50 Book Challenge for 2011

[models_vlada]

50 it's too much... so far i've read only...

Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx ( I only read half, because college)
Mein Kaempfe - Adolf Hitler (Because of college)

 

[Susann]

I'm having exams so not really getting on with my reading.
I'm currently reading: number 11: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
and number 12 German book called "ruhm" by Daniel Kehlmann

 

[tigerrouge]

I got to 30, and then a full-time course got in the way, and I feel like I haven't touched a non-academic book for about two months.

 

[litchickuk]

My book list runs from July 1st to June 30th so Ive just started my new year of reading. I have just completed 'At Home' by Bill Bryson and am currently reading 'Hard Times' - Charles Dickens

 

[litchickuk]

last years book list was disappointing due to the lack of material covered. Here's the list:
1) The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill
2) The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
3) Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks (Took a while to read as a bit heavy going, but bloody enjoyed it - except the WW1 stuff as didnt feel it fit the story)
4) The Woman in Black - Susan Hill (really creepy - bit scary - really enjoyed it!)
5) Ratcatcher - James McGee (forget it's not Victorian when reading - Regency is close enough! Not as good as 'Resurrectionists')
6) Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
7) Fiction Writer's Workshop - Josip Novakovich
8) Daphne - Justine Picardie (liked it - would have been better if I had been less distracted though!)
9) The Silver Locomotive - Edward Marston
10) The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett (Fabulous - so funny and hope she is like that!)
11) Trains and Buttered Toast - John Betjeman
12) The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
13) A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
14) The Mysterious Case at Styles - Agatha Christie
15) Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie
16) After Dark - Haruki Murakumi
17) Yoga School Dropout - Lucy Edge
18) The Crucifix Killer - Chris Carter (good protagonist)
19) The Killing Place - Tess Gerritsen (hit rather than miss)
20) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Bloody brilliant! Loved it!)
21) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Read to page 180ish before giving up because it was terrible!)
22) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
23) Keeping the Dead - Tess Gerritsen (another hit)
24) A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
25) After the Quake - Haruki Murakami (Loved it!)
26) Railway to the Grave - Edward Marston (not one of his best!)
27) What To Expect: Before you're expecting - Heidi Murkoff
28) What to Expect When You Aren Expecting - Heidi Murkoff
29) Snobs - Julian Fellowes (Good book, very well written)

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 // The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
16 // Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
17 // Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
18 // Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett
19 // My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
20 // The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
21 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse
13. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The battle of the labyrinth
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weg (original title: the hottest state)
17. Patrick Süskind - Der Kontrabaß (english title: 'the double-bass')
18. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran (english title: 'Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Qu'ran')
19. Eva Ibbotson - The secret of Platform 13
20. Justin Cronin - The Passage
21. Daniel Glattauer - Gut gegen Nordwind (english title:Love virtually)
22. George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

i need to finish some other books, but i really can't wait to start the second book in the series

 

[kate_is_goddess]

21 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs

correction:
21 // Der Meister und Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov

 

[saann]

Just finished George Orwell's 1984. It was very much working the same theme as his previous work but it was great. Double plus good
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[kokobombon]

11- Reading "Lush Life" by Richard Price.

 

[mmBop]

Finished:
1. The One You Really Want by Jill Mansell
2. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
3. The Secret to Teen Power by Paul Harrington
4. Die Braut sagt leider nein by Kerstin Gier

5. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
6. Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
7. Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
8. Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
9. Ein unmoralisches Sonderangebot by Kerstin Gier


I'm so happy I finally have some time for reading!

 

[Pipis]

1. De Profundis & Other Writings - Oscar Wilde
2. The Plays of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
3. Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
4. Invisible Monster - Chuck Palahniuk
5. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
6. The Captain is out to lunch and the sailor have taken over the ship - C. Bukowski
7. From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest - TZ Lavine
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
9. Women - Charles Bukowski
10. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
11. Sadhana - Rabindranath Tagore
12. The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
13. The Stranger - Albert Camus

 

[adastra]

1. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
4. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
5. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
7. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
8. Persuasion – Jane Austen
9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
10. The Stranger - Albert Camus
11. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
12. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
13. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
14. Atonement – Ian McEwan

I loved Atonement and Of Mice and Men is a really great short read. I read A Passage to India in prep for an English class in the fall and I am current half way through Heart of Darkness for the same reason.

 

[Annu]

1. Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell
2. Treasure Yourself: Power Thoughts for My Generation by Miranda Kerr
3. My story by Marilyn Monroe
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
5. Diary of a bad year by J M Coetzee
6. Solar by Ian McEwan
7. Consolation by Anna Gavalda
8. the Gun seller by Hugh Laurie
9. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
10. Ruusumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
11. Ruutumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
12. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
13. Andorra by Peter Cameron
14. The Darling Buds of May, A Breath of French Air, When the Green Woods Laugh by H.E. Bates
15. Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
16. 101 Experiments in the philosophy of everyday life by Roger-pol Droit
17. Witch tree symbol, Mystery of the moss-cover mansion & The mystery of the fire dragon by Carolyn Keene
18. Love virtually by Daniel Glattauer
19. The land of painted caves by Jean M. Auel
20. The Blythes are quoted by L. M. Montgomery
21. The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
22. War by Sebastian Junger
23. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
24. Sputnik sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
25. The Xanadu talisman by Peter O'Donnell
26. Hiljaiset auttajat by Rauli Virtanen
27. The World without us by Alan Weisman
28. Matched by Ally Condie

29. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
30. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
31. Seljan tytot by Rauha S. Virtanen

I revisited Never let me go after watching movie, which was absolutely so sad, I didn't remember the book that way.. After third reading book has little bit lost its magic but still lovely. I remember to pick this at first time because of local cover has girl with green hair.

Livingston.. sigh. I have read earlier this in Reader's digest version, and I must admit whole story wasn't any better. I might be little dummy.

We have amazing radio program where they talk about good old girly books (I didn't find if there is exact word for books where main characters are girls, we have..) Anyways, it make me wanna read some books from my teens, this book was last episode, not good as I remembered though. Next time the book will be Little Women, maybe I should visit library already.


I kind of wish that I would finish this challenge already, I'm little bit impatient and this slow and long

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
​

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse
13. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The battle of the labyrinth
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weg (original title: the hottest state)
17. Patrick Süskind - Der Kontrabaß (english title: 'the double-bass')
18. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran (english title: 'Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Qu'ran')
19. Eva Ibbotson - The secret of Platform 13
20. Justin Cronin - The Passage
21. Daniel Glattauer - Gut gegen Nordwind (english title:Love virtually)
22. George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
23. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The last Olympian

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

trying to give myself some easy reads so that I can catch up a bit

so, I've started reading the True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse books
Charlaine Harris is a terrible writer, so I often have to reread sentences to figure out what's going on, but that's no real surprise.

It's pretty much what I expected so far.. quick, trashy, fun read.

 

[Bonbonenata]

Oh, God, you're amazing, people! When I browse this topic I feel mixed feelings. I'm very happy to see that my idea is going extremely well, but at the same time I'm very ashamed because I've read just 3 books so far.

Now I'm reading "Last Rituals" by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and I have to tell you that Icelandic names as difficult as hell!

 

[mint condish]

^ Let's not think of this as a competition. I am not fast at this either. I am just so happy that I'm reading even more than before I discovered this challenge. I think it's really encouraging me to read, and I'm enjoying it.

 

[tigerrouge]

31: On The Beach by Nevil Shute

Back on track with the reading...