Book Challenge 2013

1: Faithful Place by Tana French
2: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3: 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5: Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
6: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
7: Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
8: All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
9. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
10. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling
11. Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
12. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

13. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
14. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
 
1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
7. Osmosis by Susan X Meagher
8. Looking For Alaska by John Green
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
12. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
13. Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
14. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
15. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
16. My Education by Susan Choi
17. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
 
1. Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
2. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
5. Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness - Caroline Evans
6. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
7. Dracula - Bram Stoker
8. Skin - Mo Hayder
9. Grace: A Memoir - Grace Coddington
10. The New Extremism in Cinema: from France to Europe - Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall
11. Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding
12. Routledge Film Guidebook: Romantic Comedy – Claire Mortimer
13. 419 – Will Ferguson
14. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
15. Wired: the Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi – Bob Woodward
16. Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
 
1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Walking Dead: Book 5 by Robert Kirkman
5. The Walking Dead: Book 6 by Robert Kirkman
6. Candide - Voltaire
7. Carrie by Stephen King
8. The Walking Dead Book 7 - Robert Kirkman
9. The Walking Dead Book 8- Robert Kirkman
10. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
11. Laughing Gas - P.G. Wodehouse
12. Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes
13. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
14. Empress of Fashion A Life of Diana Vreeland - Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
15. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
16. And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled HOsseini
17. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
18. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
19. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (still reading )
20. Rumi Poet and Mystic - Reynold A. Nicholson
21. The Diving Bell & the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby

Currently Reading:
22. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett ( this book will take me quite sometime to finish)
23. Columbine - Dave Cullen
24. World War Z - Max Brooks


Started but never finished:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
 
1. Our Best Last Chance by King Abdullah of Jordan
2. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life by Queen Noor of Jordan
3. Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
4. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James (re-read)
5. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur :heart:
6. Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
7. Gossip Girl: Only In Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
8. Gossip Girl: Would I Lie To You by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
9. Gossip Girl: Don't You Forget About Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
10. Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
11. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12. Gossip Girl: You're The One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
13. The Debutante Divrocee by Plum Sykes (re-read)
14. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin (re-read)
15. Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
16. The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11 by Peter L. Bergen
17. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
18. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
19. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account on the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
20. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
21. The Arabian Nights: Volume II by Sir Richard Burton and Jack Zipes
22. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
 
01: What I Did by Christopher Wakling
02: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
03: 1Q84 (book 1) by Haruki Murakami
04: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
05: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
06: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
07: The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
08: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
09: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
10: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
11: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
12: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
13: Columbine by
Dave Cullen
14: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
15: Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
 
1. A Question of Honor - Lynne Olson, Stanley W. Cloud
2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3. Women - Charles Bukowski
4. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
7. Of the Farm - John Updike
8. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
9. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
10. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
11. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
12. Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
13. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
14. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
16. The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
17. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
18. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
19. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
20. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
21. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - Juliann Garey
23. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
24. What It Means to Be an American - Michael Walzer
25. The Death of Bees - Lisa O'Donnell
26. Divergent (Divergent, #1) - Veronica Roth
27. Insurgent (Divergent, #2) - Veronica Roth
28. The Giver (The Giver Quartet, #1) - Lois Lowry
29. If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) - Gayle Forman
30. Ask the Dust - John Fante
31. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
32. Wool (Wool, #1) - Hugh Howey
33. The Emperor - Ryszard Kapuściński
34. Proper Gauge (Wool, #2) - Hugh Howey


Currently reading:
35. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
36. Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuściński
 
So far behind, this is what I've read till now:

1. O Banqueiro Anarquista by Fernando Pessoa ***
2. Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman **
3. Parisian Chic by Ines de La Fressange ****
4. An Intimate Life by Cheryl Cohen Greene ****
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard ***
6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chuan *****
7. Economia do Ócio by Domenico De Masi ****
8. Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner ****
9. The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer *****
10. The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ****
11. Bossypants by Tina Fey ****
12. When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom ****
13. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
14. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
15. Moneyball by Michael Lewis **
16. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello ****
17. A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry *****
18. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales ****

19. Quiet by Susan Cain
 
1)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, The Asylum based on the novels by L.J. Smith
2)The Skins Novel by Ali Cronin
3)Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4)Beastly by Alex Flinn
5)House of Night: Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
6)House of Night: Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
7)The Creepers by David Morrel
8)P.S. I love you by Cecilia Ahern
9)Girl with a pearl earing by Tracy Chevalier
10)A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
11)A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
12)A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin
13)A Storm of Swords 1: Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin
14)A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
15)The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
16)Divergent by veronica Roth
17)Insurgent by Veronica Roth
18)House of Night: Chosen by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
19)A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust by George R.R. Martin
 
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
13. The Suicide Club by RL Stevenson
14. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
15. The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
16. Candide by Voltaire
17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18. Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
19. Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
20. To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
21. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
22. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
23. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
24. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
25. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
26. La Porte Étroite by André Gide

Currently reading Gabriela, Cravo e Canela by Jorge Amado
 
1. O Banqueiro Anarquista by Fernando Pessoa ***
2. Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman **
3. Parisian Chic by Ines de La Fressange ****
4. An Intimate Life by Cheryl Cohen Greene ****
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard ***
6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chuan *****
7. Economia do Ócio by Domenico De Masi ****
8. Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner ****
9. The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer *****
10. The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ****
11. Bossypants by Tina Fey ****
12. When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom ****
13. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
14. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
15. Moneyball by Michael Lewis **
16. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello ****
17. A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry *****
18. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales ****
19. Quiet by Susan Cain ****

20. Defending Jacob by William Landay
 
1. Our Best Last Chance by King Abdullah of Jordan
2. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life by Queen Noor of Jordan
3. Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
4. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James (re-read)
5. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur :heart:
6. Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
7. Gossip Girl: Only In Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
8. Gossip Girl: Would I Lie To You by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
9. Gossip Girl: Don't You Forget About Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
10. Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
11. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12. Gossip Girl: You're The One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
13. The Debutante Divrocee by Plum Sykes (re-read)
14. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin (re-read)
15. Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
16. The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11 by Peter L. Bergen
17. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
18. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
19. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account on the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
20. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
21. The Arabian Nights: Volume II by Sir Richard Burton and Jack Zipes
22. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
23. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
 
1. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden
2. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
3. Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
4. Operation Shylock: A Confession - Philip Roth
5. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
8. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
9. Emerald City and Other Stories - Jennifer Egan
10. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
11. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
12. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
13. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
14. The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

currently reading: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
 
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
13. The Suicide Club by RL Stevenson
14. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
15. The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
16. Candide by Voltaire
17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18. Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
19. Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
20. To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
21. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
22. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
23. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
24. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
25. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
26. La Porte Étroite by André Gide
27. Gabriela, Cravo e Canela by Jorge Amado

Currently reading Guerras do Alecrim e Manjerona by António José da Silva
 

1.) Dead Is the New Black by Christine DeMaio-Rice
2.) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
3.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4.) The Case of the Missing Blahnik by Christine DeMaio-Rice
5.) They Never Die Quietly by D. M. Annechino
6.) Drinking and Tweeting by Brandi Glanville
7.) Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
8.) That's What She Said by T.J. Jefferson
9.) True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
10.) God Believes in Love by Gene Robinson
11.) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
12.) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
13.) The Quiet American by Graham Greene
14.) Educating Esme by Esmé Raji Codell
15.) One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
16.) Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
17.) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
18.) Nine Stories by JD Salinger
19.) A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
20.) Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
21.) Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Now Reading:Deviant by Harold Schechter
 
01: What I Did by Christopher Wakling
02: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
03: 1Q84 (book 1) by Haruki Murakami
04: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
05: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
06: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
07: The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
08: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
09: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
10: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
11: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
12: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
13: Columbine by
Dave Cullen
14: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
15: Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
16: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
 
I'm ultra late in joining this thread (New tfs member! Long-timer lurker, then finally joined a couple months ago, yay), and this year has been my worst re. reading. I used to read voraciously, not sure what happened (stress and study and lack of inspiration I guess?).

Anyway I'm going to list the books I've read this year here, and try and read more by the end of the year. I feel like I've been in such a rut, hopefully this can help snap me out of it.

1. Norwegian Wood by Murakami
2. Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
3. The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Bk 1: The Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks
4. The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Bk 2: Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
5. Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward
6. 1Q84 by Murakami
7. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
8. The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements (Just finished reading)
 
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1. O Banqueiro Anarquista by Fernando Pessoa ***
2. Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman **
3. Parisian Chic by Ines de La Fressange ****
4. An Intimate Life by Cheryl Cohen Greene ****
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard ***
6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chuan *****
7. Economia do Ócio by Domenico De Masi ****
8. Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner ****
9. The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer *****
10. The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ****
11. Bossypants by Tina Fey ****
12. When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom ****
13. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
14. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart *****
15. Moneyball by Michael Lewis **
16. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello ****
17. A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry *****
18. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales ****
19. Quiet by Susan Cain ****
20. Defending Jacob by William Landay ***
21. Política para Amador by Fernando Savater ***

22. Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
 
1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
7. Osmosis by Susan X Meagher
8. Looking For Alaska by John Green
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
12. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
13. Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
14. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
15. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
16. My Education by Susan Choi
17. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
18. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
 
1. A Question of Honor - Lynne Olson, Stanley W. Cloud
2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3. Women - Charles Bukowski
4. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
7. Of the Farm - John Updike
8. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
9. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
10. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
11. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
12. Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
13. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
14. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
16. The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
17. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
18. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
19. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
20. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
21. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - Juliann Garey
23. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
24. What It Means to Be an American - Michael Walzer
25. The Death of Bees - Lisa O'Donnell
26. Divergent (Divergent, #1) - Veronica Roth
27. Insurgent (Divergent, #2) - Veronica Roth
28. The Giver (The Giver Quartet, #1) - Lois Lowry
29. If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) - Gayle Forman
30. Ask the Dust - John Fante
31. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
32. Wool (Wool, #1) - Hugh Howey
33. The Emperor - Ryszard Kapuściński
34. Proper Gauge (Wool, #2) - Hugh Howey
35. American Pastoral - Philip Roth (reread)
36. Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuściński

Currently reading:
37.Is America Breaking Apart? - John A. Hall
38. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
 

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