Without End by Ken Follett
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
41-50
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
51-60
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Mr Poppers Penguins by Robert Lawson
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
61-70
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
71-80
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
A Cavern of Black Ice by J.V. Jones
Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
81-90
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
91-100
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke
The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fill In the Gaps ProjectStart: 7/1/2012
Completed: 10/100
I looked at several "Top 100" lists and the majority were extremely boring looking. I liked the looks of this BBC 100 list much better. If I run into any that take me longer than a month to read, I'll probably swap it out with something different that I have wanted to read. I am already group reading The Hobbit, so that's a start! Also, am backdating this as some I have just read in the past couple weeks as group reads.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, 8/8/12
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Nothing But Reading ChallengesFill In the Gaps Project
Duration: January 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2018
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Tally: 16/20
✔ 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell - 12/13/15 3 stars
✔ 2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 10/24/15 - 4 stars
✔ 3. The Call of the Wild by Jack London - 9/13/15 4 stars
✔ 4. The Awakening by Kate Chopin - 5/30/14 - 3 stars
✔ 5. Heart of Darkness - 6/25/15 - 4 stars
✔ 6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - 4/28/15 - 5 stars
✔ 7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 2/27/15 - 4 stars
✔ 8. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 3/26/14 - 5 stars
✔ 9. Dracula by Bram Stoker - 11/2/13 - 3 stars
✔ 10. Emma by Jane Austen - 9/20/13 3 stars
✔ 11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - 9/11/13 - 3 stars
✔ 12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 8/11/13 3 stars
✔ 13. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 5/2/13 5 stars
✔ 14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 4/6/13 3 stars
✔ 15. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain - 3/10/13 - 3 stars
16. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
17. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
18. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
✔ 19. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 3/2/16 3 stars
20. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Historical Fiction Classics
Tally: 4/20
1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
✔ 2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 3/28/13 - 3 stars
3. Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
4. The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
5. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
✔ 6. Time and Again by Jack Finney 2/1/13 2.5 stars
7. Katherine by Anya Seton
8. Shōgun by James Clavell
9. The Source by Jame Mitchner
10. The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simmons
11. Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
12. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
13. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
14. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
15. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
16. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
✔ 17. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - 10/17/13 2 stars
18. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
✔ 19. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier - 5/26/13 - 4 stars
✔ 20. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 7/1/14 3.5 stars
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Tally: 8/20
✔ 1. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 12/27/15 4.5 stars
2. 1984 by George Orwell
✔ 3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 2/5/16 2.5 stars
4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
5. Dune by Frank Herbert
6. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
7. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
9. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
10. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
✔ 11. READ IN 2012 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✔ 12. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett - 5/10/13 2.5 stars
✔ 13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 5/14/13 4 stars
14. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
✔ 15. The Princess Bride by William Goldman - 5/19/14 4 stars
✔ 16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - 11/6/13 4 stars
✔ 17. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis - 7/23/15 3.5 stars
✔ 18. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin - 4/20/13 - 5 stars
19. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
20. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Authors
Tally: 4/20
✔ 1. Haruki Murakami: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - 4/30/15 3 stars
2. Salman Rushdie
✔ 3. David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - 1/29/16 3 stars
4. Stephen King
5. Brandon Sanderson
6. Neil Gaiman
✔ 7. José Saramago: The Tale of the Unknown Island - 9/19/16 3 stars
8. Vladimir Nabokov
9. Alice Hoffman
10. Margaret Atwood
11. China Miéville
12. Jeffrey Eugenides
✔ 13. Chris Bohjalian: The Sandcastle Girls - 4/11/13
14. Mary Doria Russell
15. Gore Vidal
16. John Steinbeck
17. William Faulkner
18. Tennessee Williams
19. Oscar Wilde
20. Graham Greene
Other
Tally: 7/20
1. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
2.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
✔ 3. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - 6/8/15 4 stars
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
✔ 5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - 3/31/15 2.5 stars
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
9. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
10. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
✔ 11. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer - 2/25/16 4 stars
12. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
13. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
14. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
✔ 15. Killing Floor by Lee Child - 3/27/15 3.5 stars
✔ 16. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - 7/24/14 5 stars
✔ 17. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 1/29/15 - 3.5 stars
✔ 18. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - 3/28/13 5 stars
19. Watchmen by Alan Moore
20. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Books taken from these lists:Listopia - Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Books
Listopia - YA Dystopia
Master List: 13/100
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7. The Handmaid's Tale
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15. Uglies
16. The Stand
17. V for Vendetta
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20. Never Let Me Go
21. Oryx and Crake
22. The City of Ember
23. Watchmen
24. The Host
25. Anthem
26. I am Legend and Other Stories
27. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
28. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
29. Life As We Knew It
30. The Time Machine
31. Slaughterhouse-Five
32. Battle Royale
33. We
34. Wither
35. Blindness
36. The Gunslinger
37. The House of the Scorpion
38. The Knife of Never Letting Go
39. Atlas Shrugged
40. The Children of Men
41. Snow Crash
42. The Forest of Hands and Teeth
43. Cat’s Cradle
44. The Passage
45. A Canticle for Leibowitz
46. Neuromancer
47. Feed
48. Gone
49. Wool Omnibus
50. The Dispossessed
51. Catching Fire
52. Mockingjay
53. Insurgent
54. Pretties
55. Specials
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59. Extras
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64. Incarceron
65. Birthmarked
66. Blood Red Road
67. Under the Never Sky
68. Hunger
69. Among the Hidden
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71. Lies
72. The Ask and the Answer
73. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
74. Monsters of Men
75. Gathering Blue
76. Plague
77. The Declaration
78. Ship Breaker
79. The Death Cure
80. The People of Sparks
81. Tomorrow, When the War Began
82. The Dead and the Gone
83. Sapphique
84. XVI
85. The Diamond of Darkhold
86. Awaken
87. Outside In
88. The Pledge
89. Bumped
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91. Numbers
92. Utopia
93. The Trial
94. The Long Walk
95. Parable of the Sower
96. The Day of the Triffids
97. The Man in the High Castle
98. The Chrysalids
99. The Postman
100. Swan Song
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